Even though two teams of engineering students from CUET and AIUB were selected by NASA for the NASA Human Exploration Rover Challenge, they are not taking part as most of the students had been denied visas.

Sharmin Akter was just 15 when her mother arranged her marriage with a man decades older than her. But instead of surrendering to family wishes as what most girls feel coerced to do given the socio-economic circumstances in Bangladesh, she spoke up.

The European Union yesterday suggested that Bangladesh comply with the ILO-recommended labour right standards by mid-June this year to avoid “consequences” with regard to its current trade privileges in the EU market.

Bangladesh Bank has served show-cause notices on the chairman and the managing director of the NRB Commercial Bank over 10 counts of grave irregularities at the four-year-old financial institution.

The holy Lailatul Meraj will be observed across the country on the night of April 24 as the moon of Rajab month of 1438 Hijri was sighted yesterday in Bangladesh.

Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (Wasa) has taken an initiative to set up five sewer treatment plants to improve sewerage facilities in the city.

Pakistan has withdrawn from the 136th Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) to be hosted by Bangladesh on April 1-5.

Thai tax officials slapped ousted Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra with a $500 million bill yesterday, resurrecting a dispute at the centre of the kingdom's decade-long political rift.

A draft statement to be put to an Arab summit today opposes plans by President Donald Trump to move Washington's embassy in Israel to Jerusalem and consider alternatives to a Palestinian state.

A Tunisian allegedly caught red-handed taking a bribe was among three regional officials sacked on Monday by Prime Minister Youssef Chahed, who has vowed to fight graft.

A white US Army veteran faced terror and racism charges Monday as he was indicted for fatally stabbing a 66-year-old black man.

In an unprecedented instance, an accused in a war crimes case yesterday surrendered before the International Crimes Tribunal-1.

Mayoral candidates from the ruling Awami League and the BNP wrapped up their intensive two-week-long campaign in Comilla yesterday midnight in the run-up to the city corporation polls.

Detectives arrested nine people, including a school principal, for their alleged involvement in leaking multiple choice questions (MCQs) of different public examinations online.

Bangladesh and the United Kingdom have agreed to assess together aviation security at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport for the resumption of direct cargo flights from Dhaka to London.

A Dhaka court has ordered reinvestigation into a case filed in connection with 2010 Molotov cocktail attack on then chief justice ABM Khairul Haque's residence.

Tannery owners have sought permission from the High Court to operate their factories in the city's Hazaribagh until the Eid-ul-Azha this year, claiming that the Tannery Industrial Estate in Savar and its central effluent treatment plant were not fully ready for their relocation.

A school headmaster and three others were beaten up on Monday night allegedly by the Jhalakathi sadar upazila chairman and his men over holding an election to a school managing committee.

To stroll along the Pankhali Ferry Ghat riverbank via Chalna Bazar in Khulna's Dacope upazila is to watch fishers busy, dawn to dusk, as they haul fine-mesh triangular nets in the hope of collecting juvenile shrimp.

The government yesterday reshuffled 35 senior bureaucrats, including Mohammad Iqbal, chairman of Bangladesh Chemical Industries Cooperation, in the civil administration.