Myanmar's de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi has broken a month long silence on the daylight assassination of her advisor, calling his killing a "great loss" for the country's democracy struggle.

Donald Trump has ratcheted up his feud with the US media by announcing he will skip the annual White House correspondents' dinner, the first US president to do so in 36 years.

A 17-year old boy was shot dead and at least fifty others injured during a clash between two factions of Awami League centering the upcoming upazila election on March 6 at Osmaninagar upazila in Sylhet yesterday afternoon.

Four people, including three engineers of Bangladesh Railway, were sentenced to 10 years' rigorous imprisonment yesterday in a case filed over the 2014 death of a child after he fell into a deep abandoned shaft in the capital's Shahjahanpur.

At least 23 people, including six women and girls of indigenous communities, were killed in Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) and elsewhere in the country last year, according to Human Rights Report 2016 on the ethnic people.

It was around 7:30am on a Wednesday. The street towards the Banani intersection from Mohakhali near the capital's Sainik Club was bustling with speedy vehicles. Pedestrians, including office-goers, schoolkids and garment workers, were hurrying along the pavement.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday inaugurated a state-of-the-art multi-storey food warehouse with a capacity to store 25,000 tonnes of food grains in Santahar of Bogra's Adamdighi.

The killing of bloggers because of their views clearly shows how hostile the environment is for free thinking, Prof Ajoy Roy said yesterday.

Eleven Ahmadiyya Muslim families at Moheshkhola village in the district's Mirpur upazila have been living in insecurity after some local religious fundamentalists ostracised them.

Police last night detained 16 alleged Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) activists outside Goods Hill, the ancestral house of executed war crimes convict Salauddin Quader Chowdhury, in Chittagong city.

Dozens of Coptic Christians have left Egypt's Sinai Peninsula after a string of jihadist attacks killed three Christians in the restive

A US federal court Friday sentenced a leading member of a Mexican sex trafficking ring to more than 15 years in prison for forcing

The Iraqi air force struck members of the Islamic State group inside neighbouring Syria on Friday, officials said, adding that the

President Donald Trump came to the White House promising a radical reset of US-Russia relations after years of rising tensions under his predecessor.

Police in Shariatpur yesterday arrested one man in connection with the gang rape of a student of class-VIII the night before.

Three senior Myanmar police officers have been jailed for failing to block deadly raids on border posts in October that threw northern Rakhine state into crisis, a police spokesman said yesterday.

In a bid to strengthen the party ahead of the next general election, BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has launched a major initiative to take back some former leaders and to make some others politically active again.

The government will have to build flood protection embankment, cyclone centres and necessary infrastructure and ensure supply of

US-backed Iraqi forces pushed deeper into western Mosul yesterday, advancing in several populated southern districts after punching

He was born 11 days after his father Maj Mominul Islam Sarker was shot dead during the BDR carnage at the border guards' headquarters in 2009.