The cabinet yesterday approved a draft law increasing punishment for killing or badly hurting an animal.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday blasted Pakistan for spreading false and fabricated information about genocide committed during the Liberation War in 1971.

Investigators have identified the killers of ruling Awami League lawmaker Manzurul Islam Liton, said Inspector General of Police AKM

President Abdul Hamid yesterday asked the new Election Commission to carry out its duty transparently to gain people's confidence.

Iraqi forces backed by jets and helicopters battled their way to Mosul airport yesterday as they prepared to take on the Islamic State group's stronghold in the city's west bank.

Washington urged Beijing to keep pressure on North Korea to return to talks aimed at preventing Pyongyang from making further advances in its weapons program in violation of UN resolutions.

The Election Commission will introduce the digital voting machine (DVM) only after it gets positive responses from all quarters, Election Commission Secretary Muhammad Abdullah said yesterday.

Turning a blind eye to multiple policy differences, Turkey is seeking a tighter alliance with Washington under President Donald Trump but the road to a rapprochement may not be easy.

Police early yesterday arrested two people, including a Jubo League leader, in Godagari upazila for organising an Islamic gathering where a speaker allegedly called upon people to wage a “jihad against the government”.

Global financial support for humanitarian work in conflict-riven Sudan is expected to drop this year despite improved aid access and the easing of US sanctions, the top UN aid official in the country said.

Blind sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman, the Egyptian-born cleric linked to the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, died Saturday of natural causes in a US prison facility, the Justice Department said. He was 78 years old.

Suspected Russian cyberattacks on the French presidential campaign are "unacceptable", France's foreign minister said yesterday, adding it was clear that pro-Europe candidate Emmanuel Macron was being targeted.

Two labourers were killed and another was injured in a landslide while they were extracting stone in Jaflong area of Sylhet's Gowainghat yesterday afternoon.

US Republican senators plan to introduce legislation to impose further sanction on Iran, accusing it of violating UN Security Council resolutions by testing ballistic missiles and acting to "destabilise" the Middle East, a US senator said yesterday.

Rajapur upazila unit Chhatra League president and three others were arrested yesterday when they were "trying to drive out a family of their house to grab the land" in College Road area of Rajapur upazila town, said police.

Three teachers of Khandor Chawra Multipurpose High School were beaten up in front of the institution at Malgara village in Kaliganj upazila over formation of the managing committee on Saturday afternoon.

An alleged robber leader of Chapainawabganj was killed in a “gunfight” with the Rapid Action Battalion in Budhpara area in the city early yesterday.

India's only live volcano in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands which had started showing activity in the year 1991 after being dormant for

A Rangpur court yesterday fixed February 28 to deliver verdict in the case over the killing of Japanese national Kunio Hoshi in Kaunia upazila in 2015.

Iraqi forces yesterday launched an offensive on jihadists defending Mosul's west bank, in what could be the most brutal fighting yet in a four-month-old operation on the country's second city.