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.

A man taking a selfie after an Iranian dam burst was among at least seven people killed as floods, avalanches and dust storms gripped

The commander of Argentina's armed forces from 2013 to 2015, Cesar Milani, was arrested Friday over his alleged involvement in two

Foreign Minister Wang Yi of China told his US counterpart Rex Tillerson that Beijing was ready to work with the Trump administration,

The ruling Awami League candidate yesterday won the polls to Rangamati's Baghaichhari municipality, the first under the newly formed Election Commission.

Long ago in Chapainawabganj, potentially during the reign of the Mughal emperor Jahangir, whether by gravity's force or human hand

A five-day director-general level conference between Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) and Indian Border Security Force (BSF) opens in Dhaka today, with the Bangladesh side giving top priority to stop border killings.

Adolf Hitler's personal telephone, which the Fuehrer used to dictate many of his deadly World War II commands, will hit the auction

Mostofa Sarwar Farooki shook up the Bangladeshi film fraternity when he announced last year that he was making a film starring Irrfan

Russia yesterday called for an end to an outdated world order dominated by the West, even as US Vice President Mike Pence pledged

Beef and mutton in the capital would have been less expensive if the meat traders who buy the animals from the lone permanent cattle market at Gabtoli were not “overcharged” by the market lessee.

Awareness of health hazards has put farmers in Rangpur off farming tobacco, though it was profitable, leading to the drop of acreage by almost one-third last year from that in 2012-13.

At least five crew members of an oil tanker were injured in a blast inside its engine room when the vessel was unloading at the Jamuna

Hundreds in Natore suffered yesterday as the local Awami League (AL) blocked off vehicular movement on some three-kilometres of a road from noon until evening to hold a rally according a reception to Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader.

French conservative Francois Fillon yesterday said that he would press ahead with his presidential bid even if investigators charged

President Donald Trump was set to bask in the adulation of supporters yesterday as he holds a campaign-style rally in Florida,

The Iraqi forces that retook east Mosul from jihadists last month have moved on to their next battle, leaving a security vacuum that

Australia's prime minister, who was at the receiving end of US President Donald Trump's ire during a fiery phone call last month,