The government should take diplomatic initiatives to gain international recognition of the genocide committed by the Pakistan army and its local collaborators during the 1971 Liberation War, speakers said yesterday.

At least 20 firefighters were killed when a 17-storey Tehran commercial building collapsed on top of them as they tried to put out a blaze, Iranian state television quoted the city's mayor as saying yesterday.

Calling upon all to put up a united resistance against terrorism, President Abdul Hamid yesterday said terrorists have no religion.

A Jordanian was yesterday charged with stabbing to death his wife and two young daughters and seriously wounding a third in apparent

Arab communities in Israel began a one-day general strike yesterday over the death of a Bedouin man and house demolitions in the

Colombia announced a deal Wednesday to hold peace talks with its last active rebel group, the ELN.

South Africa's ruling ANC party, which has dominated the country's politics since the end of apartheid, has begun its search for a new

Muslims in the United States who were rounded up and detained in the immediate aftermath of the September 11, 2001 attacks took

Migrants trying to sneak into the United States from the parched Mexican desert have to contend with border guards' drones overhead,

Saudi Arabia's government should end the kingdom's ban on women driving and reform the male guardianship system, a United Nations independent expert said yesterday.

A Bangladeshi youth was shot dead during an early morning robbery at a filling station in Los Angeles on Tuesday.

When local farmers were trying to catch fish in the Shitalakkhya in Kapashia of Gazipur yesterday they were hoping for a good catch.

During the breeding season, sea turtles come to the shore to lay eggs. But their journey is not risk free and many of them cannot make it back to the sea.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has stressed the need for cooperation in freshwater and oceanic resources as an equaliser in addressing inequalities and collaboration on developing and utilising trans-boundary freshwater resources that can make economies great.

The three-year conflict between a local Awami League leader and a former Jubo League activist over the control of Jarulia waterbody

Be careful! Never intentionally destroy your smart National Identity (NID) Card. Or else you will be jailed or fined up to Tk 40,000.

Agitating lawyers vandalised a Chittagong court yesterday after the court rejected a bail petition of their fellow lawyer and his wife in a human trafficking case.

The Hagley Oval painted a grim picture when the Bangladesh cricket team turned up to train in the morning session yesterday. The sky

Thirteen editors and compilers of Bangla textbooks for classes I to X declared that they were kept in the dark about the changes and

Britain's Supreme Court will on Tuesday announce the result of the government's appeal against a ruling that it has to seek parliamentary