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

The Investigation Agency of the International Crimes Tribunal has launched an investigation against top BNP leader and former education minister Muhammad Osman Farruk into his alleged involvement in crimes committed during the Liberation War in 1971.

Legislation aimed at fighting terrorism across the European Union is "dangerously disproportionate" and threatens the rights of the people they are designed to protect, Amnesty International warned yesterday.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said her government was highly committed to ensuring compliance with regard to the readymade garment (RMG) industry.

At least 52 aid workers and civilians were killed yesterday when an air force jet accidentally bombed a camp in northeast Nigeria instead of Boko Haram militants, medical charity MSF said.

Swedish Ambassador to Bangladesh Johan Frisell has said it is clear that no long-term solution to the Rohingya crisis can be found unless violence in Rakhine state of Myanmar comes to an end.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi yesterday pitched for “a thriving, well-connected and integrated neighbourhood” as his “dream” and said New Delhi has achieved greater political understanding with Dhaka through connectivity and infrastructure projects and settlement of land and maritime boundaries.

BDCyclists, Bangladesh's biggest group of cyclists, has achieved a place in the Guinness World Records for forming the world's longest single line of moving bicycles.

Narayanganj District Jail had to keep more than one convict on death row in a single condemned cell to accommodate 12 prisoners who were given the capital punishment on Monday in the 2014 seven murder case.

US ally Saudi Arabia is "optimistic" about Donald Trump's impending presidency, Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir said Monday, hailing Trump's stern line on arch-Saudi rival Iran and promise to defeat the Islamic State group.

Brazilian police cleared several dozen inmates from the roof of a prison where dozens were murdered over the weekend -- the latest in a series of deadly riots.

Taiwan began two days of military drills yesterday simulating an attack by China as the government sought to reassure the public in the face of deteriorating relations with Beijing.

The wife of Orlando nightclub shooter Omar Mateen was arrested by the FBI on Monday at her home in California, a law enforcement official said, following questions over whether she was aware of his plans to carry out the attack.

Germany's highest court yesterday threw out a bid to ban the far-right NPD party, arguing that the xenophobic fringe outfit is too insignificant to spell a real threat to the democratic order.

British Prime Minister Theresa May said yesterday that Britain would not seek a deal that left the country "half in, half out" of the European Union when it negotiates its exit from the bloc.

Police recovered the body of a local leader of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) in Sadar upazila of Satkhira yesterday.

Rasraj Das was released on bail yesterday after he languished in jail for more than two and a half months in connection with a Facebook post, which, according to evidence, had not been uploaded by him.

A cargo plane attempting to land in thick fog yesterday crashed into a village near Kyrgyzstan's main airport and killed at least 37