Rival Cypriot leaders have pledged to forge ahead with efforts to reunite the divided island after making "real progress" at a high-level

Rab yesterday detained two men, one of whom according to the force is the “prime suspect” in the killing case of Gaibandha Awami League lawmaker Manzurul Islam Liton.

National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) is helpless in taking actions against human rights violation by the members of the law enforcement agencies due to its legal limitations, says commission Chairman Kazi Reazul Hoque.

Incidents of violation of minorities' human rights increased over fivefold in 2016 than that of the previous year, a report has said.

The Bay of Bengal, the largest bay in the world, veiled in mystery, home to sea gods and goddesses, and full of stories of many

These days are probably the worst time to live and grow up as a child in Bangladesh as an increasing number of children are being killed by their own parents who are supposed to protect them from all evils in the world.

The International Crimes Tribunal-1 yesterday came down heavily on the prosecution, investigation agency and police for giving wrong information that led to charge-framing against a dead person identified in court as a fugitive.

The Bangladesh government clamped down on the media and civil society, and state authorities detained, maimed, killed, and made to disappear members of the political opposition, according to Human Rights Watch (HRW).

The US military might monitor a North Korean intercontinental ballistic missile test and gather intelligence rather than destroy it, as

Supple, light and biodegradable but stronger than steel: researchers said they have succeeded in producing synthetic spider silk, one

A Dhaka court yesterday allowed police to interrogate actor and model Kalyan Corraya at the jail gate for three days in connection with a case filed over a hit-and-run incident that injured the chief photojournalist of daily Prothom Alo on Monday.

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

Five UAE officials were among 57 people killed in a string of bombings across Afghan cities, authorities said yesterday, as Taliban militants step up a deadly winter campaign of violence.

Sufia Akter Josna's bravery in saving four Emirati children from drowning in October 2014, which resulted in her own untimely death by drowning, impressed many in Bangladesh and abroad. But some of her fellow villagers doubted the authenticity of events.

The Awami League's rally at the Suhrawardy Udyan on Tuesday was attended by several lakh people.

An Egyptian court froze the assets of two NGOs and their founders yesterday, in a controversial probe into civil society groups that has

Indian police said yesterday they had recovered more than 6,000 freshwater turtles weighing over four tonnes from poachers who

The Kremlin says US intelligence agency allegations it ran an influence campaign to help President-elect Donald Trump win the White

An accused in the sensational murder case of ninth-grader Adnan Kabir yesterday "confessed" to a Dhaka court that he along with some

Veteran British war correspondent Clare Hollingworth, who broke the news that the Second World War had started, died in Hong Kong yesterday aged 105.