Tunisia's security forces called on the government yesterday to take "exceptional measures" to combat the return of jihadists fighting for extremist groups abroad.

Police arrested a youth yesterday on suspicion of his involvement in Friday's gang rape incident of an indigenous teenage girl in Rowangchhari.

A good number of job seekers was absent from a recruitment test held at Rajshahi University yesterday.

President Abdul Hamid this afternoon will sit with Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal (Inu) at the Bangabhaban for a dialogue on the formation of a new Election Commission.

The ruling Awami League has taken initiatives to resolve intra-party conflicts for keeping its unity intact ahead of the next general elections in 2019.

The Christian community in the country celebrated their biggest religious festival Christmas yesterday with due religious fervour and gaiety, seeking peace and prosperity of mankind all over the world.

Queen Elizabeth II is to miss the Christmas Day church service attended by the British royal family as she continues to suffer from a heavy cold, Buckingham Palace said yesterday.

The 59 Ashulia-based garment factories reopen today after remaining closed for over two weeks following labour unrest.

After six years of research, Bangladesh Institute of Nuclear Agriculture (BINA) scientists in Mymensingh released on October 9 2016 their first-ever wheat variety suitable for both saline and non-saline conditions.

A suicide bomber apparently targeting a religious site on Christmas day killed two civilians in northern Cameroon, a region often hit by Boko Haram jihadists from Nigeria, the local governor said yesterday.

A powerful Christmas Day earthquake hit southern Chile yesterday, triggering tsunami warnings and an evacuation order.

Bangladesh Bank is implementing a "remediation plan" to build a foolproof security system to prevent any further breaches in its overseas transactions, following the $81 million heist incident in February 2016.

Egypt's state news agency says the state prosecutor has ordered the arrest of an Al-Jazeera TV news producer for "fabricating reports" on the country's internal situation with the aim of harming national security and sedition against the state.

A Saudi soldier was killed in a cross-border firefight with Yemeni rebels, the interior ministry said yesterday.

A high-level commission that oversees Iran's nuclear deal with world powers will meet in Vienna on January 10 to address a

British Prime Minister Theresa May urged the country to come together in 2017 after a year of bitter divisions exposed by the

Sri Lanka surpassed the world record for the tallest artificial Christmas tree Saturday despite building delays forcing organisers

Catalonia's separatist government staged a summit on Friday to prepare an independence referendum it plans to stage in

An 11-year-old boy has sued the office of President Mamnoon Hussain for stealing his speech which he had prepared to

An interstate bus in Malaysia carrying passengers from Singapore and Myanmar careered off a highway early Saturday, killing 14