Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal says he believes the Teesta river water-sharing treaty with India will be a reality in future but maintained that relations between the two countries do not depend on this single treaty.

A suicide bomber from the Islamic State group killed at least 48 Yemeni soldiers in Aden yesterday, the latest in a string of deadly attacks against recruits in the country's second city.

The authorities would file a criminal case in connection with any wrongdoing by people concerned that resulted in the emergency landing of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's aircraft in Hungary.

Nagorik Oikya Convener Mahmudur Rahman Manna was released on bail yesterday evening after he had languished in jail for over 21 months in two cases filed on charges of sedition and inciting the army.

Anne Frank may have been discovered "by chance" and not because she was denounced to Holland's Nazi overlords by unknown betrayers as long thought, the museum in her honour says.

In 1855, tens of thousands of Santals, one of the oldest communities to make their home in Bengal, rose up in open rebellion. The Santal hool or revolution would mark one of the major milestones in the history of peasant rebellions against the British colonial administration. Choking under the pressure of practical serfdom due to the mahajani system, with no recourse to the law and administration, the Santals demanded autonomy.

Two ruling party lawmakers of Pabna were served show-cause notices yesterday for violating electoral code of conduct in the upcoming district council elections slated for December 28.

A brick-laden truck ran over and killed two women and injured another in Dholaipar area of the capital around 10:30 last night.

Although overseas employment for Bangladeshi workers has increased significantly this year, their safety, security, health and wages issues still remain a concern for migrant rights activists.

Five years back, Nazrul Islam from Munshiganj took a Tk 5-lakh loan from a local bank and ventured out to Malaysia where many Bangladeshis have tried their luck over the years.

Trapped Syrian civilians and rebels yesterday waited desperately for evacuations to resume from an opposition-held enclave in

Twelve people, including six in Gazipur, were killed and several others injured in separate road accidents in five districts across the country yesterday.

Even in the beginning of last month, Monglu Soren, a 61-year-old Santal woman, was able to feed herself and her family

A detective on Thursday claimed to have gleaned “vital information” after quizzing former superintendent of police Babul Akter in connection with the case over the murder of his wife Mahmuda Khanam Mitu.

In a mindless act of brutality, a man cut off his wife's tongue and slashed the tendon of her left leg for Tk 5 lakh dowry in Sylhet on Thursday.

The CIA and FBI have both concluded that Russia intervened in the US presidential election aiming to help Donald Trump win,

On December 9 in 2011, champion rock-climber Lai Chi-wai suffered a motorcycle accident that left him paralysed from the waste down. On the same

Only six months after her marriage, Veena Chand faced a real test of mettle when her husband Captain Satinder Mulraj Chand was asked to join the Liberation War in Bangladesh.

The head of the Tibetan government-in-exile said yesterday he was encouraged by US President-elect Donald Trump's tough

New corruption charges linked to Brazil's massive embezzlement scheme at Petrobras oil company were filed Thursday against