The Supreme Court yesterday upheld a High Court order granting bail to acting editor of the daily Amar Desh Mahmudur Rahman in a case filed for an alleged attempt to abduct and murder PM's son Sajeeb Wazed Joy.

State-owned BASIC Bank's Deputy Managing Director A Monayem Khan was sacked yesterday over the bank's loan scam.

Federal investigators have secured a warrant to examine newly discovered emails related to Hillary Clinton's private server, a source familiar with the matter said on Sunday, as a prominent Democrat accused FBI Director James Comey of breaking the law by trying to influence the election.

The prosecution has pressed six charges against eight Mymensingh men including Jatiya Party lawmaker MA Hannan and his son for their alleged crimes against humanity during the Liberation War in 1971.

The telecom regulator has slapped a Tk 30 crore fine on leading mobile phone operator Grameenphone for providing internet broadband service to clients breaching rules.

Over 8,500 children die every year in Bangladesh from diseases caused by household air pollution (HAP) and 89 percent of households use solid fuels, mostly wood, agricultural waste and cow manure, for cooking and space heating.

Four years ago, Wahab and Sumon -- two convicted criminals -- met in jail and became friends.

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader yesterday warned that organisational actions would be taken against those who would breach party discipline.

Iran's foreign ministry has rejected accusations from the United States that it has been shipping arms to the Shia Huthi rebels in Yemen, according to media reports yesterday.

The hate speech trial of Dutch anti-Islam MP Geert Wilders opened in his absence yesterday, in a case that will test the boundaries of free expression ahead of parliamentary polls next year.

Italian authorities said yesterday they were taking care of more than 15,000 people left homeless by the country's most powerful earthquake in nearly 40 years.

A union parishad member and five others have been accused of instigating the suicide of a schoolgirl in Gopalpur upazila of Tangail.

The death rate among Afghan security forces is surging far above last year's levels, a US government watchdog said yesterday,

Police said they moved Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic and his family to "a safe location" on Saturday after uncovering a

A game of cat and mouse was going on on the Padma yesterday between law enforcers led by the magistrates and fishermen of several upazilas of Munshiganj and Shariatpur.

The Junior School Certificate (JSC) and Junior Dakhil Certificate (JDC) examinations will begin tomorrow with 24,12,775

A Bangladeshi-American scientist and his team member have won the prestigious Prince Sultan Bin Abdulaziz International

Preservation experts have opened for the first time in at least two centuries what Christians believe is Jesus's tomb inside the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem.

One year into the killing of publisher Faisal Arefin Dipan and the hacking of Ahmedur Rashid Tutul and two others, detectives are still not sure when they will be able to submit charge sheets in the cases.

Shaken to the core, a teenage rape victim in Mithapukur upazila of Rangpur has received humiliation, instead of support, traumatising her no less than the physical violation two months ago.