Bangladesh has gone up two places in the World Bank's ranking of ease of doing business. However, the country still ranks 176 among 190 economies in the study owing largely to minute improvements in the parameters of resolving insolvency and registering property.

An Afghan woman immortalised on a celebrated National Geographic magazine cover as a green-eyed 12-year-old girl was

Environmental activists said India as a party of the World Heritage Convention has legal obligation not to finance the Rampal

What appears to be a sand storm or at least the making of a dust devil is actually the dust kicked up by vehicles at Gabtoli in

Venezuela's political rivals faced a test of strength yesterday, with the opposition vowing mass street protests as President

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has made some critical observations about the legal system of Bangladesh.

Indian High Commissioner in Dhaka Harsh Vardhan Shringla yesterday met Foreign Secretary Md Shahidul Haque and discussed issues of mutual interest.

Convincing North Korea to abandon nuclear weapons is a "lost cause," America's top intelligence official said Tuesday, causing

Spanish police said Tuesday they had detained one of Britain's most wanted fugitives, who fled the country in 2008 after allegedly raping a woman and was found working in Tenerife.

Turkey said yesterday it will press its military offensive in Syria until Islamic State is driven from the town of al-Bab, despite a

The Supreme Court yesterday stayed for four weeks a section of a High Court verdict that ordered the government to transfer

The man sits on a rickshaw-van with small plastic containers full of some kind of seeds in front of him.

The lone accused of schoolgirl Munni murder case allegedly committed suicide at a relative's house in the district's Kaliakoir yesterday, a day after the girl was found dead at her house.

Detectives arrested seven members including the ringleader of a currency counterfeiting gang and seized fake notes worth Tk

A prosecution witness has filed a general diary accusing two local journalists in Patuakhali of asking her not to testify in the

The re-excavation of Shubhadda Canal from Shubhadda to Aganagar is almost done.

Young Bangladeshi female house helps became the main victims of physical and sexual abuse at their workplaces abroad, a

Prosecution yesterday started placing closing arguments in a case against Sulaiman Mollah and Edris Ali Sarder of Shariatpur,

Iraqi forces were inching to within striking distance of eastern Mosul yesterday as coalition defence chiefs gathered in Paris

Two young brothers were found brutally killed beside a ditch in Osmani Nagar upazila of Sylhet on Monday afternoon.