Yahoo Inc last year secretly built a custom software program to search all of its customers' incoming emails for specific

A trio of French, British and Dutch scientists won the Nobel Chemistry Prize yesterday for developing molecular machines, the

At least 50 people, including several women, were injured as police charged baton on demonstrators staging a sit-in in Abhaynagar upazila of Jessore yesterday, demanding the water-logging problem in Bhabodaha be solved.

Bhabodaha in Paira union of Jessore's Abhaynagar upazila is famous for its 21 sluice gates. The water from the lowlands and beels of four upazilas drains through the area. But for years several of the sluice gates have not been in working order, leading to channels silting up and an excess of stagnant water, a manmade deluge that has effectively closed over 200 schools.

Two operatives of banned militant outfit Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) yesterday surrendered to Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal and high officials of the Rapid Action Battalion in Bogra.

Thailand yesterday expressed its eagerness to import hilsa from Bangladesh amid bumper production of the country's national fish this year.

The Jatiya Sangsad unanimously adopts a thanksgiving motion on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina for receiving “Planet 50-50 Champion” award and “Agent of Change Award”.

A 24-year-old Bangladeshi national in the US has been charged with providing material support to ISIS in connection with a

The study of "strange states" of matter, which may one day yield superfast and small computers, earned British scientists

Ten countries accounting for 2.5 percent of world GDP are hosting more than half the world's refugees, Amnesty International

US military aircraft pounded Islamic State positions in the jihadists' former Libyan stronghold of Sirte over the weekend, as the

Yahoo on Tuesday unveiled its latest mobile news application, using both algorithms and user choices to deliver the most

Spain's "trial of the year" got underway Tuesday with former lawmakers of the ruling Popular Party in the dock over one of the

Hollywood star Leonardo DiCaprio and US President Barack Obama joined forces Monday night on the White House lawn,

A Chittagong court yesterday placed two accused on a one-day fresh remand in a case filed in connection with grenade

At least four people were killed and several others went missing last evening as a two-storied building toppled over into Kaptai

Emphasising the importance of learning from each other, the United States has said it favours perpetrators' arrest or

A Dhaka court yesterday framed charges against six people including five engineers of Bangladesh Railway for the death of

Hundreds of city dwellers suffered long delays yesterday as they had to endure gridlocks on different city streets during the

Detectives arrested four suspected Hizb-ut Tawhid activists including two women from a rented house in Nagra area of