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

An alleged criminal was killed in a “gunfight” with members of Rapid Action Battalion in Tangail last night.

The narrator of the recent video purportedly by Islamic State featuring the five Dhaka attackers is Tahmid Rahman Safi, a

Three people, including BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia and her son and party's Senior Vice-chairman Tarique Rahman, were

Indian police yesterday said they have taken a pigeon into custody after it was found carrying a warning note to Prime Minister

Yoshinori Ohsumi of Japan won the Nobel Medicine Prize yesterday for his pioneering work on autophagy -- a process

Pakistan and India have agreed to reduce tensions after their National Security Advisors spoke over phone, top Pakistani

Bangladesh's extreme poverty rate has dropped to 12.9 percent in 2015-16, according to a new estimate of the World Bank.

China is open to partnering with a third country for building Bangladesh's first deep seaport.

A 24-year-old woman in the US has received a 'terrible shock' after she discovered that her 68-year-old husband was her

Syrian rebels backed by Turkey and a US-led coalition are closing in on the Islamic State-held village of Dabiq, the site of an

Five men accused of the shock murder of top Kremlin critic Boris Nemtsov last year faced the jury yesterday as their high-

The Palestinian high court yesterday ordered municipal elections to be held only in the West Bank and not in the Hamas-

An Indonesian militant was yesterday jailed for six years over a series of failed plots hatched under the guidance of an

In a rare example of care, a monkey has been mothering an abandoned kitten for about a month in the district's Sreemangal upazila.

Two construction workers were killed and another was injured when a portion of a boundary wall collapsed on them in the capital's Gulshan yesterday.

Police yesterday allegedly prevented a protest rally of a BNP city unit at capital's Institution of Engineers, Bangladesh (IEB).

The government has imposed a ban on catching, selling, hoarding and transportation of hilsa in different rivers for 22 days from October 12 to protect hilsa breeding.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday asked the Election Commission to ensure the security of the data being used for preparing smart national identity (NID) cards, saying there should be a firewall in such a digital project to check forgery.

Students are being allowed to play mobile phone game Pokemon Go as part of their degree course.