Sharifa Begum of Kapasia in Gazipur is the sole caretaker of her one-bigha homestead garden. In addition to doing all the household chores alone, 55-year-old Sharifa grows more than 20 species of pesticide-free fruits and vegetables -- mango, lychee, banana, palm, jackfruit, gourd, green chilis, garlic, pumpkin, cucumber and more -- every year.

Bangladesh is closely observing Indian’s internal situation regarding the National Register of Citizens (NRC) and the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan told parliament yesterday.

Top BNP policymakers yesterday told diplomats that there is no level-playing field ahead of the elections of Dhaka north and south city corporations scheduled for February 1.

Guatemalan migrant Wilfredo Gomez said on Saturday he had been asking God to make him “invisible” as Mexican security forces started rounding up and detaining other US-bound Central Americans who had illegally crossed into the country.

A Frenchman has been sentenced to 22 years in prison for seeking to recruit dozens of youths to fight as jihadists in Syria and for leading a brigade of French-speaking Islamists in the war-torn country.

Delta Air Lines was Friday fined $50,000 by the US Department of Transportation to settle allegations it discriminated against three Muslim passengers who were ordered off their planes.

A total of 67 people died last year in protests in Venezuela’s ongoing power struggle, 59 of whom were killed by law enforcement and armed civilian groups supporting President Nicolas Maduro, an NGO said Friday.

At least 26 people have died in Madagascar after almost a week of heavy rain in the north-west of the island, the government said on Friday.

Bangladesh Road Transport Corporation yesterday launched bus service for school and madrasa students in the port city.

A truck driver and helper, who recently lost their jobs, killed a newly appointed driver and his friend as an act of revenge in the city.

US President Donald Trump unveiled the logo of Space Force on Friday, attracting critics who said America’s newest military branch had boldly gone where Star Trek went before.

At least three of a family, including a mother and her 10-year-old son, were killed and four more injured in a tragic road accident in Barguna’s Amtali upazila town.

He was accused of occupying footpaths and extorting traders. The Dhaka South City Corporation sued him over extortion nearly three years ago.

Most of the contestants in the coming Dhaka city polls own businesses, finds a report by Sushashoner Jonno Nagorik.

Two women, one pregnant, were killed and seven other people injured after Myanmar troops shelled a Rohingya village yesterday, according to a lawmaker and a villager, two days after the UN’s highest court ordered the country to protect the minority.

The provisional ruling to protect the persecuted Rohingyas by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) should make all countries, especially those close to Myamnar, to revisit their relationship with the country, speakers at a discussion said yesterday.

A Rajshahi University student has been languishing in jail for more than two months after police wrongfully arrested him in a murder case.

Bangladesh’s former foreign secretary and high commissioner to India Syed Muazzem Ali was posthumously honoured tonight with India’s third highest civilian title Padma Bhushan on the occasion of the 71st Republic Day today.

Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido, on a charm offensive to back his bid to oust his country’s leader, yesterday claimed to have the “firm support” of French President Emmanuel Macron.

The government will not take the responsibility if anyone is shot to death along the border while bringing in cattle from India, said Food Minister Sadhan Chandra Majumder yesterday.