In an unusual case of prompt action taken by authorities, the Barishal district administration demolished illegal structures put up by encroachers on the west bank of Kirtankhola river barely 24 hours after being alerted.

A man hanged himself after killing four people, including his wife and mother-in-law, following a family feud in Barlekha upazila yesterday.

Different organisations yesterday expressed concern over the issuance of arrest warrant for Prothom Alo Editor and Publisher Matiur Rahman and nine others.

Heavy snow covered the streets of Tehran yesterday, causing major flight delays and forcing the closure of schools, authorities in the Iranian capital said.

French police fired tear gas under a rain of projectiles and arrested dozens of people on Saturday as thousands of “yellow vest” anti-government protesters returned to the streets of Paris.

An air strike Saturday by Syrian regime ally Russia killed five civilians, including four members of the same family, in an opposition bastion in the country’s northwest, a monitor said.

President Donald Trump’s legal team presented Saturday its line of defence for his upcoming impeachment trial, a process they dismissed as unconstitutional and “dangerous.”

A Rohingya man, allegedly involved in drug smuggling, was killed in a “gunfight” with the Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) in Cox’s Bazar early yesterday.

Bangladesh is likely to experience another cold spell from Wednesday, according to the Met office.

More than 80 Yemeni soldiers have been killed and scores injured in a missile and drone attack blamed on Huthi rebels in central Yemen, medical and military sources said yesterday.

The government is going to launch e-passports (electronic passports) on January 22.

Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen yesterday claimed that the number of extrajudicial killings was much lower in Bangladesh than in a developed country like the United States.

Awami League lawmaker of Bogura-1 constituency Abdul Mannan passed away yesterday at LabAid Hospital in Dhaka after suffering a massive cardiac arrest.

Three members of a family were killed and two others injured as a car carrying them hit a roadside electric pole in Jashore town early yesterday.

The true scale of the outbreak of a mysterious SARS-like virus in China is likely far bigger than officially reported, scientists have warned, as countries ramp up measures to prevent the disease from spreading.

A Renaissance historian has unearthed the oldest known image of Venice dating from the 14th century, showing how even then the city of canals gripped the imagination of visitors.

The use of herbal medicines is providing comfort and relief to the people of Goral, a remote village in Lalmonirhat, and other adjacent villages, thanks to the passion of a schoolteacher for herbalism and his commitment to treat people for free.

BNP is celebrating the 84th birth anniversary of its founder Ziaur Rahman today.

Habibur Rahman was 30 years old when he left home for a business trip and never returned.

Mexico deployed around 200 National Guard officers to the Guatemalan border on Friday in an effort to block a huge migrant caravan traversing Central America toward the United States.