A court in Rajshahi on Friday sent a student of the Medical Assistant Training School (MATS) to jail in a case filed over the gang rape of a woman.

Law enforcers are yet to unravel the mystery of Dhanmondi double murder and still looking for the new domestic help who visited the apartment for the first time on Friday.

No case will be filed under the new Road and Transport Act (RTA) for the next seven days when public awareness programmes on the matter will be conducted, said Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader yesterday.

Khulna University of Engineering and Technology (Kuet) was closed for an indefinite period yesterday after students of two dormitories clashed over a football match on Friday, which left six injured.

A combative US President Donald Trump told supporters in his electoral stronghold of Mississippi on Friday that a push to impeach him is driving an “angry” Republican surge ahead of 2020.

It is hard to find a birthday party without a few floating balloons.

The pace and magnitude of “terrorist attacks” in Bangladesh continued to decline in 2018, although a secularist writer was killed and a university professor was seriously injured in separate incidents, says a US report.

The BNP will write to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to know the details of the treaties she had signed with India during her recent visit to the country.

A group of Chhatra League men dragged the principal of Rajshahi Polytechnic Institute and pushed him into a pond on the campus yesterday.

Iraqi security forces clashed with anti-government protesters in the early hours of yesterday near the capital’s Tahrir Square, leaving one demonstrator dead and dozens more wounded, medical sources said.

Malaysia rejected a compensation offer of “less than $2 billion” from Goldman Sachs for the role of its subsidiaries in the multi-billion-dollar 1MDB scandal, an aide to the country’s prime minister said yesterday.

Hollywood legend and activist Jane Fonda was arrested Friday in Washington protesting politicians’ failure to address climate change.

Iraqi security forces clashed with anti-government protesters in the early hours of yesterday near the capital’s Tahrir Square, leaving one demonstrator dead and dozens more wounded, medical sources said.

Distraught relatives gathered yesterday for the funerals of some of the 74 people killed when fire ripped through a crowded train in Pakistan, with many of the victims residents of a single town.

A lawsuit filed on Thursday accuses Facebook of letting ad targeting tools be used to exclude women and older people from offers regarding loans, investments and other financial services.

Japanese retailers including supermarkets and convenience stores will be required to charge for plastic bags from next summer ahead of the Tokyo Olympics, a government panel agreed yesterday.

A controversial law that would allow Russia to cut internet traffic from international servers came into force yesterday, prompting fears from rights activists of online isolation.

The US Department of the Interior has grounded its fleet of Chinese-made drones as it conducts a review of the program.

A housewife was found dead at her home in Haripur upazila of Thakurgaon yesterday.

A defiant US President Donald Trump, buoyed by strong Republican support and good employment figures, was to take his fight against impeachment to a Mississippi rally yesterday.