Six-year-old Maliha and 11-year-old Raiyan were inseparable. The siblings would play like best friends. Maliha did not know of a world where Raiyan was not there for her.

Health Minister Zahid Maleque has claimed that the rate of dengue infection has come down in the country.

Five men have been arrested on charges of raping a woman in Dhaka’s Savar, while two others have been accused of raping minors in separate incidents in Netrakona and Dhamrai.

A Libyan airliner has narrowly escaped being hit by incoming fire as it landed at war-torn capital Tripoli’s sole functioning airport, aviation officials said.

A drone air strike by eastern Libyan forces on the southern Libyan town of Murzuq has killed at least 43 people, a local official said yesterday.

Two British aviators yesterday took off on a first-ever attempt to fly a Spitfire around the world, proclaiming the iconic fighter plane as a symbol of freedom.

An Indonesian man is walking 700 kilometres (435 miles) from his home on a volcano in East Java to Jakarta in the hope of drawing attention to the archipelago’s quickly shrinking forests -- and he is doing it backwards.

Every year on the last day of hajj flight operation, a number of pilgrims would shed tears at the capital’s Ashkona Hajj Camp after failing to go to Saudi Arabia due to various irregularities and fraudulent activities of some hajj agencies.

Six people, including four alleged drug peddlers and a gang rape accused, were killed in “gunfights” with the police and the BGB in three districts early yesterday.

Aysha Siddika Minni yesterday filed a bail petition with the High Court in the case filed over the murder of her husband Rifat Sharif in Barguna.

Hong Kong riot police clashed with pro-democracy protesters for a third straight day yesterday, as the city’s leader warned the global financial hub was nearing a “very dangerous situation” and a rare strike caused transport chaos.

Police yesterday detained three men in Noakhali Subarnachar upazila over allegation of rape.

Border Guard Bangladesh yesterday recovered body of a Bangladeshi, who was allegedly shot dead by Indian Border Security Force, from Daulatpur border in Kushtia.

Regular patrolling and reducing the number of self-powered vessels plying the Halda river could help recuperate the endangered dolphin population in the river, according to a study.

From now on, city dwellers will be able to pay fine for traffic rule with their debit or credit cards on the spot.

A Jamalpur court yesterday sent a man to jail on charge of killing an eight-year-old madrasa student in the district’s Sadar upazila on Saturday.

Two mass shootings in the United States have left 29 people dead within 24 hours, the latest such attacks in a nation torn over how to tackle gun violence.

Public health professionals in several districts have demanded an urgent supply of dengue detection kits as they are struggling to deal with a surge of patients due to the kit shortage.

Police last night arrested Chattogram Awami League leader Didarul Alam Masum in a case filed over the murder of Bangladesh Chhatra League leader Sudipto Biswas.

The wife of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said in an interview aired late Saturday that she was “totally” free of breast cancer after a year of treatment.