For the last five years, girls have been doing better in terms of pass rate in the HSC exams than boys, but the boys have been getting more GPA-5s.

The United States said Tuesday it hoped to hold denuclearization talks with North Korea, after Pyongyang warned that US-South Korean military exercises could affect their planned resumption.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said the government has a plan to introduce electric and high-speed trains in the country to make the railway services better and faster.

For more than a century, scientists have scoured the known universe for signs of extra-terrestrial life, an endeavour that has thus far proved fruitless -- unless you believe the US government is hiding aliens at a remote base in Nevada.

Two suspected drug peddlers were killed in an alleged gunfight with Border Guard Bangladesh officials in Cox’s Bazar’s Teknaf upazila early yesterday.

A Barguna court yesterday granted police five days to question Aysha Siddiqa Minni in remand over the murder of her husband Rifat Sharif.

The High Court yesterday wanted to know about the actions taken against the officials of Anti-Corruption Commission and banks responsible for wrongly implicating jute mill worker Jaha Alam in corruption cases.

One in every six person in Bangladesh is undernourished and does not have access to sufficient food, according to a new UN report.

Iran’s judiciary yesterday confirmed the arrest of French-Iranian academic Fariba Adelkhah, after the French foreign ministry said she had been detained and denied contact with consular staff.

The Pacific’s low-lying reef islands are likely to change shape in response to climate change, rather than simply sinking beneath rising seas and becoming uninhabitable as previously assumed, new research has found.

A 16-year-old prosecution witness yesterday identified two accused in the Holey Artisan attack case before a Dhaka tribunal.

Ajmat Ali, who spent the last decade in jail despite being given a presidential amnesty in 1991, was released from jail yesterday.

Drug-related deaths in Scotland rose 27 percent last year to a record 1,187, the highest rate in Europe, official data showed yesterday.

President Donald Trump is considering removing Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross after the administration failed to add a question on citizenship to next year’s census, NBC news reported Monday.

Mexico on Monday rejected new asylum restrictions sought by US President Donald Trump to stem the flow of undocumented migrants trying to cross the neighbours’ shared border.

Pakistan yesterday expressed hopes that Prime Minister Imran Khan’s maiden trip to the White House later this month would help repair its acrimonious relationship with Washington as the US seeks its help in ending the war in Afghanistan.

Rising anger at the increasing inequality blamed on globalization calls for a change of directions, acting IMF chief David Lipton said Tuesday.

Democratic congresswomen targeted in a xenophobic tirade by President Donald Trump hit back Monday, saying he was trying to distract attention away from his policies with his “blatantly racist attack.”

Pakistan yesterday fully reopened its airspace for all civilian traffic, ending months of restrictions affecting major international routes including from India after clashes between the nuclear-armed rivals brought them to the brink of war.

Ershad was laid to rest at his hometown in Rangpur yesterday following a fourth funeral prayer.