On an average, more than three women were raped every day in the last six months in the country, says rights body Ain o Salish Kendra (ASK).

The Left Democratic Alliance has called a half-day hartal across the country on July 7 to protest the gas tariff hike.

Although six days have passed since Rifat was killed in Barguna, the three main accused in the murder case were yet to be traced.

As climate change worsens, growing heat stress on workers in agriculture and other sectors will cause a productivity loss equal to 80 million full-time jobs over the next decade, the UN warned yesterday.

Some 30 Bangladeshis, who got stranded in the turbulent Libyan capital of Tripoli and its suburbs, are returning home today.

At least 43 containers loaded with imported goods yesterday fell off a cargo vessel into the Bay of Bengal due to rough sea condition.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has promised the best possible treatment for the teen who was beaten up by a group of unidentified criminals in Satkhira’s Patkelghata upazila on Friday.

Police yesterday arrested four more people, including two accused, in connection with the killing of Barguna’s Shah Newaj Rifat Sharif while the three key accused are still at large.

Entrepreneurs will not be required to pay Advance Tax on import of capital machinery and spare parts this fiscal year, as the government has backtracked on its move to levy the indirect tax on such import to facilitate industrialisation.

Donald Trump yesterday stepped onto North Korean soil in a historic first as he met Pyongyang’s leader Kim Jong Un in a moment of high diplomatic drama on the world’s last Cold War frontier.

Noting that 100 percent voter turnout in any polling station is not ‘normal’, the chief election commissioner yesterday said the Commission had nothing to do with it once the gazette of the election result was published.

Two Yemeni rebel drones targeting southern Saudi Arabia were intercepted on Saturday, a Riyadh-led military coalition said, the latest in a series of assaults on the kingdom.

Mizanur Rahman, suspended deputy inspector general of police, yesterday filed a petition with the High Court seeking anticipatory bail in a corruption case.

Thirty leaders and activists of BNP-led alliance landed in jail yesterday for allegedly carrying out an attack on Sheikh Hasina in Pabna 25 years ago.

Crocodiles are sometimes described as living fossils for their close resemblance to their forebears who roamed the Earth during the age of the dinosaurs.

The accused of raping a nine-month-old baby surrendered before a Chattogram court yesterday.

The United States on Saturday called for an end to a mobile internet shutdown in two strife-torn states in Myanmar, saying the cut-off undermines transparency amid clashes between the military and insurgents.

Warning against adulteration and fraudulence, President Abdul Hamid yesterday said businessmen involved in such practices would be punished.

Leader of a local gang was killed in what police said was a gunfight between two gangs in Meherpur’s Gangni upazila yesterday.

Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) and police are making contradictory claims over the videographer who was killed in a “gunfight” with BGB men in Cumilla on early Friday.