A ninth grader girl was allegedly raped by a 40-year-old man in Jashore’s Keshabpur upazila on Thursday evening.

A man accused of sexually assaulting his neighbour stabbed a police inspector in Pirojpur yesterday.

US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping have been urged to reach a trade deal or risk setting the global economy on a downward path as world leaders gathered in Japan for the G20 summit.

Five people, including three of a family, were killed in lightning strikes in Satkhira yesterday.

Nigerian troops have thwarted a Boko Haram attack on a military formation in the volatile northeast, killing dozens of jihadists, the army said yesterday.

Suspended Directorate General of Health Services employees Abzal Hossain and his wife Rubina Khanam deposited about Tk 284 crore to different banks in the name of their business organisations.

The trial of the Nusrat Jahan Rafi murder began yesterday with recording the testimony of the victim’s brother Mahmudul Hasan Noman. Recording of the testimony started around 11:15am at the district’s Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal.

Seven climbers killed on India’s second highest mountain last month were roped together when an avalanche struck, an official said yesterday.

A retired army official and his mother were stabbed to death following a dispute over land in Sirajganj early Thursday, police and family members said.

Oli Ahmed, president of the Liberal Democratic Party -- a component of the BNP-led 20-party alliance -- yesterday unveiled a new platform “Jatiya Muktimancha” to realise their 18-point demand, including the release of Khaleda Zia.

Elites are capturing the country’s democratic institutions for their own business interests, reducing space for the poor and the marginalised to speak up for themselves.

Bangladeshis’ deposits in Swiss banks increased by 28.33 percent year-on-year in 2018 to 617.72 million Swiss francs or Tk 5,341 crore, according to the Swiss National Bank (SNB).

An erupting volcano in Papua New Guinea that has blanketed a town in ash has forced around 5,000 people from their homes, officials said yesterday.

Rab yesterday detained two high school teachers for their alleged involvement in rape of more than 20 female students of their school in Narayanganj Sadar.

Around 100 people are jammed into offices in Miami that are offering free or low-cost legal advice to migrants, many of them undocumented and desperate to normalize their status after President Donald Trump threatened to deport millions of people in the coming weeks.

A total of 535 people have been killed since 2010 after being hit by trains while wearing headphones on tracks in and around the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka, police said yesterday.

Lawmakers in Kyrgyzstan yesterday voted to lift the immunity of a former president, paving the way for a prosecution that could provoke a political crisis in the fragile Central Asian state.

A rape accused was killed in a “gunfight” with members of Rab-7 in Chattogram’s Sitakunda upazila early yesterday.

Bahrain’s foreign minister has said Israel is part of the region’s heritage and the Jewish people have “a place amongst us” in a rare interview of an Arab official by an Israeli journalist.

Global cocaine production reached an all-time high in 2017, breaking the previous year’s record by 25 percent, the UN drugs and crime agency said yesterday in its annual report, as production soars in post-conflict Colombia.