At least eight people -- five women and three children -- were killed and 30 others injured as a bus fell into a roadside ditch in Joypurhat Sadar upazila yesterday.

Political and regional identities are getting preference for being appointed as teachers in public universities instead of academic qualities, compromising the quality of education, said Prof Sayeed Ferdous, of anthropology department at Jahangirnagar University.

An 8th grader was allegedly raped by two villagers at Haringhata Reserve Forest in Barguna on Thursday.

Indonesia is probing vote-rigging claims after the discovery of thousands of stray election ballots in neighbouring Malaysia, officials said, as the opposition threatens to challenge next week's poll results over separate voter list irregularities.

US President Donald Trump's controversial ban on transgender Americans in the military comes into force yesterday following a protracted legal battle.

The White House pushed immigration authorities to release illegal migrants onto the streets of so-called "sanctuary cities" to retaliate against US President Donald Trump's political enemies, the Washington Post reported yesterday.

The Dutch sweets giant behind the Mentos and Alpenliebe brands has pledged to investigate after its workers in Bangladesh said they were attacked, just weeks after setting up a union.

Climbers with pressing needs on Mount Everest will soon find an "eco-friendly" toilet at a Chinese campsite 7,028 metres (23,058 feet) above sea level in an ongoing campaign to deal with the peak's waste problem.

Detectives arrested three men with fake notes of Tk 20 lakh and 300-gram heroin in the capital's Paltan area on Thursday.

A student of Jagannath University has been placed on a two-day remand in police custody in a case filed under Digital Security Act over a Facebook post.

A new migrant caravan of around a thousand Hondurans hit out for the United States border on Wednesday in defiance of threats from US President Donald Trump.

At least five students and two teachers were injured in primary school classrooms in Brahmanbaria and Narayanganj yesterday as chunks of ceiling plasters fell on them.

The human family tree has acquired a new branch with the unearthing of a previously unknown species of human that lived on an island in today's Philippines some 50,000 years ago.

A Thakurgaon court yesterday dismissed the complaints lodged by family members of the three villagers killed in a BGB firing in Haripur upazila's Baharampur village in the district on February 12.

President Omar al-Bashir, who ruled Sudan in autocratic style for 30 years, was yesterday overthrown and arrested in a coup by the armed forces.

Four alleged criminals were killed in separate “gunfights” with law enforcers and drug peddlers in Dhaka, Chattogram, Meherpur and Cox's Bazar yesterday.

The US Department of State has introduced a new risk indicator for 35 countries, including Bangladesh, to communicate more clearly to American citizens the “risk of kidnapping and hostage taking” by criminal and terrorist actors around the world.

Police yesterday arrested a madrasa teacher at Tafsirul Quran International Madrasa in Panchabati of Fatullah over allegations of raping a boy.

A 35-year-old woman was admitted to a hospital in Noakhali town yesterday after allegedly being gang-raped.

A US warship laden with hi-tech fighter planes took centre stage at key war games in the Philippines yesterday, brandishing military might as fresh tensions bubble in the contentious South China Sea.