The fourth phase of upazila election takes place today in 107 upazilas amid tight security.

Over six lakh Bangladeshi workers in Malaysia may face deportation as the Southeast Asian country plans to reform its foreign workers sector, with an immediate step being the shutting down of its outsourcing companies by March 31.

The Surma river in Sylhet is on the verge of becoming another Buriganga, environmentalists fear.

Declaring that peace efforts in Mali had faltered, the United States on Friday called on the UN Security Council to consider a possible major drawdown of the peacekeeping mission in the West African country.

Egypt's most prominent pro-democracy activist, Alaa Abdel Fattah, was released on probation yesterday after five years in prison on charges of organising an illegal protest.

Twitter said Thursday it could start tagging tweets from newsworthy figures such as US President Donald Trump that break its rules, while stopping short of deleting them.

US President Donald Trump will host his South Korean counterpart Moon Jae-in next month, Seoul said yesterday, after the latest summit between Washington and Pyongyang ended in deadlock.

The Election Commission has suspended election in Pirojpur's Mathbaria upazila and Noakhali's Kabirhat upazila over polls related violence between the ruling party men and its rebel candidates.

Lawmakers rejected Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit deal for a third time yesterday, sounding its probable death knell and leaving Britain's withdrawal from the European Union in turmoil on the very day it was supposed to leave the bloc.

The UN Security Council ordered countries worldwide to step up the fight against terrorism financing Thursday by ensuring they have laws that make it a serious crime to fund terrorist acts.

On this day in 1971, the ruthless Pakistan army opened fire in the in the surrounding areas of Rangpur Cantonment, killing many innocent civilians.

Law enforcers had been nonchalant for years when thousands of Rohingyas and Bangladeshis were facing heinous crimes, including murders and burial in mass graves, in the bordering hilly regions of Thailand and Malaysia.

A Maori lament echoed across Christchurch yesterday as a survivor of the New Zealand mosque attacks told a national remembrance service he had forgiven the gunman responsible for the racist massacre that took his wife, and shocked the world.

A woman was beaten to death for protesting drug peddling at Tanbazar in Narayanganj city last evening.

Housing and Public Works Minister SM Rezaul Karim yesterday said the people who lost their lives in Thursday's fire at a Banani building were murdered.

When the deadly fire was razing through the FR Tower in Banani yesterday, thousands of “over-enthusiastic” people poured into the Kamal Ataturk Avenue, giving the firefighters a tough time while running the rescue operation.

Two men were killed in a “gunfight” with the law enforcers in Dhaka and another alleged drug dealer was killed in an “internal clash” of a drug gang in Khulna yesterday.

The number of deaths in road accidents is getting larger as 19 more people, including three of a family, were killed and 59 others injured in road crashes in Chattogram, Madaripur and Jashore yesterday.

I was trying to negotiate a treacherous paddy field plot, separating earth bunds, on the bank of Charol Beel in Rajshahi's Rohunpur upazila. I realised the lean sun was brightening up the eastern bank of a village pond in the area.

Singapore yesterday defended nominating its street food for UN recognition as a bid to "safeguard" local culture after the move sparked a cross-border culinary clash with Malaysia.