Shaila, 14, came out of the garment factory she works for in the capital's Mohammadpur Beri Bandh area and saw her ex-boyfriend Billal, employed at the same RMG unit, waiting outside.

Jahangirnagar University graduate Shehabul Munir, who joined demonstrations for safe roads last year, died yesterday after being hit by a lorry driving on the wrong side of the road.

India's first Bangalee president Pranab Mukherjee was yesterday chosen for the Bharat Ratna, the country's highest civilian honour, by President Ram Nath Kovind.

Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido declares himself interim president, winning the backing of Washington and many Latin American nations and prompting socialist Nicolas Maduro, who has led the oil-rich nation since 2013, to break relations with the United States.

Indian Border Security Force (BSF) allegedly shot dead a Bangladeshi cattle trader along Char Ashariadaha border in Rajshahi's Godagari upazila early yesterday.

The world is "losing the race" against climate change, UN chief Antonio Guterres warned yesterday, demanding bolder action from governments to arrest runaway warming.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will address the nation today following the formation of her new government earlier this month.

Indian authorities beat and threatened Rohingyas, forcing some to flee to Bangladesh in recent weeks, said Fortify Rights yesterday.

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia expressed strong dissatisfaction with her seating arrangement at the court during the hearing in the Gatco graft case yesterday.

The United States has freed a journalist working for Iran's English-language television station Press TV after 10 days in detention, the channel has announced.

The Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam said yesterday its version of "Sunflowers" will no longer be allowed to travel after restoration work showed it was in a "fragile" condition.

For the first time in a generation, a rare Purple Heron was spotted near a lake in the capital. These birds of Bangladesh are seen only occasionally in the reed beds of large fresh-water lakes called haors.

Rawshan Ara stares lovingly at her one-year-old son while they sit on a railway coupling at the back of the Mymensingh-bound Isha Kha

The UN special rapporteur on the human rights situation in Myanmar yesterday visited Bhashan Char where Dhaka aims to move Rohingya refugees despite worries it would be vulnerable to extreme weather.

A 12-year-old blind girl has allegedly been raped by her father's co-worker in Kalmakanda upazila of Netrakona.

The medical board, formed to conduct medical test on an alleged rape victim in Noakhali's Kabirhat, did not find any evidence of gang rape.

A man was caught red-handed while raping a 36-year-old mentally challenged woman in Bahalgachia area of Patuakhali's Sadar upazila yesterday, said police.

UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar Yanghee Lee visits Bhashan Char today.

A Dhaka court yesterday sentenced six officials of unipay2u Bangladesh Limited, including its chairman and manager, to 12 years' rigorous imprisonment each in a case filed for laundering around Tk 1,351 crore through multi-level marketing sham.

Police yesterday submitted a charge sheet against two suspects accusing them of killing two five-year-old girls in the capital's Demra on January 7.