With the number of electricity-run vehicles like easy-bikes and electric cars increasing gradually in the country, the government has decided to bring those under regulation.

G20 powers yesterday opened two days of summit talks after a stormy buildup dominated by tensions with Russia and US President Donald Trump's combative stance on trade and climate fears.

Awami League lawmaker Abdur Rahman Bodi escaped a gun attack unhurt in Teknaf upazila of Cox's Bazar last night.

United States Congressman Jim Banks has placed a resolution in the House of Representatives expressing concern over the threat posed on democracy and the democratic process by theocratic groups operating in Bangladesh.

Bangladesh Jatiya Party Chairman Andaleeve Rahman Partho yesterday urged the Election Commission to use electronic voting machines in Bhola-1, from where he is going to run in the December 30 polls.

The US Senate took a defiant stance against President Donald Trump's White House on Wednesday, advancing a measure that would end American military support for the Saudi-led intervention in Yemen.

Even just two years ago, Jayapara lake -- the largest lake on the campus of Jahangirnagar University -- would offer itself as a safe haven for local and migratory birds. These birds would be seen resting on the water or fluttering about among bloomed water lilies -- a sight people from all over the city would travel to JU for.

A murder accused was killed in a “gunfight” with police in Savar's Ashulia yesterday, while the bullet-hit body of a youth was found in Cox's Bazar's Teknaf upazila, eight days after he went missing.

The Parbatya Chattagram Jana Sanghati Samiti (PCJSS) yesterday alleged that the government had been working against the Jumma people and the Hill Tracts Peace Accord, instead of implementing its core conditions.

Greenpeace activists who scaled a massive chimney at Poland's Belchatow coal-fired power plant have abandoned their protest after more than 40 hours because of pollution, the organisation said yesterday.

Around 3.25 percent of Voter Verified Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) machines attached to EVMs used in polling during assembly elections in Indian state of Madhya Pradesh were hit by malfunction and needed to be changed on Wednesday, prompting opposition Congress party to cry foul.

A Mexican former pilot and one-time friend of Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman told the kingpin's New York trial Wednesday how the defendant had ordered him dead four times.

Facebook on Wednesday said it considered charging application makers to access data at the social network.

Police yesterday arrested the key accused in a case filed for raping a mentally challenged woman inside a bus in Tangail on August 30.

Poor diets are among the top causes of ill health globally, accounting for nearly one in five deaths, according to a study published yesterday that called on governments and businesses to do more to improve eating habits.

Japanese researchers have uncovered a rare, centuries-old, Ninja oath pledging never to divulge the secrets of their spying and sabotage skills -- on pain of divine retribution for generations.

One in every three citizens in the country is suffering from some sort of liver diseases, according to a survey conducted by the Hepatology Society.

Members of the same families in different constituencies submitted nomination papers, apparently as backup candidates for each other.

India yesterday ruled out participating in the Saarc summit in Pakistan, saying terror and talks cannot go on at the same time.

Jatiya Party Presidium Member Salma Islam submitted her nomination paper as independent candidate yesterday for contesting from Dhaka-1 in the 11th parliamentary polls.