Parents should openly discuss sexual and reproductive health with their adolescent children breaking the taboo and social stigma, speakers said at a roundtable yesterday.

Three unidentified bodies were found at different places of Brahmanbaria and Jamalpur yesterday.

The Karatoa is facing a fatal threat. The famous river is shrinking, at some points by a fifth of its total width, due to widespread grabbing along its banks in Bogura's Sadar upazila, according to a government survey and locals.

A Chandpur court yesterday sent former state minister for education ANM Ehsanul Haque Milon to jail in three criminal cases, hours after he was arrested from Chittagong city.

Police were still clueless about the death of BNP nomination seeker Abu Bakar Abu whose body was found floating in the Buriganga on Monday, a day after he went missing from the capital's Bijoynagar area.

Spanish premier Pedro Sanchez agreed with Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel to deepen bilateral political ties on Thursday, at the start of the first official visit by a Spanish leader to the Communist-run country in three decades.

China said yesterday it hopes US President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping can find a solution to the trade war when they meet at the G20 summit next week.

The authorities are yet to decide how to dispose of banners, posters and other election campaign materials after those were removed from roadside lamp posts, overbridges and walls in compliance with a directive from the Election Commission.

Police recovered the bodies of two missing men from the Meghna river in remote Char-Madhua area of Narsingdi's Raipura upazila on Thursday night.

Six years after the Tazreen Fashions factory fire, 10 workers injured in the incident have taken their destiny in their own hands and set up their factory in Ashulia.

It's a bustling area with thousands of homes, shacks, and markets, farms, factories, brick kilns, and places of worship on the east and west of the roundabout of Shah Amanat Bridge at Bakolia of Chattogram city.

The blue glowing jets of science fiction spacecraft came a step closer to reality on Wednesday as US physicists unveiled the world's first solid-state aeroplane powered in flight by supercharged air molecules.

A Rangpur court yesterday set January 10 for framing charges against barrister Mainul Hosein in a case filed under the Digital Security Act for defaming journalist Masuda Bhatti.

The levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, the main driver of climate change, have hit a new record high, the UN said yesterday, warning that the time to act was running out.

Picking competent climate negotiators and maintaining transparency in spending funds are the key to realising global climate fund for the country, Transparency International Bangladesh said yesterday.

Bangladeshi migrants in Malaysia will soon get medical and disability benefits as the Southeast Asian country has decided to bring foreign workers under its Social Security Organisation.

With the arrival of winter, the shallow waters and narrowing width of the mighty Padma becomes host to a number of animals in search of the nutrition it provides.

Madhusudan Talukder started planting orange saplings on two acres of land in Rangamati's Naniarchar upazila in 2007. By 2014, half of his 700 trees yielded fruits ready for sale.

Family members of at least 25 BNP leaders who died in the last 10 years are likely to get party tickets.

Germany has pledged to provide €285.3 million to Bangladesh for various development programmes.