At least 32 aspirants want to take on BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia in Bogura-6 and-7 constituencies in the upcoming parliamentary election, scheduled to be held on December 30.

Election Commission Secretary Helal Uddin Ahmed has said Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and other ministers cannot inaugurate any development project or lay any foundation stone until the results of the upcoming general election are announced.

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 telecom regulator yesterday unblocked Skype, a communication application, backtracking from its position a day after it was blocked.

BNP leader barrister Rafiqul Islam Mia was arrested by police hours after being sentenced to three years' imprisonment by a Dhaka court.

Fallen Malaysian leader Najib Razak is being questioned over the purchase of two French-made submarines, an official told AFP yesterday, the latest probe to engulf the former prime minister since his government's ousting.

Police yesterday arrested a Rohingya man for allegedly raping a one and a half year old girl in Cox's Bazar.

One electrical worker was killed and 10 others critically injured while repairing an electric line of Bangladesh Rural Electrification Board (BREB) at Rajapur upazila in Jhalakathi yesterday.

Two BNP grassroots leaders have bought party's nomination forms to run for lawmaker from Goplaganj-3, the constituency from where Awami League President Sheikh Hasina will contest.

At least 40 people were killed in a suicide bomb attack on a meeting of top clerics in Kabul yesterday, officials said, in one of the deadliest attacks to strike the Afghan capital in months.

Md Osman (not his real name), a railway official, was admitted to Bangladesh Railway Hospital in Chattogram last week for acute stomach aches.

India once again said the upcoming election was an internal issue of Bangladesh and Bangladesh's people were capable of determining their democratic future.

A robber was killed in a “gunfight” with Rapid Action Battalion in Cox's Bazar's Kutubdia upazila yesterday, according to Rab officials.

Amid international uproar over the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, some members of Saudi Arabia's ruling family are agitating to prevent Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman from becoming king, three sources close to the royal court said.

A federal judge on Monday put a temporary halt to a Trump administration order denying the possibility of asylum to people who enter the US illegally.

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia yesterday filed a petition with the Supreme Court, challenging the High Court verdict that increased her punishment in the Zia Orphanage Trust corruption case.

The government yesterday filed a petition with the Supreme Court seeking stay on the High Court verdict that granted permanent bail to acclaimed photographer Shahidul Alam.

Social media in Finland was ablaze with bemused comments yesterday after US President Donald Trump claimed the forest-covered nation prevents wildfires by raking its forest floors.

Two former Jamaat lawmakers, who are in jail now, will compete against each other from Chattogram-15 constituency in the upcoming national election.