Grassroots leaders and activists of Pabna Jamaat-e-Islami did not include the names of the sons of war criminals in the list of the party's nomination aspirants for the national election scheduled on December 30.

Hi-tech Singapore has deployed an autonomous robot with a swivelling camera for a head and flashing lights to patrol a summit venue -- arresting the attention of amused passers-by who stopped to snap selfies.

Sri Lanka's parliament yesterday voted out the bitterly disputed government of former strongman Mahinda Rajapakse, removing one controversial figure but leaving the country in a power vacuum.

The Road Transport Act-2018 is yet to be brought into effect a month after the president's approval, allegedly due to a movement against the law by transport workers.

Fourteen grassroots leaders and activists of Rupganj upazila Awami League have collected the nomination forms to act as dummy candidates for the incumbent lawmaker of Narayanganj-1 constituency Golam Dastagir Gazi.

A prime suspect in a Union Parishad chairman murder case was killed in a "gunfight" with police in Barishal yesterday.

Search teams were set to sift through the charred wreckage of Paradise, California, yesterday in the search of human remains as

A driver who deliberately mowed down shoppers in the heart of Australia's second-largest city, killing six people and injuring 27, was found guilty of murder by a jury yesterday.

CNN sued Donald Trump's administration yesterday, alleging the White House violated journalist Jim Acosta's constitutional rights by revoking his press credentials following a heated exchange with the US president.

The Vatican has told the US Conference of Catholic Bishops to delay a vote, set to take place at their annual meeting, on measures to halt sexual abuse by priests.

Thirty-four prominent South Asians, including Arundhati Roy, Shabana Azmi, Amitav Ghosh, Mohammad Hanif and Nepal's former Chief Justice Sushila Karki, wrote to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina demanding the immediate release of Shahidul Alam, according to a report in the Nepal Times.

An indigenous boy was killed on Monday night during an exchange of fire between an army patrol team and criminals in a remote area of Bandarban's Rowangchhari upazila.

Finance Minister AMA Muhith has announced that he will retire from politics after the tenure of the incumbent government expires.

Sri Lanka's Supreme Court yesterday overruled President Maithripala Sirisena's dissolution of parliament in a major boost to sacked prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe's fight to reclaim the post from an arch-rival.

A member of a Saudi assassination squad phoned a superior shortly after Jamal Khashoggi was murdered and told him "tell your boss" their mission had been accomplished, The New York Times reported.

Militant outfit “Neo JMB” is trying to regroup under a new leader and planning terror attacks, claim counterterrorism officials.

The European Union and Britain have agreed a draft text of a Brexit withdrawal agreement and Prime Minister Theresa May will present it to her senior ministers today, after more than a year of tortuous negotiations.

Five people of a village in Brahmanbaria-5 constituency have collected Awami League nomination forms to run for the MP post in the upcoming parliamentary polls.

The BNP yesterday submitted another list, this time of 1,002 “fictitious” cases filed against its leaders and activists, to the Prime Minister's Office.

The kilogram is getting an update.