Annual per capita remittance from the male migrants has fallen by 11 percent in 2017 compared to that in 2014, says a new study.

A large number of policemen will be deployed across the country from the day the election schedule is announced.

Dozens of students and their family members demonstrated in front of the capital's Central Hospital yesterday, demanding justice for a fourth grader who died for what her relatives said was wrong treatment at the hospital.

Indonesia steps up a search for an airliner that plunged into the sea with all 189 aboard feared dead, deploying underwater beacons to trace its black box recorders and uncover why an almost-new plane crashed minutes after take-off.

Nasa's Parker Solar Probe, which launched earlier this year, has set a new record for becoming the closest human-made object to the sun, the US space agency announced Monday.

A 50-year-old woman and her daughter were found strangled to death at their home in Mogpukur Par area under Double Mooring Police Station yesterday afternoon.

Unbridled consumption has decimated global wildlife, triggered a mass extinction and exhausted Earth's capacity to accommodate humanity's expanding appetites, the conservation group WWF warned yesterday.

The Left Democratic Alliance (LDA), a coalition of eight left-leaning political parties, yesterday threatened tough demonstrations across the country in November if the government fails to meet their four-point demand within the next 48 hours.

The Saudi-led military coalition in Yemen has sent more than 10,000 new troops towards a vital rebel-held port city ahead of a new assault, Yemeni government officials said yesterday.

The Bangladesh Bank yesterday gave its final nod to a commercial bank and asked three others to produce documents required to obtain licences.

The cabinet yesterday approved major changes to the Representation of the People Order, paving the way for the use of Electronic Voting Machines in polls and relaxing the rules on loan defaulters contesting the polls.

Students, different rights organisations and road safety campaigners yesterday expressed strong condemnation over the recent transport workers' strike, which resulted in the death of an infant, among other things.

Libyan strongman Khalifa Haftar, whose self-styled Libyan National Army dominates the country's east, was in Rome yesterday for talks ahead of next month's Sicily conference on the conflict-hit North African nation.

Air pollution is slowly easing in EU countries but still causes nearly half a million early deaths each year, the European Environment Agency (EEA) said in its annual report published yesterday.

Mourners held an emotional vigil Sunday for victims of a fatal shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue, an assault that saw a gunman who said he "wanted all Jews to die" open fire on a mostly elderly group.

US President Donald Trump yesterday blamed the media once again for "division and hatred" in the country as Americans took stock of a gunman's attack on a Pittsburgh synagogue that killed 11 worshippers.

Angry local communities have warned India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi to stay away from today's inauguration of the world's biggest statue, a 182 metre (600 feet) high tribute to an independence hero.

Bangladesh and Myanmar will hold their third Joint Working Group (JWG) meeting on the repatriation of Rohingyas today.

A high school student died allegedly by suicide yesterday morning after being stalked by a young man in the area for a long time.

An alleged drug smuggler was killed in a “gunfight” with Border Guard Bangladesh along Jamalpur border in Kushtia's Daulatpur upazila early yesterday.