A headmaster in Kishoreganj believes education goes beyond the classroom. She's calling on her students to have a conscience.

Four Bangladeshis, including three of a family, were killed as a fire broke out at a shop in Brits City area of North West province in South Africa early Saturday.

Bangladesh is going to observe the National Road Safety Day today with the slogan “Will obey law; will make roads safe” against the backdrop of an unprecedented student agitation for safe roads.

A baby was killed after she and her mother were thrown on to the street from their rickshaw that had been rear-ended by a truck in capital's Mohammadpur area last night.

The High Court yesterday directed Impact Masudul Hoque Memorial Community Health Centre in Chuadanga and IRIS Enterprise, a medicine supplier, to pay Tk 10 lakh in compensation to each of the 17 victims who lost their eyesight following surgery at a health camp.

President Donald Trump said Washington will exit the Cold-War era treaty that eliminated a class of nuclear weapons due to Russian violations, triggering a warning of retaliatory measures from Moscow.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday sought vote for the Awami League from the young generation in the upcoming general election to keep up the pace of development, calling them the biggest strength of the country.

An arrest warrant is issued against Barrister Mainul Hosein after a Tk 20,000-crore defamation case is filed against him in Jamalpur for hurling abusive words at journalist Masuda Bhatti at a television talk show.

A bill -- “Sarkari Chakori Ain-2018” -- was placed in parliament last night with a provision that makes it mandatory for the Anti-Corruption Commission to take permission for arresting any public servant.

Barring any last-minute upset, Brazil appears poised to elect Jair Bolsonaro, a populist far-right veteran politician, as its next president in a week's time.

Indian Border Security Force (BSF) shot dead a Bangladeshi national inside Indian territory near Kantivita border under Baliadangi upazila of Thakurgaon early Saturday.

Bangladesh’s band music legend and founder of LRB, Ayub Bachchu has been laid to eternal rest beside his mother at their family graveyard in Chattogram.

Law enforcers claimed that three drug dealers and criminals were killed in separate “gunfights” early yesterday.

Nearly 170 Afghans were killed or wounded in poll-related violence yesterday, officials said, as the legislative election turned chaotic with many polling centres opening hours late -- or not at all -- due to technical glitches and lack of staff.

Angry relatives staged a protest Saturday on the tracks where a speeding train ploughed into crowds watching fireworks, killing about 60 people in the latest disaster to bedevil India's railway network.

British prosecutors revealed Friday that 20 men had been jailed for raping and sexually abusing more than a dozen girls aged as young as 11 in one town between 2004 and 2011.

Four people died and two others fell sick after excessive alcohol consumption in different areas of the district's Kaliganj upazila of the district on Friday night.

Five people have been arrested with yaba tablets in separate incidents in Chattogram and Cox's Bazar.

Police once again denied permission to Jatiya Oikyafront, the newly formed alliance of BNP and several other parties, to hold a rally in Sylhet on October 24.

Farming was not his calling; he actually had stumbled across the idea. And years later, the cool and collected Babul Aktar mastered the art of mushroom farming, which is quite a difficult work.