A general diary has been filed against Gonoshasthaya Kendra founder Dr Zafrullah Chowdhury over his recent remarks on Army Chief Gen Aziz Ahmed at a TV programme.

Australia's indigenous affairs minister and several of his colleagues faced calls to resign yesterday, after they backed a failed parliamentary motion tabled by a controversial senator that declared: "It is okay to be white."

An Amnesty International researcher said yesterday he was abducted and brutally beaten by men claiming to be from the Russian security service after he travelled to the North Caucasus to monitor peaceful protests.

India's junior minister for external affairs M J Akbar yesterday filed a criminal defamation case against his former journalist colleague Priya Ramani, who along with over 10 other women accused him of sexual harassment in the wake of the #MeToo movement in India.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel yesterday vowed to "win back trust" from voters after squabbling within her three-party coalition was blamed for severe election losses in the state of Bavaria.

The death toll in a bomb attack on an Afghan election rally has risen to at least 22 people, officials said Sunday, as the country braces for more violence ahead of the October 20 poll.

The US State Department on Saturday reportedly approved an application of former chief justice Surendra Kumar Sinha for political asylum.

Taliban militants killed at least 22 security forces, including a district police chief, in separate attacks on security checkpoints in two Afghan provinces, officials said yesterday, ahead of parliamentary elections set for this week.

The Election Commission is going to hold a meeting today to discuss preparations for the 11th National Election likely to be held in late December.

The Jatiya Oikyafront, the newly floated alliance of BNP and several other parties, wants to move forward with a series of programmes urging people from all walks of life to join the “fight for the restoration of democracy”.

Farming is in her blood. As the daughter of a farmer, Shilpi Begum grew up well acquainted with the expertise of growing paddy and vegetables, and rearing livestock. The experience came of great use when she had to shoulder the responsibility of pulling her family,

The Sampadak Parishad (Editors' Council) will form a human chain in front of the Jatiya Press Club today to press for proper amendments to nine sections of the Digital Security Act 2018.

Law enforcers have found evidence that the hand-written question paper of Dhaka University's “Gha” unit admission test, which was leaked around 45 minutes prior to the exam, was circulated from two admission information centres in Bogura to an applicant's guardian.

A landslide, triggered by heavy rainfall following cyclone “Titli”, claimed three lives of a family and another man died in a wall collapse in Chattagram city early yesterday.

The High Court yesterday cleared the way for continuing trial in the Zia Charitable Trust corruption case against BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia in her absence.

A year after the fall of US movie mogul Harvey Weinstein, a flurry of allegations of sexual misconduct and inappropriate behavior has shaken the Indian media and entertainment industries as the #MeToo movement finally beginning to take shape in the world's largest democracy.

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was released from jail yesterday after three weeks behind bars for organising anti-Kremlin protests, his second spell in detention in as many months.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will visit the Padma Bridge construction site today to see for herself the progress of the country's largest infrastructure project and to inaugurate the construction work of its rail link.

A 15-year-old garment worker was allegedly gang-raped in Bin Para area of Sadar upazila and was rescued by locals as she tried to die by suicide on Wednesday night.

Cyber attackers stole data from 29 million Facebook accounts using an automated program that moved from one friend to the next, Facebook Inc announced on Friday, as the social media company said its largest-ever data theft hit fewer than the 50 million profiles it initially reported.