“Being a woman was a credit not a criterion,” is how Dr Susane Giti described becoming the first woman to achieve the rank of major general of the Bangladesh Army.

Two cases have been filed under section 57 of the ICT Act against two men from the district's Kotalipara upazila for making “derogatory comments” against the prime minister on Facebook.

Two workers were killed and 20 others injured in a blast at a fan factory in Tongi yesterday.

Three scientists yesterday won the Nobel Physics Prize, including the first woman in 55 years, for inventing optical lasers that have paved the way for advanced precision instruments used in corrective eye surgery, the jury said.

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader yesterday called upon the pro-liberation political parties to forge unity against the communal forces.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will address a press conference today to brief journalists about the outcome of her recent weeklong visit to the USA to attend the 73rd UN General Assembly.

Turkish police yesterday detained over 200 people in a major nationwide crackdown on illicit money transfers to individuals of Iranian-origin living in the United States.

A Syrian man has been arrested after almost seven months stranded in a Malaysian airport, an official said yesterday, in a bizarre saga that drew comparisons with hit movie "The Terminal".

About 200 police raided the headquarters in northern France of a Shia Islamic association and the homes of its leaders who are suspected of supporting "terrorist organisations", security sources said.

Suspected cholera cases have nearly tripled in the past three months in Hodeida, the Yemeni port city on the front line between a pro-government alliance and rebels, Save the Children said yesterday.

A one-time classmate of President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee said Monday that Brett Kavanaugh was a habitual heavy drinker, challenging the judge's Senate testimony to the contrary.

Awami League and Jamaat-Shibir men snatched a detained Jamaat leader from police in Sirajganj's Ullapara upazila yesterday afternoon.

The new Malaysian government has moved to reform the country's foreign workers' recruitment and management policy, aiming to bring discipline to the sector.

An outlawed party leader was killed in a “gunfight” with police in Pabna Sadar upazila early yesterday.

In a post on his verified Facebook page, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's ICT Affairs Adviser Sajeeb Wazed Joy has heavily criticised Sampadak Parishad (Editors' Council) for raising objections to some sections of the newly passed Digital Security Act.

The 16-kilometre Chattogram City Outer Ring Road, being built by the Chattogram Development Authority (CDA), is likely to help mitigate traffic congestion in the port city.

Indonesia yesterday scrambled to get help into quake-hit Sulawesi island as survivors streamed away from their ruined homes and accounts of devastation filtered out of remote areas, including the death of 34 children at a Christian camp.

Indian Finance Minister Arun Jaitley yesterday assured Bangladesh of help in resolving the Rohingya issue at the earliest.

Two immunologists, James Allison of the US and Tasuku Honjo of Japan, won the 2018 Nobel Medicine Prize for research into how the body's natural defences can fight cancer, the jury said yesterday.

Former chief justice Surendra Kumar Sinha on Saturday said he had sought political asylum in the United States.