Dhiraj had it all figured out: how to surprise his mother with a new smart phone.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, her sister Sheikh Rehana and the prime minister's daughter Saima Wazed have no personal or official IDs on social media platforms, including Facebook and Twitter.

Police recovered the slit-throat body of a sand trader from a hotel in Chittagong city early yesterday.

Residents of Karachi, Pakistan's largest city, watched as cattle were lowered by crane from the top of a four-storey home ahead of the Muslim festival Eid-ul-Azha.

In a quest to keep their supremacy in the subcontinent intact, holders Bangladesh will take on India in the final of the SAFF U-15 Women's Championship at Changlimithang Stadium in Thimphu, Bhutan tonight.

In a breakthrough that experts say will help feed the growing global population in the coming decades, scientists Thursday revealed they have cracked the full genome of wheat for the first time.

Despite having adequate supplies, retail prices of some spices and essentials have gone up in city markets ahead of Eid-ul-Azha.

Several lakh people in Bangladesh are hit by floods every year. Many lose their homes to the disaster and have to seek refuge in shelters and on embankments until the water recedes.

A US State Department investigation has found Myanmar's military exhibited “premeditation and coordination” ahead of the slaughter of Rohingya Muslims last year, Politico reported on August 13.

A woman allegedly died by suicide after stabbing her husband and giving sedatives to her two children over her husband's reported extramarital affairs in the capital's Jatrabari yesterday.

Rescuers used diggers to claw through mountains of rubble, calling out in the hope of finding survivors as a desperate search for victims of the viaduct collapse entered its fourth day yesterday with up to 20 people still missing.

Manila's defence chief yesterday renewed calls for the return of church bells seized by the US military more than a century ago, urging Washington to relinquish what he called "trophies for atrocities".

Members of a commission established by Myanmar's government to investigate human rights violations in western Rakhine state, where 700,000 members of the Muslim Rohingya minority fled brutal army operations, addressed critics Thursday with a pledge to be impartial.

Thirteen separatists in an oil-rich enclave on Africa's west coast ruled by Angola have been acquitted of charges of crimes against state security, local media said yesterday.

The US government yesterday hit four Myanmar military commanders and two military units with punitive sanctions, accusing them of "serious human rights abuses" and "ethnic cleansing" in violently expelling minority Rohingya from their homes.

The detention of eminent photographer Shahidul Alam was a severe blow to freedom of expression and press freedom in Bangladesh, Foreign Correspondents' Club (FCC) of Hong Kong said yesterday.

The chief executive of the Financial Times, John Ridding, is to return some of his pay from last year following staff criticism, the business daily reported yesterday.

Closing arguments wrapped up in the trial of Paul Manafort on Wednesday with prosecutors accusing Donald Trump's former campaign chairman of weaving a web of lies to avoid paying taxes on tens of millions of dollars he earned advising Russian-backed politicians in Ukraine.

Dhaka has agreed to a request from Naypyidaw to replace the words “Forcibly Displaced Myanmar Nationals” with “Displaced Persons From Rakhine State” on identity cards issued to Rohingya refugees in Cox's Bazar.

Twelve days into the attack on the vehicle of US Ambassador to Bangladesh Marcia Bernicat, the government yesterday condemned the incident and promised to take appropriate actions on completion of investigation.