Pigeons have now too turned towards illicit drugs, unfazed by the ongoing anti-narcotics drive, something jail officials in Faridpur were surprised to discover.

A 200-metre stretch of an embankment of the Water Development Board (WDB) was washed away in Southkhali union of Sarankhola upazila yesterday.

In the mountains of central Vietnam, a colossal pair of hands lifts a golden thread of walkway high above the clifftops, as if the mountain itself has sprouted limbs.

A woman was found murdered at her residence in Chittagong city's Farider Para area yesterday evening.

Amid concern over the controversial citizenship verification process which put a question mark on the status of over 4 million people living in Assam, India has said Bangladesh has nothing to worry about and it will have no impact on relations between the two countries.

As fear and anger run deep over Assam's citizenship issue, many of those left off the final draft of National Registration of Citizens (NRC) complain of being harassed at different places of neighbouring state of Meghalaya.

In a landmark move, the United Arab Emirates yesterday launched a three-month visa amnesty programme, hoping to resolve a “Catch-22” for foreign workers who are fined daily for overstaying their permits but prevented from leaving until they pay the penalties.

Two alleged drug peddlers were killed in separate “gunfights” with Rab in Natore and Rajshahi on Tuesday.

AHM Moazzem Hossain, editor of The Financial Express, passed away at a city hospital last evening.

Amid widespread outrage over smiling while talking about the deaths of two college students and making light of the issue, Shipping Minister Shahjahan Khan yesterday met one of the two victim's family and apologised.

Nicolas Maduro's days as president of crisis-ravaged Venezuela are numbered, his outgoing Colombian counterpart Juan Manuel Santos told AFP.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday expressed her firm conviction that Bangabandhu Satellite-1 would play a pivotal role in overall development of the country.

Eight people were killed and three others critically injured after they were electrocuted by a live wire of the Power Development Board (PDB) at Kadai village in Sirajganj Sadar upazila yesterday noon.

A Dhaka court yesterday granted bail to BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia in connection with the cases filed over undermining the national flag and observing “fake birthday” on August 15.

Amid widespread criticism over his smile and remarks on Sunday's road accident, Shipping Minister Shajahan Khan yesterday offered his apology, saying he was “saddened and ashamed”.

The Sundarbans mangrove forest, the habitat of Bengal tigers, is threatened by heedless industrialisation, which must be halted by Bangladesh.

A coordinated assault on a government compound in eastern Afghanistan kills 15 people and a roadside bomb in the western part of the country killed 11, Afghan officials say.

Refusing international investigations over the months, Myanmar has now established a commission of inquiry to probe allegations of ethnic cleansing against Rohingyas in Rakhine State as the country faces growing calls for accountability over the issue.

Bangladesh Financial Intelligence Unit has detected cases of money laundering involving Tk 4,000 crore and is carrying out a thorough probe into it, Bangladesh Bank Deputy Governor Abu Hena Mohd Razee Hassan said yesterday.

The militant group “Neo JMB” spent around Tk 12.5 lakh to carry out the Gulshan café attack and the money was collected by selling a private car of an operative of the militant group.