Chittagong City Corporation's yearlong development work on Port Connecting Road (PC road) is taking its toll on Dhaka Trunk Road (DT road), another major route used by the commuters, leading to its miserable state.

A nurse of Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) was severely injured as the wheels of a bus ran over her right leg at Gulistan last night.

The BNP yesterday asked its key ally Jamaat-e-Islami to withdraw its candidate from Sylhet City Corporation (SCC) elections scheduled to be held on July 30.

A Bangladeshi migrant, who has been living in Bahrain for some four years, was found hanging from a steel pipe on the second floor of a building in Manama, Bahrain, early Friday.

Nicaraguan forces on Friday attacked a university in the capital Managua and a neighborhood in opposition bastion Masaya, killing two in the latest violence to convulse the Central American country hit by months of unrest.

The smartphone footage shows the two blood-soaked men pleading for their lives. Moments later they were dead, two more victims of lynchings sparked by rumours spread on Facebook and WhatsApp in India.

Authorities have detained "several" suspects in wake of an explosion at a chemical plant in southwest China that left 19 dead and injured 12 others, state media said.

The Biman Bangladesh Airlines yesterday started hajj flight operation, but around 11,000 seats remain unsold, creating uncertainty over performing of hajj by many pilgrims.

A new high tech mirror, designed specifically for cancer patients, will only become reflective when a user smiles into it.

Three students of Chakaria Grammar School in Chakaria upazila of Cox's Bazar drowned and two others remained missing after swimming in the Matamuhuri river under Matamuhuri Bridge on the Cox's Bazar-Chittagong highway yesterday afternoon.

A Dhaka court yesterday sent three leaders of the quota reform movement to jail on completion of their two-day police remand.

Eminent citizens yesterday called upon the government to make clear its position over the quota system in civil service, in the wake of repeated assault and arrest of quota reformists in the past few days.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday assured the public that the Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant was being constructed with full security measure taken, adding that the design of the plant has been developed in a way as to not succumb to any accident – nuclear or man-made.

Police yesterday foiled a discussion organised in the city for BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia's release.

Locally known as Amta or Amsotto, dried mango pulp has been a relished Bengali delicacy for longer than anyone can remember, a

In the last two years, at least a dozen people have been shot dead in the capital's Badda by gangs run by some top criminals holed up abroad.

The house was full of extended family members and friends preparing for the wedding.

Patuakhali town in summer's blazing heat is more than usually parched. A drop in the water level in tube well pipes to around 32 feet below the surface, caused by a corresponding dip in subterranean water tables, has left around half of the town's 1,150 wells inoperable. In the midst of a serious water crisis, town-dwellers are worried.

Argentina has asked Russia to arrest former Iranian foreign minister Ali Akbar Velayati for extradition in connection with the 1994 bombing of a Jewish center in Buenos Aires, the foreign ministry said Thursday.

Three alleged drug peddlers, including an elder brother of suspended Sramik League leader Tufan Sarkar, were killed in “gunfights” in Bogra, Tangail and Jessore yesterday.