Indian Home Minister Rajnath Singh will arrive in Dhaka on Friday on a three-day official visit to discuss security and terrorism issues with top government officials and strengthen bilateral cooperation between the two countries.

BNP mayoral candidate Ariful Haque Chowdhury is set to face a tough challenge in the upcoming Sylhet City Corporation polls as he will be fighting the election also against his party rebel as well as another contender from the BNP's key ally Jamaat-e-Islami.

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir yesterday alleged that the Election Commission was being run by a top EC official who maintains a close contact with a certain political party.

Bangladesh Railway (BR) yesterday signed a contract with a joint venture company, for the construction of a rail line to link the under-construction Rooppur nuclear power plant with the country's rail network. The agreement was signed at a programme held at the Rail Bhaban in the capital.

IndiGo, the largest low-cost carrier of India, is set to start Dhaka-Kolkata flight every day from August 1, with exciting airfare for passengers.

Chittagong Medical College has formed a three-member committee to investigate the incident of using the college email ID for circulating the press release declaring the strike by private clinics and diagnostic centres in Chittagong on Sunday.

Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali would visit Myanmar soon to see the situation in Rakhine before the start of repatriation of hundreds of thousands of forcibly displaced Myanmar nationals from Bangladesh.

British Prime Minister Theresa May moved to reassert her authority yesterday after two top cabinet members quit and launched broadsides against her Brexit plans, winning support from many of her ministers including a leading eurosceptic.

A Dhaka court yesterday extended the bail period of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia until July 17 in connection with the Zia Charitable Trust graft case.

More than 80 percent of a dengue fever-spreading mosquito has been wiped out in an Australian town during a landmark trial scientists said yesterday offered hope for combating the dangerous pest globally.

An annual chilli pepper festival kicked off yesterday in central China's spice-loving Hunan province with a chilli-eating contest in which the winner set a blistering pace by downing a gut-busting 50 peppers in just over a minute.

The High Court yesterday said strikes observed by clinics, hospitals and diagnostic centres to justify medical negligence were unethical.

The body of a 25-year-old was found with bullet wounds in Shariatpur Sadar upazila yesterday morning, two days after plainclothes men identifying as detectives allegedly picked him up from his house.

British Prime Minister Theresa May's government imploded yesterday as Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson followed Brexit minister David Davis in resigning over her masterplan for Britain's future outside the EU.

Seven schoolgirls were injured as chunks of the ceiling plaster of their high school classroom fell on them in Rangpur city yesterday.

Three people were killed and three others injured when a motorcycle slammed into a pickup in Chittagong's Banshkhali upazila yesterday afternoon.

Private clinics, hospitals and diagnostic centres in Chittagong withdrew their indefinite strike yesterday noon after causing immense suffering to patients for 20 hours.

Expatriates' Welfare and Overseas Employment Minister Nurul Islam BSc yesterday claimed that female Bangladeshi workers were coming back from Saudi Arabia not because of torture, but for lacking language skills and having different food habits.

Detectives have found the remains of a gold trader, who had been missing for 21 days, in a septic tank in Narayanganj city yesterday.

Spain's new leader Pedro Sanchez met with separatist Catalan president Quim Torra for the first time yesterday, aiming to kickstart dialogue after the region's failed attempt at secession sparked a political crisis.