Pope Francis yesterday voiced concern that Christians will disappear from the Middle East amid "murderous indifference" as war rages on.

A suspected drug peddler was killed and two others were injured in separate incidents of reported gunfights in Narail, Rajshahi and Lalmonirhat yesterday.

Conditions are "perfect" to evacuate a young football team from a flooded Thai cave in the coming days before fresh rains and a possible rise in carbon dioxide further imperil the group, the rescue mission chief said yesterday.

What do you do when this year's Nobel Literature Prize, the world's most prestigious accolade of its kind, is postponed because of a sexual assault scandal?

The black box of the Air Force's crashed training aircraft was recovered in Jessore yesterday.

UN Special Envoy for Myanmar Christine Schraner Burgener and Canada's Special Envoy to Myanmar Bob Rae are expected to visit Bangladesh next week to discuss the Rohingya crisis with high government officials and visit the forcibly displaced Myanmar nationals sheltered in Cox's Bazar.

FIFA president Gianni Infantino has invited the Thai boys' football team trapped in a cave to the World Cup final, as messages of support poured in from top players.

A former Thai navy diver helping to rescue a football team trapped inside a flooded cave died yesterday as officials warned the window of opportunity to free the youngsters is "limited".

The Bangladeshi youth, who was serving a life sentence in Delhi's Tihar jail after being convicted in a murder case, was brought back to the country yesterday.

An upazila Jubo League leader was hacked to death and four others were wounded in a clash with Bangladesh Chhatra League activists at Bonarpara Railway Station Bazar on Thursday night.

At first glance, Purbo Daliram in Garagram union of Nilphamari's Kishorganj upazila looks like any village. But it is home to a unique self-generated development initiative.

Floodwater has stranded over one lakh people in Lalmonirhat and Kurigram districts, following the inundation in Sylhet region.

An outbreak of hepatitis E has spread to many areas in the city, particularly in Halisahar, in the last few days.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday announced that March 2020 to March 2021 would be observed as “Mujib Borsho” across the country to mark the birth centenary of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.

Rohingya people's accounts of being shot, hacked and wounded by explosives are supported by forensic evidence, according to a report by physicians who examined them in refugee camps in Bangladesh.

A slightly more competitive outing from Bangladesh in the first two sessions of the second day still left the Tigers facing near certain

Toriqul Islam, a leader of quota reform movement at Rajshahi University, was forced to leave Rajshahi Medical College Hospital yesterday, four days after he was attacked with a hammer, alleged his brother Touhidul Islam.

Protesting the BCL attacks on students demanding quota reform in government jobs, female students of Dhaka University yesterday took to the streets and sought a safe campus for students.

There are irregularities in the operations of privately-run Max Hospital in Chittagong city, a Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) probe has found.

Two separate courts in Dhaka yesterday rejected the bail petitions of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia in two cases filed over "undermining” the national flag and celebrating her "fake” birthday on August 15.