A Jubo League leader was killed in a “gunfight” with police at Kaemkola Bagmara Beel in Jhikorgachha upazila of Jessore early morning Friday.

There has been a sharp rise in the number of patients with Hepatitis E Virus (HEV) in Halishahar and parts of Agrabad areas of the port city.

Ruling Awami League President Sheikh Hasina said the wins of Awami League candidates in the recently concluded Gazipur City Corporation election is showing the path for the party's victory in polls.

At least seven members of the platform demanding civil service quota reforms, including its two leaders, were beaten allegedly by a group of BCL activists in front of Dhaka University Library yesterday.

When Antonio Guterres visited Kutupalong refugee camp in Cox's Bazar in 2008, it housed only 10,800 Rohingyas. The total number of Rohingya population living in the district was around 27,000. They had arrived there in previous years and were not repatriated to Myanmar like many others.

Police on Thursday night arrested two people in a case filed in connection with a rape incident in Tangail's Gopalpur upazila.

The World Bank has announced $480 million grant-based support to help Bangladesh address the needs of Rohingya refugees in health, education, water and sanitation, disaster risk management, and social protection.

Mango farmers have been counting losses as prices slumped over the last couple of weeks.

A teen boy was stabbed to death allegedly for rivalry over a cricket match in the capital's Khilgaon yesterday.

Central 14-party alliance spokesperson and Awami League Presidium Member Mohammed Nasim yesterday said several evil forces were out in the country to create anarchy in the name of forging national unity.

The Halda River Protection Committee has held some local industrial units responsible for the massive pollution of the river that led to death of fish of at least 18 species recently.

The European Union warned yesterday that Britain was running out of time to get a deal on Brexit, as leaders agreed to step up preparations for the possibility that talks collapse.

The United Arab Emirates has spread a "climate of fear" among Qataris living there during a year-long blockade, splitting families and causing "substantial pain," the UN's top court heard yesterday.

Complex organic molecules have been discovered originating from one of Saturn's moons, Enceladus, adding to its potential to support life, researchers said on Wednesday.

A Maryland man was charged with multiple counts of murder yesterday, a day after police say he rampaged through a newsroom in Annapolis with a shotgun and killed five people in one of the deadliest attacks on journalists in US history.

Members of Rapid Action Battalion arrested three people with 19,000 yaba tablets after intercepting a Dhaka bound bus in the city early yesterday.

Changes in temperature and rainfall will impact almost half of South Asia in the coming decades, reducing economic growth in one of the world's poorest regions, the World Bank said.

Several people were feared killed yesterday in a shooting at the building that houses the Capital Gazette, a daily newspaper published in Annapolis, a historic city an hour east of Washington.

Three Bangladeshi pilgrims were killed and six others injured in a road crash in Saudi Arabia early Wednesday.

Hundreds of Mexico soccer fans danced and cheered outside the South Korean embassy in Mexico City on Wednesday, grateful after the Asian country's victory over Germany guaranteed the national team a spot in the knock-out stages of the World Cup.