The DNA test reports of some suspected killers of college student Sohagi Jahan Tonu, who was murdered 27 months back, would be available next week, police said.

Several villages in Sirajganj are once again under serious threat of river erosion as the Jamuna has already devoured at least 50 homes at Enayetpur point in Shahzadpur.

Bodies of two young men were found in a field in Bahadurpur village of Harinakundu upazila of the district yesterday morning.

A tenth grade student from the Tripura community was allegedly gang-raped by Bangali settlers at Zilla Parishad Park, near Khagrachari town at around 1:30pm, local police said.

The cost of the Padma Bridge project has gone up by Tk 1,400 crore to Tk 30,193 crore as the government has to acquire more land.

US President Donald Trump on Wednesday backed down and abandoned his policy of separating immigrant children from their parents on the US-Mexico border, after images of youngsters in cages sparked outrage at home and abroad.

Police have neither arrested the driver of the vehicle involved in the hit and run at Mohakhali on Tuesday that left one dead nor seized the car of MP Ekramul's family.

A force led by Libyan military strongman Khalifa Haftar said yesterday it had recaptured two key oil export terminals, a week after they were attacked by a rival militia.

Pope Francis yesterday vowed to seek deeper "unity" between the Catholic Church and other Christian faiths as he arrived in Geneva, a centre of Protestantism, amid Christianity's waning influence in Europe.

US military lawyers will help civilian prosecutors handle cases against undocumented migrants, the Defense Department said Wednesday, in a rare use of armed forces legal staff.

Fifteen people were injured when two female suicide bombers targetted the edge of a military barracks in northeast Nigeria, police said yesterday.

A Bahraini court acquitted the jailed head of the Shia opposition of all charges yesterday in his trial for alleged spying for regional rival Qatar, a judicial source and activists said.

The captain of an overloaded Indonesian ferry that sank into the depths of Sumatra's Lake Toba has been detained by police for questioning over the deadly disaster, authorities said yesterday.

Uncertainty over US President Donald Trump's commitment to the Nato alliance requires European nations to bolster efforts to forge a common defence policy, France's defence minister said yesterday.

Several key EU leaders will hold crisis talks on migration in Brussels on Sunday to try to find answers ahead of a major summit next week, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said.

Journalists from the sports unit of TV Globo, Brazil's leading television channel, were overwhelmed to see the support for their national team among Bangladeshi fans during the ongoing FIFA World Cup.

Taliban militants killed 30 Afghan soldiers and captured a military base in the western province of Badghis yesterday, the provincial governor said, their first major attack since a ceasefire for the Eid al-Fitr holiday.

The United States withdrew from the United Nations Human Rights Council on Tuesday, condemning the "hypocrisy" of its members and its alleged "unrelenting bias" against Israel.

Anti-Corruption Commission Chairman Iqbal Mahmood yesterday directed officials to come up with reports of the ongoing investigations into persons whose named appeared in the Panama Papers and the Paradise Papers' leaks by June 30.

A civil auditor of Bangladesh Air Force was stabbed dead in a “mugging incident” in Jessore town yesterday morning.