Ignoring heavy showers, mayoral candidates of the Awami League and the BNP yesterday campaigned to woo voters in Gazipur City Corporation polls scheduled to be held on June 26.

An estimated seven lakh Rohingya refugees celebrated their first-ever Eid in squalid, crammed camps on foreign land. It was a bittersweet celebration, tinged with the feelings of both grief and relief, and the fresh memories of losing loved ones back in Myanmar.

Suspected Boko Haram jihadists using young girls as suicide bombers killed 31 people in an attack on a town in northeast Nigeria, a local

Tales of a giant creature lurking beneath the murky waves of Loch Ness have been around for more than 1,500 years -- and one

Maulana Amir Uddin Kashem, president of a local youth welfare organisation, stood at an embankment in Moulvibazar and stared at

A German woman was robbed of her valuables in the capital's Dhanmondi on Thursday morning, a day before she left Bangladesh.

Hours after blocking bdnews24.com, Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission last night unblocked the online news portal.

A Palestinian was killed by Israeli fire near the Gaza Strip's border with Israel, the health ministry in the Hamas-ruled territory said yesterday.

A gang stabbed a youth to death in front of his father over honking in the city's Battery Goli area on Sunday night.

No Bangladeshis were reported to have been affected by the strong earthquake that hit the Japanese city of Osaka during morning

The White House's "zero tolerance" immigration policy and resulting separations of undocumented parents and kids is exploding into the most emotive and politically unpredictable test yet of President Donald Trump's effort to change the character of America.

Japan is working to arrange a meeting between Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Kim Jong Un after the North Korean leader said he was open to talks, local media reported yesterday.

Huge waves and strong winds forced a migrant ship caught in a major diplomatic row to take a detour yesterday on its way to Spain, with many aboard suffering seasickness and shock, a French charity said.

Raphael Nkhoma is a farmer in Malawai, an African country that depends heavily on agriculture.

It speaks two languages, gives math lessons, tells jokes and interacts with children through the tablet screen in its chest -- China's latest robot is the babysitter every parent needs.

Awami League leaders of Teknaf and Ukhia are likely to meet party president and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina after Eid-ul-Fitr to share their concern over the killing of Teknaf municipality councillor Akramul Haque on May 27.

Street vendors in the capital have to pay much more as extortion ahead of Eid-ul Fitr, further impacting their day-to-day income.

A large part of Sylhet region has been flooded as rivers have swollen over the safe level.

Like in previous years, healthcare at well-known city hospitals during Eid vacation would depend mostly on a handful of doctors and nurses.

Ratna Khatun reached Kamalapur Railway Station at 8:00am from Savar along with her son, daughter and a granddaughter and immediately bought standing tickets of a Chapainawabganj-bound local train.