A man allegedly raped a teenage girl at Sreerampur village in Sadullapur upazila, on Wednesday afternoon.

A doctor by profession, 38-year-old Jahidul Alam Kadir also cultivated a seemingly innocuous hobby: collecting firearms.

The government's long-running 'Guchchhogram' public housing scheme is intended to give landless families a new footing from which they can create prosperous, self-sufficient lives.

Italy's new populist government officially took the reins of the eurozone's third largest economy Wednesday after winning parliamentary backing.

An alleged drug peddler was killed in a “gunfight” with police in Bhairab municipality of Kishoreganj early yesterday.

A top UN rights expert yesterday called for North Korea to begin freeing prisoners under a "general amnesty" ahead of next week's historic nuclear summit.

Hundreds of oceanfront homes have been destroyed by lava flow from Hawaii's Kilauea volcano, officials said Tuesday.

Rescue teams were yesterday looking for a small plane with 10 people on board that went missing north of the Kenyan capital Nairobi, the aircraft owners and the national disaster agency said.

Conservation experts yesterday warned of alarming falls in Australian fish populations and called for more marine reserves and better management to halt the decline.

Safety and "identity" need to be in place for Rohingya Muslim refugees who return to Myanmar, the head of the United Nations in the country said yesterday, as Myanmar and UN agencies signed an outline deal on returns.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday revealed that the government has already started work to launch the country's second satellite --'Bangabandhu-2' -- so that it could operate before the 15-year expiry time of the 'Bangabandhu-1'.

Popular singer Asif Akbar was sent to jail yesterday hours after a CID team arrested him over a case filed by lyricist, composer and singer Shafiq Tuhin.

Parliament yesterday gave two more months for further scrutiny of the Digital Security Bill-2018.

Bangladesh continued its downward slip in terms of peace by dropping down nine spots in the Global Peace Index (GPI) 2018.

Service seekers at a mass hearing organised by the Anti-Corruption Commission yesterday said they faced nothing short of harassment at sub-registrar offices.

Importers were rushing to complete procedures for getting reconditioned vehicles released from the Chittagong and Mongla ports fearing hike in import duties in the budget to be announced today.

US President Donald Trump said yesterday that First Lady Melania Trump was recovering well from surgery, but complained bitterly about "Fake News" media coverage of her long absence from public view.

Police arrested Chandpur district Awami League Joint General Secretary Zahirul Islam and his second wife, Zulekha Begum, on the charges of murdering his first wife, on Monday night.

The Detective Branch of police arrested four persons from inside a CNG refueling station in the capital's Jatrabari area on Monday evening and recovered 28,000 pieces of yaba pills from them.

Nine people were killed in three suicide bombings in southeastern Niger near the border with Nigeria, a local official said yesterday.