A schoolgirl was allegedly raped and killed at Aronkhola union in the district's Madhupur upazila on Friday.

With the government failing to regulate the so-called “seating service” bus operators in the capital, the buses continue to charge extra every day.

As the sun sets on the horizon in Elahipur village of Khulna's Rupsha upazila, most children begin heading home from the playgrounds; except eight-year-old Sukur. The child eagerly leaves his homes and makes his way to Anushilon Mojar School.

Law enforcers yesterday detained four teachers, including a college principal, and 12 aspirants of government primary school assistant teacher in Pabna, Barisal and Jamalpur for various irregularities.

Malaysian police said yesterday that cash worth 114 million ringgit ($28.6 million) and over 400 luxury handbags were seized from several apartments as part of an anti-graft probe into a state fund founded by former prime minister Najib Razak.

US President Donald Trump, a day after his cancellation of a high-stakes summit with North Korea, said yesterday that the meeting with Kim Jong Un could still go ahead.

A primary school student was gang-raped in Ghior upazila when she was attending a puja on Tuesday night.

Article 70 of the constitution, which deals with the cancellation of membership of parliament members for voting against their political party, works as a safeguard for democracy, the High Court has observed.

Raising children on a Padma River shoal is a challenge, not least in accessing education. For parents in Gangadhardi and three

Oman said yesterday that Cyclone Mekunu, which has wreaked havoc in the Yemeni island of Socotra, has intensified into category 2 as it approaches the southern part of the sultanate.

Slovenia's conservative and anti-migrant Democratic Party (SDS) will likely come first in snap elections due on June 3, according to an opinion poll published yesterday.

Saudi authorities have released four detained activists but arrested another one, pressing ahead with a sweeping crackdown just a month before the kingdom lifts its ban on women drivers, campaigners said yesterday.

Taiwan yesterday scrambled fighter jets to shadow Chinese bombers conducting a drill around the island, just hours after Beijing welcomed Burkina Faso's move to sever diplomatic ties with Taipei.

The Anti-Corruption Commission yesterday filed two cases against two businessmen in Chittagong city on charges of embezzling Tk 144 crore from Agrani Bank's Laldighi branch.

Seventeen people were missing and hundreds of others evacuated from their homes yesterday after Cyclone Mekunu hit the Yemeni

Unicef Goodwill Ambassador and Bollywood actor Priyanka Chopra yesterday said the world should learn from Bangladesh how to stand beside the distressed humanity.

In line with the ruling Awami League's recommendations, the Election Commission yesterday decided to allow lawmakers to participate in city corporation election campaigns.

Myanmar should comply with a United Nations committee's request for information on the military's responsibility for widespread rape of Rohingya women and girls in northern Rakhine State, Human Rights Watch (HRW) and Fortify Rights said yesterday.

United Nations Under-Secretary General Natalia Kanem has pleaded for increased support for the Rohingyas, who might face a major challenge in the upcoming monsoon season when much of the refugee camps could be flooded and see landslides.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has unveiled his country's strategy to step up its response to the Rohingya crisis which has left hundreds of thousands of Rohingyas to seek refuge in Bangladesh.