Three labourers, including a woman, were killed in a landslide while cutting a hill to dig a drain in Ghumdhum area of Naikhongchhari upazila yesterday.

Indian police used laxatives for several days to retrieve 106 cocaine capsules worth some $900,000 from the stomach of a Brazilian woman who tried to smuggle them into the country, officials said Monday.

Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) has prepared a list of around 100 top drug dealers of the city to bring them to book as part of the on-going special anti-narcotics drive.

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a British-Iranian woman jailed in Tehran for two years, has appeared in court to face a new charge, her husband said yesterday.

Bollywood star Priyanka Chopra, upon her visit to the Rohingya camps in Cox's Bazar, said that through the smiles of the Rohingya children, she has seen vacancy in the eyes. The children, she said, are at the forefront of this humanitarian crisis.

Beijing hit back at allegations it was "militarising" the South China Sea yesterday after landing bombers at an airbase in the contested waters, instead accusing Washington of increasing tensions with its own military footprint.

“Golden Triangle" countries must address corruption and collaborate more closely to tackle record meth production and the gangs who traffic the drug across Southeast Asia and beyond, the UN said yesterday.

Iraqi cleric Moqtada Sadr called for an "inclusive" government to be formed quickly, as he sounded out the heads of key parliament factions over a coalition after his shock election win.

Heavy monsoon rains in Sri Lanka have killed five people, prompting authorities to warn against landslides and floods in low-lying areas after spill gates had to be opened across the Indian Ocean island.

Three politicians from the party ousted by Thailand's generals were charged yesterday with sedition for holding a press conference, as dissent grows before the fourth anniversary of the junta's 2014 coup.

Islamic State group fighters began evacuating their final stronghold in southern Damascus yesterday, a monitor said, bringing Syria's government closer than ever to flushing out the last threat to the capital.

International media watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has condemned the disruption in distribution of Pakistan's oldest newspaper Dawn after it published an interview suggesting that Pakistani militants were behind the 2008 Mumbai attacks.

The government call for renewing motor vehicles' fitness certificates largely went in vain as owners of only 16 out of over 56,000 vehicles that did not obtain the certificate in more than a decade responded within the deadline of April 30.

A guitar that played a key role in Bob Dylan's artistic evolution from folk music to rock fetched a half million at auction on Saturday.

Prices of rice, both coarse and fine, have dropped in wholesale and retail markets of Dinajpur this Ramadan.

Barely a month after they tied the knot, Aleya (not her real name) and her husband got the shock of their lives.

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia yesterday filed three separate petitions with the High Court seeking bail in three different cases.

Seven people, including a drug trafficker wanted for his alleged role in a 2016 gang rape that shocked Brazil, were killed Saturday during a large-scale police raid on crime-ridden favelas.

A banker by profession, Md Shahjahan Mia set out on a noble mission – to eradicate illiteracy from Nahata Union in Mohammadpur upazila, Magura.

Catalonia's new president Quim Torra on Saturday named two former ministers jailed by Madrid for backing independence from Spain, together with two others who fled into exile, to his regional government.