A day after the deadline demanding gazette notification on abolishing the quota system in public service ended, the quota reformists yesterday called for a fresh programme as the government was yet to publish the gazette as per the prime minister's assurance of scrapping the quota system.

Why have some birds opted for a taxing life of constant migration -- seeking out temperate climes to feed as winter arrives, only to return months later to breed?

The UN Security Council asked the Myanmar military to let it investigate rights abuses in Rakhine, but was told the “internal matter had already been investigated enough” and those responsible had been punished.

US President Donald Trump and North Korea's Kim Jong Un are likely to meet in Singapore next month, reports said yesterday, as

All technical preparations have been successfully done to send the country's first communications satellite Bangabandhu-1 to its orbit

A female college teacher and a banker were found dead in a flat in the district town's Dakhshin Jhiltuli late on Sunday night.

Vladimir Putin was sworn in as Russia's president for a fourth term yesterday, extending his almost two-decade rule by another six

Former BASIC Bank chairman Sheikh Abdul Hye Bacchu has been delaying an ongoing enquiry into allegations that he was involved in loan scams amounting to Tk 4,500 crore between 2010 and 2013, Anti-Corruption Commission officials say.

The government has fixed office timings for the upcoming month of Ramadan from 9:00am to 3:30pm on working days.

There has been no progress regarding the publication of a gazette abolishing the quotas in government jobs, the cabinet secretary has said as the deadline set by demonstrators expired yesterday.

It was perhaps one of the luckiest days for Osman Haider Chishty and Sanjida Luna, as they welcomed their baby girl on April 10, 2005. They named her Sirajum Munira Punni.

A defamation case was filed accusing four people, including editor of Bangla daily Kaler Kantho, with a court in Barguna yesterday.

The conflicts among different political groups in the Chittagong Hill Tracts over establishing supremacy have left an estimated 600 people killed since signing of the CHT Peace Accord in 1997.

Iraqi warplanes carried out a raid yesterday targeting Islamic State group commanders in eastern Syria, in the second such strike on the jihadists since mid-April, the premier's office said.

Catalan separatists, meeting in Berlin, vowed Saturday to attempt once again to get their leader-in-exile Carles Puigdemont reinstalled as president of the Spanish region while adding that they don't want to hold fresh elections.

Tunisia's first free municipal elections got under way yesterday as voters expressed frustration at the slow pace of change since the 2011 revolution in the cradle of the Arab Spring.

It was quite a surprise for everyone when TV channels yesterday broke the news that Gazipur city polls had been stayed for three months.

A massive cholera vaccination campaign began yesterday to protect nearly one million Rohingyas and host communities in Cox's Bazar to prevent any potential outbreak during the monsoon.

Police have detained BNP Vice-Chairman Abdullah Al Noman and several other party leaders near the home of Hasan Uddin Sarkar, the BNP mayor candidate in the Gazipur City Corporation polls.

Police arrested a man yesterday morning for allegedly raping a seven-year-old girl at Sundorpur village in Chunarughat upazila of Habiganj.