To build an ideal society, it takes ideal citizens. So says Rafiqul Islam, a councillor at Shibalaya Model Union in Manikganj who has

Two priests were among at least 18 people killed in a dawn attack on a church in central Nigeria, police said Tuesday, in violence

The Daily Star, the leading English daily of the country, was honoured with a bronze prize from the World Association of Newspapers

Iran's President Hassan Rouhani yesterday rejected any hopes of rewriting a nuclear deal with world powers, after the leaders of the

The US government is conducting an intensive examination of alleged atrocities against Myanmar's Rohingya Muslims, documenting

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has called for a united movement to press home the demand for party chief

Police yesterday arrested a former additional inspector general of police hours after the International Crimes Tribunal-1 issued an arrest warrant in a case filed against him for allegedly committing crimes during the Liberation War.

A man accused in a child rape case was killed in a 'gunfight' with Rapid Action Battalion (RAB-7) early yesterday at Banshkhali upazila in Chittagong.

Ruling Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader yesterday expressed optimism that Bangladesh and India would reach an agreement to resolve the longstanding Teesta water-sharing issue.

A van driver who ran over 10 people when he plowed onto a busy Toronto sidewalk was charged with murder yesterday, as Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau urged a rattled nation not to live in fear after the "senseless attack."

Renowned poet, Language Movement veteran, journalist and organiser Belal Chaudhuri passed away yesterday noon. He was 79.

Every day, 30-year-old Ruposhi Chakma has to walk three kilometres to reach a well, to fetch water for her five-member family. In Chela Chhara village in Rangamati's Kawkhali upazila where she lives, there isn't a nearby water source anymore. An increasing

President Donald Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron pledged yesterday to seek stronger measures to contain Iran, as the U.S. leader considers whether to ditch an international accord meant to prevent Tehran from obtaining a nuclear weapon.

A homemaker was shot dead by a man at her parental home in the district's Daganbhuiyan upazila yesterday.

Partially lifting a ban on hiring workers, the United Arab Emirates would resume hiring domestic workers from Bangladesh within next three months, Expatriates' Welfare Minister Nurul Islam said yesterday.

Mayor candidates from the ruling Awami League and the BNP are going to contest the May 15 Gazipur and Khulna city corporation polls under the banners of the 14-party and 20-party alliances respectively.

Around 14 lakh government employees are to get housing loans at low interest rates, as proposed by the finance ministry in keeping with the last pay commission recommendations.

Police yesterday arrested three staffers of a Turag Paribahan bus on the allegation of sexually harassing a private university student in the running bus on her way to campus at Uttara on Saturday.

Hundreds of grieving Afghans buried their loved ones in Kabul yesterday amid growing anger over a suicide attack on a voter registration centre that killed 57 people including children and wounded over 100.

India's Vice President and Chairman of the upper House of parliament M Venkaiah Naidu yesterday dismissed the notice of motion submitted by seven opposition parties led by Congress for impeachment of Supreme Court Chief Justice Dipak Misra saying “there is virtually no concrete verifiable imputation.”