The headmaster of a school in Manirampur upazila of Jessore allegedly raped a student of class-V on Monday night.

The chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Court has asked judges to rule whether she can open a probe into the mass deportations of the Rohingya people from Myanmar.

If Kushtia had a soundtrack it'd likely be a Baul song. That song should probably sound its most exquisite when played on locally crafted

The BNP has nominated new faces as mayor candidates in the Khulna and Gazipur city corporation polls, scheduled for May 15.

Syria and Russia yesterday accused Israel of carrying out a deadly bombing raid on a Syrian military airport, as calls grew for international action over an alleged chemical attack on a rebel held-town.

Renowned writer and educationist Muhammed Zafar Iqbal yesterday said reform of quota system was needed to protect the honour of freedom fighters.

Finance Minister AMA Muhith yesterday said the government is going to impose tax on advertisements on Google and Facebook in Bangladesh.

Dozens of New York teenagers returning from a school trip to Eastern Europe were injured when their bus crashed on the journey home to Long Island, police said.

More than 60 Indonesians are dead and dozens have been hospitalised from drinking illegal homemade alcohol, authorities said yesterday, with the toll steadily climbing.

Separatists in an English-speaking part of Cameroon have kidnapped a former top judge, a source said yesterday, marking a fresh escalation in the troubled region.

A Catholic priest was found shot dead hours after he said mass in Democratic Republic of Congo's restive North Kivu province, a member of the church told AFP.

Some Chhatra League leaders have announced their resignation over the Sunday's “attack” on agitating students demanding reform in quota for civil service recruitment.

Dhaka and New Delhi yesterday signed six deals including one for the construction of 130km-long pipeline to import petroleum from India and one for cooperation on capacity building regarding Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant project.

The main accused in a case filed for raping an eight-year-old girl was killed in a “gunfight” with Rab in Jessore town early yesterday.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said yesterday that the United States would regret withdrawing from the nuclear deal, and that Iran would respond in "less than a week" if that happened.

A 24-year-old woman was gang raped in a moving bus on Dhaka-Aricha highway in Dhamrai Sunday night, police said.

The deteriorating health of banking sector has become a major concern for the economy, the World Bank said yesterday.

India's railway ministry said yesterday a "ghastly" accident was narrowly avoided after 22 train coaches carrying some 1,000 passengers became detached from the engine and sped backwards for miles before being stopped.

A personal officer at the land ministry grabbed about 16.5 decimal land of Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha (Rajuk) in the capital's Gulshan in 2004, an ACC probe has found.

Rab yesterday arrested eight persons, including two females, from different areas in the capital and seized Rs 52 lakh in counterfeit Indian notes from a fake rupee factory.