Two deals, involving Tk 50 crore, will be signed between Bangladesh and India today during the two-day visit of Indian Foreign Secretary Vijay Gokhale.

Dozens of Saudi detainees caught up in a government anti-graft crackdown could be referred to courts specialised in cases of national security and terrorism, Asharq al-Awsat newspaper reported yesterday.

A schoolgirl was allegedly gang-raped at a Sal forest in Birganj upazila of Dinajpur on Saturday evening. Police arrested five people yesterday in this connection.

The High Court yesterday ordered the government to form a three-member committee at all the eight divisions to monitor and supervise medical waste management at hospitals and diagnostic centres.

The prospects of reconvening the 2016 Saarc Summit, that was to be held in Islamabad but got cancelled following a major terror attack on an Indian army camp, look bleak as India has made it clear that given continued cross-border terrorism from Pakistan, it is difficult to go ahead with the summit.

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.

The hearing of the bail petition filed by BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia in a case filed over the 2015 arson attack on a bus in Chauddagram upazila in Comilla will be held tomorrow.

The house of Limon's family was set on fire allegedly by supporters of the secretary of Saturia union unit Awami League in Jhalakathi's

Myanmar is not ready for the repatriation of Rohingya refugees, said the most senior United Nations official to visit the country this year, after Myanmar was accused of instigating ethnic cleansing and driving nearly 700,000 Muslims to Bangladesh.

A BNP leader was killed allegedly over land dispute with relatives at Khadimpur village in Chuadanga sadar upazila yesterday.

A newly-wed woman was allegedly raped by a group of villagers at Moricharchar Namapara village in Ishwarganj upazila of

A cabinet minister of Myanmar has made it clear that the repatriation of Rohingya refugees will be delayed and they need more time to verify the list provided by Bangladesh.

Palestinian mourners in the Gaza Strip yesterday buried their dead, including a journalist, after Israeli troops killed nine during the

A housewife cut off the genital of a youth to save herself from rape at Savar village under Saturia upazila on Friday night.

An examiner of the SSC Science exams lost 50 answer scripts on Friday evening.

Indian Foreign Secretary Vijay Keshav Gokhale arrives in Dhaka this afternoon ahead of the meeting between Prime Minister Sheikh

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