Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday asked the authorities concerned to give special attention to private medical colleges to ensure that they are maintaining the standard of education properly.

An influential local stabbed a child's hand and severed his fingers after he mistakenly damaged a portion of a dam at the Moynakhali embankment of Tahir upazila's Mohalia Haor yesterday afternoon.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said had the Father of the Nation been alive, Bangladesh would have been a developing country within 10 years of its independence.

Officials at Ecuador's Galapagos National Park say they have collected 22 tonnes of garbage since January off the coasts of the pristine archipelago, some of it from as far away as Asia.

Israel and Jordan have long pursued a common goal to stop the Dead Sea from shrinking while slaking their shared thirst for drinking water with a pipeline from the Red Sea some 200 kilometres away.

China has called on the United States to "correct its mistake" after President Donald Trump approved new rules allowing top-level US officials to travel to Taiwan to meet with their Taipei counterparts.

Britain's official departure from the European Union may have to be delayed with many key negotiating issues still to be resolved, Westminster's Brexit committee suggested yesterday.

Myanmar's de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi was pressed about the Rohingya crisis at an Asean summit in Sydney yesterday, but the regional bloc stressed it could not intervene and "force an outcome".

The High Court yesterday upheld the article 70 of the constitution under which lawmakers lose their seats in parliament if they vote in the House against their own party.

Five people, including one child and two expectant mothers died in a fire originating from a gas line blast following a lightning strike in Golapganj upazila in Sylhet early yesterday.

Russia yesterday expelled 23 British diplomats in a carefully calibrated retaliatory move against London, which has accused the

A law firm representing US President Donald Trump and the corporation that paid porn actress Stormy Daniels $130,000 in what she

Lawyers in Australia are seeking to hold Myanmar's civil leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, directly accountable for the violent persecution of Rohingyas in Myanmar.

Donald Trump flops over his pink and white baby walker and rolls it around his family's modest home in Kabul, blissfully unaware of

It was the third day of the so-called negotiation which will later be proved as a ploy of the Pakistan military junta to kill time for

A man was killed and two others were shot during a “gunfight” with police while in their custody in Fulgazi upazila early yesterday.

A 17-year old girl and her mother were sent to jail in a case filed over an acid-attack in Jamalpur on Friday evening.

Bangladesh is going to sign an agreement with New Delhi under which Dhaka will take Indian nuclear agency's expert service in Rooppur nuclear power plant.

Bangladesh Food Safety Authority (BFSA) sent samples from 81 tonnes of Shad fish for retest in the face of objections raised by the importers of the consignments after the laboratory tests identified heavy metal in the fish.

A head teacher was knifed at a programme celebrating the birth anniversary of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman at Gopalpur upazila yesterday.