The first-ever Bangabandhu Chair was inaugurated yesterday at the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) in Bangkok to promote research on “Sustainable and Integrated Smart Energy Modelling” in the context of Bangladesh and other developing countries.

India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party on Wednesday suffered a stunning setback in three high-stake parliamentary by-elections losing to joint opposition candidates in politically key states of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar.

The first batch of Lilium flowers has been commercially farmed in two locations in Bangladesh -- Jhenidah and Dhaka.

Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and General Yahya Khan held a closed-door meeting on this day in 1971 at the President's House, now Bangabhaban, for nearly an hour without their aides.

All down the line, this man had been a diehard BNP activist. To prove his loyalty to the party, he, according to the insiders, did whatever deemed fit

An alert regarding extremist threat and explosives in a Biman flight from London sparked panic at Sylhet Osmani International Airport yesterday morning.

“They put us inside sacks in a dark room with our hands and legs tied, eyes blindfolded, mouth gagged and our bodies beaten up by bamboo sticks for three days.”

Amnesty International has urged the government to ensure safety and security of the two Marma sisters, one of whom was allegedly raped and the other sexually assaulted by members of security forces in January.

Terming the non-government teachers' ongoing movement for nationalisation of their jobs illogical, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said their demand would not be met.

The Malaysian police's investigation into the murder of the North Korean leader's estranged half-brother was "shoddy" and could result in an unfair trial, a court heard yesterday.

Thousands of passengers including women and children were stranded for hours at Paturia ghat of Manikganj and Daulatdia ghat in Rajbari across the Padma river yesterday following disruption of ferry services on the river.

President Donald Trump threw US diplomacy into fresh turmoil by firing his secretary of state, Rex Tillerson, and promoting two officials condemned by human rights groups for endorsing or overseeing torture.

Bangladesh has slipped down five notches in this year's World Happiness Report rankings, but it remains a happier place than India and Sri Lanka.

Pilot-less flying taxis are being tested in New Zealand as part of a project backed by Google co-founder Larry Page that supporters say will revolutionise personal transport.

A local Awami League leader allegedly tortured a woman who was reportedly raped and asked her to leave her village in Nandail.

Monirul had a grudge against the schoolgirl's family. He never expressed it, rather became a friend of the family. Secretly, he was planning revenge. Yesterday, he stabbed the girl when she was on her way to school.

Prof Muhammed Zafar Iqbal has called upon fanatics to go talk to him.

The ongoing non-cooperation movement's second phase was nearing its end.

The United States on Monday urged the United Nations Security Council to maintain sanctions on North Korea until there is real progress toward scrapping Pyongyang's nuclear weapons program.

A special tribunal yesterday found four Noakhali men guilty of crimes against humanity during the Liberation War and sentenced three to death penalty and the other to 20-year jail.