BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia yesterday secured four months' bail in the Zia Orphanage Trust graft case that saw her sentenced to five

Several lawmakers have sought more allocations for MPs in the current and the next budgets for carrying out development work in their constituencies ahead of the next general election.

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal yesterday said the country would observe a one-minute blackout on the night of March 25 in memory of the brutality of Pakistani Army on the Black Night of March 25, 1971.

A minor girl was allegedly raped and thrown into a septic tank at Katirhar union of Hathazari upazila in Chittagong yesterday afternoon.

Unidentified criminals hacked to death a member of United People's Democratic Front (UPDF) in Rangamati's Baghaichhari upazila on Saturday night. Japan's finance ministry will admit altering documents related to cronyism allegations against Shinzo Abe, local media reported yesterday, a major blow to the premier who enjoys relatively high public support.

Colombia voted yesterday to elect a new Congress with a resurgent right, bitterly opposed to a peace deal that allows leftist former rebels to participate, expected to poll strongly.

A Palestinian man was shot dead by Israeli soldiers on Saturday following a clash with Jewish settlers near the West Bank city of Nablus, medics and security sources said.

The stabbing of the brother of a “rape victim” brought to light an alarming story.

Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) and Border Guard Police (BGP) of Myanmar have jointly conducted a patrol along the Bangladesh-Myanmar border yesterday morning.

Unidentified criminals hacked to death a member of United People's Democratic Front (UPDF) in Rangamati's Baghaichhari upazila on Saturday night.

The High Court is set to deliver an order today on the bail petition filed by BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia in connection with the Zia Orphanage Trust graft case in which she was jailed for five years.

Shahidul Islam was only 10 when his mother died and his father remarried. He left his village in Shariatpur soon afterwards and came to Dhaka with his elder sister in 1992.

US President Donald Trump said on Saturday his planned meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un could fizzle without an agreement or it could result in "the greatest deal for the world" to ease nuclear tensions between the two countries.

Police rescued a boy who was kidnapped while heading home after school at Madarbari area under Sadarghat police station in Chittagong. Four juveniles were arrested in this connection early yesterday.

Terming Khaleda Zia “the mother of democracy”, BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir yesterday said the party chairperson would “restore democracy in the country”.

French President Emmanuel Macron yesterday said defence ties with India had reached a new high after the two nations signed a key

A housewife has filed a case against her husband and in-laws on charges of demanding dowry money even after they received Tk 7

No summer afternoon without chilled watermelons. But two unlikely men in southeast Bangladesh are bending the rules and

Another stone quarry worker was killed yesterday morning while “illegally” extracting stones in Jaflong area of Gowainghat upazila in Sylhet.

The government would have to ensure good governance and just society to prevent the rise of militancy and fundamentalist forces, eminent personalities said at a programme yesterday.