Years of public outcries, pledges of administration and the High Court's order had failed to save the natural canal Dumni Khal in the capital's outskirts.

In a major reshuffle in the field-level civil administration, the government has appointed new deputy commissioners in 22 districts, including Dhaka, Rajshahi, Chittagong, Rangpur, Mymensingh and Sylhet.

Two suicide car bombings against security forces in the southern Yemeni port of Aden killed at least three people Saturday, an official said, in an attack claimed by the Islamic State group.

Police recovered the body of an 18-year-old college girl near Airport Railway Station in Dhaka around 7:30am.

Philippine police said yesterday they were hunting for 12 inmates who escaped from a jail on a southern island that is the stronghold of Islamist militants.

India's main opposition party the Congress yesterday joined the growing chorus of criticism of army chief General Bipin Rawat for his

Church-backed protests against Democratic Republic of Congo President Joseph Kabila's refusal to quit power were expected to go ahead yesterday despite a ban and bloody crackdowns on past rallies.

Donald Trump papered over superpower rivalries with China on Friday, saying relations had never been better but trade was a major problem.

A police officer will be stationed at every public school in Florida, the state's governor announced Friday as part of a plan to improve security following last week's deadly high school shooting.

At least 23 people, mostly soldiers, were killed and more than a dozen wounded in a series of attacks and suicide bombings in Afghanistan yesterday, officials said, the latest assaults on the war-torn country's beleaguered security forces.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday urged all to stay alert so that the country was not plunged into the dark era of post-1975.

Police recovered the burnt body of a madrasa student from Nishchintapur Darul Ulum Foyze Al Qawmi Madrasa in Thakurgaon municipality yesterday.

Indian External Affairs Minister VK Singh has come out in defence of army chief Gen Bipin Rawat's controversial remarks on illegal immigration of people from Bangladesh to the country's northeastern region.

With Russia's backing, the UN Security Council yesterday unanimously demanded a 30-day ceasefire in Syria to allow for humanitarian aid deliveries and medical evacuations.

With the country observing the anniversary of the BDR mutiny today, victims' families are still waiting for the execution of the verdict in a case filed over the killings of their near and dear ones nine years ago.

Three female Nobel Peace laureates began a weeklong trip to Bangladesh yesterday to meet Rohingya women who were tortured and raped by soldiers in Myanmar before fleeing the country.

A teenage girl was allegedly gang-raped and her mother was “tied up” for trying to save her in Chunarughat of Habiganj early Saturday.

Around 2,000 Roman Catholic Filipinos protested in Manila on Saturday against a push to legalise divorce, with church groups also using the "Walk for Life" march to slam President Rodrigo Duterte's deadly drugs war.

In his first public comments on the 1.77 billion dollar fraud that hit India's second-biggest public sector bank Punjab National Bank.

She's been described as "the African Mona Lisa", the subject of a long-lost series of three paintings by the artist considered the father of Nigerian modernism.