The BNP will bring out a black flag procession in the capital on Saturday protesting denial of permission to the party to hold a rally today.

Eight long months after the notorious arson attack by Bangalee settlers on indigenous homes and shops in Rangamati's Longadu upazila,

Oxfam revealed Tuesday it was investigating 26 new cases of sexual misconduct since the crisis erupted over its handling of a 2011 prostitution scandal in Haiti, which the British charity called a "wake-up call".

A man accused of rape was killed in a “gunfight” with Rab at Chakaria upazila of Cox's Bazar early yesterday.

A bumper harvest of tomatoes had cause the wholesale prices in Madhabpur upazila of Habiganj to plummet to as low as Tk 1 per kg from Tk 45 in December last year.

Cuban President Raul Castro Tuesday received a bipartisan delegation of US lawmakers, who are visiting the island with the alleged "acoustic attacks" against US diplomats on their agenda.

Iranian emergency teams yesterday began recovering the bodies of the dead from a plane that crashed high in the Zagros mountains with 66 people on board, officials said.

India's federal police have arrested six people, including employees of a billionaire jeweller, as an inquiry into one of the country's biggest bank scams widens, investigators said yesterday.

Hong Kong's best-known independence activist yesterday went on trial on riot charges over protests in 2016 which saw the city's worst violence for decades.

Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas will urge world powers at the UN Security Council on Tuesday to stand up to the US decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital and establish a revamped peace process.

A cholera outbreak in Malawi described as "very difficult to contain" has claimed nine lives and affected a total of 541 people nationwide, health officials said on Tuesday.

The chief of the Philippines' main Muslim rebel group yesterday warned that jihadists loyal to the Islamic State group, flush with looted guns and cash, could seize another Filipino city after Marawi last year.

A six year-old girl was allegedly raped in Araihazar upazila of Narayanganj yesterday.

The government yesterday named 16 distinguished personalities, including former speaker the late Humayun Rashid Choudhury and

An alleged smuggler was killed in a “gunfight” between border guards and his associates at Daulatpur in Benapole early yesterday.

Air strikes hit Syria's Eastern Ghouta for a third straight day yesterday, bringing the civilian death toll to nearly 200 as the UN warned the situation in the rebel enclave was spinning "out of control".

Seven indigenous families have recently left their homes in Bandarban's Naikkhyangchhari upazila after some unidentified people had allegedly threatened them with life if they failed to pay them money.

At least 35 people, including two journalists and four policemen, were injured in clashes between police and BNP men in Habiganj and Faridpur yesterday during demonstrations over jailing party Chairperson Khaleda Zia in a graft case.

Identifying six possible stages of question paper leak during the ongoing SSC exams, the government is planning to take steps to hold the future SSC exams under a new arrangement.

Japan's defence ministry yesterday demanded explanations from the US military after a fighter jet experiencing an engine fire dropped two fuel tanks into a lake in the country's north.