Terming the Zia Orphanage Trust graft case against BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia an imaginary lawsuit, a defence counsel yesterday argued that no money was embezzled from the trust.

Donald Trump unveiled the winners of his much-touted "Fake News Awards" late Wednesday, hours after a maverick senator from the president's own Republican party accused him of employing Stalinist language to "slur" and undermine the free press.

The government and its development partners agreed to strengthen partnership to help Bangladesh achieve the Sustainable Development Goals and implement the Seventh Five-Year Plan as they wrapped up the Bangladesh Development Forum yesterday.

Although it is all that people outside the two relevant dressing rooms seem to want to talk about, there has been a conscious effort from

Jahangirnagar University last night suspended a student for his alleged involvement in facilitating a person pose as a JU student for almost a year.

Two young men were killed by a mob after they allegedly attempted to rob a house in a village of Narayanganj's Bandar upazila early yesterday.

China's sole operational aircraft carrier passed through the Taiwan Strait yesterday, the island's defence ministry said, as Beijing steps up pressure on its democratic rival.

Four members of a family were found dead in a house of Cox's Bazar town's Jadiram Pahar area yesterday evening.

A group of divers has connected two underwater caverns in eastern Mexico to reveal what is believed to be the biggest flooded cave on the planet, a discovery that could help shed new light on the ancient Maya civilization.

Seven ethnic Rakhine Buddhists died after Myanmar police opened fire on a crowd trying to seize a government office, officials said yesterday, in fresh violence in a febrile state already scarred by ethnic and religious hatred.

A major part of social and economic achievements of the country would be at stake without improvement in governance, observed representatives of development partners, civil society and government high-ups yesterday.

A defence counsel in the Zia Orphanage Trust graft case yesterday argued that the Anti-Corruption Commission should be abolished immediately to stop harassment of people.

Agitating students of Dhaka University yesterday gave the authorities a 48-hour ultimatum to punish the Chhatra League leaders who foiled their Monday's demonstrations or they will wage a tougher movement.

Myanmar has requested Bangladesh to extradite 1,300 members of Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA), claiming it has information that those members were attempting to disrupt the repatriation of the Rohingyas.

Geologists have discovered 280-million-year-old tree fossils in what is believed to be evidence of the oldest polar

He wrapped the mini gold bars in a piece of black cloth and tied it around his pelvic region like a belt.

Shammi Akhter, or Shamima Akhter, may be termed the nightingale of Bangla music. She will never sing live or record any new song anymore, as she breathed her last yesterday afternoon, at the age of 60, on the way to the hospital, after she suddenly fell ill at her Shantinagar residence in Dhaka.

A Dhaka University student, who was picked up on Monday by some BCL men during a demonstration on the campus demanding cancellation of affiliation of seven colleges with DU, is in police custody for interrogation.

Defence counsels of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia yesterday completed their closing arguments in Zia Orphanage

In recent years, the growth in vegetable production in Bangladesh has been the third fastest in the world according to data from the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO). The country now grows 3.7 million MT of vegetables a year from less than a tenth of Bangladesh's available cultivable land.