Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday directed the newly commissioned Air Force officers to remain firm to implement the pledges of keeping airspace of the country being imbued with patriotism.

At least 30 workers were injured as the roof of an under-construction government food silo collapsed in Jessore's Chowgachha yesterday.

Mali's President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita named a new prime minister Saturday, a day after the government resigned in a surprise move just months ahead of presidential polls.

Police started its investigation into the case filed against six people, including officer-in-charge Kamrul Islam Miah of Haluaghat Police Station, in connection with torturing a woman inside the police station.

Ireland issued a record number of passports in 2017, with nearly a fifth going to applicants in Britain and Northern Ireland, according to its foreign affairs ministry.

Guatemala's foreign minister insisted Friday that President Jimmy Morales' plan to move the country's embassy in Israel to Jerusalem will not be reversed, and called for critics to "respect" the country's decisions.

An elderly man has died after being mowed down during a car rampage in Melbourne last week, police said yesterday, with one of 18 attempted murder charges expected to be upgraded to murder.

The crew of a Hong Kong-registered ship have been detained for questioning in South Korea since their tanker was impounded in November for transferring oil to a North Korean vessel and breaching UN sanctions, customs officials said yesterday.

A Malaysian state plans to run a conversion therapy course aimed at transgender women, officials said yesterday, sparking alarm among LGBT activists in the conservative Muslim-majority country.

Pardoned former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori will remain hospitalized to be treated for gastric problems, his doctor said Friday.

A Bangladeshi cattle trader was shot dead by Indian Border Security Force along Doikhowa border in Lalmonirhat's Hatibandha upazila in the early hours of yesterday.

President Donald Trump on Friday condemned the arrest of protesters in Iran, telling Tehran that "the world is watching" as officials reported fresh demonstrations over the country's struggling economy.

Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) has banned holding any programmes in open spaces, including roofs of buildings, on the New Year eve.

Police arrested top “Neo JMB” leader Talha, a death row convict in a case filed for the countrywide series bomb blasts in 2005 and one of the main accused in Burdawan blast in India, in Bogra's Nandigram upazila early yesterday.

Curtains came down on the sixth edition of Bengal Classical Music Festival this dawn at the capital's Abahani ground, as tens of thousands thronged the final night of the grand festival.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday asked the authorities concerned to give special attention to the academic activities at their educational institutions.

The success rate in Ebtedai terminal and Junior Dakhil Certificate (JDC) examinations fell this year while the number of students achieving GPA 5 also came down.

The teachers and employees of non-MPO educational institutions yesterday vowed to continue with their demonstration rejecting the education minister's call to end their agitation.

Syed Sadat Ahmed, a central BNP leader, who had allegedly been missing for around four months, was shown arrested last night.

Cameroonian police have arrested a group of nearly 40 heavily armed men who were headed into neighbouring Equitorial Guinea, a military source said Friday.