The new US ambassador to the Netherlands apologized Saturday after denying he once said the country was in "chaos" because of

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday expressed hope that Bangladesh Navy would gradually be turned into “builder Navy” from a “buyer Navy” as the government took various steps in this regard.

Police yesterday arrested a youth in connection with the death of infant Arafat who died after his mother fell off a moving rickshaw with him in her lap in the city's Doyaganj area on December 18.

North Korea yesterday slammed fresh UN sanctions imposed over its missile tests as an "act of war", its first response to the latest diplomatic move to punish Pyongyang's ever-accelerating weapons drive.

A Rangpur court yesterday sent an assistant engineer of Rangpur Zila Parishad to jail in a case filed in connection with attacking Hindu houses in Thakurpara village of Sadar upazila last month.

For the first time in the history of war crimes trial in Bangladesh, an accused has decided to give testimony as an approver in a case filed against 11 Mymensingh men.

China's home-grown AG600, the world's largest amphibious aircraft in production, took to the skies yesterday for its maiden flight.

When Bangladesh was celebrating its newly-found victory in the 1971 Liberation War against the Pakistan occupation forces, the fight for many rape victims was far from over.

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia yesterday urged the party leaders and activists to prepare for movement and elections simultaneously.

Following an accident that almost crippled him, Akhtaruzzaman can finally see a ray of hope in life, thanks to the love and care shown by the nuns of the Missionaries of Charity.

More than two years after an earthquake flattened the Nepali village of Richet, most residents are still living in makeshift shelters. Only the church has been rebuilt -- paid for by Christian missionaries whose influence in the mainly Hindu country is growing.

Bangladesh was 89th in the recently published Global Food Security Index-2017.

The US jury in the explosive Iran sanctions-busting trial of a Turkish banker paused Friday for the Christmas holiday without reaching a verdict and will resume deliberations on January 3.

A court in India yesterday convicted senior Indian opposition politician Lalu Prasad Yadav in a corruption case. He was promptly sent to a high-security jail.

A California wildfire that firefighters have battled for over two weeks is now the state's largest since at least 1932, the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection said Friday.

A tea vendor was killed as two gunmen opened fire at a member of a rival gang in TB clinic area of Jessore town yesterday noon, police said.

Turkey plans to change the name of the street where the embassy of the United Arab Emirates is located to Fakhreddin Pasha, the historical figure at the centre of a diplomatic row caused by a retweet, the state-run Anadolu agency said yesterday.

Three Indian soldiers were killed in Kashmir along the unofficial border with Pakistan yesterday, Indian police said, in the latest skirmish between the bitter rivals in the disputed Himalayan territory.

A group of Russian scientists have sounded the alarm over what they said were attempts by the head of the security service to openly justify Stalin's mass purges, the first such attempt in decades.

The Miss America pageant suspended its CEO on Friday after dozens of former beauty queens demanded he step down over leaked internal emails that contained misogynistic, fat- and slut-shaming language.