BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has said she will not tolerate any indiscipline in the party.

Golam Mostofa Ahmed, the Awami League lawmaker from Gaibandha, suffered serious head injuries in an accident on Dhaka-Tangail highway at Delduar yesterday afternoon.

Businessman Aniruddha Kumar Roy returned home on Thursday, over two and a half months after he had been abducted from the capital's Gulshan area.

A man was killed in what police claimed was a crossfire between detectives and his armed cohorts in South Keraniganj early yesterday.

Police have rescued a Rajshahi University student allegedly kidnapped from the campus on Friday.

A romantic novel set against the backdrop of the Sri Lankan civil war bagged the prestigious DSC Prize for South Asian Literature, as the seventh Dhaka Literary Festival ended yesterday with hopes of engaging even more literary minds from across the globe next year.

A colour drawing of Tintin and his faithful canine companion Snowy sold yesterday at a Paris auction for more than half a million euros.

A Rangpur court yesterday granted another four-day remand for Titu Chandra Roy in a case filed over “demeaning Islam” in a Facebook post.

Its "caliphate" has imploded, its de facto capitals in Iraq and Syria have fallen, and hundreds of its fighters have either surrendered or fled.

Eminent folk singer and flautist Bari Siddiqui is in a critical condition, and has been kept on life support at the capital's Square Hospital since Friday night.

Fugitive Caracas mayor Antonio Ledezma, a key opponent of President Nicolas Maduro, traveled to Madrid on Friday after escaping house arrest in the Venezuelan capital.

An earthquake of magnitude 6.3 struck a remote part of Tibet on Saturday, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) said, but there were no immediate reports of significant damage or injuries.

Egypt opened its largely sealed border with Gaza on Saturday for the first time since a reconciliation agreement saw the Palestinian Authority take control of the crossing from Hamas.

Two union parishad members were arrested late Thursday night for their alleged involvement in the attack on Hindus of Thakurpara village in Rangpur on November 10.

Six people are still missing in Greece two days after a flash flood killed 16 people near the capital, the fire department said Friday. "We are looking for two additional people whose disappearance was declared to police," a fire department spokesman said.

Philippine troops detained and tortured civilians trying to flee a besieged southern city during a five-month battle with militants loyal to the Islamic State group, Amnesty International alleged Friday.

Three men were found guilty of possessing and conspiring to make explosives ahead of a contentious 2015 vote on political reform by a Hong Kong court Friday.

A number of international experts yesterday said there were not enough protests across the world and by the Rohingyas themselves to mount pressure on the Myanmar government to resolve the Rohingya crisis.

Illegal betting, which allegedly claimed a life when a BBA student was killed by thugs after he tried to stop the unlawful practice in his

The once hustle and bustle of the traditional handlooms at Bancharampurupazila of Brahmanbaria is now a thing of the past.