Fighting corruption, empowering women and ensuring transparency in the activities of top officials of Commonwealth countries are likely to feature prominently at the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association conference that formally begins in the city today.

Al Amin Johnny, one of the key accused in the Kakrail double murder case, stabbed Shamsun Nahar Karim and her son to death inside their residence

Topics like sex education and mental health are still considered taboo in many parts of the country. But twenty-four-year-old Ishrat Naher Erina from Sreemangal in Moulvibazar has taken up the challenge of fostering open dialogue on the matters.

US Republican leaders unveiled a sweeping tax bill Thursday that would dramatically slash corporate rates, but the measure was

The UN and Bogota yesterday signed a major pact to uproot Colombia's booming cocaine business, as part of ongoing peace efforts

An unknown jihadist group has claimed a deadly October 20 ambush that killed at least 16 Egyptian policemen in a statement

A Palestinian militant group yesterday announced another five fighters had been killed when Israel blew up a tunnel from the Gaza

Armed stragglers supporting the Islamic State and hiding out among the ruins of a Philippine city after the end of a five-month battle

The government may file a petition with the Supreme Court this week, seeking a review of the verdict that scrapped the 16th

The BNP will participate in the upcoming parliamentary elections despite "all obstacles", party's Standing Committee Member Moudud Ahmed said yesterday.

The government of Australia has issued a travel alert for its nationals in Bangladesh, saying that it has “reliable information to suggest

In a major feat, India's Border Roads Organisation or BRO has constructed the world's highest motorable road in Ladakh region of

A suicide car bomb attack killed nine people in a government-held village in Syria's Golan Heights yesterday, state media said,

A canal, which was once connected to several other water bodies in the city and the Turag River, at Lautola Kanchabazar is now in its death throes.

Posing as passengers, a gang used to rob valuables from people travelling in a bus on the Dhaka-Aricha highway.

Extramarital affair between Arzina and her subtenant Shahin Malik led to the murder of her husband Jamil Sheikh and daughter in the capital's North Badda, say investigators.

Another man was arrested under controversial section 57 of the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Act over an alleged Facebook post.

Ousted South Korean president Park Geun-Hye's own political party expelled her yesterday as it seeks to distance itself from the

Shamsun Nahar Karim, who along with her son was killed in her Kakrail home in the capital on Wednesday, wanted to file a general

Senior US Republican and Democratic lawmakers introduced legislation on Thursday to impose targeted sanctions and travel restrictions