A Palestinian court yesterday agreed to release a prominent activist on bail after his arrest on September 4 following his criticism of

Myanmar yesterday rebuffed a ceasefire declared by Muslim Rohingya insurgents to enable the delivery of aid to thousands of

The government allocated a Tk 58.77 crore incentive for the flood-hit farmers of 64 districts so that they could recover the losses caused by the recent floods, said Agriculture Minister Matia Chowdhury yesterday.

Police rescued a two-and-half-year-old baby boy from a slum in Narayanganj yesterday, a day after he was abducted from a hospital in Dhaka for ransom.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe will break ground on India's first bullet train project on

The government would import rice from Myanmar considering the cheap prices and short shipping time, Food Minister Qamrul Islam told the Jatiya Sangsad yesterday.

The government commercially inaugurated the second submarine cable with 1500-gigabit per second (Gbps) bandwidth capacity.

Moderate rainfall yesterday once again inundated parts of several major roads in the capital causing huge traffic congestion in the afternoon.

Two separate discussions, one on the Rohingya issue and the other on the apex court's verdict on the 16th constitutional amendment,

Conjoined twins Tofa and Tohura, who were separated in a pioneering surgery in Bangladesh, were discharged from hospital yesterday through a grand ceremony.

American historian Nancy Hatch Dupree, who dedicated most of her life to preserving Afghanistan's heritage, died in a Kabul hospital

Stateless former Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili said he was determined to return to Ukraine yesterday, to reclaim the

At least six people have died in violent rainstorms sweeping across Italy yesterday, with the Tuscan city of Livorno taking the brunt of

The Trump administration has expressed concern over the unfolding violence in Myanmar's Rakhine state, but stopped short of criticising the country's government or its de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi.

Road transportation between Dhaka and different parts of the country -- south, west and north -- virtually collapsed yesterday, amid a huge rush of people returning to the capital from Eid vacation, due to heavy traffic creating tailbacks on roads and delayed ferry services.

Six people, including two women, were killed and 25 others injured in a road crash in Kashiani upazila of Gopalganj yesterday morning.

A man died in the custody of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) early yesterday, hours after members of the elite force arrested him at Naogaon.

A sixth grader was killed allegedly by some of his seniors in Palashbari area of Ashulia on the outskirts of the capital on Friday night following a feud over seniority.

The Jatiya Sangsad goes into its 17th session today after a 58-day recess.

Arabia yesterday suspended any dialogue with Qatar, accusing it of distorting facts soon after a phone call between the rulers of both countries offered hope of a breakthrough in the three-month-old Gulf crisis.