Holidaymakers who began travelling on advance train tickets yesterday left for home hassle free as most of the trains, except the ones in morning hours, departed from Dhaka on time.

A man was killed in a blast reportedly while making bombs at a house in Bhaluka upazila of Mymensingh yesterday.

Speeding is the primary and secondary cause of 74 percent of crashes, yet there is no effective measure to rein in drivers, according to the Accident Research Institute of Buet.

Almost all the pilgrims have reached Saudi Arabia to perform hajj by last night, officials at the Hajj Camp, Biman Bangladesh and Saudi Airlines say.

For class-eight student Moni Chattri who lives in Hazaribagh tea garden in Moulvibazar's Kamalganj upazila, reaching school was

Police caught a tutor red-handed taking a ransom after "kidnapping" his student in the capital's Pallabi yesterday afternoon.

French President Emmanuel Macron's popularity rating slumped a further 14 points in August to hit 40 percent, following a sharp 10-point drop the previous month, according to a poll released yesterday.

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres yesterday urged warring parties in Yemen to allow humanitarian aid into the country amid a political stalemate that has seen violence spill into Sanaa.

Unknown criminals abducted a businessman from in front of a bank in the capital's Gulshan yesterday afternoon.

Agriculture Minister Matia Chowdhury yesterday slammed Chief Justice SK Sinha over some of the observations in the Supreme Court verdict on the 16th amendment case.

Militant group “Neo JMB” is still posing a security threat as its members are making efforts to carry out suicide attacks individually, said counterterrorism officials.

Hundreds of troops yesterday patrolled a northern Indian city hit by deadly clashes that killed at least 30 people after thousands protested a court's decision to convict a controversial spiritual leader of rape.

France is to grant a 430-million euro loan to Iraq whose economy has been weakened by low oil prices and its fight against jihadists, a French foreign ministry official said yesterday.

The Saudi-led Arab military coalition on Saturday admitted responsibility for an air strike the previous day in the Yemeni capital that killed 14 civilians, describing it as a "technical mistake".

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan yesterday compared the defeat of last year's attempted coup against his rule to key events in the country's history, including a 1071 triumph by Turkic tribes over the Byzantines in Anatolia.

Although over 100 pilgrims yesterday staged demonstrations at the city's Hajj Camp for uncertainty over performing hajj, officials at the camp and Biman said all pilgrims will now be able to fly to Saudi Arabia as the national flight carrier got approval to operate eight additional hajj flights.

The long wait is over. The first of the two-Test series between Bangladesh and Australia commences at the Sher-e-Bangla National

Some local influentials yesterday “settled” the rape of a 13-year-old schoolgirl at Kotalipara upazila in Gopalganj by asking the alleged rapists to “compensate” the victim with Tk 3.5 lakh.

Global scientific resources have been pooled under an international collaboration to combat wheat blast in Bangladesh so that the

A Dhaka education board official was injured when a constable of Dhaka Metropolitan Police “accidentally fired” a shotgun in front of Westin hotel in the capital's Gulshan Thursday night.