A key accused in a college student abduction case was killed in a “gunfight” with police in Shibpur village of Kushtia Sadar early today.

A 27-year-old mother of three was allegedly abducted from home and raped in Dimla upazila of the district Saturday night.

Dhaka North City Corporation Mayor Annisul Huq, who was admitted to a hospital in central London after falling ill, is still at the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) though his condition is improving slowly.

All eyes are on the High Court today as it is set to deliver the verdict on the death references and appeals in the sensational Narayanganj seven-murder cases.

When the government for the 24th time in two years sought time from the Supreme Court to issue a gazette notification on the disciplinary rules for lower court judges, Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha said the judiciary has had enough patience.

Ten leaders and activists of Harkatul Jihad al Islami were awarded death penalty yesterday for attempting to assassinate Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina by planting a bomb weighing 76kg in Gopalganj's Kotalipara in July 2000.

Hajj agents have sent visa applications and documents of almost all pilgrims to the Saudi Embassy in Dhaka within the deadline that expired yesterday.

Six youths have allegedly gang-raped two schoolgirls in Sujanagar of Pabna and then uploaded the footage of them committing the crime on Facebook.

Saudi Arabia yesterday said Qatar had refused to allow its planes to land in Doha to transport Qatari Muslims to Makkah for the annual hajj pilgrimage.

Researchers announced Saturday they discovered wreckage of the lost warship the USS Indianapolis, 72 years after the World War II cruiser was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine.

Thousands of supporters of three jailed young democracy activists took to the streets in Hong Kong Sunday to protest their sentences.

On this day 13 years ago, a grisly grenade attack left 24 Awami League leaders and activists dead. AL chief Sheikh Hasina narrowly escaped the attack carried out on her rally in the afternoon of August 21, 2004.

At 5:22pm: Banned militant outfit Huji carries out the grenade attack on an Awami League rally in Dhaka, killing 24 people and injuring 300 more. Sheikh Hasina narrowly escapes assassination.

The Islamic State jihadist group yesterday claimed responsibility after a man stabbed seven people on the street in a remote far

In the Spanish border town of Ripoll, everyone knows each other -- making it all the more shocking to residents that jihadists believed

Donald and Melania Trump will skip festivities for this year's Kennedy Center Honors, one of America's top awards in the arts, to allow

Queen Elizabeth II has appointed Akhlaq Ur Rahman Chowdhury QC, a UK citizen of Bangladesh origin, a judge of the High Court in the UK.

A mob beat up two men to death for allegedly stealing cows at Kapasia yesterday.

Ruling Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader yesterday alleged that a vested quarter was drawing up a plan abroad to put the country in a severe political turmoil and grab state power.

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