Myanmar's firebrand Buddhist monk Wirathu has openly endorsed President Thein Sein's ruling party in the Nov 8 general election, saying Aung San Suu Kyi's opposition party was "full of themselves" and unlikely to win the vote.

Victim’s father sues Gaibandha-1 ruling Awami League lawmaker Manzurul Islam Liton for attempting to murder his 10-year-old son Sourav Mia. Meanwhile, the MP has surrendered his licensed firearms to a police station.

A man died falling from a mahogany tree at Ratandia village in Monirampur upazila of Jessore district yesterday morning. The deceased was identified as

A housewife came under acid attack when she refused advances by a neighbour in Kumarkhali upazila town of the district yesterday.

In joint with the Hong Kong Conservancy Association and Long Valley Eco Paddy, Pokfulam villagers and volunteers crafted the dragon with the grasses from the first batch of harvest from the local eco farm.

Indian police claim to arrest a wanted militant of the Jama’tul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) in connection to the Burdwan blast case.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina says Bangladesh is committed to leading by example again in case of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as it surprised the world with its achievements in MDGs.

Two workers die after inhaling toxic gas while cleaning the chest house of a paper mill at Baromile of Kahaloo upazila in Bogra.

Woman wakes up at Pakistan morgue during the ritual bath ceremony.

A 14-year-old Pakistani girl, Hadiqa Bashir, is honoured with ‘Mohammad Ali Interna­tional Humanitarian Award’ in the US for her struggle against underage marriages.

Myanmar's president has signed a law requiring Buddhist women to seek permission before marrying outside their faith. Parliament passed the bill in July

Eight persons died when a mini truck carrying around 20 people, a team of local kabaddi players, overturned and fell off a bridge near Suarapalli village on the Lahunipara-Baharaposi in Sundargarh district.

Nepal has formally adopted a new constitution, nearly a decade after the country ended a long-running civil war.

Three people were killed and 14 wounded by a motorcycle bomb blast in Thailand's deep south, officials said yesterday. Since 2004 more than 6,400 people

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina sends a greeting card to her political archrival BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia on the occasion of Eid-ul-Azha, the second largest religious festival of the Muslims.

River erosion threatens the country's largest seed farm covering 1,044 acres of land in Dashmina upazila under the district.

Thailand's junta yesterday said elections are unlikely to take place before June 2017 in the latest delay to the restoration of democracy since the military seized

Scientists determines that the sub-surface body of water on the Saturnian moon Enceladus must be far more extensive than first thought.

Police in Nepal fire rubber bullets into a crowd of demonstrators killing four people including a four-year-old boy, officials said, the latest in a series of clashes over a plan to set up a federal system.

Following the recession of flood water in Sariakandi upazila, the Jamuna River has eroded vast areas of four unions, rendering around