Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) Regional Council Chairman Santu Larma yesterday urged the CHT people to be united to foil the conspiracy against the Jumma (hill) people.

People of Manikganj Sadar upazila formed a human chain on Dhaka-Aricha highway near Manikganj bus stand yesterday, demanding

Philippines Justice Secretary Leila de Lima says her country is ready to shelter the “boatpeople” from Bangladesh and Myanmar should the migrants land on Philippine shores.

Police arrest a war crimes suspect of Habiganj, two day after a tribunal in Dhaka issued an arrest warrant against him for his crimes against humanity during the country’s Liberation War in 1971.

An Indian nurse who was in a vegetative state for 42 years after being raped by a hospital ward attendant while on duty, dies.

A woman committed suicide after poisoning her six-year-old daughter to death over a family feud in Dinajpur town yesterday, police said.

At least 28 people were killed and dozens more feared dead after a fire tore through a factory producing flip-flops in the Philippine capital Manila yesterday, the city's fire marshal said.

The Indian Supreme Court restrain ruling parties from publishing photographs of political leaders or prominent persons in government-funded advertisement.

Thousands of Bangladeshis and members of Myanmar's long-persecuted Rohingya Muslim minority have no place to go after both Malaysia and Indonesia refused to offer refuge to the boatloads of hungry men, women and children.

Students of Changmari High School and Champatali High School in Badarganj upazila of the district have vowed to launch a social movement to eradicate child marriage.

The Supreme Court upholds a High Court verdict that declared using national anthem “Amar Sonar Bangla ami tomay valobashi” illegal as mobile ringtone.

Typhoon Noul slammed into the northern tip of the Philippines yesterday, triggering warnings of possible flash floods, landslides and

The High Court directs the police to arrest in 48 hours the persons responsible for torturing a woman after tying her to a tree in Narail.

Two fresh tremors were felt in Nepal yesterday, triggering panic among the people still reeling from the impact of the devastating earthquake that has claimed nearly 8,000 lives.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina lays the foundation stone of Rabindra University, an institution named after Nobel Laureate Biswakobi Rabindranath Tagore, marking the great poet's 154th birth anniversary.

The devastating earthquake that has rocked Nepal not only killed thousands but may have also shrunk the height of the world's tallest peak — Mount Everest — by about 2.5 cm, according to analysis of satellite data.

Opposition Asom Gana Parishad calls a 10-hour Assam bandh to protest against inclusion of the state in the Land Boundary Agreement between India and Bangladesh.

All the officials and employees of a financial organisation named 'RDP Finance and Investment MCS Ltd' went into hiding allegedly after embezzling about Tk 50 crore from a few thousand depositors in three upazilas under the district.

Salman Khan is known as the "bad boy" of Bollywood for as long as anyone can remember.

Bollywood star Salman Khan freed on bail, hours after being convicted of culpable homicide in a 2002 Mumbai hit-and-run case.