Over 2.14 crore children, aged between six months and five years, will be fed Vitamin A-plus capsules under a national campaign on November 14.

Mahi Hossain Masum, publication secretary of Olama League Sylhet district unit, was sent to jail yesterday in a case for killing schoolboy

Three people were hacked by robbers in Delduar upazila of the district early yesterday.

One of two cases filed in connection with the sensational seven-murder in Narayanganj has been sent to the District and Session Judge’s Court for starting charge framing hearing.

US Defense Secretary Ashton Carter on Saturday warned that land reclamation efforts and a military buildup in the South China Sea could lead to conflict between nations in the region.

Myanmar's boisterous election campaign drew to a close yesterday, two days before milestone polls that could finally propel Aung San

A Syrian boy whose disappearance from a hospital in Belgrade while on the European refugee trail sparked a huge social media campaign is reunited with his parents in Germany.

Taiwan's President Ma Ying-jeou will meet his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping in Singapore this weekend, the two sides said, in what will be the first meeting between leaders from the rivals since the end of a civil war in 1949.

At least 30 people are killed and 35 injured in a bus crash in Nepal.

Fourteen-year-old Aziza Rahimzada is trying to help her impoverished community by offering classes to children.

A two-storey building collapsed in China's central Henan province on Friday killing 17 construction workers and injuring 23 others,

Chinese state media have welcomed the news China is reforming its decades-old one-child policy, with one editorial saying it "echoes the people's will".

At the age of just 14, Afghan rights activist Aziza Rahimzada has already surmounted legal hurdles preventing 25,000 refugee children from attending school.

The remains of a US soldier missing since the Korean War have been returned to his family in California.

The United States has updated its security alert for its citizens residing in Bangladesh after the bomb attack on Shia Muslim community in Old Dhaka.

Symbols were yesterday distributed among four candidates contesting the Tangail-4 (Kalihati) by-polls slated for

China's leader Xi Jinping is expected to put the seal later on its contribution to what will be the first UK nuclear power plant to be built in a generation.

Malaysia's opposition leader said yesterday she would seek a parliamentary vote of no confidence in Prime Minister Najib Razak, who faces fierce scrutiny over corruption allegations.

China's economy grows 6.9 percent in the third quarter, the weakest rate since the global financial crisis.

Beijing sought to soothe tensions over its South China Sea claims yesterday, saying it will avoid the use of force in the region as the US ponders sending warships close to territory claimed by the Asian giant.