For the first time in its history, the government yesterday temporarily shut down the internet in Bangladesh, affecting businesses and services heavily dependent on the digital network. The government said the internet was shut down “mistakenly”.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will inaugurate the construction works of the main parts of Padma Multipurpose Bridge before the Victory Day on December 16, says Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader.

Nigeria yesterday finally got a new government after more than five months of waiting, as 36 ministers and junior ministers swore the oath of allegiance and

Police arrested three young men with 700 Yaba tablets and 50 kilograms of hemp in Nachole upazila of the district on Monday morning.

The Supreme Court extends till January 31 its order that had stayed the process for holding Tangail-4 by-polls. It asks High Court to hear and dispose of a rule issued over the nomination of Krishak Shramik Janata League President Abdul Kader Siddique by this time.

At least 12 people were killed in the Somali capital yesterday after Shebab gunmen used a vehicle packed with explosives to blast their

Gonojagoron Mancha calls a countrywide six-hour hartal from 6:00am to 12:00pm on Tuesday to protest killing of publisher Faisal Arefin Dipan and attack on three others.

Teachers and employees of non-MPO educational institutions start fast unto death demanding inclusion of their institutions in the government’s Monthly Pay Order (MPO) facility.

Law enforcers arrest 15 people from different areas in Dhaka suspected of involvement in leakage of question papers for admission to Dhaka University and Jagannath University.

A schoolteacher was beaten to death by his brother over land dispute at Char Kamaria Bhatipara village in Gafargaon upazila of the district

A court here yesterday sentenced a man to death for killing his wife last year.

Two bomb attacks in north-eastern Nigeria have left at least 42 people dead and more than 100 injured, officials say.

Over 30,000 people in South Sudan's war-zone regions face death by starvation, the United Nations said yesterday, warning that tens of thousands more are on the brink of famine.

A number of 114 Bangladeshi trafficking victims, who were rescued by the Malaysian authorities from the Andaman Sea last May, return home.

Criminals damaged four idols at Babulia Temple in Sadar upazila yesterday.

A ward councillor of Birganj municipality in the district was arrested early yesterday. The arrestee is Idris Ali, 32, son of late Shamsul Alam

A hunter has shot dead the largest elephant killed in Africa for almost three decades.

The ultra-sonogram machine and the x-ray machine at Lalmonirhat Sadar Hospital have been inoperative for a long

Terming former enclave dwellers as the sons, citizens and, near and dear ones of Bangladesh, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina assures them that her government would do whatever necessary for their overall welfare.

Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) on Monday requested its Indian counterpart, Border Security Force (BSF), to help identify the abductors of the two tourists and their local guide who were abducted from Rangamati's remote Bilaichhari upazilla on October 3.