Students of Shahbajpur-Kacharipara Government Primary school in Sadar upazila of the district have been attending classes under the open sky for over a month as the schoolhouse, damaged by a storm on April 4, is yet to be repaired.

Aid agencies began delivering help to desperate civilians yesterday as a temporary ceasefire took hold in Yemen after nearly seven weeks of Saudi-led air strikes against Iran-backed rebels.

The second-in-command of Islamic State (ISIS) has been killed in a US-led coalition air strike in northern Iraq, the Iraqi ministry of defence said yesterday.

An Awami League leader was hacked to death in Ichhapur area under Patnitala upazila of Naogaon district early yesterday.

Frequent tremors may jolt Bangladesh and this regional part for the next 50-60 years, according to prediction of an earthquake expert.

An Isis terrorist group forced a sex slave to undergo surgery to restore her virginity every time she was married to 20 fighters, a United

Efforts for a ceasefire in Yemen after more than six weeks of Saudi-led air strikes gathered pace yesterday with rebels saying they

An Etihad Airways flight travelling from Cairo to Abu Dhabi was diverted yesterday to a military base in the United Arab Emirates due to a

Rebels in Yemen say they will respond "positively" to a ceasefire offer by the Saudi-led coalition that has been carrying out air strikes against them.

A day after a woman gave birth to a baby in a toilet of a factory as she was not granted leave, the High Court summons three officials of a footwear factory in Gazipur asking them to appear before it on May 24

Three Bangladeshi women returned home on Friday night after serving two years in an Indian jail.

Islamic militants have claimed responsibility for the assassination of a member of parliament on Friday in the semi-autonomous northern

An Egyptian court sentenced ousted president Hosni Mubarak and his two sons to three years in prison yesterday after a retrial for

Six guards and 30 detainees were killed in a prison break north of the Iraqi capital during which 40 inmates escaped, an interior ministry

Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak sentenced to three years in jail on corruption charges after retrial.

Paddy farmers in the district have started harvesting the Boro crop, but its price remains very low at the growers' level.

A college boy was hacked to death by criminals at Bherakhali village in Harinakundo upazila early yesterday.

Saudi Arabia yesterday proposed a five-day humanitarian ceasefire in Yemen to allow aid deliveries, and the United States called on Iran-backed Huthi rebels to accept the offer.

Yemen urges the UN to authorise use of foreign ground forces to drive back Houthi rebels, specifically in the cities of Aden and Taiz.

Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah says his Lebanese Shia group will launch an attack inside Syria on Sunni militants fighting for the al-Nusra Front.