Two teenage boys drowned while they were taking a bath in the Padma river near Baramokam Bazar under Louhajang upazila of the district yesterday afternoon.

Chinese President Xi Jinping hosted Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his ancestral home town at the start of a three-day visit to China yesterday as the two Asian giants work to boost economic ties despite decades of mistrust.

Pakistani military officials have reportedly named the spy who, it is claimed, gave away the location of Osama bin Laden to the US.

The powerful 7.3 magnitude tremor that struck Nepal this week left an already traumatised population gripped by even deeper fear, underlining concerns that the country is ill-prepared to cope with the mental side effects.

Life is returning to normal in Chautara; a pretty little town perched on top of a steep hill some 50km (31 miles) east of Kathmandu.

Two migrant workers return from Brunei penniless early today after they were cheated by two Bangladeshi recruiting agencies with the promise of lucrative salaries abroad.

At least 72 people are now known to have died in a fire at a rubber shoe factory in a suburb of the Philippine capital Manila, officials say.

A strong 6.8-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of northeastern Japan early yesterday, the United States Geological Survey said,

Miscreants stab to death a man and his niece in entering their house at Pallabi in the capital, Dhaka.

North Korea's Defence Minister Hyon Yong-chol is executed for showing disloyalty to Kim Jong-un.

At least three injured when an air force chopper crash-lands at Chittagong's Shah Amanat International Airport.

Election to Bangladesh Bar Council, the highest body for regulating the country's lawyers, is deferred for a week due to anomalies in the voter list.

Malaysia will soon hold a discussion with Bangladesh and Myanmar to find solutions to the influx of illegal immigrants from the two countries following the recent arrest of more than 1,000 of them in Langkawi

Barisal Secondary and Higher Secondary Education Board has cancelled a running HSC examination centre in Amtali upazila town of Barguna district as massive 'irregularities' were found there during the public examinations.

A new earthquake and powerful aftershocks killed dozens of people and brought fresh terror to a traumatised Nepal yesterday as

Pakistani High Commission in Dhaka will provide funds for a three-week skill development training for 60 Bangladeshi women

A major earthquake has struck eastern Nepal, near Mount Everest, two weeks after more than 8,000 died in a devastating quake.

An appeals court in India clears former chief minister of the southern state of Tamil Nadu Jayaram Jayalalitha of involvement in a corruption scandal.

A powerful typhoon has hit the north-east Philippines, in Cagayan province, killing two people and cutting electricity supplies to many parts of the region.

Three fresh tremors jolted Nepal yesterday, triggering panic among the people already battered by the devastating earthquake and over 150 aftershocks as the death toll crossed 8,000.