Police arrested a local BNP leader at his house in Jesore district town early Monday. The arrestee is advocate Syed Saberul Haque Sabu,

Two people were jailed and another was fined for arranging marriage of an underage girl in Sadar upazila of the district on Monday.

A housemaid has landed in Sylhet MAG Osmani Medical College Hospital with serious injuries due to torture allegedly by her employers.

Twelve BNP-Jamaat men, accused in arson cases, were sent to jails in Dinajpur and Joypurhat districts yesterday and the day before.

The government-run school health centre at Sarkerpara in Saidpur municipality under the district, meant for providing medical treatment for school students, virtually fails to serve its purpose.

A schoolgirl sustains injuries in an explosion when her father is allegedly making bombs at their residence in Jibannagar upazila of Chuadanga.

The horrific tale of a housemaid who faced torture from her employers has come to light in Sylhet’s MAG Osmani Medical College Hospital.

An American Airlines pilot dies on his flight between Phoenix and Boston.

An 11-year-old boy in the US state of Tennessee is held on suspicion of shooting dead an eight-year-old neighbour in a row over a puppy.

A youth was killed allegedly by his elder brother at Goga Purbapara village in Sharsha upazila of Jessore district on Sunday night. The dead

Indian Border Security Force (BSF) arrested a Bangladeshi citizen near Roghunathpur frontier in Shibganj upazila of the district yesterday.

Four of a family are allegedly doped before their house looted of cash and valuables worth around Tk 5 lakh in Kumarkhali upazila of Kushtia.

A teenager survived a mass shooting at an Oregon college because the gunman believed she was dead, her father said. Randy Scroggins said the attacker ignored his daughter Lacey because she was covered by the body and blood of another victim. Instead the gunman shot dead another student.

A Supreme Court lawyer sends legal notice to the government seeking judicial inquiry into the custodial death of a UGC official by 24 hours.

President Barack Obama says the US has launched a "full investigation" into air strikes that killed 19 people at an MSF-run Afghan hospital.

30 people are dead and several hundred missing a day after a landslide smashed through a village on the outskirts of the Guatemalan capital, officials say.

A visibly angry President Barack Obama has made an impassioned plea for gun control after a shooting at an Oregon college left 10 dead and seven wounded, saying such tragedies had become "routine".

Two siblings allegedly committed suicide at Boaldar village in Hakimpur upazila of the district on Friday.

A light tremor of magnitude 4.4 in the Richter scale is felt in Chittagong and Bandarban.

10 people are reported killed and more than 20 wounded in a shooting at a community college in the US state of Oregon, according to CNN.