The 120-kilometre journey from Lalmonirhat to Burimari along a national highway usually takes about 2.5 hours by bus. But at the moment one would be lucky to arrive in less than 4 hours due to the uncountable number of potholes.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina seeks global unity to address terrorism, extremism in her speech at 70th session of United Nations General Assembly at the UN headquarters in New York.

A mobile court yesterday sentenced 21 fishermen to one year's imprisonment each for catching hilsa in the Meghna River, defying a 15-

The authorities of Dinajpur Medical College Hospital [DjMCH] vacated the surgery ward and suspended the functioning of operation

Jeremy Corbyn has reaffirmed his opposition to Trident - by saying nuclear weapons "did not do the United States any good on 9/11".

​Two alleged robbers are killed in separate incidents of what law enforcers described as gunfight in Laxmipur and Bagerhat today.

A woman in the US state of Georgia is executed despite a number of last-ditch appeals, including one by the Pope, to try and block her execution.

Paura Shishu Udyan (children's park) in Kurigram town lies in an awful state due to lack of maintenance.

Three people are killed and 10 others injured after a bus ran over a motorcycle at Dagonbhuiyan upazila of Feni.

Personal and work-related emails that Hillary Clinton said had been deleted from her email server have been recovered by the FBI, US media reported. Clinton,

President Barack Obama and Pope Francis married their political and spiritual power to urge action on immigration and the environment Wednesday, during the popular pontiff's maiden White House visit.

A major data-sharing deal between the EU and US is 'invalid' given the spying revelations in the Edward Snowden scandal, the top EU court's main legal advisor said Wednesday in a case brought against Facebook.

The United States has said there is still important work to be done before the GSP trade privilege can be reinstated for Bangladesh though Dhaka claims it has fulfilled all conditions outlined in the 16-point action plan.

A tribunal in Dhaka asks the prison authorities to produce five war crime suspects from Patuakhali before it on October 1.

Two children drowned in separate incidents at Pakuria Bhangapara and Pragpur Kamarpara in Daulatpur upazila yesterday. The deceased

A Dhaka court orders the Rupali Bank to pay Tk 6 lakh as compensation to the family of a rickshaw-puller killed in a road crash.

Bangladesh is diligently working with the United States to root out violent extremism, says Bangladesh Ambassador to the US Mohammad Ziauddin.

Four people are killed and another is injured as a truck rammed a CNG-run three-wheeler on Dhaka-Rangpur highway in Ullapara upazila of Sirajganj.

A highly utilitarian government primary school cum cyclone shelter with capacity to accommodate 1300 people during natural disasters

The United States will increase the number of refugees it takes in by 15,000 over each of the next two years, bringing the total to 100,000 by 2017, US Secretary of State John Kerry says.