India and Pakistan cannot finalise an agreement on a cross-border pilgrimage corridor owing to Islamabad’s insistence on twenty dollars service fee for Indian pilgrims during the third round of talks held in India’s Attari.

India declares four individuals -- three Pakistanis and one Indian -- as terrorists under a new tough anti-terror law.

Rescuers search for survivors in the Bahamas after Hurricane Dorian, the most damaging storm to strike the island nation, left in its wake miles of flooded landscape dotted with pulverised homes, and dozens of people with missing loved ones.

A heightened conflict between India and Pakistan is dangerous not only for the Indian sub-continent, but also for the world, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says.

Three persons have been held in connection with two separate incidents of rape in Narayanganj and Chandpur.

Bangladesh has sought Japan’s support for repatriation of the Rohingyas to Myanmar and moving the refugees to Bhashan Char where the government has built shelters for one lakh Rohingya as parts of the refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar.

More than 150 birds of different species have been rescued from a market at Riazuddin Bazar in Chattogram city.

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Mentioning that Awami League (AL) never believes in religious differences, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina urges members of the Hindu community not to undermine themselves by saying minority.

Software companies must take membership of Bangladesh Association of Software and Information Services (BASIS) to run business in the country.

At least 20 people are killed and several others injured in a blast at a firecracker factory in a residential area in Gurdaspur district of Punjab, India.

Stocks have plunged below the 5,000 point-mark thanks to massive sell-off by both jittery retail and foreign investors.

A police constable is detained for allegedly trying to snatch Tk 10.5 lakh in Motijheel area of Dhaka.

High Court (HC) has stayed for three months a government circular for recruiting 143 officials to 18 posts including that of teacher and medical officer under a project of Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal says the government will carry out anti-Aedes mosquito drives throughout the year to protect country’s people from the mosquito-borne deadly dengue disease.

Reliance Powers has signed a partnership agreement with JERA, one of the largest power utilities of Japan, for jointly setting up 750-megawatt gas-based combined cycle power project at Meghnaghat in Bangladesh.

An eighth grade student, who was diagnosed with dengue, has died at a private hospital in Dhaka.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina calls upon the country’s businesspersons to stay alert against the propaganda now being carried out against the government as this is ultimately affecting the businesses.

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Asian Development Bank will fund the expansion of the country’s four highways into four lanes. The highways are Dhaka-Sylhet, Rangpur-Banglabandha, Rangpur-Bhurimari and Barishal-Faridpur.