Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority (BIWTA) suspends operations of launches and speedboats on the Shimulia-Kathalbari route due to a strong current in the river Padma.

Rail communication of Sylhet with Dhaka and Chattogram resumes four hours after a train derailed in the district’s Fenchuganj upazila.

Indian state Assam released the final National Register of Citizens on August 31. In this final NRC over 19 lakh out of 3.30 crore people were left out.

Customs intelligence officials arrest a couple with 30 gold bars, weighing around 3.5kg, from Dhaka’s Jatrabari area.

An alleged cattle lifter is beaten to death by a mob in Najirpur upazila of Pirojpur. Deceased Jamal Hawladar, 48, was accused in seven cases including those of murder, arms and theft, our correspondent reports quoting SM Ziaul Haque, officer-in-charge (OC) of Pirojpur Sadar Police Station.

Authorities of two garment factories in Ashulia shut down the two factories indefinitely following an ongoing protest over dismissing 58 workers.

Around one-in-three young people across 30 countries, including Bangladesh, India and Myanmar, say they have been bullied online while one-in-five report that they have skipped school because of it.

Pakistani Foreign Minister Makhdoom Shah Mehmood Qureshi has held a phone conversation with his Bangladesh counterpart Dr AK Abdul Momen to discuss the current situation in the Indian-occupied Kashmir (IOK).

Alleging that Netflix, a US-based online streaming service, is "defaming Hindus and India" through its shows, a member of the Shiv Sena IT Cell filed a police complaint in India's Mumbai.

Students and teachers of Jahangirnagar University (JU) besiege the two administrative buildings for the second consecutive day protesting “corruption of the authorities” and “unplanned” development works which would endanger the biodiversity of the campus.

Dhaka has been ranked as the third worst liveable city in the world, while war-torn Damascus in Syria ranked the worst.

A young man is believed to have been killed in landmines explosion near the zero point on Bangladesh-Myanmar border in Naikhongchhari upazila of Bandarban.

Myanmar is holding insurgent suspects incommunicado in a practice that may be covering up torture, UN human rights experts says.

Working in secrecy for a year, the Telegram messaging service has a plan: to beat Facebook in the race to launch a cryptocurrency with its new project "Gram".

British lawmakers defeated UK PM Boris Johnson in parliament in a bid to prevent him taking Britain out of the EU without a divorce agreement, prompting the prime minister to announce that he would immediately push for a snap election.

Bangladesh and Maldives want strong cooperation on sustainable harnessing of marine resources that largely remain untapped.

Awami League General Secretary Qbaidul Quader rejects Assam finance minister’s remark about the people excluded from the NRC and categorically said that no one migrated to India from Bangladesh after the Liberation War in 1971.

Outgoing Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Commissioner Asaduzzaman Mia has been appointed as chief executive officer of National Security Affairs Cell under the Cabinet Division.

Bangladesh Bank has urged the social media users to refrain from using pictures of any unauthorised note in Facebook or other social media.

The central bank extends rescheduling deadline for the loan defaulters until October 20.