Road, Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader says that Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is continuing her attempt to repatriate Rohingya refugees to their homeland peacefully.

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says it had identified 193 potential cases of severe lung illness tied to vaping in 22 states as of August 22, including one adult in Illinois who died after being hospitalized.

Gonoforum President Dr Kamal Hossain says those making their own fortunes depriving people of their ownership of the country and voting rights using the name and portraits of Bangabandhu are committing the 'most grievous crime'.

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi along with other opposition leaders, who had flown to Jammu and Kashmir, are sent back to Delhi from the Srinagar airport.

A total 185 people are killed in 135 accidents on road, railway and river routes as holidaymakers travelled home to spend their vacation with their near and dear ones during the Eid-ul-Azha this year.

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Eight people are killed and 18 injured as a bus plunged into a roadside ditch on Dhaka-Khulna Highway in Faridpur Sadar upazila.

US Ambassador to Bangladesh Earl R Miller says they will continue to put pressure on Myanmar to create conditions on the ground for the “voluntary, safe, dignified and sustainable” return of all Rohingyas to Myanmar’s Rakhine State.

The Indian government decides to substantially increase the daily supply of onions to Delhi to arrest rising prices of the staple kitchen item.

A five-year-old boy dies of mosquito-borne disease dengue in Mymensingh. The victim was identified as Mohammad Jarif, son of Mohammad Arif hailed from Mymensingh city’s Shikarikanda area.

Senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and India’s former Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, dies at Delhi’s All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS). He was 66.

President Donald Trump angrily escalates his trade fight with China, raising retaliatory tariffs and ordering American companies to consider alternatives to doing business there.

North Korea fired what appeared to be two short-range ballistic missiles into the sea off its east coast, the South Korean military has said, the latest in a series of launches in recent weeks amid stalled denuclearisation talks.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina pays rich tributes to Professor Muzaffar Ahmed, president of Bangladesh National Awami Party (Pro-Moscow NAP) and also the last surviving member of the advisory council of the Mujibnagar government that led Bangladesh’s Liberation War in 1971.

The thousands of fires burning in the Amazon don't look like the major forest fires of Europe or North America -- instead, they are fueled mainly by branches, vegetation and other byproducts of deforestation in cleared areas, experts say.

Two Rohingya people, also accused of Jubo League leader Omar Faruk murder case, are killed in a reported gunfight with police in Cox’s Bazar early.

A criminal is beaten dead by an angry mob after he reportedly killed a man who resisted his attempt of rape on the latter’s six-grader niece in Chuadanga Sadar upazila.

Under international pressure to contain fires sweeping parts of Brazil’s Amazon, President Jair Bolsonaro authorizes use of the military to battle the huge blazes while thousands took to the streets to protest his environmental policies.

A teenage boy has been arrested from Panchagarh in connection with a case filed over “raping and killing” a girl, whose body was recovered from toilet of an abandoned carriage at Kamalapur Railway Station on Monday.

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