Two suspected drug peddlers were killed in a “gunfight” with Rapid Action Battalion on Dhaka-Chattogram highway in Feni Sadar upazila early today.

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Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) Mayor Atiqul Islam says that they would take steps immediately to ensure the development of slums in the capital and physical and mental health of the children living there.

The Jatiya Sangsad (JS) will go into its budget session on June 11.

A woman is killed in a road accident in Signboard area of Jatrabari.

Police has said that a Russian investigative journalist who was detained this week for alleged drug offences had been taken to hospital, Russian news agencies reports.

The maritime ports of Chattogram, Cox's Bazar, Mongla and Payra have been asked to lower signal as squally weather is unlikely over the ports, North Bay and adjoining coastal areas of Bangladesh, said Met office.

The Philippine government has attacked United Nations human rights experts for "unpardonable intrusions", after a call for an international investigation into killings linked to President Rodrigo Duterte's war on drugs.

The wife of a local Awami League leader, who suffered burn injuries early on Sunday in Natore’s Baraigram upazila, has lost the battle for life while undergoing treatment at a hospital.

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader rules out concern of BNP over Khaleda Zia’s life security saying that the government is more cautious about the issue.

Export and import activities have resumed at Benapole land port after six days’ vacation for the holy Shab-e-Qadr and Eid-ul-Fitr.

An immigration official at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport has been temporarily suspended for negligence in duty as a pilot of Biman Bangladesh Airlines crossed the immigration without his passport on June 5.

The fuel tank of a MIG fighter aircraft of the Indian Navy falls down on the main runway at Goa airport while it was taking off, leading to temporary closure to air traffic at the airport, a Navy spokesman says.

Top G20 finance officials have agreed that there was an urgent need to find a global system to tax internet giants like Google and Facebook but clashed on the best way to do it.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will lead this year’s main event of the International Day of Yoga celebrations on June 21 at Ranchi, capital city of Jharkhand state.

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Fresh from a landslide victory in the parliamentary polls, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said today that “people are God in elections."

Holidaymakers begin to return to Dhaka after celebrating Eid-ul-Fitr with their near and dear ones at their hometowns.

A US green-card holder from Bangladesh who investigators allege was plotting to kill people in New York's Times Square is being held on weapons charges, accused of buying two illegal pistols from an undercover government agent, federal prosecutors said Friday. He was also ordered jail without bail.

The historic Shah Arefin’s mound in Companyganj upazila of Sylhet is now on the verge of ruin due to continuous land digging and stone extraction illegally for the last two decades.