Bangladesh Meteorological Department predicts increased rain activity at many places in the country in the next 24 hours.

About 30 students from Africa will live in rural China this year to study agricultural technology and then return home to coach farmers in techniques for increasing their crop yields.

United Progressive Alliance Chairperson Sonia Gandhi was re-elected the leader of the Congress parliamentary party.

Organisers of a leading Indian beauty pageant come under fire for selecting only fair-skinned women, with human rights campaigners saying the contest highlighted the nation's failure to respect women from all walks of life.

The United States will no longer "tiptoe" around Chinese behaviour in Asia, with stability in the region at threat on issues ranging from the South China Sea to Taiwan, acting US Defence Secretary Patrick Shanahan says.

Implementing its three key parliamentary election promises a day after assumption of power, the new Indian government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced expansion of an income scheme for farmers and a new pension scheme for agriculturists, small traders and self-employed persons.

The World Health Organization’s (WHO) member states recently adopted a watered down resolution on improving drug price transparency that leading medical charity Doctors Without Borders (also known by its French acronym MSF) criticised as insufficient.

US President Donald Trump has said that the United States would end its preferential trade treatment for India on June 5.

New research led by the University of Sheffield in the United Kingdom has discovered how a hospital superbug evades the immune system to cause infection, paving the way for new treatments.

In his second term as Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi will undertake a visit to Bangladesh and dates for it would be fixed through diplomatic channels.

The factories have innocuous names, but analysts say several ostensibly civilian facilities visited by North Korean leader Kim Jong Un recently are also used to build ballistic missile launchers and other weapons.

Exasperated by reports of a flood of illegal border crossings, President Donald Trump summoned his top immigration advisers to demand action. Responding to his mounting concern, including his extreme threats to entirely close the US-Mexico border, they prepared an alternative but still-inflammatory plan to levy escalating tariffs on all Mexican imports to the United States.

Google reinstates Huawei Mate 20 Pro as one of the devices eligible for its Android Q Beta programme.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has sought support from the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) member states to launch the Rohingya case at International Court of Justice (ICJ) with voluntary funding and technical help to ensure the legal rights of Rohingyas and address the question of accountability and justice.

Acting US Defence Secretary Patrick Shanahan says that technology firm Huawei is too close to the Chinese government, adding that Washington is concerned about cyber attacks and the theft of intellectual property.

A municipal employee sprayed gunfire "indiscriminately" in a government building complex on Friday in the US state of Virginia, police said, killing 12 people and wounding four in the latest mass shooting to rock the country.

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A mother of three children is reportedly gangraped in Noakhali’s Hatiya. Police claims three involved with the crime has been arrested.

The United States has raised the pressure on Western allies in a war of attrition over next-generation networks, saying countries that allow China's Huawei to build their telecoms infrastructure could be cut off from crucial intelligence data.

North Korea executed its nuclear envoy to the United States as part of a purge of officials who steered negotiations for a failed summit between leader Kim Jong Un and US President Donald Trump, a South Korean newspaper has said.