Voting in the seventh and final phase of India’s long-drawn parliamentary elections takes places tomorrow when Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led Bharatiya Janata Party seeks a second consecutive term in power in the face of an unexpectedly tight contest.

Police have arrested a youth on charge of raping a seven-year-old girl in Chhagalnaiya upazila of Feni.

Mymensingh Medical College (MMC) students, who were staging demonstration since Thursday protesting sexual harassment of their female fellow, have postponed their demonstration till June 30.

Police arrest Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) president of Shahid Bulbul Government College unit for his alleged involvement in a case filed over assaulting a college teacher last week.

India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has one unwanted lead in this month's general election race - according to data from an electoral watchdog it is fielding the most candidates among the major parties who are facing criminal charges. Its main rival, Congress, is just a step behind.

When US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo sat down with Iraqi officials in Baghdad last week as tensions mounted between America and Iran, he delivered a nuanced message: If you’re not going to stand with us, stand aside.

An ex-CIA officer was sentenced to 20 years in prison for spying for China in a case called part of an "alarming trend" in the US intelligence community.

Freedom fighter and eminent journalist Mahtab Uddin has passed away in Dhaka at the age of 80. He breathed his last around 7:45am soon after complaining of chest pain at his son’s house in the capital’s Dhanmondi area, our Rajshahi correspondent reports quoting his son Dipto Islam.

The death toll in the collapse of a Shanghai commercial building that was undergoing renovation rises to 10 overnight, the city government says.

One in four students experiences cyberbullying, revealed a survey by Digi and Telenor Group in 2017. CyberSecurity Malaysia also recorded a total of 1,524 cyberbullying cases from 2012 to 2016. The real number might be higher as cases are usually underreported.

Detectives claim to have detained of 23 members of a ‘doping gang’ from different areas of Dhaka.

US diplomats have warned that commercial airliners flying over the wider Persian Gulf faced a risk of being “misidentified” amid heightened tensions between the US and Iran.

A woman has been killed and five others of her family members have been injured as a car of a ride sharing service carrying them collided with a private car at Bata Signal intersection of Elephant Road in Dhaka.

Six people are killed and at least 15 injured as a bus hits a roadside tree in Fakirhat area of Bagerhat.

Parents nervously watch as their children wait to be tested for HIV in a village in southern Pakistan, where hundreds of people have been allegedly infected by a doctor using a contaminated syringe.

Law enforcers rescued 62 Rohingyas including women and children from Cox’s Bazar’s Pekua upazila and St Martin’s Island when they were being trafficked to Malaysia.

Australia's ruling conservative coalition defies expectations to retain power in national elections, prompting Prime Minister Scott Morrison to declare: "I have always believed in miracles!"

A suspected drug peddler is killed in a reported gunfight with police in Teknaf upazila of Cox’s Bazar.

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Rail communication with the northern part of the country snapped after an uprooted tree falls on the lines of Pabna during a nor’ wester.