The Islamic State group claims responsibility for three men who blew themselves up in clashes with Sri Lankan police inside what was believed to be a jihadist hideout near the eastern town of Kalmunai.

Sri Lanka's Roman Catholic has condemned the Easter attacks as "an insult to humanity" as the tense and grief-stricken country marks a week since suicide bombers hit three churches and three luxury hotels.

Six people, including an eight-year-old boy, are killed as a bus hits a CNG-run auto-rickshaw in Shahrasti upazila of Chandpur.

PepsiCo Inc has sued four Indian farmers for cultivating a potato variety that the snack food and drinks maker claims infringes its patent, the company and the growers said on Friday.

A Brazilian model dies after collapsing on the catwalk during a show on the last day of Sao Paulo Fashion Week (SPFW), organizers say.

The body of senior journalist Mahfuz Ullah, who passed away at a hospital in Thailand on Saturday morning, arrived in Dhaka early today.

Sri Lanka’s president outlaws two Islamist groups suspected to be behind the suicide bombings on churches and hotels while the wife and child of the suspected ringleader are wounded during a military raid in safe house, his family and police say.

A gunman walked into a San Diego-area synagogue crowded with Sabbath worshipers and opened fire with an assault-style rifle, killing one woman inside and wounding three others in a hate crime carried out on the last day of Passover, authorities have said.

A total of 17 shops are gutted in a fire that broke out at Sadarghat Hawkers’ Market in Old Dhaka.

The new direct train service between Dhaka and Rajshahi saw a dearth of passengers for non-air-conditioned coaches yesterday, as it began commercial operations on Rajshahi-Dhaka-route.

Two persons are killed in a road accident involving a covered van and a rickshaw in Dhaka’s Jatrabari.

BNP expels its lawmaker Zahidur Rahman for taking oath as the member of the 11th parliament, defying the party’s decision.

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Autopsy report of Feni madrasa girl Nusrat Jahan Rafi is handed over to police.

The new non-stop intercity train Banalata Express witnesses a dearth of passengers for non-air-conditioned coaches as it begins commercial operation on Rajshahi-Dhaka-Rajshahi route with a higher fare.

Police detain the pickup driver who ran over Brac University student Fahmida Haque Labannya after she fell off a motorbike.

The country’s judiciary is now facing a huge backlog of around 34 lakh pending cases in the courts, causing immense suffering to the justice seekers, according to findings of the Justice Audit Bangladesh.

Describing militancy, terrorism, corruption and narcotics as wounds of society, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina calls upon all to put up resistance unitedly against these menaces.

BNP senior leader Moudud Ahmed seeks a directive from the prime minister to the public prosecutors so that they would refrain from “creating hindrances” on the way of party Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s release from jail on bail.

A schoolgirl is indiscriminately hacked by a stalker for refusing his “love proposal” in Kulaura upazila of Moulvibazar.