Awami League Acting General Secretary Mahbub-Ul-Alam Hanif says the issue of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s release from jail cannot be linked to the party’s elected members’ joining of the parliament.

A Feni court places Sonagazi upazila unit Awami League President Ruhul Amin on five-day remand over his alleged involvement in the madrasa girl Nusrat Jahan Rafi murder case.

The chief justice of India's Supreme Court, Ranjan Gogoi, denies allegations that he made unwanted sexual advances towards a junior court assistant who worked in an office at his home and that she was subsequently victimised.

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir says all the cases lodged against party’s Chairperson Khaleda Zia are bailable and she would get bail normally if the law takes its own course.

Gunmen shot dead 13 people at a bar in the city of Minatitlan in the Mexican Gulf coast state of Veracruz, authorities say, in one of the worst slayings to hit Mexico since President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador took office.

Rajshahi Mayor AHM Khairuzzaman Liton bears the brunt for his cousin’s misdeed and paid a fine as the latter had occupied a footpath by keeping construction materials on it.

Gunmen attack the communications ministry in the centre of Kabul, interrupting months of relative calm in the Afghan capital and underlining security threats that have continued despite efforts to open peace talks with the Taliban.

A total of 495 nationals of different countries are now languishing in Bangladesh jails, Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan says.

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Water supplied by Wasa in the capital is cent percent drinkable, Managing Director of Dhaka Wasa says after rejecting a research report published by Transparency International Bangladesh.

One of the burqas used during the murder of Feni Madrasa Student Nusrat Jahan Rafi is recovered from a pond in Feni’s Sonagaji upazila.

A three-year old girl is raped by a 16-year-old neighbour in Fakirhat upazila of Bagerhat.

Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) imposes a bar on carrying of all types of explosives, crackers as well as explosion of firecrackers in the capital on the occasion of holy Shab-e-Barat to be observed tomorrow night.

Criminal Investigation Department (CID) says a money laundering case will be filed if it finds any illegal transaction linked to the murder of Feni madrasa student Nusrat Jahan Rafi.

A Mayawati supporter in Bulandshahr who wanted to vote for Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) severs the index finger of his left hand after he “accidentally” voted for Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the second phase of the ongoing Lok Sabha elections.

Four people are killed and two injured in a head-on collision between a truck and a CNG-run auto-rickshaw in Mymensingh Sadar upazila.

Liberian President George Weah has been barred from his office for five days by two black snakes that slithered into the building this week, authorities say.

The Distressed Children and Infants International (DCI) and Rights and Sight for Children (RSC) organised a Child Rights Awareness concert to help the country’s underprivileged children.

Turkey has arrested two suspects who confessed to spying on Arab nationals for the United Arab Emirates, and is investigating whether the arrival in Turkey of one of them was related to the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, a senior Turkish official say.

The bullet-hit body of a man is found at a frontier village in Shibganj upazila of Chapainawabganj.