The wife of an expatriate Bangladeshi is stabbed to death reportedly after she resisted a rape attempt by two youths at Fatickchari upazila of Chattogram district.

The Supreme Court clears the way for Chattogram district administration to demolish partially a cold storage which was constructed illegally on land of the Karnaphuli river.

Nigeria’s most influential newspaper The Daily Leadership has termed Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina as one of the most austere leaders of the world.

Four minor girls have reportedly been raped in Kishoreganj, Pabna, Naogaon and Bagerhat.

The government is planning to fix the charges of services provided by private hospitals and health clinics, Health and Family Welfare Minister Zahid Malik says.

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir says it is up to their chairperson Khaleda Zia and her family whether she will apply for parole or not.

The world’s largest aircraft takes off over the Mojave Desert in California, the first flight for the carbon-composite plane built by Stratolaunch Systems Corp, started by late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, as the company enters the lucrative private space market.

The only known female member of one of the world's rarest turtle species has died at a zoo in southern China, officials said Sunday.

Dear readers, here are the news headlines on Monday, April 15, 2019.

Bhutanese Prime Minister Dr Lotay Tshering leaves Dhaka after wrapping up his four-day official visit that focused on exploring more connectivity and business opportunities between Dhaka and Thimphu.

India’s Congress party demands a probe into alleged transportation of a "suspicious black trunk" on Prime Minister Narendra Modi's helicopter during his visit to Chitradurga in southern state of Karnataka for election meetings.

Raising fresh doubts about the credibility of Electronic Voting Machines being used in ongoing parliamentary elections, leaders of 21 opposition parties have demanded the Election Commission to increase the number of EVMs which are randomly verified using Voter Verified Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT).

Dhaka Cyber Tribunal takes the case filed against former officer-in-charge (OC) of Sonagazi Model Police Station Moazzem Hossain into cognisance and asks the Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) to submit a report by April 30.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina reiterates her warning that killers of Sonagazi madrasa student Nusrat Jahan Rafi will not be spared.

The Supreme Court extends till May 19 the tenure of Accord, a European agency for factory inspection and remediation.

A Rajshahi court sentences three people to death for killing Rajshahi University teacher Prof AKM Shafiul Islam in 2014. Judge Anup Kumar of Rajshahi Speedy Trial Tribunal awards death penalty to Abdus Samad Pintu, Ariful Islam Manik, and Mohammad Sabuj.

Sudan's main protest group on Sunday demanded the immediate handover of power to a civilian transitional government, saying it would keep up the street demonstrations which ousted former President Omar al-Bashir last week to achieve its aims.

Entrance to the 10-storey building at Dhaka’s Mirpur-14, where a fire originated, is restricted by the law enforcers as “the building is under fire risk”.

Prime Minister of Bhutan Dr Lotay Tshering has thanked the Bangladesh government for providing opportunities to Bhutanese students to pursue higher education, especially in the field of medicine.

Workers of state-owned jute mills in Khulna region start a 96-hour strike this morning to press home their nine-point demand that includes payment of outstanding wages and implementation of the wage commission.