Russia announces its decision to confer the country’s highest state honour -- the Order of St Andrew the Apostle -- on Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his “exceptional services” in promoting the strategic partnership between the two countries.

Earlier this week, British Prime Minister Theresa May had said that ‘the tragedy of Jallianwala Bagh of 1919 is a shameful scar on British Indian history.’

A British comedian died on stage minutes after joking with the audience about dying. Stand-up comedian Ian Cognito was performing a show at The Atic bar in Bicester in southern England.

When the UN crowned Finland the world's happiest nation last month for the second year running, there were still quite a few eyebrows raised. How could this Nordic country, better known for its harsh weather and high suicide rate, be the world's happiest?

US prosecutors have just under two months to present British authorities with a final and detailed criminal case to justify the possible extradition of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, a US government official says.

A team of Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) has arrested two more close aides of madrasa Principal Siraj Uddoula in a case filed for sexually assaulting Alim examinee Nusrat Jahan Rafi.

Three suspected robbers are beaten to death by a mob in Daganbhuyan upazila of Feni.

Some activists of a faction of Bangladesh Chhatra League allegedly set fire to a stage made for a concert to celebrate Pahela Baishakh on Dhaka University campus and also vandalised around 13 refrigerators of the sponsor company last night.

As droughts and floods cut crop harvests and storms tear up buildings and power lines, countries vulnerable to climate change - from Bangladesh to Kenya and Guatemala - have proposed new ways to access cheaper financing to tackle the risks.

A Chattogram court places a bus driver on a three-day remand in a case filed over assaulting a female student of Chittagong University when she was returning to the city from the campus.

Bangladesh and Bhutan sign five bilateral instruments to enhance cooperation on inland waterways, health, agriculture, tourism sectors and Public Administration Training Centres.

A suspected drug trader was killed in a reported gunfight with police at Ukto village in Sadar upazila of Chuadanga early today.

Sudan's defence minister stepped down abruptly on Friday as head of the country's transitional ruling military council after only a day in the post, as protesters demanded quicker political change following President Omar al-Bashir's ouster by the armed forces.

At least 16 people were killed, and 20 injured by stray bullets at protests and sit-ins in Sudan on Thursday and Friday, a Sudanese police spokesman says in a statement.

A schoolgirl is gang-raped allegedly by two men inside a park in Pathorghata upazila of Barguna.

To celebrate the Bengali New Year -1426, which falls on April 14, Dhaka University’s Faculty of Fine Art is taking preparation to bring out traditional procession-- Mangal Shobhajatra.

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Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said the perpetrators who set fire on Feni madrasha student Nusrat Jahan Rafi to death would not be spared.

A human chain program is held in Jashore town demanding execution of Nusrat Jahan Rafi’s killers.

Sonagazi municipality Councillor Moksud Alam has been sent to jail in connection to the murder of Alim examinee Nusrat Jahan Rafi.