India’s main opposition party Congress has announced its President Rahul Gandhi would contest from a second constituency Wayanad in Kerala apart from his traditional bastion of Amethi in the key battleground state of Uttar Pradesh in the coming parliamentary elections.

The 22-storey Faruque-Rupayan Tower (FR Tower) that caught fire on Thursday cannot be used before renovation as the building was badly damaged by the fire, experts of Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha (Rajuk) say.

A Dhaka court placed SMHI Faruque, the land owner of FR Tower in Banani, and Tasvirul Islam, one of the owners of the high-rise building, on a seven-day remand each in connection with a case over Thursday's fire disaster.

Five rockets were fired from Gaza into Israel early Sunday, the Israeli military said, following a day of Palestinian mass protests along the Israel-Gaza perimeter fence. Four Palestinians, including three teen-agers, were shot dead and dozens were wounded by Israeli soldiers.

Afghanistan's vice president, Abdul Rashid Dostum, escapes unhurt from an attack that killed one of his bodyguards, dodging death for the second time since returning from exile last year.

The Supreme Court upholds the High Court order that asked Green Line Paribahan to pay Tk 50 lakh to Russel Sarker, who lost his left leg after a bus of the company ran him over in April last year.

As the world sets out an inspirational new development agenda and commits to reaching the Sustainable Development Goals, Vietnam should envision a new model that addresses demographic ageing with economic and social growth and protects the elderly population’s rights.

The separate government probe bodies formed to investigate Thursday’s Banani FR Tower fire are hearing the accounts of those survived the inferno.

Two supporters of Awami League-backed candidate are detained for their alleged attempt to occupy a polling centre in Narayanganj’s Sonargaon upazila hours before the fourth phase of upazila elections.

Fire breaks out at Police Plaza in Dhaka’s Gulshan area. It has been doused by locals.

Three suspected drug peddlers including a Rohingya woman are killed in separate “gunfights” with police and Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) members in Teknaf upazila of Cox's Bazar.

Voting at all of the 46 centres in Cumilla’s Titas upazila were suspended over the allegations of vote rigging and irregularities as the fourth phase elections to 107 upazilas ended.

Police detain Tasbirul Islam, one of the owners of FR Tower in Banani, from his Baridhara residence in Dhaka. Islam is also the president of Kurigram district unit BNP and the managing director of Quasem Drycells Limited.

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Bangladesh will replace the burden of schoolbooks with tablets for children in the future, Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen says.

Today’s third incident of fire is reported from Dhaka’s Dhanmondi residential area. It has been doused by locals. No casualty has been reported.

Health Minister Zahid Malik says private medical centres are opting more for needless caesarean sections to milk money out of pregnancy.

Election Commission orders three lawmakers to leave their constituencies immediately for violating polls code ahead of upazila election.

Nine Afghan policemen are killed when Taliban fighters stormed their checkpoints and launched a follow-up ambush in the eastern Afghanistan city of Ghazni, officials say.

On the day that their talks in Hanoi collapsed last month, US President Donald Trump hands North Korean leader Kim Jong Un a piece of paper that includes a blunt call for the transfer of Pyongyang's nuclear weapons and bomb fuel to the United States, according to the document seen by Reuters.