India says it was “disappointed” after China for the fourth time blocked a bid in the United Nations (UN) Security Council to designate Pakistan-based terror group Jaish-e-Mohammed’s chief Masood Azhar as a “global terrorist” by putting a technical hold on the proposal.

Notwithstanding tensions in bilateral ties, senior officials of India and Pakistan today began talks to finalise the modalities for setting up of a corridor linking a holy Sikh shrine in the Pakistani town of Kartarpur with Gurdaspur district in Indian state Punjab.

A local leader of Bangladesh Chhatra League is stabbed dead allegedly over previous enmity in Narayanganj’s Rupganj upazila.

The High Court issues a rule asking why action should not be taken against Coca-Cola for using “indecent and distorted words” in their advertisements.

Malaysia has shut more schools after a suspected chemical leak last week left more than 200 children, teachers and others being treated for poisoning.

Quota reform leader Rashed Khan claims that unidentified criminals threatened him to gun down if he leads any other movements.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has inaugurated and laid the foundation stones of 31 development projects in Tangail district.

BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia has filed a leave to appeal petition with the Supreme Court challenging the High Court verdict that enhanced her punishment to 10 years imprisonment from five years in Zia Orphanage Trust Corruption case.

A suspected drug trader is killed in a reported gunfight with members of paramilitary force Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) in Teknaf upazila of Cox’s Bazar.

Dhaka residents woke up to heavy smog this morning due to the southernly wind blowing in from the Bay of Bengal, says Bangladesh Meteorological Department.

On hunger strike for re-election to hall unions, the five Ruqayyah Hall girls claim that they have been teased by ruling party’s front Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) activists.

Following an outage of social media sites Facebook and Instagram, its sibling service WhatsApp has also received complaints of disruptions, with users being unable to send media.

A window-rattling late winter storm brought blizzards, floods and a tornado across more than 25 states Wednesday, stretching from the northern Rocky Mountains to Texas and beyond.

The United States grounds Boeing Co's money-spinning 737 MAX aircraft over safety fears after an Ethiopian Airlines plane crash that killed 157 people, leaving the world's largest planemaker facing its worst crisis in years.

In a tentative first step toward ending months of political deadlock, British lawmakers voted Wednesday to block the country from leaving the European Union without a divorce agreement, triggering an attempt to delay that departure, currently due to take place on March 29.

There is no future for the 900,000 Rohingya refugees living in Bangladesh, a leading campaigner and Rohingya lawyer Razia Sultana tells Reuters in an interview, likening the camps to zoos and calling for a proper repatriation strategy.

Hello readers! How are you doing today? Here are the headlines on March 13, 2019

Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) claims to have detained two persons in connection with the alleged murder of a youth in Dhaka’s Khilgaon area.

A mobile court of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) snaps the power supply of 22 factories and fines their owners Tk 26 lakh for manufacturing banned polythene in Old Dhaka’s Sowari Ghat area.

An independent vice president candidate in the recently concluded elections to the Dhaka University Central Students' Union (Ducsu) vows to resist “all goons” on the university campus.