The High Court says that the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) must take the responsibility for not securing bail for Jaha Alam, who wrongly suffered in jail for three years due to an identity mess-up.

Iraqi authorities are prosecuting children suspected of ties to the Islamic State group in a "deeply flawed" process, using flimsy accusations or confessions obtained through torture, Human Rights Watch says.

On the eve of his tour to Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) region, South Korea’s President Moon Jae-In writes about the association.

A Chinese government delegation reportedly meets Rohingya Muslims in Bangladesh, promising each refugee up to USD $6,000 if they returned to Rakhine state in Myanmar, a Bangladeshi official and refugee leaders say.

The health condition of ailing Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader, who is being treated at the Mount Elizabeth Hospital in Singapore, is improving.

Turnover on the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) continues to fall as Tk 568.87 crore worth of shares are traded in the premier bourse, down 1.09 per cent from the previous day.

North Korea has restores part of a rocket test site it began to dismantle after pledging to do so in a first summit with US President Donald Trump last year, while Trump's national security adviser warns that new sanctions could be introduced if Pyongyang did not scrap its nuclear weapons program.

Dear readers, here are the news headlines on Wednesday, March 6, 2019.

About 3,000 tourists are stranded on St Martin’s Island in Cox’s Bazar due to bad weather.

The Biman carrier that underwent a hijack attempt last month will be returning to the flight list from tomorrow, a top official has said.

Seals and whales in the Arctic are shifting their feeding patterns as climate change alters their habitats, and the way they do so may determine whether they survive, a new study has found.

Of the total ICT (information and communications technology) workforce in Bangladesh, only 16 per cent are women, according to a new study.

BNP leaders and activists form a human chain in Dhaka city demanding release of their Chairperson Khaleda Zia from jail and her proper treatment.

Former film star and now a champion of road safety issues, Ilias Kanchan passed through Dhaka airport’s luggage scanner with a firearm. He has said it was "by mistake" and that he surrendered the gun before flight.

The Criminal Investigation Department’s Forensic Laboratory identify 11 deceased including two students, who were burnt beyond recognition in the recent Chawkbazar fire, through DNA tests.

The Civil Service Commission (CSC) of the Philippines warns government officials that playing online games during office hours is punishable under the law.

Pakistan's government sacks a provincial minister for making offensive comments about Hindus, amid easing tensions with India after the two nuclear-armed neighbours came to the brink of war last month.

Three people including a North South University student are killed and another is injured in separate road accidents in Gulshan, Bongshal and Amin Bazar areas of Dhaka.

A man, suspected of being involved in the murder of an eight-year-old girl, is killed in an alleged gunfight in Kholadanga suburb of Jashore.

The High Court has granted six-month bail to BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia in a case filed for killing eight persons by setting a bus on fire in Cumilla’s Chouddagram upazila on February 2, 2015.