Ruling Awami League casts a bright light on the condition of its General Secretary Obaidul Quader and says he will return home in a week or two.

High-resolution satellite images reviewed by Reuters show that a religious school run by Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) in northeastern Pakistan appears to be still standing days after India claimed its warplanes had hit the Islamist group’s training camp on the site and killed a large number of militants.

Bicycle-rental service JoBike, which has now rolled out its service in Dhaka, after a year of its successful piloting in Cox's Bazar, plans to transform the two-wheelers as one of the main modes of transport in the congested city.

Rohingya-born Bangladeshi citizen Razia Sultana has been awarded the United States’ International Women of Courage (IWOC) Award for her work with Rohingya refugees.

Opposition leader Juan Guaido held talks with Venezuela's public sector unions on Tuesday about staging strikes to help bring down the government, as President Nicolas Maduro said a "crazed minority" bent on destabilizing the country would be defeated.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina seeks cooperation from the UK in constructing railway lines from Padma Bridge to Payra Port saying that the UK has huge experiences in railway sector.

Chief Election Commissioner KM Nurul Huda writes to Speaker Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury, requesting the MPs to follow electoral code of conduct during the upazila polls.

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An accused in a robbery case escapes from Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH).

BNP expels eight renegade grassroots leaders for joining the upcoming upazila election fray ignoring the party's decision.

India launches “smart fencing” comprising electronic surveillance along a difficult stretch of its border in Assam with Bangladesh.

The High Court (HC) questions the legality of Rajdhani Unnayan Kartipakkha’s (Rajuk) action to create and allocate new plots through changing the layout plan at Purbachal New Town Project.

A housewife is reportedly gang-raped in Ashulia of Savar, on the outskirts area of Dhaka.

A mobile court of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) seizes 100 mounds of combustible chemicals from Old Dhaka’s Armanitola area.

The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (Ecnec) approves eight projects, including one to set up an economic zone in Narayanganj for Japanese investors spending Tk 2,582 crore.

The High Court will deliver its order tomorrow on a petition filed by BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia seeking bail in a murder case filed in Cumilla in 2015.

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Bangladesh Bank (BB) is going to release 100 percent cotton paper ‘Uv Curing Varnish’ Taka 100 note on March 7 aimed at strengthening the security features of the high value currency.

A Japanese court grants bail to ousted Nissan Motor Chairman Carlos Ghosn but prosecutors swiftly appeal the decision, delaying an immediate release of the once-feted executive after more than three months in jail.

An HIV-positive man in Britain has become the second known adult worldwide to be cleared of the AIDS virus after he received a bone marrow transplant from an HIV resistant donor, his doctors say.