President Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina visit Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader, now undergoing treatment at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University.

The rate of shark bites in Hawaii has been increasing slightly in recent years, but the risk remains extremely low — roughly 5-in-1 million — according to new research.

Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) handed over a member of Myanmar Army to Myanmar today, 39 days after he was “detained” along the border in Bandarban on January 24, an official of the Bangladeshi paramilitary force has said.

Hello readers! How are you doing today? Here are the headlines so far on March 3, 2019

Two labourers die and one is injured after they were pinned under a heavy container at Rampal Coal-based Power Plant which is being built near the world’s largest mangrove forest, Sundarbans.

Investigators get two more days to submit their report on the alleged plane hijacking incident at Chattogram airport on February 24.

The High Court (HC) sentences a former stenographer of Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha (Rajuk) to 11 years in prison around two years after he was acquitted by the lower court in a corruption case.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina directs members of Bangladesh Army to keep a constant vigil to face any “internal and external threats” for safeguarding the country’s constitution and sovereignty.

Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad goes to Rangpur on a four-day visit. He leaves Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka for Rangpur cantonment on a helicopter.

In an unusual step, China’s ceremonial legislature is due to endorse a law meant to help end a bruising tariff war with Washington by discouraging officials from pressuring foreign companies to hand over technology.

A taskforce, formed by Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC), resumes its drive against establishments storing hazardous chemicals in Old Dhaka for the third consecutive day.

Firefighters battled 25 blazes across the Australian state of Victoria as a record-breaking heatwave delivered the hottest start to March on record for the southern third of the country.

Bangladesh stands in the ninth position among its Asian neighbours in an international ranking as the most generous country. With an overall score of 31 per cent, the country has been ranked 74 in the world and fourth in South Asia in the CAF World Giving Index 2018.

Around 50 shanties are gutted in a fire that ripped through a slum during an eviction drive was in progress in Dhaka’s Tejgaon industrial area.

Two Sacramento policemen who shot and killed an unarmed black man in a dark backyard last year will not be charged criminally in the case, the county prosecutor says.

Bernie Sanders kicked off his presidential campaign Saturday miles from the rent-controlled apartment where he grew up in Brooklyn and forcefully made the case that he is nothing like fellow New Yorker Donald Trump, proclaiming himself the Democrat best prepared to beat the incumbent in 2020.

US President Donald Trump attacks Special Counsel Robert Mueller ahead of his report on alleged Russia collusion by the Trump campaign in 2016.

A suspected drug trader is killed in a reported gunfight with Detective Branch of Police at Kalibari in Mymensingh city.

It is not possible to shift Road, Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader abroad right now, doctors say.

State Minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Nasrul Hamid yesterday said the government might raise gas prices, mainly for