The ruling Awami League announces the names of chairman candidates for the 4th phase of upazila parishad elections in 122 upazilas scheduled to be held on March 31.

A flare up between arch-foes India and Pakistan appears to be easing after Islamabad handed back a captured Indian pilot, amid efforts by global powers to prevent a war between the nuclear-armed neighbours.

Two transport workers are killed in separate road accidents in Gabtoli and Jatrabari of Dhaka.

Five years ago, their loved ones boarded a plane and vanished. The group of Malaysians meet about once a month - usually at a coffee shop or a home in Kuala Lumpur - to support each other and try to keep missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 in the public eye..

A sleeping woman narrowly escapes a snake bite in her Bangkok home.

Pakistan plans to lodge a complaint of "eco-terrorism" against India after airstrikes by New Delhi in Pakistani territory this week damaged dozens of trees, its climate change minister tells.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's International Affairs Adviser Gowher Rizvi has told Al Jazeera that Bangladesh is not a “one-party state”.

A flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines made an “emergency precaution landing” in Dhaka's Shahjalal International Airport yesterday as one of the aircraft's tyres burst.

Two alleged drug peddlers and three suspected robbers were killed in three separate “gunfights” with members of Border Guard Bangladesh and police in Cox's Bazar and Munshiganj yesterday.

Pakistan handed a captured Indian pilot back to his country yesterday as the nuclear-armed neighbours appeared to scale back a confrontation that has prompted world powers to urge restraint.

Bangladesh cannot accept any more refugees from Myanmar, Foreign Secretary Shahidul Haque told a UN Security Council meeting.

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A large number of people have assembled at the Attari Joint Check Post (JCP) in India's Panjab to receive Indian Air Force (IAF) pilot Abhinandan Varthaman who is likely to be released by Pakistani authorities.

Authorities place a two-month ban on fishing in six southern districts, starting from today.

A mortar shell is found at the bottom of a pond in Feni’s Fulgazi upazila.

Three days after Indian war planes hit a terror camp in Pakistan, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi drives home his government’s tough posture in dealing with terrorism and said “India will longer be helpless in the wake of terror.”

Heavy gunfire rings out across central Mogadishu as Somali special forces battle to dislodge insurgents holed up next to a hotel they bombed the previous evening, and as the death toll stemming from that attack nears 30.

A group of social activists blame the government for the fire at Chawkbazar that killed 70 people on February 20.

The wife of a Myanmar military officer was killed by a pipe bomb as they moved into a new home in northern Rakhine state, the army says, as the body count in the troubled region rises with landmines and assassinations.

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