More measures should be employed to encourage couples to give birth to a second child, while existing family planning policy should be further relaxed, population experts suggested amid expectations of further declines in the number of births in China.

Scientists say they have decoded the genome of Earth's largest predatory fish, detecting numerous genetic traits that help explain its remarkable evolutionary success.

The government in Thailand has begun planning ahead for the next “smog season” in Bangkok, preparing a graduated system of emergency responses and possibly a major upgrade for the transport sector.

The collection of tents was largely silent on a sunny winter Monday afternoon. Few people were visible, but the few out and about were calm: Two men in long robes and pants walked slowly together through the grass, a woman leisurely came out of her tent to look around, a man on a motorcycle drove toward the river.

California and 15 other states file a lawsuit against President Donald Trump’s emergency declaration to fund a wall on the US-Mexico border.

Indian troops yesterday suffered new losses in a battle with Kashmir militants that left at least nine dead, officials said, just days after a major suicide bomb attack escalated tensions with neighbouring Pakistan.

Nearly 600,000 refugees at the Rohingya camps in Cox's Bazar are at high risk of cyclones with only rotting bamboos and shredding plastics to protect them, warns the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC).

Two workers were killed and another was injured in an oil tanker explosion at a ship-breaking yard in Chattogram's Sitakunda upazila yesterday.

Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal lawmaker Mayeen Uddin Khan Badal in parliament last night opposed the “signing of a defence pact” between Bangladesh and Saudi Arabia, saying it may invite danger for the country.

President Abdul Hamid yesterday urged the media to play a responsible role by following journalistic codes and prioritising national interests.

A mobile court of Rapid Action Battalion seizes ‘not-for-sale’ medicine worth around Tk 1 crore in a drive at Dhaka’s College Gate area.

At least 43 people, including six journalists and two policemen, were injured as factions of Bangladesh Chhatra League activists clashed in the capital and Sylhet yesterday.

Gas supply in a vast area of the capital, that include important government establishments such as Bangabhaban, Gono Bhaban and Jatiya Sangsad, will remain suspended for 12 hours from this evening.

A suspected militant sustained injury after jumping off the fourth floor of a building on Dhaka's Minto Road yesterday, to escape interrogation while on remand.

Four years after the killing of writer-blogger Avijit Roy, counterterrorism officials yesterday finalised charges against six people, with the prime accused and mastermind behind the sensational murder Maj (sacked) Ziaul Haque still at large.

Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) Director General Maj Gen Shafeenul Islam says the incident of Thakurgaon's Baharampur village is unexpected.

An opposition lawmaker yesterday questioned the government decision to appoint Shajahan Khan as the chief of a 15-member committee formed to recommend ways on curbing road accidents and bringing discipline to the road transport sector.

Grameenphone users suffer the highest call drops and they wait longer to get connected to the number they dial, according to a report of the Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission.

Bangladesh High Commissioner to India Syed Muazzem Ali says Dhaka’s ties with New Delhi have reached a multi-dimensional and comprehensive platform benefitting the peoples of the two closest neighbours.

A Dhaka court again directs the CTTC of DMP to submit by March 19 the probe report of the case filed over the murders of LGBT magazine Roopbaan’s Editor Xulhaz Mannan, and his friend Mahbub Rabby Tonoy in 2016.