Election Commissioner Mahbub Talukder says the Upazila Parishad election has lost its value due to non-participatory trend.

The head of a Philippine news website that has locked horns with President Rodrigo Duterte is freed on bail, a day after her widely condemned arrest on libel charges that critics say is a government effort to bully journalists.

Two people die and three others are injured in two separate road crashes in Dhaka.

Two Philippine entrepreneurs is using origami skills to woo cost-conscious lovers ahead of Valentine's Day, offering bouquets of roses, sunflowers and lilies made of paper at a fraction of the price of real flowers.

AN airline captain in Singapore has been suspended from flying temporarily after he allowed a flight attendant to sit in the pilot’s seat and helped her to take a picture, reports say.

They have no entrance pass for security or card to swipe through a reader. All they need is their smartphones connected to the fifth-generation network. They enter through a door with face recognition and immediately start working at reserved desks after connecting their phones on a docking pad to a cloud computing system. No desktops or heavy desktop computers and cables are needed with the 5G virtual desktop infrastructure system.

Myanmar will drop charges against dozens of ethnic minority protesters who demonstrated against a statue of independence hero General Aung San and will hold talks with them, state media says.

Despite good relations between Bangladesh and Bhutan, the bilateral trade volume is relatively small and limited to few goods.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina leaves Dhaka for a one-week visit to Germany and United Arab Emirates (UAE) to attend an international security conference in Germany’s Munich and a defense exhibition in UAE’s Abu Dhabi where she would also hold bilateral talks with the leaders of Middle Eastern nation.

Police rescue 31 people from Maheshkhali upazila of Cox’s Bazar when they were taking preparation to go to Malaysia illegally through the Bay of Bengal.

Two people were killed in road accidents in two districts yesterday, according to reports from our correspondents.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina leaves this morning for a three-day visit to Munich, Germany, where she will join other world leaders in a security conference. Afterwards, she will pay a bilateral visit to the UAE on her way back home.

A 16-year-old indigenous girl was allegedly raped by her employer in Dhaka's Kalachandpur area yesterday.

The High Court yesterday fined a former district and sessions judge Tk 5,000 for not providing an HC judge with protocol in 2003.

The High Court yesterday ordered the Bangladesh Bank to submit a list of borrowers with more than Tk 1 crore in default loans as part of its efforts to salvage the banking sector from its current unstable situation.

A tribunal in Dhaka cancels the bail of Shafat Ahmed, prime accused in the sensational Banani double rape case.

Tobacco usage among those aged 15 and above in Bangladesh dropped by 18.5 percent in the last eight years, till 2017, finds the Global Adult Tobacco Survey (GATS).

Papua New Guinea police are seeking the return of nearly 300 imported cars loaned to officials for driving world leaders around its capital during last year's Asia-Pacific Economic Corporation meeting, a commander says.

A bipartisan group of six influential US Congressmen has voiced concern over the status of democracy in Bangladesh and called upon the Trump administration to address “threats to democracy” in the country.

A college student was found dead in a flat in Dhaka's Sabujbagh area on Tuesday night.