President M Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today paid rich tributes to the martyrs of the 1971 Liberation War, marking Victory Day.

Freedom fighter Altaf Haider, who hoisted Bangladesh’s flag for the first time in Patuakhali district town in December 1971, passed away at the age of 83.

President-elect Joe Biden is expected to pick former Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm to be secretary of energy in his administration, two people familiar with the decision said on Tuesday.

Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) yesterday caught a man with 24 gold bars from Benapole’s Amrakhali.

Eminent researcher of Bangla folk culture and writer Sudhir Chakravarti died in a private hospital in Kolkata. He was 86 years old.

Tokyo district court sentenced a man to death for the 2017 murders of nine people, local media has reported, ending a case that grabbed headlines in Japan with the culprit dubbed “Twitter killer” for contacting victims via the social media platform.

The ideals and values of Liberation War of 1971 are the foundation upon which the bilateral ties between India and Bangladesh are flourishing, said Indian High Commissioner to Bangladesh Vikram Doraiswami.

For Nabil al-Kurd, being forced out of the East Jerusalem home he has lived in since the 1950s would be a fate worse than death.

Members of Counter Terrorism (CT) unit of Chattogram Metropolitan Police (CMP) arrested a man for spreading messages on Facebook “demeaning Islam and the Prophet”.

Bangladesh and India are expected to ink nine Memorandums of Understanding (MoUs) as Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is set to hold talks with her counterpart Narendra Modi on Thursday, Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen said in Dhaka today.

Two men were tortured overnight on Sunday, with a nail being driven into one of the victim's legs, by a group of villagers at Debipur village in Rajshahi’s Tanore upazila.

Terming people of the country “religious” and not fanatics, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina calls upon all to not use religion as a political tool.

Bangladesh and Myanmar anti-drug authorities agreed for joint border patrol and establishing liaison offices in a bid to stop yaba pill smuggling into Bangladesh from the neighbouring country.

Seven people, including three children and a bride, drowned after a trawler carrying a bridal party capsized in the Meghna river in Hatiya upazila of Noakhali this afternoon.

Stating that the toll of Padma Multipurpose Bridge has not been finalised yet, the bridges division today requested people not to be confused in this regard.

Police last night arrested six persons including a printing press owner from Dhaka’s Lalbagh area on charge of pirating “Oshomapto Attojiboni” the autobiography of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.

Dhaka South City Corporation Mayor Barrister Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh today said the drive to remove overhead cables in the city would resume again.

Auto rickshaws slip easily past barbed-wire checkpoints at the world's biggest refugee camp, their drivers among the smallest players in a complex human trafficking network involving high-seas extortion gangs, corrupt police and drug lords.

Foreign exchange reserves today hit a new record of $42.09 billion thanks to the upward trend of remittance against lower import payments.

Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen today said Jordan's readymade garments (RMG) sector will recruit over 12,000 skilled workers from Bangladesh in one year.