A former ally of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday said he would seek to form a coalition government with the Israeli leader’s opponents, taking a major step toward ending the rule of the longtime premier.

A Brahmabaria court yesterday sent seven persons including a local Jubo League to jail in connection with a case filed over the murder businessman Abu Nasir last year.

Banani police recovered a decapitated body from near Mohakhali kitchen market in Dhaka last night.

A Bangladeshi victim in the case filed over her rape by four men and a woman in the southern Indian city of Bengaluru, has been taken there from Kozhikode city in adjoining Kerala state, police said today.

Sylhet City Corporation (SCC) has ordered to keep eight at-risk buildings vacant to limit the damage caused in case of a major earthquake.

The imam of capital’s Dakshinkhan Sardar Para Mosque and his accomplice today confessed to magistrates that garment worker Azharul Islam was killed in a preplanned manner.

Import and export through Banglabandha land port has been suspended for five days amid fear that the 'Indian variant 'of Covid-19 and black fungus may spread in the bordering district.

After ravaging our neighbouring country, the Indian variant of coronavirus is spilling into Bangladesh. Local transmission of this variant has already been confirmed by the experts. Meanwhile, sudden rise in Covid-19 detection rate in frontier areas are alarming.

Professor Dr Mashiur Rahman of sociology department of Dhaka University has been appointed National University (NU) vice-chancellor for four years.

Residents of Chattogram’s Mirsharai upazila formed a human chain at the main gate of Bangladesh Steel Re-Rolling Mills Ltd (BSRM) factory today demanding stoppage of groundwater extraction with deep tube wells by the factory as it is causing water crisis in the region.

The High Court today granted ad-interim bail to BNP leader Aslam Chowdhury in two separate criminal cases, clearing the way for him to walk out of jail his walk of jail.

The Serum Institute of India (SII) has said it will be able to manufacture and supply 90 to 100 million doses of the Covishield Covid-19 vaccine next month, a senior company official was quoted as saying in a letter to the Indian government.

Amid pressure by expatriates’ welfare ministry, Biman Bangladesh Airlines today agreed to look into reducing the exorbitant airfare to different Middle East destination resulting in huge financial burden on the country’s expatriate workers.

Police today said they arrested five persons along with the drug lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) from Dhaka’s Khilgaon area.

A group of miscreants snatched the main accused of a murder case, Raju Biswas (34), from a lawyer on the way to District Judge's Court in Jashore city.

Two girls, who were lured with the promise of jobs and later forced into prostitution, were rescued from Chattogram.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson married his fiancée Carrie Symonds in a secret ceremony at Westminster Cathedral on Saturday, his office said on Sunday, confirming media reports.

Kidnappers have released the remaining 14 students who had been held captive after being abducted last month from a northern Nigerian university, a senior member of the teaching staff said on Saturday.

Russia will move ahead with a second $500 million loan to Belarus next month, following talks between the two countries' leaders amid uproar in the West over the grounding of a passenger jet in Minsk and the arrest of a dissident blogger.

The Islamic University (IU) in Kushtia yesterday suspended a staffer after police arrested him with 89 yaba pills near the campus on May 24.