There are many things that the USA can learn from Bangladesh, Chief Election Commissioner KM Nurul Huda said today.

A tribunal in Dhaka sentenced a man to life term imprisonment today, for raping a four-year-old girl in Nawabganj in 2018.

Jagannath University student Tithy Sarkar went into hiding and faked her own abduction in order to create diversion from the allegation of her “hurting religious sentiment”, Criminal Investigation Department (CID) said during a press briefing at its headquarters in Malibagh.

Around 30 to 35 lakh people live in the coastal area of ​​Maheshkhali, with their livelihoods depending on the coastal economy. But because of robbers in the area, they have long been held hostage. Now, through the surrender of the robbers, there is a chance that the wind of peace will blow over the coastal region again.

The by-polls to Dhaka-18 constituency has ended with an overall low turnover of voters. Only 274 votes had been cast at two polling centers in Starlit School of English over four hours. The by-election started around 8:00am. The total number of voters at the centres are 4,861.

Bangladesh Railway (BR) will resume selling its bottled water brand "Rail Pani" from November 15 after three tests found its quality eligible for drinking.

A prominent leader of outlawed insurgent outfit United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA-Independent faction), along with his four associates and a huge number of firearms, surrendered to the Indian army at Meghalaya-Assam-Bangladesh border, the Indian Defence Ministry said today.

Warmer seas caused by climate change are making hurricanes stronger for longer after landfall, increasing the destruction they can wreak on impact, a new study has found.

Voting at Sirajganj-1 (Kazipur and part of Sirajganj Sadar upazila) constituency is going on peacefully today.

Donald Trump spent 10 minutes in public Wednesday honoring America’s war veterans — a veneer of normalcy for a White House that’s frozen by a defeated president mulling his options, mostly forgoing the mechanics of governing and blocking his inevitable successor.

US President-elect Joe Biden on Wednesday announced he has chosen Ron Klain, a seasoned Democratic operative, as his chief of staff, his first public personnel choice for the White House.

The United States embassy in Islamabad has apologised for retweeting an "unauthorised" post about Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan by PML-N leader Ahsan Iqbal after it sparked outrage on social media.

The United Kingdom has passed 50,000 deaths linked to Covid-19, with a recent rise in infections leading to a new grim milestone for the European country hit hardest by the pandemic.

The UN women's rights committee on Wednesday called on governments to pursue all appropriate means to eliminate trafficking of women and girls, highlighting the increasing use of social media to recruit trafficking victims during the Covid-19 pandemic.

A UN court has registered a plea of “not guilty” for Rwandan genocide suspect Felicien Kabuga at his lawyer’s request after he remained silent during his initial appearance.

The fate of Armenia’s prime minister hangs in the balance after parliament agreed to discuss protesters’ demands for his resignation over a ceasefire that secured territorial advances for Azerbaijan in Nagorno-Karabakh.

Giving away her hard-earned income to the destitute, Dil Afroze Khuki of Rajshahi has chosen a life of constant battles.

Police recovered the hanging bodies of a man and his son from a flat of Moghbazar in the capital this evening.

A citizens’ platform in Sylhet has observed the one month mark since the death of Rayhan Ahmed, who was allegedly tortured inside Bandarbazar Police Outpost in Sylhet and later succumbed to his injuries after being taken to hospital.

The European Commission has proposed rules which would give the EU the power to declare a health emergency and stress test national plans to tackle pandemics, in a potential blow to the World Health Organization.