A Cox’s Bazar court grants bail to Shahedul Islam Shifat, who was present when retired Major Sinha was shot, in two cases filed with Teknaf Police Station.

Seventeen more Bangladeshi Tabligh Jamaat members, including eight women, returned home last night after languishing in an Indian jail for 40 days.

Two employees of a hospital have been killed when their motorcycle hit a stationed truck on the Satkhira-Khulna regional highway in Tala upazila of Satkhira.

Senior District Judge of Dinajpur Aziz Ahmed and his wife Moushumi Akhter, who tested positive for Covid-19, have been airlifted from Dinajpur to Dhaka.

The BBC apologises for broadcasting a racist slur in a news report, saying it was a mistake that has caused many people distress.

Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai has become the highest-profile arrest under a new national security law, detained over suspected collusion with foreign forces as scores of police searched the offices of his Apple Daily newspaper.

An emergency donor conference for blast-stricken Lebanon raised pledges worth nearly 253 million euros ($298 million) for immediate humanitarian relief, the French presidency says.

Ecuador’s navy is conducting surveillance of a massive Chinese fishing fleet that is operating near the protected waters of the Galapagos Islands, amid concerns about the environmental impact of fishing in the area of the ecologically sensitive islands.

The Indian federal government has sought approval of the West Bengal state government to allow the return of 2,680 Indians stranded in Bangladesh since the coronavirus lockdown in March.

Agriculture Minister Dr Abdur Razzaque says the government will review the overall situation, including the flood’s impact on Aush and Aman paddy, before importing rice.

Gunmen on motorcycles killed six French tourists and two Nigeriens in a wildlife park in Niger, a senior official has said.

The Supreme Court has adjourned for two weeks the hearing on a petition filed by Sikder Group Managing Director Ron Haque Sikder and his brother Dipu Haque Sikder, seeking its permission to challenge a High Court order.

Rights activists, left-leaning politicians and civil society members today called upon the government to bring constitutional change recognising the country’s ethnic minorities as ‘indigenous’.

The Ministry of Education is going to prepare a list of senior professors of public universities so that they can select names from the list to recommend them to the president for appointment as vice-chancellors and pro-vice-chancellors.

Chehlum of Latifur Rahman, the late chairman and managing director of Transcom Group, was held at his Gulshan home after Maghrib prayers today.

Over 500 people from the Santal community in Gobindaganj upazila of Gaibandha district observed the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples today with elaborate programmes.

An independent cinema owner in France took his disappointment and frustration one step further over Disney's move to premiere Mulan on streaming platform Disney+ in September after its cinematic release had been delayed several times since March because of the coronavirus pandemic.

Afghanistan has agreed to release 400 Taliban prisoners, paving the way for the beginning of peace talks aimed at ending more than 19 years of war.

A tribunal in Dhaka today fixed September 2 for hearing on charge framing against 25 accused in connection with the killing of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (Buet) student Abrar Fahad in October last year.

Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) will start mobile court drives from August 16 to eradicate Aedes mosquito larvae which are carriers of both dengue and chikungunya virus.