Students of Dhaka University have been continuing their demonstration for the second consecutive day protesting the rape of one of their fellow students in Kurmitola on Airport Road Sunday night.

The ties between India and the US "have grown from strength to strength", Prime Minister Narendra Modi says in a phone call with US President Donald Trump, according to a statement by Indian government.

Iranians gather in Kerman for the burial of top general Qasem Soleimani in the final stage of funeral processions after he was killed in a US strike in Iraq.

The United States has denied a visa to Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif that would have allowed him to attend a United Nations Security Council meeting in New York on Thursday, a US official says.

The cold wave coursing through the country is likely to continue for another three to four days especially over the northwestern districts extending up to Dhaka, according to the Bangladesh Meteorological Department’s latest forecast.

A team of eye experts operates on an unusual patient — a gorilla.

Australian firefighters use cool weather to try to strengthen containment lines around almost 200 wildfires burning in the country’s southeast.

The United States has no plans to pull its troops out of Iraq, Defense Secretary Mark Esper says, following reports by Reuters and other media of an American military letter informing Iraqi officials about repositioning troops in preparation for leaving the country.

Detective Branch (DB) of police is now investigating the case filed over the rape of a Dhaka University student in the capital’s Kurmitola area on Sunday night.

A sixth grader allegedly commits suicide after she was reportedly raped by one of her neighbors in Sadar upazila of Panchagarh.

BNP Standing Committee Member Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury places a 21-point demand to the Election Commission including the scrapping of its decision to use the Electronic Voting Machine in the upcoming Dhaka north and south city corporation elections scheduled for January 30.

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal says that the offenders involved in violating a Dhaka University student would be brought to justice soon.

The authorities of Jagannath University (JnU) suspends four students for harassing a female student on the campus recently.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina expresses hope that the banks will implement the single digit interest rate from April for the sake of the speedy industrialisation and investment.

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President Donald Trump repeats his insistence that Iran will not be allowed to obtain a nuclear weapon.

Rejecting BNP’s call to shelve the plan to use Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) in elections to Dhaka north and south city corporations, Chief Election Commissioner KM Nurul Huda categorically says that there is no scope to stay aside from the plan.

With his 17-day holiday stay at his Florida resort over, President Donald Trump returns to the White House facing twin challenges: the fallout from the strike he ordered to kill an Iranian general and his looming impeachment trial in the Senate.

The High Court is likely to release on Tuesday the full text of its verdict that confirmed death penalty for 139 accused and upheld life imprisonment of 185 others for their involvement in the massacre during the BDR mutiny in 2009.

Hundreds of thousands of Iranians throng Tehran's streets for the funeral of military commander Qassem Soleimani, killed by a US drone strike, and his successor promises to drive US forces out of the region in revenge.