UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says societies as a whole pay a price when journalists are targeted.

Fifty-three soldiers are killed in a "terrorist attack" on a Mali military post in the northeast of the country.

Thailand reopens the cave where 12 young footballers and their coach were trapped last year in a saga that captivated the world.

A total of 66,194 candidates are absent on the first day of Junior School Certificate (JSC) and Junior Dakhil Certificate (JDC) examinations while 38 students are expelled for resorting to unfair means.

A Palestinian was killed by Israeli airstrike in the Gaza Strip, the health ministry in the Hamas-run enclave says, as the Jewish state struck a number of sites in response to rocket fire.

US President Donald Trump announces that a senior department official, Chad Wolf, would become the nation's new acting homeland security chief, a role at the center of his crackdown on undocumented immigration.

The Khulna University of Engineering and Technology (Kuet) was shut down for an indefinite period today after a clash between two groups of students over a football match.

Police found a “bomb-like substance” on a road in front of a house in Dhaka’s Dhanmondi area tonight.

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Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina calls upon all national and international organisations for taking combined efforts to ensure voluntary blood donation and posthumous eye donation in the country.

Police recover throat-slit bodies of a woman and her female domestic help from a flat in Dhaka’s Dhanmondi area.

Charge sheet in the Buet student Abrar Fahad murder case will be submitted by the current week, Monirul Islam, additional commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) says.

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal today said that his government is adamant in a bid to free the Sundarbans, the world’s largest mangrove forest, from the grip of bandits.

BNP senior leader Moudud Ahmed says the fall of the current government is a matter of time because of its widespread corruption.

Former mayor of undivided Dhaka City Corporation and BNP vice chairman Sadeque Hossain Khoka is in critical condition and now fighting for life at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in Manhattan, New York.

A Dhaka court places Mainul Haque Manju, a ward councillor of Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC), on a 10-day remand in two separate cases for his possession of illegal firearms and drugs.

Dressed demurely in black leggings and unflattering baggy t-shirts, rather than their trademark low-cut bikini tops, WWE superstars Natalya and Lacey Evans starred in the first ever women's wrestling match in Saudi Arabia, the latest unlikely event in the kingdom as it attempts to shrug off an ultra-conservative image.

A bus service from Pirojpur to India’s Kolkata has been inaugurated. Deputy Commissioner Abu Ali Md Sazzad Hossain and Police Superintendent Hayatul Islam Khan inaugurated the service at Pirojpur Zila Bus Terminal in the morning.

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Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader has said the Road Transport Act has been enacted aiming to bring discipline on roads and highways of the country.