BNP leader Salahuddin Ahmed, now undergoing treatment at a Shillong hospital in Indian Meghalaya state, says that he wanted to return home.

Three brothers die after inhaling toxic gas in a septic tank in Mahalchhari upazila of Khagrachhari.

Bangladesh must enforce laws to stop child labour and occupational and environmental health dangers in tannery industry, says Human Rights Watch.

Migrants rescued from a sinking boat off Indonesia have told the BBC that about 100 people died after a fight broke out over the last remaining food.

Hasina Ahmed leaves Dhaka for the Indian state of Meghalaya to visit her husband BNP leader Salahuddin Ahmed at a Shillong hospital.

Malaysia says its foreign minister would meet his Indonesian and Thai counterparts to discuss the influx of boatpeople to Southeast Asia as international pressure grew for a regional solution.

A Dhaka court sentences Helal Uddin, a former officer-in-charge of Khilgaon Police Station, to three years’ imprisonment for torturing Dhaka University student Abdul Kadar and implicating him in three false cases three years back.

An overwhelming 80 percent internet users of Bangladesh are Facebook users, authorities monitoring the internet says.

Video of an Awami League activist protesting against Dr Zafar Iqbal goes viral as he admits before camera that he doesn’t know what he is complaining about.

Prosecution presses four charges against two war crimes suspects of Habiganj for their alleged crimes against humanity during the country’s Liberation War in 1971.

BNP leader Salahuddin Ahmed, now at Shillong hospital in Indian Meghalaya state, is losing his memories, a senior party leader says.

Alleged robbers stabs a security guard to death during a "heist" in a readymade garment unit's warehouse in Ashulia, on the outskirts of capital Dhaka.

Myanmar's government says it is not responsible for the migrant boat crisis in south-east Asia and may not attend an emergency summit on the issue.

Libya's official government bans Bangladeshi workers from entering the country because many try to travel to Europe by boat illegally, a government spokesman says.

A man is shot to death by unidentified miscreants at Piralipara in Pangsha upazila of Rajbari.

The 2400-megawatt Rooppur nuclear power project is likely to cost around $10 billion, more than three times the initial estimate of the government.

A moderate 5.7 earthquake struck in the already devastated Nepal Saturday afternoon which was felt in Dhaka and some parts of Bangladesh.

Bangladesh and India are expected to finalise the modalities of a bus service between Dhaka and Guwahati Monday ahead of Narendra Modi’s tour next month.

At least seven people, including two siblings, are killed by lightning during the nor'wester that lashed different parts of the country in last 24 hours.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina says BNP and Jamaat-e-Islami carried out politics of destruction in the country during their tenure.