Teachers of 37 public universities across the country go on a work abstention today demanding a separate pay scale to settle their salary discrimination.

Students pursue mass protests in Dhaka and put road blockades along key points in the capital, severely disrupting traffic in strike against 7.5 percent VAT on private university tuition fees. They say protests will continue until the VAT is withdrawn.

Chandpur police in separate drives on Tuesday and Wednesday arrested two youths from Laxmipur and Gazipur districts on charge of

Nineteen people died when an overloaded canoe capsized in Mali, local authorities said yesterday, in the second major river accident in the poor west African

At least 50 African Union soldiers are believed to have been killed and another 50 are missing after Shebab militants overran a military camp in southern

Somalia's al-Qaeda-affiliated Shebab militants rammed a suicide car bomb into an African Union base yesterday before storming the compound, with witnesses

Do not look closely at the photographs (not given with the article due to policy issues). Do not look at them at all. They will, in an

War-torn Somalia remains in a "critical" state four years after a devastating famine, the UN warned yesterday, noting a sharp rise in those needing food aid.

Gunmen in Nigeria's southern oil city Port Harcourt have kidnapped a senior journalist working for a private national newspaper, police and the daily

Suspected Boko Haram gunmen on horseback shot dead nearly 80 people in separate attacks on three villages in Nigeria's restive northeast at the weekend, a vigilante and residents said yesterday.

A Dhaka court grants three-day remand against each of the five people held in connection with a case filed against them for their alleged involvement with international human organ trafficking syndicate.

A child bomber killed six people yesterday outside a bus station in the heartland of the Boko Haram Islamist insurgency in northeastern Nigeria.

Flood situation in several northern districts remains grave, amid heavy downpour and onrush of water from the upstream across the

Police recovered the body of a man from a canal at Rasulpur village in Sonaimuri upazila of the district yesterday. The deceased is Md

Police foiled a programme at the district office of BNP in the town yesterday. As per the party's central leaders' instruction, a meeting was

A local youth was killed in an attack by a herd of elephants at Gandhigaon village in Jhinaigati upazila of the district.

A rickshawpuller is killed after a statue of a tiger at Dhaka’s Karwan Bazar intersection collapsed on him.

Charges have been pressed against 23 BNP-Jamaat men in a case for hurling petrol bomb at a sand-laden truck in Magura Sadar upazila

Jatiya Party Chairman Hussein Muhammad Ershad alleges that the government has failed to ensure people’s right to live.

Dr Kamal Hossain urges people to unite against terrorism, extortion, corruption, money laundering, looting and grabbing in order to establish democracy, and ideology of Bangabandhu.