Education Minister Dipu Moni yesterday said steps would be taken to prevent distribution of wrong question papers in the exam halls.

Bangabandhu and Indira Gandhi today conclude their talks with the complete understanding of cooperation in all spheres between the two countries, particularly in the economic recovery of Bangladesh.

From March 1 this year, ambulances carrying patients will not have to pay toll on roads, ferries, and bridges under the Roads and Highways Department.

President Donald Trump was acquitted on Wednesday in his US Senate impeachment trial, saved by fellow Republicans who rallied to protect him nine months before he asks voters in a deeply divided America to give him a second White House term.

A male purple sunbird perches on a tree near Government Azizul Haque College in Bogura town recently. Their vibrant, almost electric

A secretive criminal court in Saudi Arabia is being used to silence critical voices including clerics and rights activists, in the name of the fight against terrorism, Amnesty International said yesterday.

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More than 100 child protection organizations yesterday urged Facebook to halt plans for strong encryption of all its platforms, saying that would allow predators to operate freely.

A US security contractor has been kidnapped in eastern Afghanistan, an official confirmed yesterday, the latest instance of a foreigner being taken in the war-torn country where abductions are common.

Lebanon’s new cabinet yesterday approved a policy statement expected to outline a broad action plan to save the protest-hit country from one of the worst economic crises in decades.

President Mahmud Abbas will travel to the United Nations next week to push for a Security Council resolution condemning US President Donald Trump’s peace proposals, Palestinian officials said Wednesday.

Indian police are “harassing” primary school students by repeatedly questioning them after their school was charged with sedition over a play allegedly criticising the government’s contentious citizenship law, rights groups said Wednesday.

Turkey yesterday urged Russia to press for an end to the Syrian offensive in the last rebel bastion of Idlib after a deadly flare-up this week.

Iraq’s premier-designate Mohammad Allawi has met with dozens of representatives of the protest movement rocking the capital and Shia-majority south since October, a participant in the meetings said yesterday.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday said Ziaur Rahman, HM Ershad, and Khaleda Zia were not serious about the country’s development as they were not born on Bangladesh soil.

Sudan’s leader General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan said Tuesday his meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu the previous day was driven by his responsibility to protect the country’s national security.

A suspected robber was killed in a “gunfight” with Rab in the city’s Turag area early yesterday.

A Dinajpur court yesterday handed capital punishment to five people for abducting and killing a four-year-old boy in the district’s Ghoraghat upazila in 2015.

Twenty eminent personalities and an organisation will receive the country’s second-highest civilian award, Ekushey Padak, this year in recognition of their contributions to various fields.

The UN Security Council’s EU member states called Tuesday for Myanmar to bring to justice those who have carried out human rights violations against Rohingya Muslims.