Sounding the poll bugle well before West Bengal goes to polls in 2021, Indian Union home minister Amit Shah on Tuesday took Trinamool Congress chief and state Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee stating that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) would bring in monumental changes in the state.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said the government was trying to “catch and destroy termites” that eat up funds of development projects.

A priceless 18th-century Ethiopian crown is set to be returned from the Netherlands to Addis Ababa after a one-time refugee found it in a suitcase and hid it in his apartment for two decades.

A woman and her sixth-grader daughter had been allegedly raped on many occasions for a year by two brothers in Kushtia’s Khoksa upazila.

More than seven women were raped every day on an average last month, says a report of Bangladesh Mahila Parishad. The number of rapes reported last month is the highest to have happened in a single month since 2010, according to data collected

A total of 45 Rohingya men, who fled refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar at different times, were detained by police at a house in Chattogram’s Sitakunda upazila early yesterday.

A top leader of Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islam Bangladesh was attempting to reorganise the banned outfit after returning from Dubai, said CTTC officials after arresting him and two others yesterday.

Papua New Guinea’s volatile Ulawun volcano erupted early yesterday, sending a column of red lava shooting up into the sky and forcing the evacuation of recently returned residents.

Austria’s far-right Freedom Party (FPOe) was grappling Tuesday with the fallout from heavy losses in Sunday’s elections and intensifying corruption scandals hanging over the party.

A decision by Pakistan to appoint a former diplomat as its ambassador to the United Nations has sparked criticism over his alleged involvement in a domestic violence dispute in 2002.

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia, who has been in prison since February 8 last year on graft charges, will go abroad for treatment if she gets bail.

A Brahmanbaria court sent a madrasa teacher to jail on charges of raping a sixth grader, while two youths were sued for allegedly raping a teenage girl in Narayanganj yesterday.

Two suspected drug peddlers were killed in a “gunfight” with police at Teknaf upazila in Cox’s Bazar early yesterday, hours after they were arrested.

The US House of Representatives’ impeachment probe into President Donald Trump intensified on Monday, as Trump raged about the inquiry and news reports suggested he had used additional diplomatic channels to go after his adversaries.

Almost every graduate has some sweet memories of being a freshman at university. But if anyone asks the students of botany at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Science and Technology University, they will probably share something that reflects how irresponsible the university authority was.

Amid increased import of onions from Myanmar, prices of the essential cooking ingredient came down a little in the capital’s wholesale markets yesterday, a day after the price skyrocketed following an export ban by India.

Two real estate businessmen landed in jail yesterday, a day after police arrested them on charge of raping a woman at an office in the city’s Dhanmondi area.

The government is planning to introduce robotics at the secondary level in schools on a pilot basis from next year in an effort to equip young learners for the technology-driven world.

Some 60 people were killed in mob beatings in the last nine months, says Ain o Salish Kendra (ASK). Of them, 17 were killed in July alone, said the rights body.

Officer-in-Charge of Paltan Police Station Mahmudul Haque has been suspended following allegations of rape.