Qatar is running out of time to stamp out widespread serious labour abuse for tens of thousands of migrant workers before hosting the 2022 World Cup, Amnesty International warned yesterday.

Bangladesh lags far behind a number of countries in terms of average internet speed for both mobile and broadband connections, something for which the stakeholders blame each other.

Angelina Jolie yesterday said that Myanmar must "show genuine commitment" to end violence that has driven hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims into neighbouring Bangladesh.

A man was killed allegedly in a “gunfight” between two rival criminal gangs in Moheshkhali upazila of Cox's Bazar early yesterday, police said.

Indian Supreme Court yesterday ruled that the CBI can't arrest Kolkata Police Commissioner Rajeev Kumar in connection with the Saradha chit fund scam probe.

Around 32 percent children in Bangladesh, aged between 10 and 17, face cyberbullying, violence and harassment online, according to a survey.

Canada wants a transition plan for the Rohingyas as the repatriation process appears slow amid the refugees' lack of willingness in returning to Myanmar due to insecurity and non-conducive conditions in Rakhine.

Chief Election Commissioner KM Nurul Huda yesterday said he wanted the upcoming by-polls to Dhaka North City Corporation mayoral post and councillor election to the 36 new wards under the DNCC and the DSCC to be free and fair.

Biswa Ijtema, one of the largest congregations of Muslims, will be held for four days in a single phase from February 15 this time.

UNHCR special envoy and US film star Angelina Jolie has been visiting Rohingya refugee camps in Teknaf upazila of Cox's Bazar.

A man and a nine-year-old girl died after taking “herbal syrup” in Kushtia's Mirpur upazila on Sunday night.

The government is set to build a high-speed rail link between Dhaka and Chattogram which will reduce journey time to within 57 minutes, Railways Minister Nurul Islam Sujan told parliament yesterday.

Sri Lanka's president resisted calls from the island's Buddhist hierarchy to release a jailed firebrand monk yesterday, even as 518 other convicts were released to mark the island nation's Independence Day.

Iraqi politicians yesterday hit back at Donald Trump after the US president said he plans to keep American forces in the country to spy on Iran.

Ten European nations joined the United States in recognising opposition leader Juan Guaido as Venezuela's interim president yesterday, heightening a global showdown over Nicolas Maduro's socialist rule.

The old cry of sailors sighting a whale's waterspout is taking on new meaning as scientists turn to drones, or unmanned aerial vehicles, to gather samples of the fluids exhaled by the huge mammals and track their health.

The United States' full withdrawal from the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty would not herald the start of a new Cold War, the RIA news agency quoted Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov as saying yesterday.

An unparalleled confrontation between the Centre and the state leapt from seats of power to the street on Sunday after the CBI and Kolkata police tussled over an attempted questioning of city police commissioner Rajeev Kumar,

A schoolgirl has allegedly been raped in a village of Pabna's Ishwardi upazila.

Jaha Alam, who had languished in jail for three long years due to being wrongly identified, has demanded compensation for the years lost and sought help from the prime minister in this regard.