Dhaka has apparently not accepted the nomination of the new high commissioner of Pakistan to Bangladesh by not responding to the proposed nomination in the last 11 months.

A grenade attack on a mosque in the troubled southern Philippines killed two people early yesterday, authorities said, just days after a deadly Catholic cathedral bombing and a vote backing Muslim self-rule in the region.

Police arrested seven suspected rapists, including two brothers, in Brahmanbaria and Gazipur yesterday.

British Prime Minister Theresa May pinned her hopes on persuading Brussels to rewrite the Brexit divorce deal but EU leaders insisted yesterday they would not budge.

Two men were killed by a mob after allegedly being caught red-handed while committing robbery at Kaliganj in Gazipur yesterday.

A suspected drug dealer was killed in a “gunfight” with Rab members in Keshabpur village of Joypurhat's Panchbibi upazila early yesterday.

India's National Investigation Agency arrested two key members of Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) involved in the Burdwan blast of October 2014 from West Bengal on Monday.

Malaysia will set up a Royal Commission of Inquiry to investigate the existence of human trafficking camps and the graves uncovered three years ago in the hilly area of Wang Kelian, which borders Thailand.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday renewed her call to the international community to force Myanmar to take back its over one million Rohingya nationals from Bangladesh.

Jatiya Oikyafront Convener Dr Kamal Hossain yesterday said the alliance is fully united.

A provincial governor and close ally of South Korean President Moon Jae-in was convicted and jailed for two years Wednesday for his part in an online opinion-rigging scandal ahead of the 2017 presidential election.

A seven year old boy was abducted and killed as his father failed to pay back Tk 1,500 to a lender, police said after recovering the partially decomposed body of the child from Kamrangirchar area four days after he had gone missing from Dhaka's Lalbagh area.

Special Counsel Robert Mueller's probe of Russian meddling in the 2016 US election is close to wrapping up, Acting US Attorney General Matthew Whitaker told reporters on Monday.

British lawmakers have approved a year-long trial of proxy voting for MPs on parental leave from yesterday.

Bangladeshi netizens remained keen on foreign personalities and films more, except for a few local items including Khaleda Zia and Hero Alam throughout 2018, suggests the searches they made on Google.

A member of United Peoples Democratic Front was shot dead by a group of unidentified criminals in Vuochara area of Rangamati's Langadu upazila yesterday.

Two minor girls were allegedly gang-raped in separate incidents in Khulna and Rajbari on Monday.

The hope for justice for a college girl, who was sexually assaulted during an Awami League rally last year, has turned bleak as police have appealed to close the case claiming they could not identify the culprits.

Dhaka has strongly protested Naypyidaw's allegations that terrorists recently attacked a police outpost in Myanmar from Bangladesh territory, terming those false.

A passionate Brazilian football fan has drawn nationwide attention for narrating her local team's soccer matches live to her blind and autistic son.