A photo of a man taking yaba in Barishal DB office went viral yesterday, drawing criticism from different quarters.

Bangladesh has improved four notches to the 25th place among 163 countries with a score of 5.697 in the Global Terrorism Index (GTI) 2018 of the Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP).

The oceans are warming faster than previously estimated, setting a new temperature record in 2018 in a trend that is damaging marine life, scientists said on Thursday.

Rice prices will come down within a week, newly appointed Commerce Minister Tipu Munshi said yesterday.

President Donald Trump, facing the prospect within days of the longest US government shutdown in history, was considering declaring a national emergency that would likely escalate a policy dispute with Democrats over his proposed US-Mexico border wall into a court test of presidential power.

China's lunar rover got back to work on the far side of the moon Thursday after waking from a five-day hibernation, its official social media page announced.

Two suspected yaba traders were killed in a “gunfight” with police in Teknaf upazila of Cox's Bazar early yesterday.

Bangladesh has ranked 97th in the updated Henley Passport Index, gaining three notches up from its previous ranking.

A Bangladesh High Commission official stationed in Canberra has been alleged to be involved in issuing fake tourist visas to a group of Rohingyas living in Australia.

The Taliban launched a series of attacks on security checkpoints in four Afghan provinces early yesterday, killing 32 members of the security forces and pro-government militias, provincial officials said.

The Anti-Corruption Commission yesterday detained a revenue officer of the Chattogram Customs House with Tk 6 lakh in suspected bribe money.

A leading figure in Egypt's 2011 revolution was handed 15 years in prison on Wednesday after a retrial, a judicial source told AFP.

On a late December morning, an hour-long stroll through the centuries-old Bamboo forest surrounding the Gandagram village of Shajahanpur upazila revealed the sight of hundreds of small colourful minivets. In awe of such an astonishing sight, I suddenly spotted something different.

Four women were allegedly confined and raped at a house in Rampur area of Feni town for around six months.

Police arrested two suspected rapists in Lalmai upazila of the district on Wednesday.

His monthly salary is only around Tk 24,000, but he has been able to buy a house in Australia's Sydney spending more than two lakh US dollars.

Prime Minister of Thailand Gene Prayut Chan-o-cha (Ret) has said his government is determined to work closely with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina for the mutual benefits of the two countries and peoples.

BNP candidate Abdus Sattar Bhuiyan has been elected in Brahmanbaria-2 following yesterday's re-polling in three centres of the constituency.

Law Minister Anisul Huq yesterday said the government would take an initiative to amend the relevant law again to try and punish Jamaat-e-Islami as an organisation for committing war crimes during the Liberation War.

A Dhaka Court today sends 13 Rohingyas to the jail on charges of securing Bangladeshi passports through forgery.