Thousands of passengers suffered massive traffic congestion yesterday as garment workers blocked the Dhaka-Mymensingh highway, demanding a raise, for five hours at the city's Uttara.

Almost 82 percent of the lawmakers for the 11th parliament have assets worth more than Tk 1 crore, civil society platform Shushashoner Jonnoy Nagorik (Shujan) said in a report yesterday.

A Dhaka court sends Barrister Nazmul Huda to jail after he surrendered before it in a bribery case involving Tk 2.4 crore, in which he was sentenced to four years’ imprisonment.

A miner was killed in an underground accident at a granite mining field in Dinajpur's Parbatipur upazila on Saturday night.

Amid growing protests over the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill 2016, at least 30 indigenous groups, including the North East Students' Organisation (NESO), have called an 11 hour-long strike across Assam tomorrow.

President Donald Trump threatened to keep the US government partially shut for months or years on Friday after he and Democratic leaders failed to resolve their dispute over Trump's request for $5.6 billion to build a wall on the Mexican border.

Police yesterday found the bullet-ridden bodies of two alleged Rohingya drug dealers in Cox's Bazar, known for its connection with the

The owner of a Japanese sushi restaurant chain yesterday set a record by paying more than $3 million for a bluefin tuna in the year's first

A former North Korean diplomat who defected to the South urged an ex-colleague missing in Italy to come and settle in Seoul Saturday, as the rare asylum bid makes global headlines.

The Taliban blamed US and Afghan forces for almost 90 percent of civilian casualties in 2018, in a report released Friday that suggested Afghanistan's largest militant group was not responsible for a single death or injury.

Russia's space agency yesterday demanded an explanation after Nasa put off a planned visit to the United States by Russia's controversial space chief.

The highest-profile Catholic cleric to be caught up in a paedophile scandal in France is to go on trial on Monday charged with failing to report a priest who abused boy scouts in the 1980s and 90s.

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, has sought clarification from India over the return of the Rohingya and regretted India's decision in this regard.

Five people, including four students, suffered burn injuries after a gas cylinder exploded in the kitchen of a madrasa in Kushtia's Sadar upazila on Friday night.

Veteran actor Naseeruddin Shah has alleged that “walls of hatred” are being erected in the name of religion in India and those who stand against this "injustice" are being “punished.”

The UN envoy for Yemen arrived in the capital Sanaa on Saturday for talks to shore up a ceasefire in the country's lifeline port city of Hodeida, an AFP photographer said.

Shohag Chowdhury was admitted to the emergency unit of Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) with injuries sustained from a road accident last month. There, he was prescribed a number of blood tests, ultrasound and an X-ray by a doctor.

Democrats wasted no time flexing their new power in the US House of Representatives on Thursday by approving legislation backed by new Speaker Nancy Pelosi that would end a 13-day partial government shutdown, ignoring President Donald Trump's demand for $5 billion for a border wall.

A three-member BNP delegation, led by its Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, yesterday met US Ambassador to Bangladesh Earl R Miller and discussed various issues relating to Sunday's national election.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi yesterday said no genuine Indian would be left out of the National Register of Citizens in Assam and promised that his government would do everything possible to push through a bill that seeks to give Indian citizenship to religious minorities from Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan.