Two of the 12 labourers who had suffered burns in an explosion at a steel mill in Narayanganj on Friday died at Dhaka Medical College Hospital yesterday.

Political and security experts yesterday said credibility of the upcoming parliamentary election depended on the Election Commission, but its performance so far was not satisfactory.

Two Colombian soldiers were killed and another two wounded Friday along the country's border with Venezuela in a bomb attack blamed by the military on rebels from the National Liberation Army.

A Chandpur court yesterday sent former state minister for education ANM Ehsanul Haque Milon to jail in three criminal cases, hours after he was arrested from Chittagong city.

Police were still clueless about the death of BNP nomination seeker Abu Bakar Abu whose body was found floating in the Buriganga on Monday, a day after he went missing from the capital's Bijoynagar area.

Spanish premier Pedro Sanchez agreed with Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel to deepen bilateral political ties on Thursday, at the start of the first official visit by a Spanish leader to the Communist-run country in three decades.

China said yesterday it hopes US President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping can find a solution to the trade war when they meet at the G20 summit next week.

The authorities are yet to decide how to dispose of banners, posters and other election campaign materials after those were removed from roadside lamp posts, overbridges and walls in compliance with a directive from the Election Commission.

Police recovered the bodies of two missing men from the Meghna river in remote Char-Madhua area of Narsingdi's Raipura upazila on Thursday night.

Six years after the Tazreen Fashions factory fire, 10 workers injured in the incident have taken their destiny in their own hands and set up their factory in Ashulia.

It's a bustling area with thousands of homes, shacks, and markets, farms, factories, brick kilns, and places of worship on the east and west of the roundabout of Shah Amanat Bridge at Bakolia of Chattogram city.

Bangladeshi migrants in Malaysia will soon get medical and disability benefits as the Southeast Asian country has decided to bring foreign workers under its Social Security Organisation.

With the arrival of winter, the shallow waters and narrowing width of the mighty Padma becomes host to a number of animals in search of the nutrition it provides.

Madhusudan Talukder started planting orange saplings on two acres of land in Rangamati's Naniarchar upazila in 2007. By 2014, half of his 700 trees yielded fruits ready for sale.

Family members of at least 25 BNP leaders who died in the last 10 years are likely to get party tickets.

Germany has pledged to provide €285.3 million to Bangladesh for various development programmes.

Bangladesh Bank yesterday asked all banks to submit to returning officers the loan statements of the defaulters seeking to contest the December 30 national polls.

After deadly weekend protests calling for his resignation, followed by a general strike, Haitian President Jovenel Moise emerged late Wednesday to reaffirm his legitimacy and appeal for calm in a televised address.

At least 32 aspirants want to take on BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia in Bogura-6 and-7 constituencies in the upcoming parliamentary election, scheduled to be held on December 30.

Election Commission Secretary Helal Uddin Ahmed has said Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and other ministers cannot inaugurate any development project or lay any foundation stone until the results of the upcoming general election are announced.