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.

A robber was killed in a “gunfight” with Rapid Action Battalion in Cox's Bazar's Kutubdia upazila yesterday, according to Rab officials.

Amid international uproar over the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, some members of Saudi Arabia's ruling family are agitating to prevent Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman from becoming king, three sources close to the royal court said.

A federal judge on Monday put a temporary halt to a Trump administration order denying the possibility of asylum to people who enter the US illegally.

The telecom regulator yesterday unblocked Skype, a communication application, backtracking from its position a day after it was blocked.

BNP leader barrister Rafiqul Islam Mia was arrested by police hours after being sentenced to three years' imprisonment by a Dhaka court.

Fallen Malaysian leader Najib Razak is being questioned over the purchase of two French-made submarines, an official told AFP yesterday, the latest probe to engulf the former prime minister since his government's ousting.

Police yesterday arrested a Rohingya man for allegedly raping a one and a half year old girl in Cox's Bazar.

One electrical worker was killed and 10 others critically injured while repairing an electric line of Bangladesh Rural Electrification Board (BREB) at Rajapur upazila in Jhalakathi yesterday.

Two BNP grassroots leaders have bought party's nomination forms to run for lawmaker from Goplaganj-3, the constituency from where Awami League President Sheikh Hasina will contest.

At least 40 people were killed in a suicide bomb attack on a meeting of top clerics in Kabul yesterday, officials said, in one of the deadliest attacks to strike the Afghan capital in months.

Md Osman (not his real name), a railway official, was admitted to Bangladesh Railway Hospital in Chattogram last week for acute stomach aches.

India once again said the upcoming election was an internal issue of Bangladesh and Bangladesh's people were capable of determining their democratic future.

An alleged robber was killed while two others were arrested with bullet injuries in separate “gunfights” with law enforcers in Moheshkhali of Cox's Bazar and Ishwardi of Pabna early yesterday.

Children with special learning needs, along with their families, in Chirirbandar upazila of Dinajpur saw a glimmer of hope when a group of around nine individuals began an initiative to provide them with free primary education. That glimmer shone brighter and brighter as the project came to fruition.

BNP grassroots leaders in Barishal and Khulna divisions promised the party's nomination board to work together for whoever is nominated.

The search for remains of victims of the devastating Northern California wildfire has taken on new urgency as rain in the forecast could complicate those efforts while also bringing relief to firefighters on the front lines.