The High Court has questioned the legality of a provision that allows marriage of underage girls and boys under “special circumstances”.

Raudha's father Mohamed Athif filed a murder case against one of the classmates of her daughter with a Rajshahi court yesterday, 13 days after the Maldivian student and model was found dead in a medical college dormitory.

Actress Apu Biswas, who had disappeared for quite some time, has emerged and revealed before the media that she married co-actor Shakib Khan and they have a son.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is right in proclaiming that the Teesta does not have much water to share with Bangladesh. And she explained why -- many a dam and hydropower plant has been built in the upstream state of Sikkim where the river originates.

Bangalees are widely known to be very good in hospitality, and the fact is proven yet again as Bangladesh Premier Sheikh Hasina cooked steamed Hilsa, a delicacy among the Bangalee cuisines, for Indian President Pranab Mukherjee at the Rashtrapati Bhaban.

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan yesterday said preparations were underway to execute the death penalty of Mufti Hannan and his two associates according to the jail code as their petitions for presidential clemency were rejected.

The Supreme Court yesterday stood by its earlier order upholding a High Court verdict that asked the government to stop the operation of poultry and fish feed factories that use tannery waste from the capital's Hazaribagh.

The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for bombing two Egyptian churches as worshippers gathered to mark Palm Sunday, killing at least 43 people in the deadliest attacks on the Coptic Christian minority in recent memory.

“Mass media and democracy are interrelated… Mass media expands when democracy flourishes in a country."

At the age of five, Kailash Satyarthi was deeply disturbed to see another small boy polishing shoes at the school gate. He asked his teacher why that boy was not going to school. Kailash could not understand why some children were different from him.

Congress President Sonia Gandhi yesterday conveyed to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina that there is a bipartisan approach in India towards consolidating relations with Bangladesh.

Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) president Nazmul Hassan said on Friday that he has not seen a commotion such as the one in Bangladesh anywhere else in the world following the retirement of a player from T20 cricket.

In a case of poorly chosen words, the master of ceremonies requested prime ministers Modi and Hasina to "step down [from the stage]” which led the two prime ministers to chuckle and giggle for an entire minute.

Bangladesh and India signed six agreements and 16 memoranda of understanding yesterday on the second day of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's four-day state visit to India.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said his counterpart Sheikh Hasina's visit to Delhi marked another golden era in the friendship between two people and nations, which was likely to see a quick solution to the long-standing Teesta water sharing issue.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said she believes Bangladesh will get India's support to expeditiously resolve water resource management issues, including the sharing of water of the common rivers like the Teesta, Padma-Ganges barrage project and basin-wide management of common rivers.

Bangladesh and India were drawn into a close strategic embrace yesterday with the two neighbours expanding their cooperation to new areas of defence and civil nuclear sectors.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has apparently failed to persuade an adamant West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee to agree to the Teesta water-sharing deal.

Detectives claimed to have arrested a “Sharia Board” member of banned militant outfit Ansarullah Bangla Team (ABT) in the capital's Jatrabari area on Friday night but the media had reported that he was picked up from Mymensingh on March 16.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday embarked on a four-day state visit to India with a flickering hope of breaking the stalemate on the much-delayed Teesta water-sharing treaty. “I want to have a separate meeting with Mamata [chief minister of West Bengal], and I am waiting for that,” Hasina told a group of four Indian journalists hours after Indian Premier Narendra Modi received her at Delhi's Palam Air Force Station in a departure from his protocol.