Maldivian medical student and model Raudha Athif committed suicide by hanging herself, said the autopsy report yesterday.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday called upon the IPU leaders to work together against all social disparities and the vices of militancy and terrorism to make the world an abode of mutual compassion and fraternity.

Three suspected militants were found dead inside the Moulvibazar's Borohat den as police wrapped up their 82-hour raid on the hideout yesterday.

Some 700 parliamentarians from around the globe are arriving in Dhaka to take part in the 136th Assembly of Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) and this would cause carbon emission.

Women MPs from different corners of the globe called for building strong parternship between men and women in economy, in parliaments and in society to achieve gender equality and ensure equal access to financial services.

Detectives have arrested two people in connection with selling students fake question papers of public exams claiming that those had been leaked.

Doctors yesterday performed an autopsy on the body of Maldivian Raudha Athif, a model and medical student who had appeared on the cover of Vogue India magazine, with her parents suspecting that she was murdered.

Throughout Bangladesh's current tour of Sri Lanka, much has depended on the conditions at play, with the coin toss often competing with the skills of the players on the field to be the major actor in determining the outcome. In Tests it was hot and so would have been

Internal conflict was one of the major reasons behind the defeat of the Awami League's mayoral candidate in the Comilla City Corporation election, say local leaders of the ruling party.

A mega conference of world parliamentarians kicks off today in Dhaka promising to focus on ways and means to end political and economic inequality for upholding democracy and human rights.

Suspected militants at Moulvibazar's Borohat den held their ground by putting up a defiant resistance throughout the day yesterday, forcing police to eventually suspend their operation as soon as dark fell.

It sounds bizarre, but it is true. Habibur Rahman Habib, a former Rab man, was among the 35 accused in the sensational seven-murder case in Narayanganj.

A huge amount of public money had been embezzled from both public and private banks over the years, said Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) Chairman Iqbal Mahmood yesterday.

Maldivian Raudha Athif's friends at Islami Bank Medical College in Rajshahi remember her as a happy and kind-hearted person who was always ready to help others.

A central leader of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) was found murdered on the banks of the Karnaphuli river in Raozan upazila hours after he was picked up allegedly by law enforcers from his home in the port city on Wednesday night.

BNP candidate Monirul Haque Sakku won the Comilla City Corporation mayoral polls yesterday despite alleged ballot-stuffing in at least a dozen polling centres by supporters of his main challenger from the Awami League.

Chief Election Commissioner KM Nurul Huda claimed his commission was “100 percent successful” in holding yesterday's Comilla city polls.

Police have brought the family members of “Neo JMB” leader Maynul Islam Musa, believed to have been killed in an army operation at a militant den in Sylhet, to the north-eastern city yesterday to collect their DNA samples.

The 34-hour siege at one of the two suspected terror hideouts in Moulvibazar ended yesterday with the recovery of body parts of seven to eight people, including a number of children, inside the den at Nasirpur in Sadar upazila.

Rab Intelligence Wing Director Lt Col Abul Kalam Azad, who was hit by splinters in a blast near a militant den in Sylhet city on March 25, died at the Combined Military Hospital in Dhaka in the early hours of today.