Former Portuguese prime minister Antonio Guterres is poised to be the next United Nations secretary-general and is expected to be formally recommended to the 193-member General Assembly for election by the Security Council today, diplomats said.

“… we deployed 21 nets ... However, our boat was full after we retrieved 11 nets. So, we had to ditch the catch of the other 10

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal yesterday said Bangladesh would stay beside India if the neighbouring country came

India yesterday said it was “agreed” with Bangladesh on putting up a new fence to secure over 250 villages outside the existing

A newborn girl was found to be alive after she had been declared dead by doctors at a private hospital in Chittagong city early

Delhi-based leading private think-tank Observer Research Foundation (ORF) has stressed the need for strengthening the Bay

The chances of survival are slim for the girl who was hacked in broad daylight by a Chhatra League man in Sylhet on Monday.

It was a pleasant surprise for the fishermen in Sitakunda when they got huge catches of hilsa in the Bay of Bengal on two

Any militant now accused in more than one case will soon be tried in a single court for all the cases, no matter where those were filed. The government has made the decision to expedite the trial of militancy cases and minimise the security risk during the movement of militants from one court to another.

Tahmid Hasib Khan, a Gulshan café attack survivor, was allowed to return to his family as the siege ended the next day,

“Many developing countries in the world can learn important lessons from Bangladesh to reduce extreme poverty and to promote

Three siblings, who were members of banned militant outfit Hizb-ut Tahrir, surrendered to Jessore police yesterday.

The newly introduced smart national identity (NID) card will put an end to forgery as it has 25 security features.

Pope Francis announced on Sunday he would "almost certainly" visit India and Bangladesh in 2017, as he wrapped up a three-

We will never be able to feel his pain and trauma. We will never know his helpless nights in the dungeon of the jailhouse.

The Awami League is planning a grand triennial council at the Suhrawardy Udyan with an estimated cost of Tk 10 crore.

The World Bank is indirectly financing a boom in some of Asia's dirtiest coal-fired power generation despite commitments to

The ecologically critical area of the Sundarbans is becoming an industrial zone with the permission of the Department of Environment and the government has done nothing to stop it so far.

Just a couple of days after host Pakistan postponed the 19th Saarc Summit following isolation, Nepal yesterday urged the member states to ensure that their territories are not used by terrorists for cross-border terrorism.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said Bangladesh's diplomatic relations with Pakistan will continue alongside disputes although Pakistan has been making various adverse statements on the ongoing war crimes trial.