At least 18 people were killed and 15 others injured in lightning strikes in Tangail, Sunamganj, Kishoreganj, Dinajpur, Chapainawabganj and Manikganj yesterday.

Expressing concern over the potential damages to the Sundarbans, the Unesco has requested the government to conduct a revised Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) before going ahead with the Rampal power plant.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said it is imperative that the USA should give Bangladesh duty and quota free access to its apparel market for paving the way for expansion of Bangladesh's RMG industry, women employment and empowerment.

Baul artists yesterday joined a protest in the city against the sluggish investigation into the murder of college student Sohagi Jahan Tonu.

An Indian soldier was killed and 10 suspected intruders were shot dead as the army battled two groups of militants along the border with Pakistan yesterday, two days after an attack on a military camp in Kashmir.

He became radicalised in just seven months and had left his Bogra home to go to war-torn Syria and join “the war against America and its allies”.

“I am not claiming that I have been successful in establishing discipline in the transport sector and as a minister, I can't avoid

India stepped up patrols along its de facto border with Pakistan yesterday after gunmen killed 18 soldiers at a nearby army

The Criminal Investigation Department could not find any suspect in the Sohagi Jahan Tonu murder case to cross-match the

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday stressed the need for protection and promotion of the rights of migrants and refugees.

A Philippines court yesterday ordered the country's central bank to return nearly $15 million, a part of the Bangladesh Bank's

A portion of the fund for the deadly Gulshan and Sholakia attacks in July had come from a Middle Eastern country, police say. According to an investigator, the amount was Tk 13.40 lakh and it arrived in Bangladesh from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) through Hundi, a system for transferring money without legal protection or supervision.

A bomb that exploded in New York wounding 29 people and causing significant damage was under investigation yesterday as

A Tangail court yesterday sent ruling Awami League lawmaker Amanur Rahman Rana to jail after rejecting his bail petition in a case for killing freedom fighter Faruk Ahmed in 2013.

A British company has proposed to invest $7.5 billion in the Dhaka-Payra seaport rail link project, whose implementation is vital for the government's ambitious economic development plan. An official of the railways ministry said the UK firm -- DP Rail -- has submitted the proposal, and the decision about it would be made by the end of this month at a top-level meeting at the Prime Minister's Office.

A schoolgirl was stabbed to death allegedly by her tutor yesterday in Nabogram village of Madaripur's Kalkini.

India accused Pakistan of being behind yesterday's separatist attack on an army base near their disputed frontier that killed 17

Rizvi Hasan, who died of his bullet wounds early yesterday, was a victim of internal feud of Ward-10 Jubo League, the youth

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has conferred Bangladesh Liberation War Honour award posthumously on former Canadian

Bangladesh and Canada have agreed to find out a way for the extradition of Noor Chowdhury, a convicted killer of