Prof Dwijen Sharma says the government should cancel the Rampal power plant project, assuming it would pose a permanent threat on the Sundarbans.

A French court acquits former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn of procuring prostitutes for sex parties in France, Belgium and the US.

Labour's John Biggs becomes the directly elected mayor of the London borough of Tower Hamlets, in an election called after the previous mayor was removed from office.

Police yesterday pressed charges against 132 leaders and activists of Jamaat-e-Islami and its student wing Islami Chhatra Shibir in a

Two children drowned in ponds in Dharmapasha and Chhatak upazilas of Sunamganj district on Sunday. In Dharmapashsa, Hosna Begum,

Turkey's AK party faces a challenge to form a government after losing its majority at a general election for the first time in 13 years.

Leaders from the Group of Seven (G7) industrial nations backed a tough line towards Moscow at the start of a summit in the Bavarian Alps, with US President Barack Obama urging the gathering to stand up to Russian aggression in Ukraine.

Italy's wealthy North yesterday vowed that it would refuse to accommodate any more migrants as thousands more were rescued in the Mediterranean by a multinational flotilla of ships.

A BNP delegation headed by party chief Khaleda Zia discusses Bangladesh’s latest political development with visiting Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Finance Minister AMA Muhith says the revenue collection target of the proposed for fiscal 2015-2016 is high, but achievable.

1 killed and 19 others injured when a boiler went off in a rice mill at Sonargaon upazila of Narayanganj.

At least 5 injured during a factional clash of ruling party’s student front Bangladesh Chhatra League over a local tender drop in Barisal city.

A section of local people, including a union parishad (UP) member, 'tortured' a boy inhumanly, bringing charge of stealing sunglasses

Two visually impaired students of Saptibari High School in Aditmari upazila under the district have set laudable examples by obtaining

At least 10 people, including two policemen, were injured in a clash between police and relatives of five arrestees near Sadar Road under

The income of Queen Elizabeth II is to be reviewed by Prime Minister David Cameron-led UK government after public funding of the royal household surged to 40 million pounds last year.

Corpses of 17 migrants along with 454 survivors were brought ashore in Sicily by an Italian naval vessel.

US Secretary of State John Kerry has been taken to hospital in Switzerland after a biking accident in the nearby French Alps.

European politicians who discovered they were on a previously confidential Russian travel blacklist yesterday said they were proud of

Seven youths were arrested on charges of violating two teenage girls in Thakurgaon and Munshiganj districts on Friday.