Several treasury and opposition bench lawmakers calls upon the Speaker of the parliament to summon Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) to the Privilege Committee of the House to grill the anti-corruption watchdog for its derogatory remarks about the parliament.

The cabinet sends back the draft agreement between Bangladesh and Malaysia governments for sending Bangladeshi workers to Malaysia as both countries are yet to sign memorandum of understanding (MoU) in this regard.

Locals block Dhaka-Mawa highway for three hours after two people including a JSC examinee were crushed under the wheels of a bus in Sirajdikhan upazila of Munshiganj this morning.

Investigators of the Russian plane crash in Egypt are "90 percent sure" the noise heard in the final second of a cockpit recording was an explosion caused by a bomb, a member of the investigation team said yesterday.

A six-year-old boy drowned in a pond at Baraghariya village in Aditmari upazila of the district the same day, reports our correspondent.

Iran has appointed its first woman ambassador since the 1979 Islamic revolution, naming foreign ministry spokeswoman Marzieh

More than 50 people were killed in Yemen in the past two days in fighting pitting an Arab coalition against Houthi fighters backed by troops loyal to former president Ali Abdullah Saleh, medical sources and residents said yesterday.

Car-ramming and stabbing attacks wounded six Israelis in the West Bank yesterday while two alleged Palestinian assailants were shot, authorities said, the latest in a weeks-long wave of violence. At least one attacker was killed.

A man was killed and 20 others were injured during a clash between two rival groups of villagers at Madla village in Shahzadpur upazila of

Israeli forces shot and killed a Palestinian in the Gaza Strip yesterday during clashes along the border, the enclave's health ministry

For over a year Atef al-Zaza and his family have been waiting to move back into their Gaza home, flattened like thousands of others in

Mustard gas was used during summer fighting in Syria but it was not clear by whom, the global chemical weapons watchdog said

The UN strongly condemns the continuing violent attacks against bloggers and publishers in Bangladesh and urged the government to take urgent measures to protect the ones being threatened by extremists.

The world of a school-going kid in our country is not the world s/he wants to live in. Now he does not wander around the realm of fairy tales, neither does he feel the warmth of screaming at the top of his lungs during a match of cricket.

Hinting that the murder of a policeman in Ashulia is linked to the recent of killing and attacks, Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan has asked lawmen to be more cautious.

Five policemen are injured when their pick-up van plunged into a ditch after attacked by criminals in Brahmanbaria.

President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi defends Egypt's sweeping security laws, insisting he is still taking the country on a path to democracy.

The bodies of 144 of those killed in Saturday's air crash in Egypt are flown back to the Russian city of St Petersburg as an investigation into the cause continues.

A Russian airliner which crashed in Egypt's Sinai peninsula, killing all 224 people on board, broke up in mid-air, a Russian official says.

The people of Hindu community in Bonogram of Santhia upazila under the district are still to be free from security concerns as the