Parvez Morshed thought he was going to become a tailor in Saudi Arabia, but the Bangladeshi migrant was tricked by a recruiter and ended up working as a builder earning half the promised pay.

A CNG-run auto-rickshaw driver died in custody at Dashmina Police Station in Patuakhali.

US singer-songwriter Bob Dylan has sold the rights to his entire song catalogue to Universal Music Group (UMG).

Civicus, an international non-profit that fights for civil liberties and civic rights globally, released a report yesterday classifying Bangladesh as “repressed”.

Substantial progress has been made by the government in scrutinizing existing laws to identify the provisions which will automatically become

Dhaka South City Corporation yesterday demolished several hundred illegal shops at Fulbaria Supermarket-2 in Gulistan, which was built violating the main design of the supermarket.

Justice For Myanmar yesterday published data from Ministry of Defence budget documents, spanning a period from the 2016-17 financial year to 2020-21, exposing the greed and corruption of the Myanmar military cartel, and its international business networks that enable the military’s continued criminal conduct.

Stock market regulator has written to the police to take initiatives so that six directors of three listed companies cannot flee the country.

Norway’s domestic spy agency yesterday blamed a Russian hacker group linked to Moscow’s military intelligence for a cyberattack on the Norwegian parliament earlier this year.

The highest point on Earth got a bit higher yesterday as China and Nepal finally agreed on a precise elevation for Mount Everest after decades of debate.

Two Bangladeshis died of bullet wounds after being shot by Indian Border Security Force on Betna border in the district’s Haripur upazila early yesterday

A satellite-controlled machine gun with “artificial intelligence” was used in last week’s assassination of a top nuclear scientist in Iran, the deputy commander of the Revolutionary Guards told local media on Sunday night.

Serum Institute of India, the world’s largest producer of vaccines by volume and India’s main hope of large-scale supplies, said yesterday it had lodged the first formal application for emergency use approval for AstraZeneca Plc’s Covid-19 vaccine.

Two women were allegedly raped in Gazipur and Noakhali while a youth in Gazipur’s Sreepur was sued over spreading secretly-recorded video footage of a teenage girl on social media.

A case was filed yesterday against 533 people over attacking Titas Gas officials during a drive against illegal gas connections in Narayanganj’s Araihazar upazila.

The feud between a city corporation councillor and a local daily resulting in cases filed under Digital Security Act in Sylhet have been the talk of the town over the last few days.

President-elect Joe Biden yesterday named the team tasked with turning around the United States’ floundering efforts to quell the Covid-19 pandemic, nominating Xavier Becerra as his secretary of health.

A purple glow illuminates stacked boxes where lettuce, herbs and kale will soon be sprouting at one of Europe’s biggest “vertical farms” which has just opened in a warehouse in an industrial zone in Copenhagen.

Indian External Affairs Minister Swaran Singh says today that unless Pakistan recognises Bangladesh and unless Bangladesh is admitted to the

The horror and the deaths had turned it into hell on earth in 1971.