Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday directed the Railways Ministry to take up a project to properly repair shabby rail bridges across the country.

Several countries backing rival factions in Libya have violated an arms embargo which they had agreed to uphold a week ago at a summit in Berlin, the United Nations said on Saturday.

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Saturday accused a National Public Radio reporter of lying to him and violating “the basic rules of journalism and decency” after she said Pompeo repeatedly cursed at her following a testy interview.

Two alleged criminals were killed in what law enforcers claimed were gunfights in Chattogram and Cox’s Bazar early yesterday.

US President Donald Trump unveiled the logo of Space Force on Friday, attracting critics who said America’s newest military branch had boldly gone where Star Trek went before.

At least three of a family, including a mother and her 10-year-old son, were killed and four more injured in a tragic road accident in Barguna’s Amtali upazila town.

He was accused of occupying footpaths and extorting traders. The Dhaka South City Corporation sued him over extortion nearly three years ago.

Most of the contestants in the coming Dhaka city polls own businesses, finds a report by Sushashoner Jonno Nagorik.

Two women, one pregnant, were killed and seven other people injured after Myanmar troops shelled a Rohingya village yesterday, according to a lawmaker and a villager, two days after the UN’s highest court ordered the country to protect the minority.

The provisional ruling to protect the persecuted Rohingyas by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) should make all countries, especially those close to Myamnar, to revisit their relationship with the country, speakers at a discussion said yesterday.

A Rajshahi University student has been languishing in jail for more than two months after police wrongfully arrested him in a murder case.

Bangladesh’s former foreign secretary and high commissioner to India Syed Muazzem Ali was posthumously honoured tonight with India’s third highest civilian title Padma Bhushan on the occasion of the 71st Republic Day today.

Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido, on a charm offensive to back his bid to oust his country’s leader, yesterday claimed to have the “firm support” of French President Emmanuel Macron.

The government will not take the responsibility if anyone is shot to death along the border while bringing in cattle from India, said Food Minister Sadhan Chandra Majumder yesterday.

A Chilean police officer appeared in court Friday in the first instance of prosecutors bringing charges over eye injuries blamed on security forces during Chile’s months of unrest.

A Frenchman has been sentenced to 22 years in prison for seeking to recruit dozens of youths to fight as jihadists in Syria and for leading a brigade of French-speaking Islamists in the war-torn country.

Delta Air Lines was Friday fined $50,000 by the US Department of Transportation to settle allegations it discriminated against three Muslim passengers who were ordered off their planes.

A total of 67 people died last year in protests in Venezuela’s ongoing power struggle, 59 of whom were killed by law enforcement and armed civilian groups supporting President Nicolas Maduro, an NGO said Friday.

At least 26 people have died in Madagascar after almost a week of heavy rain in the north-west of the island, the government said on Friday.

Bangladesh Road Transport Corporation yesterday launched bus service for school and madrasa students in the port city.