With the aim of tackling militancy and solving cases with no evidence, the Police Headquarters is planning to use a state-of-the-art technology for interrogation of suspects.

The Asian Development Bank will provide around $ 5 billion to Bangladesh with an aim of promoting rapid, inclusive and sustainable growth in the country.

The Indian government has set the minimum export price (MEP) of onion at $850 a tonne to curb its shipments and help bring down soaring prices in the domestic market.

Terming the central bank’s move to reschedule a loan of Beximco Ltd an unprecedented instance, Transparency International Bangladesh yesterday said it proved that the Bangladesh Bank completely failed to play its regulatory role in the banking sector.

Peru’s Supreme Court on Thursday halved the pre-trial detention of Keiko Fujimori, paving the way for the opposition leader to leave jail in April of next year.

A Minister refrigerators’ warehouse in Gazipur’s Dhirasram area that caught fire yesterday did not have sufficient fire safety measures, said fire service officials.

The Czech foreign ministry yesterday summoned Russia’s ambassador amid a row over a controversial Soviet-era statue in Prague that city authorities want to replace with a World War II memorial.

A group of Mexican police officers who killed eight people in a supposed shootout has been suspended over allegations they in fact executed them and staged a cover-up, authorities said Thursday.

London police yesterday deployed a sweeping security cordon around Heathrow Airport and made seven arrests to thwart climate activists’ efforts to shut down Europe’s busiest travel hub using toy drones.

A Dhaka court yesterday issued an ad-interim injunction on holding the council of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD), the pro-BNP student body, scheduled for tomorrow.

The long-awaited discussion between students and administration of Jahangirnagar University was held yesterday. The university authorities accepted the protesting students’ demand of relocating three halls and revising the master plan that was made to develop the university’s infrastructure.

Two police officers got stabbed during an attack by a former Chhatra League leader, who is also an alleged drug dealer, in Nabiganj upazila of Habiganj last night, police claimed.

Ruling Awami League MP Saber Hossain Chowdhury and Workers Party MP Rashed Khan Menon yesterday in parliament raised questions over the withdrawal of a private members’ resolution through a second vote.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson yesterday denied that he had lied to Queen Elizabeth II when requesting she suspend parliament this month in the run-up to Brexit.

Water has been discovered for the first time in the atmosphere of an exoplanet with Earth-like temperatures that could support life as we know it, scientists revealed Wednesday.

A four-and-a-half-year-old girl was raped allegedly by a teenage boy in Gauripur upazila of Mymensingh on Monday, while a court sent three men to jail yesterday on charge of gang-raping a teenage girl in Shayestaganj upazila of Habiganj.

Three more people, including two schoolchildren, died of dengue fever in Chattogram and Barishal in the last two days. With them, the unofficial death toll from the disease this year now stands at 147 against the official figure of 60.

An additional public prosecutor of Bogura’s Additional Sessions Judge Court-2 has been withdrawn on charges of making recommendtions to the court in favour of an absconding murder accused in exchange for financial benefits.

Some 1,484 children suffered various forms of violence in the last eight months across the country, said Bangladesh Shishu Adhikar Forum (BSAF), a platform campaigning for child rights.

Several hundred workers of a readymade garment factory yesterday blocked the capital’s Satrasta intersection for over two hours, protesting the dismissal of some 66 of their colleagues.