Janmashtami, also known simply as Janmashtami or Gokulashtami, the annual festival that celebrates the birth of Lord Krishna, will be celebrated across the country today.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said the induction of the third Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner into the Biman fleet would enhance its capacity to operate flights to new destinations.

A Texas man convicted of raping and strangling a 19-year-old college student was executed by lethal injection Wednesday, the fourth in the state so far this year.

Notifications for the “War Room” WhatsApp group ping relentlessly as an organiser of Hong Kong’s biggest political rallies in decades explains the challenge of keeping an exhausted, battle-weary protest movement on the streets.

A Netrokona court yesterday sent a man to jail on charge of raping a four-year-old girl in the district’s Atpara upazila on Monday. Mohammad Ali Hossain, officer-in-charge of Atpara Police Station, said the victim’s father filed a case against the accused -- Miz

The head of a research center at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has said he will quit in protest after the revelation of financial ties between the institution and disgraced hedge fund manager Jeffrey Epstein.

Facebook’s plan to hire professional journalists instead of relying solely on algorithms to deliver news is a positive step but is unlikely to shake up an embattled media industry, analysts say.

US President Donald Trump has been hit by a wave of criticism for accusing Jewish Democratic voters of “disloyalty,” but his comment also highlighted the unease of some in the community with its traditional party of choice.

Two alleged Rohingya drug peddlers and a murder suspect were killed in two separate gunfights with members of Border Guard Bangladesh and police in Cox’s Bazar and Mymensingh early yesterday.

The High Court yesterday asked the government to take necessary steps for immediate removal of existing ambiguity, contradiction and inconsistency in the Children Act 2013.

Palaniappan Chidambaram, a former finance minister of India and also a senior Congress leader, was arrested last night in New Delhi by the Central Bureau of Investigation in connection with INX media case of alleged money laundering, officials said.

Brazil’s right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro on Wednesday accused non-governmental organizations of setting wildfires in the Amazon rainforest to damage his government’s image after he cut their funding.

Police yesterday arrested a man for allegedly raping a fifth grader in Mymensingh, while another was sued for attempted rape in Jashore. The arrestee is Zilhaj Mia alias Dilu, 30, of Gafargaon upazila in Mymensingh.

A ward councillor in Khagrachhari filed a case against a reporter of The Daily Star on Tuesday for using the word indigenous in a report.

More than 100 people are feared dead after a boat carrying them in the Mediterranean Sea sunk off the coast of Libya, Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) said on Tuesday.

Several Indian syndicates are smuggling yaba pills from Myanmar and then sending them into Bangladesh through their carriers. The Detective Branch of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) revealed this following the first ever arrest of an Indian national for yaba possession in Bangladesh.

Indian External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar yesterday said Bangladesh-India relationship was on a “positive trajectory”.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was scheduled visits Berlin yesterday to kick off a marathon of tense talks with key European and international leaders as the threat of a chaotic no-deal Brexit looms.

Bangladesh yesterday termed the Indian government’s revoking of article 370 “an internal issue of India”. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs said this in a press release published on its official website 15 days into the scrapping of the article that

Italian President Sergio Mattarella has begun talks with key players in a bid to end Italy’s political limbo the day after Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte resigned.