Police yesterday detained three men in Noakhali Subarnachar upazila over allegation of rape.

Border Guard Bangladesh yesterday recovered body of a Bangladeshi, who was allegedly shot dead by Indian Border Security Force, from Daulatpur border in Kushtia.

Regular patrolling and reducing the number of self-powered vessels plying the Halda river could help recuperate the endangered dolphin population in the river, according to a study.

From now on, city dwellers will be able to pay fine for traffic rule with their debit or credit cards on the spot.

Trees and plants on many acres in one of the country’s oldest reserve forests, Sita Pahar, have been razed in Rangamati but the authorities have virtually done nothing to stop it.

Washington wants to quickly deploy new intermediate-range missiles in Asia, US Defense Secretary Mark Esper yesterday said in a move likely to anger China.

In public interest, the health ministry has decided to reinstate a top child cancer specialist -- one of only three such experts in the country -- who was to be transferred from Chattogram Medical College Hospital to Rangamati Medical College Hospital (RmMC).

Three suspected robbers were killed in a “gunfight” with police in Cox’s Bazar early yesterday.

US rapper A$AP Rocky and two of his friends were released from custody in Sweden on Friday three days into their highly publicised assault trial, a development hailed by President Donald Trump who had tried to intervene in the case.

A US federal judge on Friday struck down one of President Donald Trump’s initiatives to curtail asylum claims, ruling that the government could not reject migrants who had crossed the border illegally.

Narayanganj police yesterday arrested five people for raping a woman in Rupganj upazila of Narayanganj. All five confessed to the crime, police said.

A VGF (Vulnerable Group Feeding) card seeker was killed and 10 others injured when a chaotic situation broke out during the distribution of the cards and VGF rice yesterday afternoon.

At least 29 Bangladeshi hajj aspirants have died so far in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

The recent rise in dengue cases in India’s West Bengal is the result of the outbreak in Bangladesh, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has claimed. “As Bangladesh is our neighbour, if something happens there, its effect crosses the border,” she told a programme in Jadavpur on Thursday.

Bangladeshi twins who were joined at the head were recovering yesterday after Hungarian surgeons performed a marathon 30-hour operation to separate their skulls and brains.

Press groups yesterday slammed Bulgaria for probing the editor of a well-known investigative website over a massive hack and leak of taxpayer data, saying media freedom was under threat.

A suspected drug peddler was killed in a “gunfight” with Rab in Gazipur town early yesterday.

Two men from Thailand’s insurgency-hit “Deep South” have been arrested linked to several small bomb attacks which rattled Bangkok yesterday as it hosted a regional summit attended by US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, leaving four people wounded but not disrupting the diplomatic event.

Chattogram sea port has moved six notches up to become the 64th busiest container port among 100 top ports across the world, according to the latest Lloyd’s List -- world’s oldest journal on port and shipping.

US scientists announced Thursday they have successfully built functional heart parts out of collagen with a 3D bioprinter, using a breakthrough technique they say could one day create entire organs.