Nusrat Jahan Rafi is a prime and tragic example of a girl, who spoke up against gender-based violence and met with even more violence, UN Resident Coordinator in Bangladesh Mia Seppo said yesterday.

The Mujibnagar Day was observed through different programmes yesterday, recalling significant memories of the first government of Bangladesh.

US President Donald Trump's administration has issued an order that could keep some asylum seekers in jail for months or years as they wait for their cases to be heard, The New York Times reported Tuesday.

A woman was strangled and then her body set on fire by her husband in the capital's South Mugda yesterday, police said

A Chinese health activist has been detained for more than a month, her husband said yesterday, after she participated in a protest over faulty vaccines -- a re-occurring issue in China.

Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar held unannounced talks with acting Pentagon chief Patrick Shanahan Tuesday amid tensions over Ankara's plans to buy a Russian missile defense system and its threat to attack Kurdish fighters in Syria.

In the tiny village of Nagoro, deep in the mountains of western Japan, the wind howls down a deserted street with not a living soul to be seen.

The BGMEA building will be knocked down within the next three months as it has already been sealed-off since Tuesday, Housing and Public Works Minister SM Rezaul Karim said yesterday.

A staggering 59 percent of the marriages that took place in Bangladesh between 2006 and 2017 involved brides below the age of 18, says a UN study.

Reuters won two Pulitzer Prizes on Monday, one for revealing the massacre of 10 Muslim Rohingya men by Buddhist villagers and Myanmar security forces, and another for photographs of Central American migrants seeking refuge in the United States.

Awami League candidate Ekramul Haque Titu is set to be elected uncontested in the maiden Mymensingh City Corporation (MCC) election as his only rival quit the race yesterday.

The fire that tore through Notre-Dame cathedral was probably caused by accident, French prosecutors said yesterday after firefighters doused the last flames in the ruins overnight and the nation grieved for the destruction of one of its symbols.

Although Rajuk officials had no engineering plan to knock down the much-talked about BGMEA building on the capital's Begunbari canal, they went to the site yesterday heavily equipped with demolition machinery.

After an eight-and-a-half year legal battle culminating in a victory for Rajuk, the capital development officials yesterday went to demolish the illegal 15-storey BGMEA building in a move which lacked coordination and was mired in confusion.

A Chattogram court yesterday framed charges against former Deputy Commissioner of Cox's Bazar Ruhul Amin and 35 others on charges

The Election Commission has decided to decentralise a number of services related to National Identity (NID) cards from January next year to reduce hassles of the citizens across the country.

Four Bangladeshi fishermen were kidnapped allegedly by Border Guard Police (BGP) of Myanmar from the Naf River in Teknaf upazila of Cox's Bazar yesterday.

The High Court yesterday ordered the government to explain in four weeks why it should not be directed to formulate a set of guidelines for the Arbitration Board to ensure child custody, alimony and other expenses in the spirit of the holy Quran and international conventions after one gets a divorce notice from their spouse.

Taiwan has not been intimidated by China's military drills this week, President Tsai Ing-wen said yesterday, after the latest Chinese manoeuvres were denounced by a senior US official as "coercion" and a threat to regional stability.

Expressing concern over the rape and repression of women across the country, the High Court yesterday observed that the moral degradation reached such a situation that these kinds of incidents are taking place repeatedly.