In a divided America where politics seems increasingly to get people's goat, a small town in Vermont has taken the concept to heart -- this week electing one as mayor.

A suspected robber has been killed in a “gunfight” with police near Agriculture College in Khulna city.

With bandage all over his legs, the only survivor Shahjalal has been going through a traumatic situation at a city hospital after losing six of his family members in a boat capsize in the Buriganga river on Thursday.

The BNP has claimed that its allegation of “vote robbery” in the December 30 national election has now been proved to be true with the CEC's comment that the use of EVMs can prevent stuffing of ballot boxes the night before an election.

Two people were killed and four others injured as a bus carrying picnickers smashed into a lorry from behind on Khulna-Bagerhat highway in Bagerhat early yesterday.

With an app launched by the Directorate General of Drug Administration (DGDA), one can now find out if a drug is genuine or fake before purchase.

Abdur Rashid is a marginal farmer revered and respected for a completely different role he has been playing for the last nine years in the remote village of Lalmonirhat's Dakkhin Dalgram Parshurampara.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was awarded “Lifetime Contribution for Women Empowerment Award” on Thursday on the occasion of International Women's Day in Berlin.

Women's rights activists Friday condemned the murder of a whistleblower in a notorious "honour killing" case that has shone a years-long spotlight on female victims -- and the men who defend them -- in deeply patriarchal Pakistan.

Sri Lanka has raised $2.4 billion as it returned to the international bond market for the first time since a political crisis triggered rating downgrades, the central bank announced Friday.

Without taking any stand on Pakistan's support of terrorism, China today said it played a "constructive role" in efforts to "defuse"

Prime Minister Theresa May was to pile the pressure on Brussels yesterday, saying their willingness to budge could determine whether British MPs finally back a Brexit deal next week.

Turkish and Russian patrols will begin in Syria's northwestern Idlib region on Friday as part of a deal agreed last year, Turkey's defence minister said.

The festivity of a wedding ceremony has been reduced to tears as six of its guests, all members of the same family, became victim of a boat capsize near Sadarghat launch terminal Thursday night.

Raj Punnah, an annual traditional festival of the Bohmong circle, began with frustration and agony in Bandarban town yesterday as local administration didn't give permission this year for holding any fair, an integral part of the festival.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said youths have many things to learn from the historic March 7 speech of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.

US President Donald Trump's former campaign chief Paul Manafort was sentenced to nearly four years in prison by a federal judge on Thursday for tax crimes and bank fraud in the highest profile case yet stemming from Special Counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation.

Condition of Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader, who is undergoing treatment at Singapore's Mount Elizabeth Hospital, is gradually improving, said a Bangladeshi physician yesterday.

A Thai court yesterday ordered the dissolution of a major political party for nominating the king's sister as its candidate for prime minister in a March 24 election, the first since the military seized power in a 2014 coup.

The Gonoforum yesterday expelled Sultan Mohammad Mansur from the party, hours after he took oath as a member of parliament, violating a party decision.