A group of unidentified criminals hacked an Awami League leader to death in Mymensingh's Nandail upazila Friday night.

A commission needs to be formed to review and reform the local government system, which was now being run in an “ambiguous” way, and its electoral system should also be amended, speakers at a conference said yesterday.

The art of making traditional musical instruments is slowly fading away due to rising production costs and growing popularity of modern instruments, say artisans in Manikganj.

Ralph Northam, the Democratic governor of the US state of Virginia, is facing calls to resign after he confirmed he appeared in a racist yearbook photo and said he is "deeply sorry."

Rab arrested two suspected fraudsters who swindled about 500 government officials out of large sums of money masquerading as anti-corruption officials about to sue them.

Jatiya Party chief and Leader of the Opposition in parliament HM Ershad is likely to return home tomorrow.

The Border Security Force has shot dead a Bangladeshi cattle trader near Nabinagar border in Lalmonirhat's Patgram upazila, in sixth such incident since January, said officials of the Border Guard Bangladesh.

A class-VI student was allegedly raped by two men in Subarnachar upazila of Noakhali on Thursday night.

Troops captured four Islamic State (IS) suspects in a Turkish town on the Syrian border while they were attempting to cross the frontier illegally, the defence ministry announced on Saturday.

The Pakistani lawyer who secured the acquittal of a Christian woman facing the death sentence for blasphemy is himself seeking protection from European governments, his French lawyer told AFP on Friday.

The main opposition Movement for the Rebirth of Cameroon called off demonstrations planned in several cities on Saturday, a party leader said, following a government ban on protests.

Camo-clad rangers ambush a camp in a lush Thai national park, kicking away a machete and a firearm and pinning two suspected poachers to the ground -- part of a training exercise to counter a lucrative wildlife trade.

A leopard caused panic in the Indian city of Jalandhar as it went on the prowl for several hours attacking inhabitants before it was tranquilised.

Seeking to woo farmers and the urban middle class ahead of parliamentary elections due in April-May, the government of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi yesterday presented its final budget of its present term.

A gate of Meghla Parjatan Complex in Bandarban remains closed most of the time, obstructing movement of residents of two indigenous neighbourhoods.

When more than 21 lakh students across the country are sitting for the Secondary School Certificate and equivalent exams beginning at 10:00am today, a student in Kushtia will take the exam eight hours later in the evening, for religious reasons.

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal yesterday met Hefajat-e Islam Ameer Shah Ahmed Shafi at Al-Jamiatul Ahlia Darul Ulum Moinul Islam, also known as Hathazari Madrasa.

Criminals killed an SSC candidate by slitting his throat in Munshiganj's Louhajang upazila on Thursday night.

A chickenpox outbreak in Cox's Bazar Rohingya camps has raised a public health concern in the region, officials say.

Banned militant outfit Ansarullah Bangla Team had plans to assassinate an editor of a leading national daily for publishing an article that allegedly criticised the “hadith on marriage”.