India's National Investigation Agency arrested two key members of Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) involved in the Burdwan blast of October 2014 from West Bengal on Monday.

Malaysia will set up a Royal Commission of Inquiry to investigate the existence of human trafficking camps and the graves uncovered three years ago in the hilly area of Wang Kelian, which borders Thailand.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday renewed her call to the international community to force Myanmar to take back its over one million Rohingya nationals from Bangladesh.

Jatiya Oikyafront Convener Dr Kamal Hossain yesterday said the alliance is fully united.

A provincial governor and close ally of South Korean President Moon Jae-in was convicted and jailed for two years Wednesday for his part in an online opinion-rigging scandal ahead of the 2017 presidential election.

Australia has unveiled plans to develop a network of police training centres in the Pacific, stepping up efforts to boost law and order in Papua New Guinea and across the region.

Modupe Adegbite's grandfather had 22 children, while her father had nine. At the age of just 19, she has decided she wants no more than four.

Two ruling party men sustained stab injuries in separate incidents at Cox's Bazar and Satkhira in last two days.

Dhaka has apparently not accepted the nomination of the new high commissioner of Pakistan to Bangladesh by not responding to the proposed nomination in the last 11 months.

A grenade attack on a mosque in the troubled southern Philippines killed two people early yesterday, authorities said, just days after a deadly Catholic cathedral bombing and a vote backing Muslim self-rule in the region.

Police arrested seven suspected rapists, including two brothers, in Brahmanbaria and Gazipur yesterday.

The hope for justice for a college girl, who was sexually assaulted during an Awami League rally last year, has turned bleak as police have appealed to close the case claiming they could not identify the culprits.

Dhaka has strongly protested Naypyidaw's allegations that terrorists recently attacked a police outpost in Myanmar from Bangladesh territory, terming those false.

A passionate Brazilian football fan has drawn nationwide attention for narrating her local team's soccer matches live to her blind and autistic son.

China yesterday accused the United States of "political motivations" behind sweeping charges against Chinese telecom giant Huawei in a case that has ratcheted up tensions between the two superpowers.

The head of the UN children's fund urged Myanmar on Monday to implement the recommendations of a panel on the Rohingya crisis led by former UN head Kofi Annan, saying it had yet to create conditions right for the return of refugees from Bangladesh.

Four people were killed and three others injured as a brick-laden truck fell into a 40-foot-deep ditch in Ashulia on the outskirts of Dhaka yesterday.

A Rangpur court yesterday sentenced Snigdha Bhowmik Dipa to death for killing her husband Rathish Chandra Bhowmik, public prosecutor at the Special Judge's Court in the district.

Pakistan's Supreme Court yesterday upheld the acquittal of a Christian woman who spent years on death row after being convicted of blasphemy, dismissing a petition filed by Islamists who have called for her execution.

Ignoring the demand from most student bodies, the Dhaka University syndicate yesterday decided to set up polling stations at student dormitories for the March 11 Ducsu election.