US President Donald Trump said Tuesday he has told his chief spokeswoman Sarah Sanders "not to bother" with formal media briefings in the White House, because journalists don't cover her fairly.

Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal yesterday said the government would discourage any public procurement without competitive bidding to ensure transparency and prevent wastage of money.

The trial of the sensational Risha murder case can finally resume as the Children's Act, 2013, has been amended plugging loopholes the defence exploited to stall the proceedings.

Even though the time pineapples usually ripen fall between the months of May and June, the Chattogram Hill Tracts (CHT) get the fruit at its sweetest at this time of the year as well.

Saarc Human Rights Foundation, an election observer group, yesterday protested a report of Reuters that came out on Tuesday.

A man was caught red-handed while raping a 36-year-old mentally challenged woman in Bahalgachia area of Patuakhali's Sadar upazila yesterday, said police.

UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar Yanghee Lee visits Bhashan Char today.

A Dhaka court yesterday sentenced six officials of unipay2u Bangladesh Limited, including its chairman and manager, to 12 years' rigorous imprisonment each in a case filed for laundering around Tk 1,351 crore through multi-level marketing sham.

Police yesterday submitted a charge sheet against two suspects accusing them of killing two five-year-old girls in the capital's Demra on January 7.

This year's Biswa Ijtema will be held in February as leaders of two factions of Tabligh Jamaat have reached an understanding over holding the congregation, Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan said yesterday.

Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, sister of India's Congress Party President Rahul Gandhi, formally entered politics yesterday with the party appointing her general secretary for Uttar Pradesh East in a move reflecting the party's intent to go full throttle in the key political battleground ahead of the general elections.

Bangladesh cricket Board (BCB) announced the squad for the New Zealand ODIs and Sabbir Rahman -- banned from international cricket for six months, has been included in the squad while paceman Taskin Ahmed also makes a return.

The United States confirmed Tuesday that its envoy is meeting in Qatar with the Taliban, seeking to negotiate an end to the Afghanistan war despite a new major attack claimed by the insurgents.

A Bangladeshi cattle trader was shot dead by Indian Border Security Force members along Thakurgaon's Minapur border yesterday.

Descendants of freedom fighters yesterday took to the streets once again, demanding the reinstatement of 30 percent quota for children and grandchildren of freedom fighters for classes I and II government jobs.

Poultry industry people want the government to lift the ban on import and sale of meat and bone meal (MBM), a protein concentrate for chicken.

China yesterday lashed out at a group of former diplomats and academics who signed an open letter to President Xi Jinping calling for the release of two Canadians detained on national security grounds.

A 13-year-old boy was shot dead during a gunfight between the Border Guard Battalion (BGB) and smugglers in Sonaton Punji area in Sylhet's Kanaighat upazila on Monday.

The once-believed to be extinct Nilgai -- the largest antelope in Asia -- was rescued by local administration from Jotbazar village of Naogaon's Manda upazila yesterday.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said democracy and development would go hand in hand in Bangladesh.