Kick-starting the BJP's campaign in West Bengal, party chief Amit Shah yesterday said all Bengali refugees will be granted citizenship with the passage of the Citizenship Bill.

British scientists are developing gene-edited chickens designed to be totally resistant to flu in a new approach to trying to stop the next deadly human pandemic.

A special court has ordered the authorities concerned to freeze movable properties of Afroza Abbas, president of Jatiyatabadi Mahila Dal, a wing of the BNP.

A top official at an observer group that monitored Bangladesh's election, as well as one of its foreign volunteers, has said they regret participating in the process, casting doubt on the credibility of a vote won overwhelmingly by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's ruling alliance.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday directed the authorities concerned to implement various projects at a faster pace maintaining the quality and standard of work.

After a five-day impasse, the Indian Border Security Force yesterday took back 31 stranded Rohingyas from the no-man's land near the Kaziatali border along Brahmanbaria's Kasba upazila and Tripura's Sipahijala district.

Halima Akhter was so traumatised and physically weak that she was struggling to walk after landing at the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport on Sunday night. Neither was there any relative to welcome her at the airport.

The proportion of men in terms of land ownership is six times higher than women in Bangladesh, latest Oxfam report says.

British Prime Minister Theresa May sought to break the parliamentary deadlock over Brexit yesterday by proposing to seek further concessions from the European Union on a plan to prevent customs checks on the Irish border.

The Bangladesh Standards and Testing Institution (BSTI) yesterday submitted a report to the High Court saying that it has found bottled water of five brands to be unsafe for drinking and 10 others to be safe after examining their quality.

Israel was set to inaugurate a new international airport yesterday in its desert south meant to boost tourism to the nearby Red Sea and serve as an emergency alternative to Tel Aviv's Ben-Gurion airport.

Northern Ireland police yesterday questioned four men over a car bomb linked to a dissident republican group that has heightened concerns about the risks of Brexit disrupting a hard-won peace in the British province.

British pop band the Spice Girls said they will fund an investigation into a Bangladesh factory over its treatment of women who make T-shirts for a charity campaign backing equality.

Police yesterday arrested three owners of a private hospital over the death of a newborn in C-section due to alleged negligence of a doctor, who performed the operation.

Israel struck in Syria early yesterday as part of its increasingly open assault on Iran's presence there, shaking the night sky over Damascus with an hour of loud explosions in a second consecutive night of military action.

A “top yaba trader” was killed in a “gunfight” hours after his arrest in Teknaf of Cox's Bazar early yesterday, said police.

An unusual set of celestial circumstances came together over Sunday night and the wee hours of yesterday for sky watchers in Europe, Africa and the Americas, where the moon was fully obscured before lighting up again with a faint red glow.

A nine-year-old girl was allegedly raped by her 45-year-old uncle in Sreemangal upazila of Moulvibazar on January 14.

The death toll from a fiery explosion in central Mexico rose to 85 on Sunday as authorities vowed to hold accountable those responsible for a deliberate fuel-line puncture that drew hundreds of people looking to gather gasoline before it ignited.

Six Myanmar border guard police have been wounded in an attack by Rohingya Muslim insurgents in Rakhine state, government media reports, amid fears of escalating violence in the region.