A ruling Awami League man was stabbed to death and another member of the party had his leg cut off, both by the party rivals over establishing supremacy, in separate incidents in Kushtia and Natore yesterday.

Thousands of passengers suffered massive traffic congestion yesterday as garment workers blocked the Dhaka-Mymensingh highway, demanding a raise, for five hours at the city's Uttara.

Almost 82 percent of the lawmakers for the 11th parliament have assets worth more than Tk 1 crore, civil society platform Shushashoner Jonnoy Nagorik (Shujan) said in a report yesterday.

A Dhaka court sends Barrister Nazmul Huda to jail after he surrendered before it in a bribery case involving Tk 2.4 crore, in which he was sentenced to four years’ imprisonment.

A miner was killed in an underground accident at a granite mining field in Dinajpur's Parbatipur upazila on Saturday night.

The owner of a Japanese sushi restaurant chain yesterday set a record by paying more than $3 million for a bluefin tuna in the year's first

A former North Korean diplomat who defected to the South urged an ex-colleague missing in Italy to come and settle in Seoul Saturday, as the rare asylum bid makes global headlines.

The Taliban blamed US and Afghan forces for almost 90 percent of civilian casualties in 2018, in a report released Friday that suggested Afghanistan's largest militant group was not responsible for a single death or injury.

Russia's space agency yesterday demanded an explanation after Nasa put off a planned visit to the United States by Russia's controversial space chief.

The highest-profile Catholic cleric to be caught up in a paedophile scandal in France is to go on trial on Monday charged with failing to report a priest who abused boy scouts in the 1980s and 90s.

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, has sought clarification from India over the return of the Rohingya and regretted India's decision in this regard.

Five people, including four students, suffered burn injuries after a gas cylinder exploded in the kitchen of a madrasa in Kushtia's Sadar upazila on Friday night.

Veteran actor Naseeruddin Shah has alleged that “walls of hatred” are being erected in the name of religion in India and those who stand against this "injustice" are being “punished.”

The UN envoy for Yemen arrived in the capital Sanaa on Saturday for talks to shore up a ceasefire in the country's lifeline port city of Hodeida, an AFP photographer said.

Shohag Chowdhury was admitted to the emergency unit of Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) with injuries sustained from a road accident last month. There, he was prescribed a number of blood tests, ultrasound and an X-ray by a doctor.

President Donald Trump threatened to keep the US government partially shut for months or years on Friday after he and Democratic leaders failed to resolve their dispute over Trump's request for $5.6 billion to build a wall on the Mexican border.

Police yesterday found the bullet-ridden bodies of two alleged Rohingya drug dealers in Cox's Bazar, known for its connection with the

Danish police said Friday they had identified the eight victims killed in a train accident earlier this week, all of them Danes and ranging in age from 27 to 60.

Deadly protests that have grown across Sudan in recent weeks are the biggest threat to President Omar al-Bashir's iron-fisted rule since he swept to power in a 1989 coup, analysts said.

Five members of the Nigerian air force were killed when a helicopter crashed as Boko Haram militants ambushed a military base in northeastern Nigeria, a spokesman said Thursday.