Philippine president-elect Rodrigo Duterte yesterday vowed to introduce executions by hanging as part of a ruthless law-and-

Andre Brahic, one of the people who discovered the rings of Neptune, has died aged 73, his publisher says.

NASA researchers have detected atomic oxygen in Mars' atmosphere for the first time in 40 years, thanks to the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) which soars on a plane 13.7 kilometres (45,000 feet) above Earth, reports Science Alert.

Maverick anti-crime candidate Rodrigo ‘Digong’ Duterte wins the Philippine presidential elections, following the withdrawal of his opponents.

Anti-establishment firebrand Rodrigo Duterte was yesterday heading for a huge win in the Philippine presidential elections, according to a poll monitor, after an incendiary campaign dominated by his profanity-laced threats to kill criminals.

A transit of Mercury over the disc of the Sun will take place this afternoon and be visible from Bangladesh.

Radicalised worker Rahman Mizanur recruited countrymen in Singapore with help of material linked to terror groups.

Abu Sayyaf of the Philippines has releases a video of Canadian hostage John Ridsdell being beheaded by their militants. The harrowing 52-second video shows four militants and Ridsdell in jungle surroundings.

Police arrested a ticket scalper from Chittagong Railway Station in the city on Monday.

Police recovered the body of an unidentified person, aged around 50, from Anderkillah intersection in Chittagong city early yesterday.

The authority of Chittagong City Corporation (CCC) installed LED lights in 1.25 kilometre of the city streets, stretching from Kazir Dewry intersection to Tigerpass intersection.

Wishes poured in from the global leaders in celebration of the 80th birthday of Brac Founder and Chairman Sir Fazle Hasan Abed on April 27.

BNP yesterday said the government's move to amend the Press Council Act was aimed at limiting media freedom.

Owners of Bakusha Hawkers Market in Nilkhet has started evicting its tenants from Monday, allegedly without giving proper time to shift shops, leaving over 1,200 shopkeepers in huge trouble.

The education ministry has opened an investigation into an allegation of demanding a “remuneration of Tk 10 lakh” by its officials from the Khulna University (KU) authorities for evaluating the university's infrastructure project.

Seven people were killed and another was injured in road accidents in three districts yesterday.

A five-year-old Afghan boy whose image went viral after he was photographed wearing a homemade Lionel Messi shirt has fled with his

Fire gutted valuables, worth Tk 8 lakh, of two ice-cream factories and a house in Pahartali area of Chittagong city yesterday.

Students of Agriculture Training Institute (ATI) in Sylhet yesterday demanded that the government allow its diploma graduates to get

A man is killed and six others are injured as a bus hit two private cars at Gabtoli in Dhaka.