Malaysian authorities say already tight security has been increased at and near the venue of the ASEAN summit following a reported, but unconfirmed, terrorist threat.

About six thousand people of five villages under Kundopukur union of Sadar upazila under the district have to depend on a risky bamboo bridge to cross the Khatamari River.

The central bank appoints four observers to the boards of four state-owned commercial banks.

Expressing disappointment over today’s Supreme Court verdict, son of war criminal Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed said his family has been deprived of justice.

A man died after taking spurious liquor in Nilokkhia Bazar area under Nilokkhia union in Bakshiganj upazila yesterday.

At least 59 BNP-Jamaat men were arrested during special drives by law enforcers in Gaibandha, Chapainawabganj, Jhenidah, Bogra and

A landslide engulfs homes in China kills at least 16 people, with 21 still missing, as heavy rains brought misery across a swathe of the country.

Myanmar democracy champion Aung San Suu Kyi's opposition party yesterday clinched enough seats in parliament to elect a president and form a government when incoming lawmakers convene next year.

A court here yesterday sentenced three people to life imprisonment for killing a day labourer in the district in 2008.

British Prime Minister David Cameron has praised Myanmar's landmark elections as an important step toward democracy and "a triumph for Burmese people, who have clearly voiced their desire for change."

Law enforcers in separate drives arrested 52 BNP and Jamaat-Shibir men in six upazilas of the district on Monday night.

Myanmar's ruling party conceded defeat in a general election yesterday as the opposition led by democracy figurehead Aung San Suu Kyi appeared on course for a landslide victory that could ensure it forms the next government.

The United States welcomed Myanmar's landmark election Sunday, but warned of "important structural and systemic impediments" to

This would be the dream scenario for Aung San Suu Kyi. An outright majority would give her National League for Democracy (NLD) party a much stronger footing in the jostling for who becomes president, a post that will decided by Myanmar's legislative chambers early next year. To do that, the NLD need to win 67 percent of the 491 seats available (323 in the lower house, 168 in the upper). In contrast,

Candidates in Myanmar enters their final day of campaigning ahead of Sunday's general election.

Delowar Hossain, 55, of Barobakpur in Jhalakathi's Rajapur, was just a boy during the Liberation War of 1971. Too young for active

Police arrested a youth and seized a pistol from his possession in Benapole bus stand area on Tuesday night.

A day after issuing arrest warrant against BNP standing committee member Gayeshwar Chandra Roy, a Dhaka court sends the BNP leader to jail after he surrendered before it in an arson case.

Taiwan's President Ma Ying-jeou will meet his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping in Singapore this weekend, the two sides said, in what will be the first meeting between leaders from the rivals since the end of a civil war in 1949.

Eight-year-old Abdullah Al Shabit is so deeply engrossed in the text before him that he's barely heard the question. “I'm reading Neel