Supreme Court orders authorities concerned to hold elections to Bangladesh Bar Council on August 13 through updating voter list.

Patuakhali district administration yesterday demolished around 100 illegal structures on Kuakata sea beach in Kalapara upazila of the district.

The Malaysian police are carrying out forensic tests to determine whether the remains found from the mass graves belongs to Rohingya or Bangladeshi victims, reports Malaysian daily The Star.

A group of migrants recently rescued by Myanmar will be deported to Bangladesh, officials confirmed yesterday, as the United Nations chief called on regional nations to prioritise saving the lives of those still stranded at sea.

Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott has ruled out helping resettle the wave of migrants fleeing to Southeast Asia, saying it would worsen the problem and "encourage people to get on boats".

After protests by farmers and beef traders, the Devendra Fadnavis-led BJP government in Maharashtra of India now faces protests against the beef ban by an ally, RPI(A).

The recent earthquakes damaged 61 primary schools in nine upazilas of the district, affecting classes of over 12 thousand children.

Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) Regional Council Chairman Santu Larma yesterday urged the CHT people to be united to foil the conspiracy against the Jumma (hill) people.

People of Manikganj Sadar upazila formed a human chain on Dhaka-Aricha highway near Manikganj bus stand yesterday, demanding

Philippines Justice Secretary Leila de Lima says her country is ready to shelter the “boatpeople” from Bangladesh and Myanmar should the migrants land on Philippine shores.

Police arrest a war crimes suspect of Habiganj, two day after a tribunal in Dhaka issued an arrest warrant against him for his crimes against humanity during the country’s Liberation War in 1971.

An Indian nurse who was in a vegetative state for 42 years after being raped by a hospital ward attendant while on duty, dies.

A woman committed suicide after poisoning her six-year-old daughter to death over a family feud in Dinajpur town yesterday, police said.

At least 28 people were killed and dozens more feared dead after a fire tore through a factory producing flip-flops in the Philippine capital Manila yesterday, the city's fire marshal said.

The Indian Supreme Court restrain ruling parties from publishing photographs of political leaders or prominent persons in government-funded advertisement.

Thousands of Bangladeshis and members of Myanmar's long-persecuted Rohingya Muslim minority have no place to go after both Malaysia and Indonesia refused to offer refuge to the boatloads of hungry men, women and children.

Students of Changmari High School and Champatali High School in Badarganj upazila of the district have vowed to launch a social movement to eradicate child marriage.

The Supreme Court upholds a High Court verdict that declared using national anthem “Amar Sonar Bangla ami tomay valobashi” illegal as mobile ringtone.

Typhoon Noul slammed into the northern tip of the Philippines yesterday, triggering warnings of possible flash floods, landslides and

The High Court directs the police to arrest in 48 hours the persons responsible for torturing a woman after tying her to a tree in Narail.