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.

Two fresh tremors were felt in Nepal yesterday, triggering panic among the people still reeling from the impact of the devastating earthquake that has claimed nearly 8,000 lives.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina lays the foundation stone of Rabindra University, an institution named after Nobel Laureate Biswakobi Rabindranath Tagore, marking the great poet's 154th birth anniversary.

The devastating earthquake that has rocked Nepal not only killed thousands but may have also shrunk the height of the world's tallest peak — Mount Everest — by about 2.5 cm, according to analysis of satellite data.

Opposition Asom Gana Parishad calls a 10-hour Assam bandh to protest against inclusion of the state in the Land Boundary Agreement between India and Bangladesh.

All the officials and employees of a financial organisation named 'RDP Finance and Investment MCS Ltd' went into hiding allegedly after embezzling about Tk 50 crore from a few thousand depositors in three upazilas under the district.

Salman Khan is known as the "bad boy" of Bollywood for as long as anyone can remember.

Bollywood star Salman Khan freed on bail, hours after being convicted of culpable homicide in a 2002 Mumbai hit-and-run case.

Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) seized 361 tortoises of rare species worth about Tk 18.5 lakh from Baropota border point

At least 40 workers of an Otobi furniture factory are injured during a clash with police in Ashulia on the outskirts of the capital.

At least nine people dies in an explosion at a fireworks factory in the western Indian state of Maharashtra, police say.

A senior police officer in the southern Indian state of Kerala gets orders to go on leave after he is allegedly caught cheating in a law exam.

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) brass met at the residence of party chief Amit Shah to discuss matters related to Assam, including the contentious Land Boundary Agreement with Bangladesh.

A UNSC committee assures India that it will take up the issue of Mumbai terror attack mastermind Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi at its next meeting.