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.

Bangladeshi migrant is found alive in mass grave that was discovered yesterday on a remote and rugged mountain in border district Sadao,Songkhla in Thailand.

Boro farmers in the district are unhappy because of the low price of the paddy even though there has been a bumper production this year. Paddy is selling at only Tk 400 to Tk 450 per maund in the local market, while the price was Tk 600 to Tk 700 last year. Because of this, farmers are reluctant to reap the paddy as they have to suffer loss.

Vietnam's premier yesterday hit out at the "barbarous crimes" of its wartime American foe as the nation marked four decades since

A four month old baby boy is pulled from the rubble of the Nepal earthquake that has killed more than 5,000 people and devastated the country.

Indonesia faced a storm of international protest yesterday for putting seven foreign drug convicts before a firing squad, but Filipinos rejoiced after a compatriot was spared at the last minute.

The news daily Mashable compiled a list of agencies that are providing help to the deadly earthquake victims in Nepal which killed thousands so far.

The global demand for rubber tyres is threatening protected forests in Southeast Asia, according to a study.