The Islamic State jihadist group yesterday said it has killed a Chinese and a Norwegian hostage, two months after it had demanded a ransom for the pair's release.

BNP is yet to give any reaction on the Supreme Court’s verdict upholding death penalty for its standing committee member Salauddin Quader Chowdhury for crimes against humanity during the 1971 Liberation War.

The mass probe body formed over alleged question leak of medical and dental admission tests reports to have found proof of leak.

Strikes by the US-led air coalition fighting the Islamic State group destroyed 116 fuel trucks used by the jihadist organisation in eastern Syria, the Pentagon said yesterday.

Australia's immigration minister rejects a call by an MP to close its borders to refugees from the Middle East, in the wake of the Paris attacks

In video footage obtained by Ma'an news agency, Israeli officials have been captured on film hurling abuse at a 13-year-old Palestinian child accused of stabbing two Israelis in East Jerusalem last month during the child's interrogation.

The head of the Islamic State group in Libya was killed in an air strike overnight, the Pentagon announced yesterday.

At least 41people have been killed and more than 180 wounded after twin suicide bombings claimed by Islamic State militants rocked a stronghold of Lebanon's Shia Hezbollah movement in south Beirut, officials said.

At least 24 rebels were killed yesterday in Saudi-led coalition air strikes and attacks by pro-government forces in Yemen's south, military sources said. Around

Regional level Bishwa Ijtema of Tablig Jamaat began at Jessore New Town field yesterday. Devotees have already gathered at the venue to

UNDP in collaboration with BRTC launches a pilot project which will allow your smartphone mobile app to tell you how long it will take to travel to your destination using GPS.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, on a visit to Washington, on Tuesday voiced pessimism about the prospect of peace with the Palestinians, suggesting the current stalemate was likely to remain in place.

A Russian document circulating at the United Nations has proposed a constitutional reform process in Syria, lasting 18 months, to be followed by presidential elections.

A Jordanian policeman yesterday shot dead two US instructors and a South African before being gunned down at a police training centre

Several treasury and opposition bench lawmakers calls upon the Speaker of the parliament to summon Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) to the Privilege Committee of the House to grill the anti-corruption watchdog for its derogatory remarks about the parliament.

The cabinet sends back the draft agreement between Bangladesh and Malaysia governments for sending Bangladeshi workers to Malaysia as both countries are yet to sign memorandum of understanding (MoU) in this regard.

Locals block Dhaka-Mawa highway for three hours after two people including a JSC examinee were crushed under the wheels of a bus in Sirajdikhan upazila of Munshiganj this morning.

Investigators of the Russian plane crash in Egypt are "90 percent sure" the noise heard in the final second of a cockpit recording was an explosion caused by a bomb, a member of the investigation team said yesterday.

A six-year-old boy drowned in a pond at Baraghariya village in Aditmari upazila of the district the same day, reports our correspondent.

Iran has appointed its first woman ambassador since the 1979 Islamic revolution, naming foreign ministry spokeswoman Marzieh