UN chief Ban Ki-moon yesterday warned Israelis and Palestinians they were at a "dangerous abyss" and must act quickly to calm nearly three weeks of unrest before it spirals further out of control.

Police recover huge bullets, 11 bullet chargers and 4 magazines from Udoypur village of Rajbari Sadar upazila.

The crush and stampede that struck the hajj last month in Saudi Arabia killed at least 2,177 pilgrims, a new Associated Press tally showed on Monday.

A woman and her 15-month-old daughter are burnt alive allegedly by her elder daughter’s husband for dowry in Jhenaidah.

US Secretary of State John Kerry said yesterday that a proposed international presence at the Jerusalem holy site at the center of escalating Israeli, Palestinian tension and violence is not needed.

Rebels battling the Syrian army and its allies south of Aleppo say they have received new supplies of US-made anti-tank missiles from states that oppose President Bashar al-Assad since a major government offensive began there on Friday.

State Minister for Telecommunication Tarana Halimtoday gives two months to the mobile phone operators for improving their service quality and bringingdown call drops to a minimum level.

40 militants with the so-called Islamic State are killed in air strikes in Syria, a British-based monitoring group reports.

In the latest unrest, an Israeli soldier is killed in a shooting at a bus station in the southern city of Beersheba, the first such attack after a day in which violence seemed to somewhat ebb.

A schoolgirl was stabbed by stalkers in Kishreganj Sadar upazila yesterday morning.

The United States and Europe begin preparing to lift the trade sanctions that have hobbled the Iranian economy as a historic nuclear deal came into effect.

A schoolgirl, abducted from Parla village in Sadar upazila two days ago, was rescued from a house at the village on Friday night. Munsi

At least eight people were injured in a clash between the activists of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) and Pahari Chhatra Parishad (PCP) at

Palestinians torched a site revered by Jews in the West Bank overnight, Israeli and Palestinian sources said on Friday.

Activists of different non-governmental organisations (NGOs) formed a human chain at Thakurgaon intersection

If you walk down the Farashganj road near the banks of the Buriganga river, you will come across the Northbrook Hall library. From the outside it would look like an abandoned building. But inside, it has hundreds of rare books—published in the nineteenth century—some of which may not be available elsewhere in the world.

Police arrested a couple on charge of killing a two-year-old girl at Beltola in Sadar upazila of Jessore district on Tuesday night. The

A youth was electrocuted at Purba Brahman village in Osmaninagar upazila on Monday.

The Supreme Court upholds High Court bail orders for BNP leader Amanullah Aman in nine violence cases, “paving way for his release from jail”.

Iran's parliament approves a historic nuclear deal with world powers on Tuesday, effectively ending debate among lawmakers over the agreement and paving the way for its formal implementation.