Police arrested three suspected members of banned Islamist outfit Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) from Ullapara upazila of

Police yesterday arrested Badrul Alam, 45, Sreepur Upazila Parishad Chairman in Magura district, on charge of planning subversive

Eight senior figures from Islamic State were killed in an air strike while meeting in a town in western Iraq, but the group's reclusive leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi did not appear to be among them.

An Israeli air strike in Gaza killed a pregnant woman and her toddler and Hamas warned the Jewish state against "foolishness" yesterday as Palestinian unrest spun further toward a full-scale uprising.

A police team is departing for Saudi Arabia tonight to bring back Kamrul Islam, the prime accused in the murder case of 13-year-old Rajon.

Bangladesh Bank Governor Dr Atiur Rahman has been awarded with "Central Bank Governor of the Year 2015, Asia".

World Bank chief hails empowerment of women in Bangladesh, recognising the country as a model in women’s progress in the world. Women participation in the country's workforce has the potential of adding 1.8% to GDP over the next decade, he says.

A Rangpur court cancels police remand of a local BNP leader, who was arrested in connection with the murder of Japanese national Kunio Hoshi, and sends him to jail.

Young Palestinian women have increasingly joined males to hurl rocks at Israeli soldiers and chant slogans as unrest has spread in recent days in the occupied West Bank.

Talented American student of Sudanese origin Ahmed Mohammed Al-Hassan arrived in Jeddah to perform Umrah and visit his relatives, reports Arab News.

An alleged robber was killed in a “gunfight” with Rapid Action Battalion members in Sirajganj.

The killing of bloggers in Bangladesh propelled the country onto Global Impunity Index of Community to Protect Journalists.

Government troops backed by Lebanon's Hezbollah and Russian air raids advanced yesterday in western Syria in a "vast offensive" against rebels, as Nato voiced alarm at Moscow's escalating military activity in the country.

Four Russian cruise missiles fired at Syria from the Caspian Sea landed in Iran, unnamed US officials say.

Detective Branch (DB) of police arrested an alleged member of the banned Islamist outfit Hizb ut-Tahrir Bangladesh in Jail Road area of

Police arrested a local leader of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) from his house at Gopal village in Shalikha upazila of the district on

A Dhaka court places national cricketer Shahadat Hossain on a three-day remand in a case filed for torturing his 11-year-old domestic help.

At least 13 people were killed and 38 others wounded in the bombing of a wedding in a rebel-held Yemeni town, a medical source said on Thursday.

Failure to act in Syria risks stoking a "total war" in the Middle East, French President Francois Hollande said in a landmark speech to the European Parliament alongside German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

Smuggling gangs with suspected Russian links tried to sell nuclear material to Islamic extremists from ISIS, an investigation has found. In the backwaters of Moldova, authorities working with the FBI interrupted four attempts in the past five years by the gangs that sought to sell radioactive material to Middle Eastern extremists, The Associated Press news agency learned. The latest known case came in February this year, when a smuggler offered a huge cache of deadly cesium — enough to contaminate several city blocks — and specifically sought a buyer from ISIS.