Case is lodged against Nestle India over safety standards of its Maggi product, while actors Amitabh Bachchan, Madhuri Dixit and Preity Zinta are dragged to court for promoting brand.

Thailand police arrested 51 people for their alleged involvement in trafficking of migrants from Myanmar and Bangladesh.

Detectives claim to have arrested member of Islamic State (Isis) from a house in Baridhara of Dhaka.

The Indian cabinet approves two separate agreements, to be signed during Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to Dhaka next week, to fight human trafficking and introduce coastal shipping service with Bangladesh.

Ahead of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Bangladesh visit, people living by the Teesta River are hopeful that the Teesta water sharing agreement will be signed during his visit.

Mardan Mamat of Singapore swings his way to a fifth Asian Tour title beating Korea’s Soomin Lee and India’s Khalin Joshi at the end of the fourth round of the Bashundhara Bangladesh Open at the Kurmitola Golf Club.

AFP Jakarta office confirms student washed away in Bay last year and the youth found in Indonesia are not same.

The government will not prepare the list of the top 20 educational institutions under a board in any public examination from next year in a bid to curb malpractice by the institutes across the country.

Customs Intelligence officials seize around 7,000 mobile phone sets worth Tk 20 crore at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka.

Man allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself in Chittagong police custody.

A total of 87.04pc students pass SSC, equivalent exams, which is 4.30pc points lower than that of last year.

At least seven members of a family suffer burn injuries in a fire that broke out due to gas line explosion at a house of Kalabagan in Dhaka.

Shayera Moula who had been with The Daily Star since the age of 15 passed away in the capital's United Hospital last night, succumbing to infections she battled for the past three weeks.

Bangladesh insists that poverty is not necessarily the main driver pushing her people into the hands of traffickers.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina says Land Boundary Agreement ratification, which has been unanimously passed by the Indian parliament, is a political and diplomatic success of the Awami League government.

Myanmar's navy seizes a boat packed with 727 people off the country's southern coast.

Myanmar and Bangladesh agreed to address the "root causes" of a migrant exodus at talks in Bangkok.

Australia pledges grant of $5 million Australian dollars in humanitarian assistance for Rohingyas living in Cox's Bazar and Myanmar's Rakhine state.

Mardan Mamat consolidates his lead in Bashundhara Bangladesh Open as Dulal Hossain’s title hopes fade after the third round at the Kurmitola Golf Club.

Thailand Deputy Prime Minister General Tanasak Patimapragorn denies having knowledge of any army personnel's link with human trafficking.