As much as 70 per cent of low-lying areas and wetlands around the capital had been filled up in the past 58 years, green activists said yesterday. Besides, 1.2 billion people were now exposed to flood risks, while 1.8 billion lived under the threat of land erosion and desertification around the world,…

Four people were killed and three others injured when a Chittagong-bound train hit a covered van, at the Barahipur rail crossing on the Dhaka–Chittagong…

China has claimed that they have no 'personal interest' in the Rohingya issue rather they are making genuine efforts to help Bangladesh and Myanmar…

A suicide bomber yesterday killed at least 26 people, many of them teenagers, after detonating a device among a crowd of people in Kabul who were celebrating…

Senior officials of the OIC member states commenced a three-day meeting on Sunday to address the economic, political, cultural and bilateral issues that face the Muslim Ummah, which will be taken up for consideration by the 45th session of the OIC Council of Foreign Ministers in Dhaka on May 5-6, reports…

An air strike hit near a school in Syria's northwestern province of Idlib yesterday, killing at least 16 children, a monitoring organisation said, reports AFP from Beirut. "Twenty civilians, including 16 children, were killed in an air strike in Kafr Batikh in Idlib province," the Syrian…

Noorjahan Kakon Bibi, who won the fourth highest gallantry award ‘Bir Pratik’ for her extraordinary bravery during the Liberation War in 1971, breathed her last at Sylhet MAG Osmani Medical College Hospital yesterday. She was around 100 years old. Earlier, on Monday, she was admitted to…

The West Indies snatched a spot at next year's World Cup by edging to a five-run victory over Scotland on DLS method in Harare on Wednesday, reports AFP. The two-time World Cup winners were bowled out for just 198 batting first, but rain forced an early finish with the game in the balance and Scotland…