The gala opening ceremony of the XIII SA Games was staged at the Dasarath Stadium, Kathmandu, yesterday (Sunday) evening with some 10,000 performers and…

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has strongly condemned Friday’s London Bridge attack that left two dead and three injured. In a message to British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Sheikh Hasina expressed deep shock at the casualties and conveyed sympathy to the bereaved family members. She also prayed…

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina arrived Madrid yesterday to attend the 25th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP25). The world's annual climate summit, COP25, will be held in Madrid, the Spain's central capital, on December 2-13 under the UN framework convention on climate change. A special…

An employee of Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) was beaten to death on early yesterday allegedly by the son of a former colleague for complaining about smoking. The victim was identified as Amir Hussain, 50, son of late Kurban Ali of Jajira in Shariatpur. The lone suspect, Ibrahim, was arrested…

Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi submitted his resignation to parliament amid continuing anti-government protests in the capital Baghdad and in southern…

 A plane crash in the US state of South Dakota killed nine people, including two children, and injured three others yesterday while a winter storm warning was in place, officials said. The Pilatus PC-12, a single-engine turboprop plane, crashed shortly after take-off approximately a mile from the…

China will require telecom operators to collect face scans when registering new phone users at offline outlets starting yesterday, according to the country's information technology authority, as Beijing continues to tighten cyberspace controls. In September, China's industry and information…

An Australian academic freed by the Taliban in a prisoner swap has spoken of his "long and tortuous ordeal" as a hostage in Afghanistan. Timothy Weeks said he believed US special forces had tried six times to rescue him and an American captive, Kevin King, who was also released. Mr Weeks said…