Rajshahi people on Monday formed a human chain in the city protesting against the physical assault on a Santal woman and setting her house on fire at Rajabirat village of Gobindaganj upazila in Gaibandha....
Two Santal families鈥� houses were attacked and set on fire by a local Union Parishad chairman on Friday night, at a Santal village in Gobindaganj, Gaibandha. Senior police officers visited the area on Saturday...
UN human rights chief Volker Turk said Tuesday that Afghanistan鈥檚 governing Taliban authorities must reverse their ban on Afghan women working for NGOs...
A recent study revealed that children in riverine areas were disproportionately unable to attend school due to natural disasters.
The Taliban鈥檚 supreme leader has issued an order banning the construction of windows in residential buildings that overlook areas used by Afghan women and saying that existing ones should be blocked.
The Pakistani Taliban claimed a brazen overnight raid on an army outpost near the border with Afghanistan on Saturday, which intelligence officials said killed 16 soldiers and critically wounded five more.
Two bus accidents involving a fuel tanker and a truck on a highway through central Afghanistan killed 52 people and injured 65, the Taliban government spokesmen said on Thursday...
Russia鈥檚 parliament on Tuesday approved a bill that could pave the way for Moscow to lift its designation of the Taliban as a banned 鈥榯errorist鈥� organisation.
Residents of all unions in Gaibandha district can now digitally pay their holding tax and trade licence fees exclusively through Nagad, the digital financial service of the Bangladesh Postal Department, said a press release...
Two people were killed in a fire that broke out at Moulvibazar district Juba League vice-president Sheikh Rumel Ahmed鈥檚 house in the early hours of Sunday...
Jiban Bima Corporation on Thursday approved policy bonuses and claim settlements worth Tk 600 crore at different rates in favour of policyholders, said a press release.
The police arrested the driver and the assistant of a Shyamoli Paribahan bus that killed a flower trader by hitting him at Shahbagh in the capital on Thursday...
The UN mission to Afghanistan on Wednesday urged the Taliban government to reconsider a reported plan to ban women from attending medical training institutes, in the latest move to restrict women鈥檚 education...
Tokyo鈥檚 governor wants to introduce a four-day workweek for government staffers in the capital as part of a nationwide push to encourage parenthood...
An Afghan environment official on Sunday said the country must be allowed to participate in future global climate talks, after returning from COP29 in Baku where Taliban officials attended for the first time...
More than 300 Afghan journalists have suffered rights breaches since the Taliban surged back to power in 2021, a United Nations report said Tuesday, documenting dozens of cases of torture and arbitrary arrest...
Khanqueh-e-shaheed at Mia Saheb's Maidan Sharif at Luxmibazar in Dhaka organised religious discussion, Fateha Khwani, zikir azker, milad and doa mahfil marking the holy annual urs after Maghrib prayers on Tuesday, said a press release...
Tea workers from 12 gardens under the National Tea Company in Habiganj, Moulvibazar and Sylhet district have been on strike for over a month, demanding three months鈥� unpaid wages and rations...
A Juba Dal leader died under treatment on Wednesday, five days after he was stabbed during a clash with the activists of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal at Hazaribagh in the capital on November 15...
More than 15 people were injured in a clash between activists of Jamaat-e-Islami and Bangladesh Nationalist Party over the vacant acting chairman position of Mohdipur union parishad at Palashbari in Gaibanda district on Wednesday.
A teenager who narrowly escaped after the Taliban returned to power in Afghanistan three years ago, on Tuesday won the prestigious KidsRights Prize for her fight for women鈥檚 rights...
Eight soldiers were killed and seven police officers kidnapped in separate attacks in northwest Pakistan, police and intelligence officials said on Tuesday.
Afghanistan embassies in Britain and Norway loyal to the pro-Western authorities ousted by the Taliban in 2021 discreetly shut down this autumn, as the West seeks a more pragmatic approach to the country鈥檚 Islamic rulers...
Taliban authorities in eastern Afghanistan on Wednesday executed a convicted murderer by gunfire at a sports stadium, the sixth public execution since their return to power...
The first Afghan official to attend UN climate talks since the Taliban came to power said on Monday that his country hopes to benefit from a global finance deal under negotiation at COP29 in Baku.
Transport companies can apply to operate under Nagar Paribahan, an initiative aimed at bringing discipline to Dhaka鈥檚 mass transport system, until November 30.
An Afghan delegation will attend the upcoming UN climate change summit in Azerbaijan, the foreign ministry spokesman said on Saturday, marking a first since the Taliban government came to power.
Support has sunk further for Japan鈥檚 embattled ruling coalition, a new poll showed Wednesday, after prime minister Shigeru Ishiba鈥檚 party suffered its worst election result in 15 years.
Support has sunk further for Japan鈥檚 embattled ruling coalition, a new poll showed Wednesday, after prime minister Shigeru Ishiba鈥檚 party suffered its worst election result in 15 years...
Japanese prime minister Shigeru Ishiba鈥檚 ruling party was reportedly locked in talks to form new alliances Tuesday after losing its parliamentary majority in an election debacle.