The Bangladesh Embassy in Saudi Arabia yesterday suspended two of its employees following allegations that they sexually exploited a woman when she was staying at an embassy-run shelter in Riyadh.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said any anarchic activity by public university students is not acceptable at all as they are availing of the education facility with public money.

A mentally challenged woman has been raped inside a bus in Tangail's Bhuapur upazila, police said. The incident reminds one of the rape and murder of law student Rupa Khatun inside a moving bus in the district a year ago.

Since its inception four decades ago, the BNP formed government four times -- once under the leadership of its founder Ziaur Rahman and thrice under the leadership of his widow Khaleda Zia.

Police yesterday arrested an alleged source of a law enforcement agency over the abduction of small trader Mohan Miah from the capital's Mirpur in June.

Three people, including the driver, were sued yesterday in connection with the death of 13-month-old Akifa Yasmin who was hit by a bus.

Thousands of Bangladeshi and other expatriate workers in Malaysia are in fear as the country's immigration department is set to begin a major crackdown on undocumented migrants after an amnesty programme ended on Thursday.

Numb with grief, Harunur Rashid was standing outside Dhaka Medical College morgue yesterday afternoon to receive the body of his 13-month-old daughter Akifa Yasmin.

It took decades for the Indian Election Commission to accomplish the Herculean task of introducing electronic voting machines across the country for parliamentary elections.

Making a call for accountability as an essential prerequisite to regional security and stability, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres urges the Security Council to work with Myanmar to end "horrendous sufferings" of Rohingyas.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who leaves Dhaka for Kathmandu this morning to attend the fourth Bimstec Summit, will meet her Indian counterpart Narendra Modi on the sidelines of the event.

The UN has found that the Myanmar military had planned the Rohingya genocide long before the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army attacked the country's security personnel, a justification put forward by Myanmar for the violent crackdown on the ethnic minority.

A photo album is all Tasin has to see his father.

Family members of Mohan Miah, who went missing in June, said a man claiming to be a Rab officer met them on three times occasions and told them that the disappeared man was in custody of the elite force.

The expatriates' welfare ministry will issue show cause notices to 10 recruiting agencies whose alleged monopoly in labour recruitment in Malaysia has led to the suspension of SPPA, an online system for recruitment of foreign workers, from September 1.

At least 11 people were killed and several others injured in eight road accidents across the country in 24 hours since Monday night.

It has been exactly a month since two college students were squashed to death by a bus on the Airport Road that sparked an unprecedented movement by students to demand road safety.

In Bangladesh, industrialists and businesspeople become shareholders and directors of banks, and borrow money from each other's banks. And not only that, up to four members of a family can now be in the board of directors of a bank, up from two previously, after the relevant rules were amended last year following Finance Minister AMA Muhith's recommendation.

Unidentified criminals hacked a female journalist to death near her house in Pabna town last night.

The investigation commission of Nepal castigated Kathmandu Post yesterday, hours after the newspaper ran an exclusive report that blamed the pilot of the US-Bangla plane for the crash.