The government’s decision is a move to limit tourism on the coral island in an effort to ensure an eco-friendly environment.

Following an attempted breach at Bangabhaban late last night and violent clashes with police, authorities have imposed a strict security lockdown to prevent further incidents.

There are around 90,000 Bangladeshi migrants in Lebanon.

Prof Yunus also said he had no plans to run for office.

Yechury, 72, had been in a critical condition for the last few days and was on ventilation.

Ex-PM of Bangladesh says she resigned because she did not want to see 'procession of dead bodies'

The government received the resignation of the chief justice, but there is no update about resignation of others, a senior official said on social media on Saturday.

Frees former PM, Khaleda Zia.

A trial of bus service on Bangladesh-India-Nepal route has been flagged off, what is seen as a major development in cross border transport service among the three nations.

Families of the victims of US-Bangla plane crash are each entitled to get up to Rs20.06 million (Tk 16 million) in compensation from the airlines and its insurers under international aviation laws.

At least 10 official websites including those of premier educational institutions like Delhi University (DU), Aligarh Muslim University (AMU), Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) New Delhi and IIT BHU - were hacked on Tuesday with “Pakistan Zindabad” slogans displayed on them, triggering fears of sabotage and cyber-terror.

Bangladesh government has moved to block social networking site Facebook for six hours starting from every midnight “for the betterment of students and youths”.

The new Election Commission (EC) has taken over on February 15. We wish the new team good luck.

Bangladesh has hanged Mir Quasem Ali, the chief financier of the fundamentalist Jamaat-e-Islami party, for war crimes of 1971.

Ten prisoners in the Philippines were killed when a suspected jailbreak and attempt to kidnap the warden went wrong in a Manila suburb, authorities said today.