8,535 reports translated from the Bengali original, most recent first. বাংলা সংস্করণ
Shakher Banu, 57, was killed at her home in Maheshpur upazila early on Friday. Police detained her son, who they say is suspected of the killing after a dispute over money for drugs.
Habib ur Rahman Mansur, mayor of Afghanistan's Badakhshan province, was killed in an explosion in Faizabad, the second senior Taliban official killed in the region in a fortnight.
An experimental maglev train at the Donghu Laboratory in Hubei accelerated from a standstill to 800 kilometres per hour in 5.3 seconds, breaking its own world record.
Mohammad Mokhber said Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei has adopted a strategy of moving from a defensive to an offensive phase unless Iran's conditions are met.
Farmers in Gangwon province dug up potatoes that had turned soft as though boiled, after weeks of record temperatures that have killed 31 people and 900,000 livestock.
Governor Josh Green declared an emergency in Hawaii ahead of Tropical Storm Lala, which forecasters say could strengthen into a hurricane and bring up to 25 inches of rain.
Workers in Sindh's Khairpur district, which grows more than half Pakistan's dates, say temperatures above 40C are making the harvest unbearable, with heatstroke and fainting common.
Pyongyang said joint exercises are raising tension on the Korean peninsula, as Ulchi Freedom Shield prepares to begin with 18,000 South Korean and 28,500 US troops.
Green chilli has fallen to Tk160-200 a kilogram after imports from India rose, but most vegetables remain expensive, with early winter beans selling at up to Tk200 a kg.
State Minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Anindya Islam Amit said the long-derelict Jashore children's hospital would be revived once the district's coronary care unit is completed.
US Vice President JD Vance said keeping oil and gas affordable for Americans is the administration's highest priority in the conflict, ahead of preventing Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons.
Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport is installing foot-wash stations in Terminal D restrooms for Muslim passengers, with separate facilities for men and women.
The banned Chhatra League put up a banner near Jagannath University marking the Aug 15 killings of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and members of his family.
A Peking University study published in PNAS found that melting Antarctic ice is turning a long-standing mercury sink into a source, with releases to the ocean rising sharply.
Scholars hold that Islam requires marriage to be witnessed and made known, and that concealing it undermines the rights of wives and children and the social purposes of the contract.
Negative self-talk, collapsing under criticism, comparing yourself with others, dwelling on mistakes and avoiding anything new are among the habits that undermine confidence.
The Directorate General of Health Services reported four more deaths with measles symptoms in 24 hours, bringing the toll from measles and suspected cases this year to 894.
Pakistan's leadership stressed stability, economic and institutional reform and regional and global peace as the country marked its 79th Independence Day.
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Sohail Afridi said he would march on Islamabad with two million people on Sept 27 unless he is allowed to meet the jailed former prime minister.
Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's admission that she has had nights with no sleep at all has revived a question about how heads of government function on so little rest.
Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, who resigned after being nominated for president, held the post for about 15 years and five months, the longest in the party's history.
In a message marking Pakistan's 79th Independence Day, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said the two countries' shared interests and destiny were more closely intertwined than ever.
Indian activist and education reformer Sonam Wangchuk urged a peaceful revolution in how the country selects its political leadership, in a video message before Independence Day.
Bangladesh is heading for its first contested presidential election since 1991, though constitutional arithmetic makes the outcome a foregone conclusion.
With Speaker Hafiz Uddin Ahmed serving as acting president, the duty of swearing in the next president is expected to fall to Deputy Speaker Kaysar Kamal.
Petitioners told the Calcutta High Court that loudspeakers were removed from about 4,000 mosques in West Bengal without written notice; the state denied issuing any such order.
Jamaat-e-Islami secretary general Mia Golam Parwar said mismanagement and short-sightedness had driven electricity and gas shortages to a peak, warning the government would bear responsibility.
Three girls from two families drowned in a pond at Jamdia village in Bagharpara upazila of Jashore on Friday, police said.
Maulana Abdul Matin spent 25 years writing a 17-volume Arabic commentary on Jami at-Tirmidhi, launched in Dhaka this month before scholars from Bangladesh and abroad.
Bangladesh is heading for its first contested presidential election since 1991, though constitutional arithmetic makes the outcome a foregone conclusion.
Prime Minister Tareque Rahman could travel to New Delhi late next week or in early September for his first bilateral visit since taking office, Indian media reported, citing diplomatic sources.
Eight workers were killed and more than 10 injured when gas exploded during the cutting of an old vessel at a shipbreaking yard in Chattogram's Sitakunda, police said.
Licences for private hospitals, clinics, diagnostic centres and related facilities will be valid for two years from fiscal 2026-27, with fees and VAT paid together.
Most of Comilla city has faced two days of gas shortages, with no clear restoration time as low LNG supply from an FSRU affects several districts.
Residents in Mirsarai detained three alleged members of a CNG auto-rickshaw theft ring, had them repent and pray 100 voluntary rakahs, then released them without assault.
A Noakhali court sentenced lead accused Sabuj to death for the 2013 killings of Setara Begum and Khalil and acquitted the other two defendants.
Power Minister Iqbal Hasan Mahmud Tuku said Bangladesh has no option but to manage load-shedding until repairs to the floating LNG terminal are completed.
A fire broke out at a mixed-use building in Dhaka's Maghbazar that houses four bank branches and foreign medical students; many people may still be trapped.
Remittances reached $1.499 billion in the first 12 days of August, up 42.2 percent year on year, while July-August inflows rose 23.4 percent.
Investigations found the name of Khulna headteacher Dipak Chandra Sarker on a West Bengal voter list, but no visible legal action has been taken and he denies being an Indian voter.
The Asian Development Bank said it will continue supporting reforms, restructuring and recapitalization of Bangladesh's banking sector and broader financial stability.
CNN reported that President Donald Trump and close aides secretly transferred to a smaller C-32A aircraft from Turkey amid a threat to target Air Force One with a shoulder-fired missile.
Settlers have taken over homes belonging to three Palestinian families in the occupied West Bank and cut water and electricity lines, reports say.
A new Bangladesh Bank circular brings import foreign-exchange rules issued over the past year into one framework, covering letters of credit, payments, advances and online reporting.
A Saudi-Pakistani-Turkish military pact has opened a new debate about Middle East security, though analysts say it still falls far short of NATO's integrated structure.
Bangladesh is reviewing previously approved fragrant-rice export quotas as domestic demand and prices rise, asking exporters to report actual shipments within three working days.
The government will begin distributing retirement and welfare benefits to 123,000 teachers and employees on Saturday, with the prime minister inaugurating the programme.
Bangladesh will import five more LNG cargoes in August, bringing the monthly total to nine and the total volume to about 28.8 million MMBtu.
Former Nepalese prime minister Sher Bahadur Deuba returned after five months in Singapore, facing political and legal challenges over an ongoing money-laundering investigation.
Police in Moulvibazar have arrested Saddam Hossain Kajol, an accused in 15 robbery cases across four districts, in an early-morning operation, officers say.
A Chhatra League activist was caught by locals while burgling an expatriate's home in Pirojpur's Nesarabad, after allegedly stabbing the man's wife, daughter and a neighbour.
The Police Bureau of Investigation has arrested two men, including the alleged main assailant, over the killing of auto-van driver Sujon Howlader in Ashulia, recovering the victim's vehicle and the weapon.
The Border Guard Bangladesh has seized 617 bottles of banned Indian Eskaf syrup in an operation in the Putkhali border area of Jashore, officers say.
Jashore's law-enforcement agencies held a coordinated night-time drill across the city, with mobile courts at sensitive points, to reassure the public and warn criminals.
Driver Mahi, 50, died after losing control of an Alamsadhu and overturning on the Jhenaidah-Magura highway in Magura.
Motorcycle rider Ibrahim Hossain, 50, was killed and a teacher and van driver were seriously injured when a motorcycle and a metal-grille-loaded battery van collided in Benapole.
Journalists in Natore held a protest and human chain after seven reporters were beaten during unrest at two upazila executive offices; no case has yet been filed.
Jamaat-e-Islami's women's wing has alleged that women were harassed and assaulted at a Quran gathering in Mirpur, Kushtia, and demanded the arrest of those involved. The claims are untested.
Prime Minister Tareque Rahman has given a grant to Rajshahi University student Md Nazmul Hasan to help him take up a full scholarship at Sweden's University of Skovde.
The popular weight-loss drugs Ozempic and Wegovy may help reduce cravings for alcohol and some drugs, though research in humans is still at an early stage, new studies suggest.