Eleven Nobel prize-winners have written to Vladimir Putin asking the Russian president to drop charges against 30 Greenpeace activists and journalists. The 30, who come from 18 nations, were held last month during a protest against oil drilling in the…
Hundreds of thousands of US government employees are heading back to work after President Barack Obama signed a law ending a 16-day government shutdown and extending the US debt limit.
Amid the deepening political crisis over the nature of polls-time government, police have cordoned off the main opposition BNP’s Noyapaltan central office, escalating tension.
Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus has expressed doubts whether the forthcoming national election in Bangladesh will be peaceful and urged everyone to ‘keep the doors to violence shut’.
At the fag end of her tenure, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is going to address the nation at 7:30 pm tomorrow (Friday). PM’s press secretary Abul Kalam Azad told UNB on Thursday afternoon that the Prime Minister will address the nation…
The BNP-led 18-party alliance will hold its October 25 rally in the capital, no matter whether the government permits it or not, BNP joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi Ahmed said here on Thursday.
The U.N. General Assembly elects five new members to the Security Council on Thursday and the winners are virtually certain because there are no contested races — Nigeria, Chad, Saudi Arabia, Lithuania and Chile.
Sixteen people were killed and many others injured in separate road accidents in different districts during the three-day Eid holiday from Tuesday.
Robbers have looted gold ornaments from a jewellery shop just in front of Sadar Police Station in the district town.
Four warehouses of scrap plastics were gutted by a fire that broke out in the city’s Lalbagh area on Thursday morning.
Traders in the district town of Gopalganj kept the shutters of their business establishments down on Thursday protesting the killing of Austrian expatriate Sheikh Masudur Rahman Rabet.
Rail communications of the northern region with the rest of the country, including the capital, remained suspended since Wednesday morning as an under-construction bridge collapsed in Parbatipur upazila.
Police have recovered seven severed body parts of an unidentified woman from Bhashantek in the capital.
Members of Airport Armed Police (AAP) arrested two people on charge of stealing ready-made garments meant for export at the Cargo Village of Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport on Wednesday.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said talks with the opposition over the form of election-time government can take place in Parliament.
BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia on Wednesday urged the government to create a congenial atmosphere for the next general election through discussions and said that the opposition does not want any violence in the country.
She says talks could be held with opposition in parliament Describing the opposition’s threat over October 25 rallies as ‘rubbish’, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday said there is nothing to be worried about it.
“The BNP is pushing the country towards civil war. The nation is afraid about what might happen in future. The signs are ominous,” Ershad told reporters after attending an Eid congregation in his constituency, Rangpur, on Wednesday.
Joy and celebrations sweep across the country as Muslims mark Eid-ul-Azha, one of the most auspicious festivals in the Islamic calendar, with social visits, outings, dining and other leisure pursuits.
An aircraft crashed into the Mekong river in Laos on Wednesday and 39 people were killed.
The death toll from an earthquake in the Philippines rose to 144 on Wednesday as rescuers dug through the rubble of collapsed buildings including an old church and a hospital.
Foreign Minister Dr Dipu Moni will undertake a bilateral visit to China from October 20 to 22 to hold talks with her counterpart and other senior officials on bilateral issues.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday greeted the war-wounded freedom fighters and their families on the occasion of Eid-ul-Azha.