Bangladesh’s Captain Moin Uddin Ahmed has been elected the next Director General of the International Mobile Satellite Organisation (IMSO) in a tightly contested election in London. This is the first time in the 35-year history of IMSO that a candidate…
Visiting US Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs Nisha Biswal at her meeting with BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia on Friday said her country wants to see strong democracies in the South Asian countries for the continuation…
Maria McFarland Sánchez-Moreno Many questions are already being raised about the grand jury decision not to indict Darren Wilson, the white police officer who shot and killed Michael Brown, an unarmed African-American teenager, in Ferguson, Missouri in August. However, many…
The SAARC leaders today expressed their firm determination to deepen regional integration for peace and prosperity in South Asia by intensifying cooperation in trade, investment, finance, energy, security, infrastructure, connectivity and culture. In a 36-point declaration issued after the end…
From 1 December 2014 the airside and landside transit visa requirements for the UK are changing. These changes are good news for Bangladesh nationals. They include dropping the en-route requirement for Bangladeshi holders of Australian, Canadian, New Zealand and US…
The Saarc Framework Agreement on Energy Cooperation was signed on Thursday afternoon aimed at trading electricity from one country to another and erecting trans-boundary power grids. All the foreign ministers from the eight Saarc member countries signed the deal on…
Visiting US Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs Nisha Biswal will meet BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia on Friday evening. The meeting will be held at the BNP chairperson’s Gulshan residence at 6pm, her press wing member…
State Minister for Home Affairs Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal on Thursday said a cyber crimes unit of police will be formed soon for dealing with cyber crimes in the country. “We’re reshuffling the police administration to modernize the force as criminals…
Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Wednesday called on the SAARC member states to fight to resolve common problems like poverty, rather than fighting against each other. Speaking at the inaugural session of the 18th South Asian Association for Regional…
A Dhaka court yesterday (Wednesday) sentenced two members of the banned Islamist militant outfit Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) to death for killing a police informer in 2006. Judge ABM Nizamul Haque of Speedy Trial Tribunal-4 of Dhaka passed the order…
A university student, who was reported missing from the capital seven days ago, was found dead in a beel (waterbody) in Sathia upazila in Pabna on Wednesday. The deceased was identified as Golam Rabbi, 22, son of Anwar Hossain, a…
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Wednesday that his government is making strong efforts to quickly resolve the land boundary agreement (LBA) and Teesta water sharing issues. Modi was at a meeting with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at the…
Members of a joint force have rescued three forest officials, who were reputedly kidnapped by miscreants from Harikata of Langadu upazila, from Naniachar of the upazila 19 days after the incident. The three forest officials–conservator Farid Mia, range officer Robiul…
A man was killed in a gunfight between two factions of Parbatya Chattagram Jana Sanghati Samity (PCJSS) over establishing supremacy at Jeeptali Talutdarpara in Baghaichhari upazila on Tuesday. The victim was identified as Shyamol Chakma, 35. Marisha zone BGB officials…
The Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) Court of Dhaka yesterday (Tuesday) passed orders to exhume the body of Shamarukh Mahjabin Sumi, daughter-in-law of Awami League’s former MP Khan Tipu Sultan of Jessore-5 constituency, for another autopsy. CMM Bikash Kumar Shaha issued…
A Dhaka court here on Tuesday sent sacked minister Abdul Latif Siddique to jail in a case filed for hurting the religious sentiments of Muslims through his blasphemous remarks on Prophet (sm) Hajj and Tablig Jamaat. Metropolitan Magistrate Atiqur Rahman…
Police have clashed with protesters in Missouri, after a grand jury refused to charge a policeman over the death of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown. Announcing the decision, state prosecutor Robert McCulloch said the jury exhaustively examined evidence.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday deferred the date to November 30 for passing an order on an appeal filed by BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia challenging the High Court verdict that had upheld the charge framing order against her in Zia…
A Dhaka court Monday evening directed police to arrest the Former Posts, Telecommunications and ICT Minister Abdul Latif Siddique following an appeal filed by Advocate Abed Razda. Magistrate Atiqur Rahman of the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) Court of Dhaka gave…
The three-day People’s SAARC Regional Convergence-2014 concluded in Lalitpur district adjacent to Kathmandu here on Monday adopting a 24-point declaration. “We’ve come together to challenge the systematic and structural marginalisation and exclusion of people through the dominant neo-liberal economic model…
A court in Rajshahi on Monday placed eight people on a fresh one-day remand in connection with the murder of Rajshahi University teacher Prof AKM Shafiul Islam. Magistrate of the Rajshahi Metropolitan Magistrate Court-3 Sharmin Akhter passed the order when…
The International Crimes Tribunal (ICT)-1 today asked journalists, covering the court proceedings, to be more sensible and responsible. The first tribunal came up with the view while criticizing journalists, especially the ones from TV channels, for their yesterday’s mistake as…
Md Mobarak Hossain from Brahmanbaria’s Akaura, has been sentenced to death for war crimes during the 1971 Liberation War. The International Crimes Tribunal-1, headed by Justice M Enayetur Rahim, announced his verdict on Monday. Two among the five charges against…
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court has rejected two leave to appeal petitions BNP chief Khaleda Zia had filed over a case accusing her of graft in the Zia Orphanage Trust. A five-member bench headed by Chief Justice Md…
Swedish Minister for International Development Cooperation Isabella Lövin arrives here on Monday on a three-day visit, aiming to deepen bilateral ties. She will lead a six-member delegation and meet State Minister for Foreign Affairs M Shahriar Alam on Monday afternoon,…
A Dhaka court yesterday (Sunday) placed alleged Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) Women Wing chief on six days remand and three other suspected members of the banned militant outfit Islamic group on ten days remand in two cases. Members of Detective Branch…
A team of Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) on Sunday interrogated detained former energy adviser and incumbent acting editor of Bangla daily the Amar Desh at a Dhaka court in connection with Niko graft case. Earlier, in the morning, Mahmudur…
A Dhaka court on Sunday sent five accused persons including three officials of Biman Bangladesh Airlines to the jail in a case of gold smuggling at Shahjalal International Airport.
Kathmandu: The Nepal Unit of the Nature–Human Centric Peoples Movement is going to organise a global conference 2016 in Nepal. General Secretary at Nepal Unit, Dindaya Rijal, informed that the conference will discuss climate change effects, global warming, widening gulf…
Police recovered the body of a young man from inside an almirah at a house in old Dhaka city’s Lalbagh area on Sunday morning. The deceased was identified as Alauddin Shikdar,29, son of Hossain Shikdar, a resident of house no.…