Dhaka, Aug 27 – Bangladesh Human Right Commission ((NHRC)) on Monday said despite Bangladesh’s desperate diplomatic attempts, the repatriation process of over a million Rohingya refugees remain stranded in some high-level diplomatic visits and talks, without any actual repatriation.
Dhaka, Aug 27 – The first return Hajj flight of Saudi Arabia Airlines landed at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport at 3:19 am on early Monday.
Referring to the draft Sarkari Chakori Ain which proposed taking prior permission for arresting any public servant, Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) Chairman Iqbal Mahmood on Monday said the corrupt officials have nothing to rejoice with it.
A court here on Monday granted bail of Eden College student, Lutfur Nahar Luma Sarkar, in a case filed under Information and Communication and Technology (ICT) Act.
Facebook on Monday banned Myanmar’s army chief and removed dozens of other pages, which, the social media platform said, have covertly pushed the messages of the Myanmar military.
Stocks witnessed flat on Monday with falling trend of most of the major price indices at Dhaka and Chittagong Stock Exchanges despite higher transactions.
Captain Abid Sultan of US-Bangla Flight BS211 was going through tremendous ‘personal mental stress and anxiety, and a series of erroneous decisions on his part that led to the crash of the flight’, according to the details of an official…
Dhaka, Aug 26 – An elderly couple died as an alleged organised gang sedated them before looting their house in the capital’s Demra area on Sunday.
Dhaka, 25 Aug – Twenty-two students who secured bail and came out of the Dhaka Central Jail on Saturday and Sunday. Four of the students were released from the Central Jail of Keraniganj on Sunday at about 4.30 pm.
Nobel laureate Amartya Sen has issued a statement in support of photographer Shahidul Alam, who was arrested from the capital on August 5 following his Facebook posts on student protests demanding safe roads.
Four children died and 21 others fell sick in five days till Sunday due to the outbreak of an ‘unknown’ disease at remote Tripura Palli on a hill in Hathazari upazila.
Sen. John McCain, who faced down his captors in a Vietnam prisoner of war camp with jut-jawed defiance and later turned his rebellious streak into a 35-year political career that took him to Congress and the Republican presidential nomination, died…
A case was filed against seven people over the fatal road accident in Baraigram upazila that left 15 people dead.
Washington, Aug 25 (AP/UNB) — Arizona Sen. John McCain has discontinued medical treatment for an aggressive form of brain cancer, says his family.
By Fabiana Frayssinet Buenos Aires, Aug 23 2018 (IPS) – The Argentine Senate’s rejection of a bill to legalise abortion did not stop a Latin American movement, which is on the streets and is expanding in an increasingly coordinated manner…
Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) members have rescued a minor boy from the clutches of kidnappers and arrested a madrasha teacher in this connection from the city’s Airport Railway Station area.
One in two Rohingya children who fled to Bangladesh without their parents were orphaned by brutal violence, said a new research study on Saturday.
Maritime ports of Chattogram, Cox’s Bazar, Mongla and Payra have been advised to hoist local cautionary signal no three as a low has formed over northwest Bay and adjoining area.
A suspected drug peddler was killed in a ‘gunfight’ with members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) in front of Power Development Board (PDB) office in Teknaf early Friday.
More than 130 lawmakers from across Southeast Asia on Thursday demanded the international community bring officials in Myanmar to justice for the atrocious crimes it committed against its Rohingya population in Rakhine State.
In Australia’s far north, Darwin’s Northern Territory News ran a front-page message for the nation’s ruling politicians on Friday, as they mobilized in Canberra to give the country its sixth prime minister in just 11 years.
The United States has rejected an invitation to join Russia-led talks on Afghanistan because they are unlikely to help bring peace, a State Department spokesman said Wednesday, as the Trump administration prepared to appoint a diplomatic veteran as a new…
Bikalpa Dhara Bangladesh (BDB) President AQM Badruddoza Chowdhury on Thursday said only ‘balanced politics’ can build an autocracy-free Bangladesh.
Hurricane Harvey slammed into Texas last August as a powerful Category 4 storm, killing dozens of people and causing billions of dollars in damage. Though its fiercest winds quickly dissipated, the storm hovered for days as it trudged inland, dumping…
President Donald Trump said in an interview aired Thursday that the US economy would collapse if he were impeached.
A college student was hacked to death by some stalkers at Namagonda in the municipality area on Tuesday night for protesting an incident of eve-teasing.
Singapore, Aug 210 (AP/UNB) — Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi says it is difficult to put a time frame on the return to Rakhine state of ethnic Muslim Rohingya because her nation needs the cooperation of the country to…
Dhaka, Aug 20 – A court of Dhaka on Tuesday granted bail to actress Quazi Nawshaba Ahmed in a case filed under the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Act.
The main congregation of Eid-ul-Azha, the second largest religious festival of the Muslims, will be held at the National Eidgah on the High Court premises at 8:00 am on the Eid day.
China attaches great importance to further developing bilateral relations and cooperation with Bangladesh, said newly appointed Chinese Ambassador Zhang Zuo on Monday.