Three people of ethnic minority community were shot dead and six more remain missing as unidentified men attacked a house in remote Gollahchari of Bhaibonchari under Longadu Upazila of the district yesterday. A house was also torched during the attack that took place on early Sunday. Locals identified…

An Italian neurosurgeon's project to undertake the first human head transplant has received a skeptical welcome in the United States, where he made a pitch to donors and fellow scientists, reports AFP. Sergio Canavero, who leads the Turin Advanced Neuromodulation Group, first announced his project…

Buddhist hardliners backed by monks protested in Myanmar's troubled Rakhine state yesterday against help being offered to desperate migrants found adrift on boats in the Bay of Bengal, AFP reports from Yangon. Rakhine, one of Myanmar's poorest states, is a tinderbox of tension between its Buddhist…

The High Court yesterday issued a rule asking the authorities concerned to explain why the provision of the Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) Act on the accountability of the commissioners to the chairman should not be declared illegal. In response to a writ petition, the HC bench comprising Justice…

Chairman of Press Institute of Bangladesh, Eminent journalist and Ekushey Padak recipient Habibur Rahman Milon passed away at a city hospital early morning. He was 78, reports UNB. Habibur Rahman, also advisory Editor of the Daily Ittefaq, breathed his last at Labaid Hospital around 2:30am. He had long…

The International Crimes Tribunal (ICT), yesterday, kept a case of the war crimes suspect, Forkan Mallik of Patuakhali, waiting, so that it can deliver its verdict any day. After concluding hearing on the closing arguments placed by the lawyers for both the prosecution and defence, the three-member…

The Election Commission (EC) is set to hold the maiden elections to the reserved (women) seats of 377 Upazila Parishads across the country today.  A total of 2,536 candidates will vie for 1,266 posts in the elections. Of these, a total of 301 women candidates, however, have already been elected…