Nestle will destroy 400 million packets of its hugely popular Maggi noodles, following a ban imposed by India's food safety regulator. The company says it will take at least 40 days to destroy all the noodles, according to BBC. India's food safety regulator says tests have found Maggi "unsafe…

A Dhaka Court yesterday placed Kalimur Rahman, an assistant sub inspector (ASI) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP), on a three-day remand in connection with the alleged gang rape of her ex-wife, also a police personnel. Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Meher Nigar Sultana passed the order after Inspector…

In rare comments on Myanmar’s persecuted Rohingya Muslims, opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi urged caution on granting citizenship to minorities, saying the sensitive issue must be addressed “very, very carefully”, reports AFP from Washington. The Myanmar government is reviewing citizenship…

Ramzan, the ninth month in the Islamic lunar calendar when Muslims are meant to fast from dawn to dusk, begins in the country yesterday, reports UNB. Ramzan is a time of restraint and austerity, and also a time for inner reflection, devotion to the Almighty Allah and self-control. Lailatul Qadr, the…

The High Court yesterday granted ad-interim bail to acting BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir in three arson cases until the police submit charge sheets in those cases. The HC bench comprising Justice Md Nuruzzaman and Justice Abdur Rab passed the order after disposing three petitions…

Police in India said Thursday they had arrested the main suspect in the rape of an elderly nun that sent shockwaves through the country's Christian community, AFP reports from Kolkata. Police in the state capital Kolkata said they had arrested a 28-year-old Bangladeshi man whom they identified only…