Chittagong police and Customs authorities are engaged in a tug-of-war over claiming credit for the seizure of a large haul of cocaine hidden in drums of crude edible oil imported from Bolivia. Chittagong Metropolitan Police (CMP) claimed that Customs Intelligence (CI) and Investigation Directorate authorities…

The National Fatwa Board of Bangladesh issued a statement yesterday stating that there was no deity in the names mentioned in the Asma ul Husna, 99 beautiful names of Almighty Allah. As per the statement, Abdul Gaffar Chowdhury, a UK-based Bangladeshi writer, had commented that there were deities similar…

A Turkish Airlines flight from Bangkok to Istanbul made an emergency landing in India Tuesday after a bomb threat was scrawled in lipstick on a bathroom mirror, officials said, reports AFP from New Delhi. All 148 passengers and crew were immediately evacuated after the plane landed safely in an isolated…

A criminal gang leader was killed during a ‘shootout’ between gang members and police in Sitakunda upazila early yesterday. The deceased, Nazim Uddin Chowdhury, was the alleged chief of a local criminal gang. A team of police raided Bashbaria area to arrest Nazim around 10pm on Monday. Sensing…

The Ebola crisis proves the World Health Organisation (WHO) lacks the “capacity and culture” to deal with global health emergencies, BBC reports quoting a ‘damning independent report’, commissioned by the WHO itself.   The review panel says WHO was too slow to act to get…