Awami League senior leader Suranjit Sengupta on Friday urged Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to take necessary steps over the allegation of grabbing of minority communities’ land by some ministers, whips MPs, reports UNB. “Bangladesh Hindu-Buddhist-Christian Unity Council brought allegations…

To keep greenhorns off the roads, a major cause behind the increasing number of road fatalities, a little over three years ago the government had proposed to introduce a driving trade course in technical schools and colleges under the Bangladesh Technical Education Board. The plan is yet to be put to…

North Korea announced Friday it was moving its clocks back 30 minutes to create a new "Pyongyang Time" -- breaking from a standard imposed by "wicked" Japanese imperialists more than a century ago, AFP reports from Seoul.  The change will put the standard time in North Korea…

Al Qaeda's branch in Yemen, which officials have called the terror group's most dangerous affiliate, has issued two threatening new communiques praising recent lone-wolf style attacks against the West and calling for more of them, reports CNN from Washington. "We urge you to strike America…

Several hostages, including a number of foreigners, were being held in a standoff in central Mali yesterday after gunmen stormed a hotel amid shootout with soldiers that left at least eight people dead, AFP reports from Bamako quoting military sources. A Ukrainian hostage managed to escape from the…