Bangladeshi Hajj pilgrims, who missed the flight as problems arose over getting visas from the Saudi Arabian Embassy in Dhaka, was scheduled to take a plane from the capital Friday night. The technical snag in the visa procedure has been solved, said officials of the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport.…

A suspected radical Islamist youth stabbed ruling party-backed Awami Ulema League president Maulana Ilias Hossain Helali at Baitul Mokarrom National mosque in Dhaka yesterday. Police identified the stabber as Md Mujahid, 20, a second-year student of Alim at Baitul Rosul madrassa at Hajatibagh. He is…

Islamic State militants have destroyed an ancient monastery in the central Syrian province of Homs, according to a monitor and pictures published by the jihadist group, reports AFP from Beirut. “The Islamic State group yesterday used bulldozers to destroy the Mar Elian monastery in Al-Qaryatain,…

Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), Iyad Ameen Madani, arrives here today on a three-day official visit with an aim to strengthen cooperation between Bangladesh and the organisation, reports UNB. Madani took office as the tenth Secretary General of the OIC on January…

BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia yesterday accused the government of plotting to make BNP leaderless by sending its leaders to jail one after another in ‘false’ cases, reports UNB. Denouncing such an alleged move in a statement, the BNP chief claimed that a suffocating situation has been created…