The Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) recently issued an 18-point directive to its members for increasing their security.  The move comes after the murder of Italian citizen Cesare Tavella in the capita’l, said sources. According to official documents obtained by The Independent, the set of…

Police in Mymensingh on Friday afternoon arrested a schoolboy for having suspected links with Islamic State (IS), a radical militant group that has seized…

A suspected US air strike on a hospital killed 19 people Saturday in the Afghan city of Kunduz, medical charity MSF said, a bombardment that the UN condemned…

Death-row war crimes convict and Jamaat leader Ali Ahsan Muhammad Mujahid will file a review petition against the Supreme Court (SC) verdict that upheld his death penalty in connection with wartime offences. “He (Mujahid) has instructed us to file a review petition. The review petition will be…

Two BNP leaders were allegedly picked up by miscreants, who posed as members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB), from Guptapara area of Rangpur city yesterday noon, reports UNB. The victims are Anisur Rahman Laku, General Secretary of BNP’s Rangpur district unit and Rashedul Nabi Biplob, member of…

Implementation of Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant project is likely to get delayed by a year, said Maksim V Elchishchev, who has been appointed to head the project for Russian state nuclear agency Rosatom, reports UNB. He has also quashed speculation that there are some disagreements between the Bangladeshi…