Aung San Suu Kyi met Myanmar’s influential parliamentary speaker Thursday for key talks as the country moves from decades of military rule toward democracy after landmark polls this month, reports AFP from Naypyidaw, Myanmar. Uncertainty surrounds the protracted handover of power in the Southeast…

Public life went completely unruffled during the early hours of yesterday of the countrywide dawn-to-dusk hartal, enforced by Jamaat-e-Islami protesting the Supreme Court (SC) verdict that upheld the death penalty of war criminal Jamaat-e-Islami leader Ali Ahsan Muhammad Mojaheed, reports UNB. People…

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal yesterday said Biswa Ijtema, one of the largest congregations of Muslims, will begin on January 8 and it will be held in two phases as in previous years, reports UNB. “The first phase of the Ijtema will be held on January 08-10 while the second phase on January…

More than 48 hours into the shooting of an Italian national in Dinajpur, police are yet to find any clues to initiate their investigation into the incident. On Wednesday, Italian national Piero Parolari, a priest at a local church and a physician at Saint Vincent Missionary Hospital, came under attack…

The High Court yesterday rejected a writ petition filed challenging the legality of Mofazzal Hossain Chowdhury Maya continuing as minister and lawmaker after the Supreme Court scrapped his acquittal in a corruption case. After concluding the hearing, third bench of the HC of Justice Syed Refaat Ahmed…

The fate of the suspected mastermind of the Paris attacks, Abdelhamid Abaaoud, was still unknown Thursday after a huge police raid left at least two dead, as it emerged the US warned months ago he could be planning an assault, reports AFP from Paris. Police staged a ferocious seven-hour assault in the…

The Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) group yesterday claimed responsibility for shooting and wounding an Italian priest in Dinajpur on Wednesday. The priest sustained a bullet injury on the lower part back of his dead. “Security detachments of soldiers of the Caliphate in Bangladesh carried…

French authorities yesterday announced the death of suspected Paris attack mastermind Abdelhamid Abaaoud and his suicide bomber cousin, officially confirming two deaths already known to the world for a day, report agencies. Media reports broke the news of Abaaoud's death after a seven-hour raid…