The Detective Branch (DB) of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) on Sunday arrested four members of the banned Islamist militant outfit Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) from Airport and Khilgaon areas of the capital, police sources said. The arrested militants have connections with the Pakistani…

Turkey will not apologise for downing a Russian fighter jet on the Syrian border but Moscow should reconsider retaliatory sanctions, Turkish premier Ahmet Davutoglu said yesterday as he held talks at NATO headquarters, reports AFP from Brussels. “Protection of our airspace, our border is not only…

Eight people including State Minister for Foreign Affairs Shahriar Alam and former Rajshahi mayor AHM Khairuzzaman Liton were threatened with death in a letter allegedly sent by Ansar-Al-Islam to a local daily newspaper in Rajshahi. The sender, claiming he is representing Ansar-Al-Islam, the Bangladesh…

A Rangpur court yesterday placed three people on a 10-day remand each in a case filed over the killing of Japanese citizen Hoshi Kunio. Senior Judical Magistrate Shafiul Alam passed the order when Kaunia thana officer-in-charge Jahidul Islam, also investigation officer of the case, produced them before…