Sajeeb Wazed Joy, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s son and her ICT affairs advisor, yesterday came down heavily on BNP chief Khaleda Zia for, what he said, her campaign against the 1971 War of Liberation. “I am outraged that during this victory month, Khaled Zia and the BNP are campaigning…

Environmentalists formed a 71-km-long human chain on the banks of the Turag River yesterday morning demanding an end to pollution and grabbing of the river, reports UNB. The Turag flows across Tagnail, Gazipur and Dhaka districts, and is linked to the Jamuna river system through the Lohajong River in…

Afghanistan’s Taliban group has officially denied any negotiations or exchange of information with Russia to fight the spread of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group in Afghanistan, reports Al Jazeera. The group dismissed the claims on Friday, saying they “don’t need…