The country-wide dawn-to-dusk hartal called by Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami in protest of the Supreme Court upholding death penalty handed down to party chief Motiur Rahman Nizami for wartime offences, ended without any untoward incident. Vehicular movement was normal in the streets of the capital and…

Three condemned killers of Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal founding president Kazi Aref Ahmed and four other party men were hanged at Jessore Central Jail yesterday night, reports UNB. Anwar Hossain and Rashedul Islam Jhantu of Khursa village in Mirpur upazila of Kushtia district were hanged around 11:01pm…

The United States and its two main military allies in Asia, South Korea and Japan, pledged a combined push yesterday to secure a comprehensive, hard-hitting international response to North Korea’s latest nuclear test, reports AFP from Seoul. The leaders of the three countries, who have long sought…

Bangladesh has joined the international community in voicing concern over the nuclear tests conducted by North Korea. Dhaka has also called upon Pyongyang to refrain from any action that might escalate the situation. North Korea has claimed that it tested a hydrogen bomb on Wednesday. “Bangladesh…