Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad has appointed the party Co-Chairman GM Quader and Secretary General ABM Ruhul Amin Hawlader as party’s spokespersons, his political secretary said yesterday. In a press release, Sunil Singh Roy said the two leaders would give the JP’s statements, which would…

The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court will begin the hearing on an appeal filed by Jamaat leader Mir Quasem Ali against an International Crimes Tribunal verdict that had awarded him death penalty for wartime offences. A four-member bench of the Appellate Division headed by Chief Justice Surendra…

The World Health Organization yesterday declared that a surge in serious birth defects in South America was "strongly suspected" of being caused by the Zika virus and constituted an international health emergency, reports AFP from Geneva. "We need to take action," WHO chief Margaret…

A student is demanding a lifetime supply of KitKats under the threat of legal action after she bought eight of the chocolate bars and none of them had…

South Sudan government troops killed some 50 people by stuffing them into a shipping container in baking heat, ceasefire monitors have said in a report noting the latest atrocities in two years of war, AFP reports from Addis Ababa. Despite an August peace deal, fighting continues, and the conflict now…