The investigation into the murder of progressive writer Avijit Roy is being delayed because of the US Federal Bureau of Investigation(FBI), said Deputy Inspector General of Police Monirul Islam yesterday. While addressing at a press conference at the Dhaka Metropolitan Police Media Center in the capital,…

Indian Kashmir largely shut down yesterday as a general strike was called to protest at the killing of two civilians during a gunbattle between troops and suspected separatist militants, reports AFP from Srinagar. Authorities also imposed a curfew in parts of the region’s main city of Srinagar,…

UK Minister for Immigration James Brokenshire left the capital yesterday concluding his two-day visit. While in Dhaka, he met senior Bangladeshi ministers including Foreign Minister Abul Hassan Mahmood Ali, Law Minister Anisul Huq and Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan, said a British high commission press…

A row over the arrest of an Indian student on a controversial sedition charge escalated yesterday, with students refusing to attend classes and violent scenes at the Delhi court where he was due to appear, reports AFP from New Delhi. Kanhaiya Kumar was arrested on Friday for alleged seditious behaviour…

Pope John Paul II had a close relationship with a married woman which lasted over 30 years, according to letters which feature in a documentary being…

At least 50 people were killed as air strikes hit at least five medical facilities and two schools in northern Syria, the United Nations said yesterday, calling the attacks "blatant violations of international law", reports AFP. The United States also condemned the attacks on civilian targets,…