The BNP has decided not to retreat from the ongoing union parishad polls at this moment despite alleging massive irregularities, vote rigging, violence and bloodshed as the party wants to go till the end in a bid to expose the Election Commission and the government’s apathy to the situation. The…

Unidentified miscreants stabbed a muezzin to death inside a mosque in the capital’s Islampur area early yesterday. The deceased was identified as Mohammad Belal Hossain (57). He was the muezzin of Jobbu Khan Jame Mosque. He had been working there for more than 25 years. Inspector Abul Hossain,…

A new political party, Bangladesh Jatiyatabadi Janata Dal (BJJD), has been formed “to implement former President Ziaur Rahman’s ideology of peaceful and sustainable democracy in the country”. Foez Chowdhury, an Advocate of the High Court, also Convener of the party, will officially…

Clashes between Azerbaijanis and Armenian forces killed at least 13 people yesterday in a third day of fighting over Nagorny Karabakh, as Turkey fuelled…

Police have seized 20 hand grenades, four foreign made pistols, 40 rounds of ammunition and large quantities of explosive materials from a house in Bogra yesterday where the two people died on Sunday night in a blast allegedly while making bombs. The blast occurred at about 9:30pm in a house at Par…

The world's first public dengue vaccination programme was launched in the Philippines yesterday as nurses began injecting the first batch of a million…

Two officials of Bangladeshi non-governmental ogranisation Brac, who were abducted in Afghanistan on March 17 were released yesterday. Both Haji Swakat, 50, and Md Sirajul Islam Sumon, 37 returned unharmed to Brac Kabul office after 18 days of their abduction, Brac said in a media release, reports UNB.…