Leaders of the Hajj-Omrah Agencies Welfare Association of Bangladesh (HOAWAB) yesterday demanded that the government appoint an administrator and annul the present executive committee of the Hajj Agencies’ Association of Bangladesh (HAAB). The leaders placed their demand during a meeting with…

The High Court yesterday halted till September 16 the government order to shutdown the country’s oldest mobile-phone operator Citycell or cancel its licences for not paying dues to the government. In an order, the government had said it would shutdown Citycell’s operation at the zero hour…

Donald Trump’s vow to deport 11 million undocumented immigrants if elected president appeared to be undergoing a shift Sunday as the struggling…

India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi came under pressure yesterday over weeks of deadly violence in Kashmir, with the region’s opposition leaders calling on him to rein in troops and police, reports AFP from New Delhi. Modi stressed the need for dialogue to end the unrest in the disputed…

At least 50 people were hospitalised following a gas leak at a fertiliser factory in Chittagong last night. Most of them were workers of that very factory and of some other nearby fertiliser factories. The gas leak of Diammonium Phosphate (DAP) occurred around 11pm at one of the gas reservoirs of DAP…

Tannery owners in the capital’s Hazaribagh have deposited Tk 55.9 lakh with the national exchequer as compensation for polluting the environment, UNB reports. Owners of 98 out of 154 tanneries deposited the money as per a direction of the Supreme Court, according to report submitted by the industries…