Close to two million pilgrims have converged on western Saudi Arabia for the annual hajj where new measures aim to prevent a recurrence of last year's stampede which killed around 2,300, reports AFP. The stampede legacy has contributed to renewed tensions between Saudi Arabia and its regional rival…

World powers expressed outrage Friday after North Korea claimed it had successfully tested a nuclear warhead that could be mounted on a missile, prompting urgent UN talks and calls for new sanctions. South Korea, the United States, Japan, Russia and China all condemned the blast at the Punggye-ri nuclear…

Ahead of the fifteenth anniversary of 9/11, the United States embassy in Dhaka has asked its citizens to continue to remain vigilant as terrorist threats ‘remains real and credible’. The embassy, however, said that there were no known specific threats to US citizens or interests in Bangladesh.…

Before starting hajj rituals, BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia along with her family members performed umrah in Makkah on Thursday night, reports UNB. They are scheduled to start performing the rituals of the hajj after Jum'a payers, Saudi BNP unit president Ahmed Ali Mukib told UNB. He said Khaleda…

British MP Tulip Siddiq has been named in the progress list of London’s 1,000 most influential people, reports UNB. Tulip, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s granddaughter and Sheikh Rehana’s daughter, expressed her happiness over the selection through her official Facebook page and…

Some 33 Bangladeshi hajj pilgrims died of various reasons in Saudi Arabia as of September 8 this year, reports UNB. Of them, 24 were males and nine females, according to a bulletin of the hajj management portal under the Religious Affairs Ministry. It said 24 hajj pilgrims died in Makkah while eight…