A Dhaka court yesterday framed charges against BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and 73 other leaders and activists of the 20-party alliance…

Bangladesh, in 2015, witnessed a diminishing democratic space and a steady deterioration in civil and political rights, including extrajudicial killings, enforced disappearances and restrictive action against opposition and human rights activists, according to the ‘Human rights and democracy:…

BNP yesterday warned that the party and country’s people will not accept if a fresh ‘domestic’ Election Commission (EC) is constituted staging a drama in the name of a search committee, reports UNB. At a discussion in the city, it also suggested forming a search committee comprising…

Junaid Ahmad has become the World Bank’s Country Director for India, replacing Onno Ruhl who served a four-year term based out of the national capital, reports PTI from New Delhi. Hailing from Bangladesh, Ahmad was Chief of Staff to the World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim before being elevated…

Rawhide traders of Chittagong could not do any business until yesterday as no buyers arrived from Dhaka. This year, around 350 to 400 traders have processed about 400,000 rawhides at 200 warehouses in the port city. As the government recently closed all tanneries in Chittagong, local businessmen have…

US Republican ex-President George HW Bush will vote for Democrat Hillary Clinton in November, US news website Politico reports. Mr Bush allegedly made the pledge to Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, niece to US ex-President John F Kennedy. The former president's office has not confirmed the report, with…

The Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) has postponed the Mobile Number Portability (MNP) auction since it is not prepared to arrange it on September 28, as scheduled earlier. The BRTC issued a notice in this regard yesterday evening. Without mentioning any specific date, the telecoms…

Eleven people, including a soldier, died in clashes between troops and suspected militants in Indian-administered Kashmir, BBC reports quoting the Indian army yesterday. Security forces said 10 men were killed in an area close to an army base that wasattacked on Sunday. Fighting broke out in two different…