Forensic tests have found that 18 militants, who were killed in anti-terror rescue operations or raids carried out by law-enforcers in recent times in Gulshan and Kallyanpur in the capital as well as Narayangonj, were not on drugs, UNB reports. The Forensic Department of Dhaka Medical College Hospital…

Two accused in a case for killing a schoolboy were killed in a reported gunfight with members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) at Darshana Shantipara in Damurhuda upazila early yesterday, reports UNB. The deceased were identified as Sabuj, 24, son of late Hamidul Islam, and Shakil, 23, son of Abdul Kader…

Kurdish forces launched a major assault yesterday on a town held by the Islamic State group near Mosul, opening a new front in the offensive to wrest…

The Gujarat High Court yesterday acquitted 14 people out of 31 convicted by a lower court and confirmed life sentence of 17 others, in the 2002 post-Godhra Sardarpura massacre case in which 33 people were burnt alive, reports PTI from Ahmedabad. A division bench of Justices Harsha Devani and Biren Vaishnav…

The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) yesterday sought permission from the government for holding a rally at Suhrawardy Udyan either on November 7 or 8 to observe ‘National Revolution and Solidarity Day’ marking the "civil-military uprising” in 1975. “We've decided…

The body of a Rajshahi University (RU) student was recovered from a gutter beside Nabab Adul Latif Residential Hall around 8am yesterday.  Two students were detained by the police in this connection. The deceased was identified as Motaleb Hosaain Lipu, a second-year student of the mass communication…