Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Commissioner Md Asaduzzaman Miah yesterday claimed that the DMP had not got any application yet from the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) seeking permission to hold a public meeting at Nayapaltan. He was talking to reporters after awarding certificates to the newly-trained…

The depression over the west-central Bay of Bengal intensified into a deep depression yesterday afternoon, which sped on a north-north-easterly course towards the Barisal-Chittagong coast. It was expected to cross the coast this morning, gaining in strength as it approached the shore, sources in the…

National Professor and eminent child specialist Dr MR Khan breathed his last at Central Hospital in the capital yesterday. He was 88. He breathed his…

Iraqi special forces threw themselves back into battle yesterday after a first foray into Mosul was blunted by stiffer than expected resistance from jihadists defending the birthplace of their “caliphate”, reports AFP from Bartalla, Iraq. While the elite Counter-Terrorism Service (CTS) fought…

At least 30 people were injured in Indian-controlled Kashmir on Saturday after government forces fired shotgun pellets and tear gas as a funeral procession for a teenager turned into a protest against Indian rule, reports AP from Srinagar. Police and paramilitary soldiers intercepted the mourners carrying…

Foreign Secretary Shahidul Haque is scheduled to undertake a three-day visit to New Delhi from Tuesday (November 8) to prepare the ground work for Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s visit to India next month, according to diplomatic sources. On Wednesday, they said that Foreign Secretary Haque will…

Ousted Thai PM Yingluck Shinawatra doled out sacks of rice to hundreds of star-struck shoppers yesterday, in her latest move to outshine junta efforts…