A Pirojpur freedom fighter succumbed to injuries early Tuesday after being beaten mercilessly allegedly by a union parisad (UP) member and his accomplice.  The freedom fighter was identified as Abdus Salam Khan, 62, of Shialkathi village under Bhandaria upazila in the district. He was a retired…

Terrorism deaths fell last year thanks to a weakening of the Islamic State group in Iraq and Boko Haram in Nigeria, but both groups expanded their geographic reach, a new index revealed yesterday, reports AFP from London. Some 29,376 people died from terrorism in 2015, down 3,389 on the previous year…

Indian Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar is likely to arrive Dhaka on November 30 on a three-day visit, reports UNB. The visit is expected to help Bangladesh and India discuss ways to strengthen bilateral defence cooperation between the two countries, an official said without elaborating details of…

The Oxford Dictionaries chose “post-truth” as their word of the year yesterday, saying its use had spiked in the past year because of the Brexit vote in Britain and the rise of Donald Trump in the United States, reports AFP from London. “Post-truth has gone from being a peripheral…

Music icon Bob Dylan will not attend the Nobel ceremony in December to accept his literature prize because he has "other commitments", AFP reports quoting the Swedish Academy yesterday. "The Swedish Academy received a personal letter from Bob Dylan yesterday where he explained that he…

Two Indian citizens were recently detained at Benapole border with a suitcase full of two-taka notes.The notes were being taken across the border to be sold to drug addicts and to print fake two-dollar notes. The notes would have been sold for Rs. 5 each. The consignments were worth Tk. 41,600 and Tk.…