With a promise to promote Bengali literature and culture to the global community, International Literary Festival for the sixth time began yesterday on…

The BNP yesterday decided to contest the Narayanganj City Corporation (NCC) polls scheduled for December 22 but opted against joining the upcoming ‘zila parishad’ polls as it thinks the  election system is contradictory to the constitution. The party has also decided to nominate its…

Twenty-five Bangladeshis who had got stranded at Herat province in Afghanistan after going there illegally returned home yesterday, reports UNB. The Bangladeshi nationals went to the country illegally to get job in a factory which was shut after 2-3 months. Later, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs took…

Jamdani, one of the finest muslin textiles of Bengal, has got registered as the country’s first Geographical Indication (GI) product, reports UNB. Industries Minister Amir Hossain Amu handed over the registration certificate to BSCIC chairman Mustak Hasan Mohammad Iftekhar at a programme at the…

The Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) yesterday filed an appeal with the High Court challenging a portion of a lower court verdict that had acquitted Awami League lawmaker Abdur Rahman Badi of the charges in a corruption case. Later, ACC lawyer Advocate Khurshid Alam Khan told reporters that the lower…

A third structure has been found within the famous Kukulkan pyramid in eastern Mexico, experts say, reports BBC. The 10m (33t) tall pyramid was found…

Hillary Clinton has laid bare her disappointment at her election defeat to Donald Trump in her first public appearance since she lost a week ago, reports BBC. The Democratic candidate said she had wanted to “curl up with a good book and never leave the house again”. But in a speech at a…

Iraqi forces piled pressure on the Islamic State group around Mosul yesterday, moving closer to cutting off the jihadists’ escape route west to Syria and thrusting deeper into the east of the city, reports AFP from Mosul. Pro-government paramilitaries advancing on the town of Tal Afar, which commands…