Contradicting a Reuters report yesterday, Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) commissioner Asaduzzaman Mia said that they had no information that Gulshan cafe attack mastermind Tamim Ahmed Chowdhury obtained approval from the Islamic State (IS) before carrying out the attack. He said this while addressing…

BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir yesterday reiterated their party’s call to the government for engaging in talks forgetting past bitterness to find out an effective way for peaceful handover of power through fair polls, UNB reports. “We once again call upon the government,…

Malaysia accused Myanmar of engaging in the “ethnic cleansing” of its Rohingya minority yesterday, as former UN chief Kofi Annan visited a…

China protested to Washington yesterday after US President-elect Donald Trump broke with decades of foreign policy and spoke with the president of Taiwan, reports AFP from Beijing. It was not immediately clear whether Trump’s telephone call with Tsai Ing-wen marked a deliberate pivot away from…

Nine people were killed and 25 missing after a huge blaze broke out during a rave party near San Francisco held in a cluttered, maze-like warehouse for artists, fire officials said yesterday, reports AFP. Oakland Fire Chief Teresa Deloach Reed said most of those who died in the blaze that started about…

Sergio Ramos's stoppage-time equaliser maintained Real Madrid's six-point lead at the top of La Liga as the European champions salvaged a 1-1 draw at Barcelona in Saturday's El Clasico, reports AFP. Luis Suarez looked to have breathed new life into the title race when he headed home the…