A High Court bench yesterday delivered a split verdict on a writ petition challenging the legality of Awami League (AL) leader Nizam Uddin Hazari’s membership of Parliament. Senior judge of the bench, Justice Md Emdadul Huq, declared the election of the Feni-2 constituency MP, Nizam Hazari, illegal,…

A Republican member of the Electoral College from Texas said Monday that he won't cast one of his state’s 38 electoral votes for Donald Trump because ‘I am here to elect a president, not a king”, reports AP from Austin, Texas. Dallas paramedic Chris Suprun previously indicated…

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's special assistant Mahbubul Hoque Shakil passed away at a Japanese restaurant in the ctiy’s Gulshan area yesterday at the age of 47, reports UNB. Shakil, a former vice-president of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL), breathed his last at Samdado Restaurant, sources…

Hundreds of thousands of mourners paid an emotional final farewell yesterday to Indian politician Jayalalithaa Jayaram as the former movie star who enjoyed…

The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) yesterday approved the country’s biggest ever project, the ‘Establishment of the Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant (main phase)’, at an estimated cost of Tk. 1,13,092.91 crore to construct two units of a nuclear power plant…