More than 4,000 fighters left rebel-held areas of Aleppo, the Red Cross said yesterday, in the “last stages” of an evacuation clearing the way for Syria’s army to retake the city, reports AFP from Aleppo. A week into the rebel withdrawal from the east of Syria’s second city,…

Nepal’s former king has warned that national unity is under attack, making a rare public statement after protests sparked by proposed changes to new federal borders, reports AFP from Kathmandu. Gyanendra Shah, the last king of Nepal, was deposed eight years ago following a Maoist revolution and…

A Dhaka court yesterday adjourned the hearing in the Zia Charitable Trust graft case against BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia and four others till January 5, 2017. Judge Abu Ahmed Jamadar of the special judge court-3 passed the order following an adjournment petition filed by Advocate Sana Ullah Miah on…

Eight people were killed when Taliban suicide bombers stormed the residence of an Afghan lawmaker in the capital Kabul, officials said after the attackers…

The two submarines, named ‘Joijatra’ and ‘Navojatra’, reached Chittagong port from China yesterday. On November 15, the Chinese government handed over the two submarines to Admiral Mohammad Nizamuddin Ahmed, chief of the Bangladesh Navy, during his visit to China. The Navy will…

The Customs intelligence has seized a car belonging to Internal Labour Organisation(ILO) official Kishore Kumar Singh for misusing duty free facilities. This was confirmed by Director General of the customs intelligence Dr Mainul Khan yesterday. Earlier, Kishore Kumar Singh, a senior skills development…