President Abdul Hamid yesterday expressed the hope that formation of a strong and effective Election Commission (EC) would be possible on the basis of the opinion and proposals of political parties, reports BSS. Political parties have given well-thought-out proposals and opinion about the formation…

A baby has been born to a previously infertile couple in Ukraine using a new type of “three-person IVF”, reports BBC qouting a news report…

Embracing his clemency powers like never before, President Barack Obama is planning more commutations in his final days in office after a dramatic move to cut short convicted leaker Chelsea Manning’s sentence, reports AFP from Washington. Obama became the president to have granted more commutations…

The High Court yesterday asked the government to explain in four weeks why ruling Awami League (AL) lawmaker from Tangail-3 constituency Amanur Rahman Khan Rana should not be granted bail in freedom fighter Faruk Ahmed murder case. The HC bench of justices Sheikh Abdul Awal and Md Khasruzzaman came…

An Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) team yesterday raided the Bureau of Manpower, Employment and Training (BMET) office in the city following allegations of massive corruption and misrule. In a first for the ACC, the commission’s director general, Mohammad Monir Chowdhury, himself led the six-member…

President-elect Donald Trump was hit with a defamation lawsuit on Tuesday by a former contestant on his reality television show “The Apprentice,” who had previously accused him of sexual misconduct, reports AFP from Los Angeles. Summer Zervos’s lawsuit claims that Trump—set to…

An Indian court yesterday acquitted Bollywood superstar Salman Khan of using unlicensed firearms to kill protected wildlife almost two decades ago, reports…

About 13 million pages of declassified documents from the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) have been released online, BBC reports. The records include UFO sightings and psychic experiments from the Stargate programme, which has long been of interest to conspiracy theorists.  The move came after…