Mirza Ali Behrouze Ispahani, chairman of the Ispahani Group, breathed his last at 5am yesterday at Apollo Hospital in Dhaka. He was 67. His first Namaz-e-Janaza…

A case was filed against national cricketer Arafat Sunny and his mother Nargis Akter on charge of demanding Tk 20 lakh as dowry from a woman who claims to be his wife, reports UNB. The woman, Nasrin Sultana, filed the case with the court of Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Raihanul Islam yesterday. After…

A government health warning over the potential dangers of toast, roast potatoes and chips—all traditional staples of the British diet—had…

For decades, Indians have grappled with the question of whether Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose died in an airplane crash at Taipei in August 1945, but the…

Seven personalities have been awarded with the Bangla Academy Shahitya Puroshkar for 2017 for their outstanding contributions to their respective field of literature, reports BSS. Director General of Bangla Academy Professor Shamsuzzaman Khan announced the names at a press briefing yesterday at the…

Jahangir Alam alias Rajib Gandhi, a top Neo-JMB leader and the mastermind of the Gulshan terror attack, reportedly made confession before a Dhaka court yesterday, UNB reports. Metropolitan Magistrate Ahsan Habib recorded the confessional statement of Rajib after M Humayun Kabir, an inspector of the…