Bahalul Alam Bahar, a lawyer of the Dhaka Bar Association, has filed a defamation case of Tk. 500 crore against the owner and an anchor of private television channel SATV for allegedly branding the new election commissioners as “Gopals”. Bahalul filed the case in the Dhaka chief metropolitan…

It’s the stuff of nightmares—a cockroach crawls up your nose in the middle of the night, burrows in and drives you mad with scratching behind…

Pakistan says its archrival India is building a “secret nuclear city” to produce thermonuclear weapons as well as developing intercontinental missiles and secretly stockpiling nuclear material, reports AFP from Islamabad. Foreign Ministry spokesman Nafees Zakaria made the allegations at…

President Donald Trump’s extended criticism of the judiciary has prompted a rebuke from his nominee for the Supreme Court, who told a senator the president’s comments were “demoralising and disheartening,” reports AP from Washington. Judge Neil Gorsuch, who was nominated by Trump…

The Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) yesterday arrested former secretary and former Rajuk chairman Iqbal Uddin Chowdhury and director of Partex Group Shawkat Aziz from the capital in a graft case, reports UNB. An ACC team, led by its director Syed Iqbal Hossain, arrested Iqbal Uddin from the city's…

Law minister Anisul Huq has assured non-resident Bangladeshis (NRBs) that the government would not enact any laws detrimental to their interests. NRBs can contest in the local government polls and join political parties. But they cannot contest for Jatiya Sangsad seats, the post of the President and…