A California based venture capital company FENOX VC is interested to invest $200 million in Bangladesh’s IT sector in the next few years, in a bid…

Four people including an alleged leader of the militant group neo JMB were killed in reported gunfights with law enforcers in Bogra, Brahmanbaria and Bagerhat districts yesterday, reports UNB. A suspected neo JMB member was killed in a 'gunfight' with police at Jamnagar in Sherpur upazila of…

The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) yesterday called upon the people to be united and build a strong resistance to all “anti-democratic” and “anti-state” moves of the government. “We urge all people from all strata of society to stand up and raise their voices and resist…

Eminent citizens have said that the major challenge before the newly appointed Election Commission (EC) was to restore people’s confidence about its impartiality. Former chief election commissioner (CEC) ATM Shamsul Huda said: “It’s very important for the new commission to gain the…

The only North Korean arrested over the dramatic airport assassination of Kim Jong-Nam is to be deported, Malaysia said yesterday, as it announced the abrupt cancellation of a visa-waiver programme with Pyongyang, reports AFP. The moves came the day after two young women appeared in court charged with…

Anti-Corruption Commi­ssion yesterday arrested Emdadul Alam, a former chief engineer of Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha (RAJUK), for illegally ama­ssing wealth and concealing wealth information. Talking to The Independent, ACC Public Relations Officer (PRO) Pranab Kumar Bhattacharya said,“…

The United Nations rapporteur on human rights in Myanmar yesterday called for the creation of a Commission of Inquiry (COI), the UN's highest-level probe, to investigate abuses in the country, reports AFP. Rights envoy Yanghee Lee made the appeal in a report submitted to the UN rights council, currently…