At least 17 people are feared dead as a boat sank in the Sandwip Channel with 52 passengers on board on Sunday night, with the Bangladesh Coast Guard recovering five bodies and rescuing 30 people at the time of filing of the report around 5:00pm yesterday. The boat capsized around 7pm on Sunday at the…

A team of Maldives police arrived in Rajshahi yesterday to investigate a case filed over the death of Raudha Athif, Maldivian model and student of Islami Bank Medical College. A two-member team of the Maldives police arrived at Shah Makhdum Airport around 4:50pm by a flight of a private airline. Zillur…

The High Court yesterday asked the government to explain the non-inclusion of the editors of national newspapers in the warrant of precedence (WoP). The government has to respond in four weeks. The WoP is a state-level hierarchy of people accorded by the government, mostly in the context of very formal…

Police yesterday arrested seven suspected militants including a medical student from a house at Kalibari of Mymensingh town. The arrestees are Shahidul Islam, 30, Alamin, 25, Ashikur Rahman, 19, Masum Ahammed, 30, Shah Al Hossain Mamun, 27, Nasir Uddin, 27 and Ruman Miah, 27, all residents of Mymensingh…

The BNP has said that organising the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) Assembly in Bangladesh was a "farce", as there is no people's representative in the present Parliament and human rights are being violated in the country. At a meeting on Sunday night, the BNP standing committee, the…

Europe is becoming the global hub for the hosting of child sexual abuse images and videos, reports BBC quoting a report of IWF. The Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) found that 60% of worldwide abuse material was now in Europe - an increase of 19%. The Netherlands topped the list of European nations hosting…