As part of pledged humanitarian assistance, Bangladesh has donated US$ 5,30,000 (over Tk 4.3 crore) for the construction of two/three multi-purpose cyclone shelters in Rakhine state of Myanmar. Ambassador to Myanmar Sufiur Rahman formally handed over a cheque of this amount to Social Welfare, Relief…

The British government on Thursday begins the mammoth task of overhauling its legal set-up in time for Brexit, as a top official warned the government was woefully unprepared for withdrawal from the European Union, reports AFP from London. The "Repeal Bill" will pave the way for existing European…

Chairman of the International Crimes Tribunal-1 Justice Anwarul Haque died at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) in the capital yesterday at the age of 61, reports UNB. Justice Anwarul who had been suffering from cancer breathed his last at the hospital around 5:30pm, said ICT registrar…

US first lady Melania Trump took her own path through Paris on Thursday as she and President Donald Trump began a two-day visit to the French capital,…

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia yesterday asked the party leaders and activists to strengthen the party and keep it united in her absence. She gave the directives at a meeting of the party’s standing committee, the highest policymaking body, at her Gulshan office last night, a day ahead of her visit…

China's Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo died yesterday after a battle with cancer, remaining in custody until the end as officials rebuffed international pleas to let the prominent dissident receive treatment abroad, reports AFP. The veteran of the 1989 Tiananmen Square pro-democracy protests died aged…