Upazila Nirbahi Officer (UNO) of Barguna Sadar Tariq Salman, who had to endure harassment following the filing of a defamation case by a Barisal Awami League leader, has been transferred to the Cabinet Division, reports UNB. He has been transferred to the Cabinet Division as a senior assistant secretary,…

Pakistan's parliament elected ex-oil minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi as prime minister on Tuesday, days after three-times premier Nawaz Sharif was ousted…

Haruner Rashid Khan Monno, an industrialist and BNP chairperson's advisory council member, died at a hospital founded by him in Manikganj yesterday. He was 86, reports UNB. Monno, also a former minister without portfolio, breathed his last while undergoing treatment at Monno Medical College and…

Police arrested a local journalist from his residence in Dumuria upazila of Khulna yesterday in a case filed under section 57 of the ICT Act over a Facebook post allegedly 'demeaning State Minister for Fisheries and Livestock Narayan Chandra Chanda', reports UNB. A local man, Subrata Mazumder,…

Indian forces killed a top militant commander in Kashmir on Tuesday, triggering clashes in which one protester was killed and dozens injured, reports AFP from Srinagar. Abu Dujana, a senior fighter from the Pakistan-based militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba, was killed during a raid near Srinagar in the…

A suicide bomber and a gunman killed more than 20 people at a Shiite mosque in Afghanistan's main western city of Herat yesterday, the latest attack to highlight a deteriorating security situation in the country, reports AFP. The assault on the Jawadya mosque in Herat, which is close to Afghanistan's…