The improvement of the flood situation is likely to continue across the country as all major rivers are in the falling trend, a Flood Forecasting and Warning Centre (FFWC) official told BSS yesterday. "Floodwater has started receding in the flood-hit districts of the country as the Brahmaputra-Jamuna…

Fugitive former Thai premier Yingluck Shinawatra fled to Dubai and may try to seek asylum in the UK, a junta source told AFP Saturday, after she ducked a legal ruling, wrong-footing the court and her supporters alike, reports AFP from Bangkok. Yingluck, 50, was due on Friday morning to arrive at the…

Hundreds of troops yesterday patrolled a northern Indian city hit by deadly clashes that killed at least 30 people after thousands protested a court's…

The 41st death anniversary of National Poet Kazi Nazrul Islam will be observed in a befitting manner today, reports BSS. On this day (12 Bhadra of Bangla…

Dhaka North City Corporation Mayor Annisul Huq, who is now being treated in a hospital in central London after falling ill, has been kept sedated as the medicines given so far have failed to make any impact, reports UNB. Rubana Huq, wife of Mayor Annisul Huq, in a press statement in London on Friday…