The BNP yesterday said that the party was far from worried about the arrest warrants against its chairperson, Khaleda Zia, and that it would fight them both legally and politically after she returned home on Wednesday from London. The move was politically motivated, it claimed. Khaleda Zia is curently…

“Whizz-kid”, “Basti Fantasti”, “Messiah” are just some of the monikers given to Austrian conservative Sebastian Kurz,…

The ‘second in command’ of a forest robber gang was killed in a reported gunfight with Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) members in Shailo Khal area of the Sundarbans yesterday morning, reports UNB from Bagerhat. The deceased was identified as Mokter Molla, second-in-command of notorious forest…

A controversial Indian politician from the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), has called the Taj Mahal a "blot on Indian culture" built by…

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said the ongoing Rohingya problem could be solved through her five-point proposal placed  at the UN General Assembly on September 21 last, reports UNB. “We don’t want any war; we believe all the problems can be solved through discussions. The Rohingya…

The monsoon, which came a little later than its expected arrival on June 17, left Bangladesh yesterday (Monday). It left a new record in recent times of 20-25 per cent more than average rainfall in its five months' stay. In June, the precipitations were 3.7 per cent higher than average. Similarly,…