The Crime Investigation Department (CID) has arrested seven bKash agents for alleged illegal transactions. They were arrested on Wednesday from several…

A writ petition was filed with the High Court yesterday seeking its directive for making mandatory the observance of eight national days, including Independence Day and Martyred Intellectuals Day, for all political parties and citizens. The petition also sought the court directives on cancellation of…

US President Donald Trump has unleashed a spectacular denunciation of one of his closest political allies, describing former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon as insane and irrelevant, reports AFP from Washington. After the release of explosive excerpts from a new book in which Bannon reportedly…

Turkey reacted furiously Thursday to the fraud conviction in New York of a Turkish banker which came after an explosive trial over Iran sanctions-busting that implicated ex-ministers and even President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, reports AFP from Istanbul. The conviction of Mehmet Hakan Atilla, deputy chief…

Social Welfare Minister Rashed Khan Menon yesterday expected increase in the budgetary allocation for his ministry in the future, reports BSS. "I get an opportunity of developing a welfare-oriented society as I have got the charge of Social Welfare Ministry. I hope the fiscal allocation for the…

The Bangladesh Army has honoured the visiting Kuwait armed forces chief of staff, Lt. Gen. Mohammad Khaled Al Khadher, by awarding him the "Bangladesh…

The United States warned Iranian officials yesterday that protesters jailed or killed in a crackdown on anti-government demonstrations will "not be forgotten, " reports AFP. "We condemn in the strongest possible terms the deaths to date and the arrests of at least one thousand Iranians,"…

Bangladesh and Myanmar are likely to finalise an agreement on 'physical arrangement' on January 15 to start the repatriation of Rohingyas from Bangladesh to Myanmar, reports UNB. The two countries will hold the first meeting of the Joint Working Group (JWG) in Myanmar's capital on January…