BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has convened an urgent meeting of her party's standing committee today as a court here fixed date for pronouncing verdict in a graft case filed against her, reports UNB. The meeting of the BNP policy-making body is scheduled to begin around 8:30pm at the BNP chairperson's…

Indonesian President Joko Widodo is scheduled to arrive in Bangladesh today on a two-day state visit. According to diplomatic sources, Bangladesh can benefit from the increased engagements between Indonesia, the largest Muslim country in the world, and Myanmar in resolving the protracted Rohingya crisis,…

Vice-chancellor of Islamic University (IU) Professor Dr M Harun-Ur-Rashid Askari came under attack by some unidentified miscreants on his way to Kushtia from Jhenidah early yesterday, reports UNB. Some miscreants stopped the car carrying the Vice-Chancellor by felling trees near Baroda area on Jhenidah-Kushtia…

A huge fire tore through a South Korean hospital yesterday killing at least 37 people, the government said, in the country’s worst blaze for a decade,…

President Donald Trump on Thursday accused the Palestinians of disrespecting the United States and threatened to withhold aid worth hundreds of millions of dollars until they accede to US-brokered talks, reports AFp from Davos, Switzerland. In a significant sharpening of his rhetoric against the leadership…