Issues related to Rohingyas, migration and climate change are likely to dominate the bilateral talks when Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina meets Pope Francis, the spiritual leader of the Catholics across the globe, today at the Vatican state, a sovereign country within Italy. Besides, sources concerned…

Asma Jehangir, one of Pakistan's prominent right activists and lawyers, has died of a heart attack in the eastern city of Lahore yesterday, reports…

Saudi women should not have to wear the abaya, a long loose-fitting robe used to cover their bodies in public, a top religious cleric has said, reports…

A Russian passenger plane carrying 71 people crashed near Moscow yesterday minutes after taking off, killing everyone on board in one of the country's worst ever aviation disasters, reports AFP. Investigators said the Antonov An-148 plane crashed in the Ramensky district on the outskirts of Moscow…

Law Minister Anisul Huq yesterday said the court and the Election Commission will take the final decision whether BNP chief Khaleda Zia will be able to participate in the upcoming national election, reports UNB. "The government is not scared of any threat. The law will take its own course...the…

As part of its countrywide scheduled programme, BNP leaders and activists will stage a human chain in the city today protesting the jailing of its chairperson Khaleda Zia in a graft case, reports UNB. The party senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi said that their party leaders and followers…