The announcement of the election schedule was made amid an ongoing tussle between the Awami League-led coalition and the Jatyio Oikyafront, in which the…

 The United States will no longer allow people who enter the country illegally to claim asylum, officials said Thursday, unveiling a controversial new crackdown on immigration. The restriction on asylum claims will seek to address what a senior administration official called the “historically…

A suspected drug trader was killed in a reported gunfight with police at Ujjalpur Field in Sadar upazila early yesterday. The deceased was identified as Pappu Hossain, 30, a listed 'drug trader' and son of Bazlur Rahman of Akandabaria village in the upaizla. The 'criminals' opened fire…

Thales Alenia Space which developed Bangladesh's first geostationary communications satellite, Bangabandhu-1, yesterday handed over its transmission and operation management to Bangladesh. A delegation of the Franco-Italian aerospace company handed over relevant documents to acting Chairman of Bangladesh…

China is unleashing stealth drones and pilotless aircraft fitted with AK-47 rifles onto world markets, racing to catch up to US technology and adding…

Syrian government forces killed 22 rebels near Idlib province yesterday, the deadliest clash to rock a buffer zone where a Russian-Turkish truce is to be enforced. The attack on a position held by the Jaish al-Izza rebel group took place on the edge of the northwestern province of Idlib, in an area…

Delhi authorities have imposed a three-day ban on trucks entering the world’s most polluted major city as its 20 million inhabitants wheezed in the toxic annual winter smog. With levels of air pollution classed as “hazardous”, the restriction on the nearly 40,000 medium and heavy lorries…