HM Ershad-led Jatiya Party (JP) will today  decide  on acting as the main opposition in the 11th Parliament. The party has also expressed dissatisfaction…

Given the massive sale, consumption and misuse of drugs, even by those in charge of containing it, in 2018, the Department of Narcotics Control (DNC) plans to wage an all-out war on this menace. The DNC will wage the war on three fronts—international, local and misappropriation of drugs by suspected…

About 30 lakh of the 40.07 lakh people left out of the final draft of the updated National Register of Citizens (NRC) published five months ago have applied again for inclusion during the claims and objections round that ended on Monday. During the phase, 600 objections also came in from those who doubted…

Prime Minister's ICT Adviser Sajeeb Wazed Joy has said the US-based National Democratic Institute (NDI) tried to appoint an organization, led by the former Deputy Attorney General of the opposition, as election observer which was in violation of the electoral code. "Trying to appoint an opposition…

Nuclear-armed North Korea wants good relations with the US but could consider a change of approach if Washington maintains its sanctions, leader Kim Jong Un warned in his New Year speech yesterday after 12 months of diplomatic rapprochement. At a summit with US President Donald Trump in Singapore in…

A Thai man who felt slighted by his in-laws shot dead six family members including his two young children at a New Year's Eve party before turning the gun on himself, police said yesterday. The mass shooting took place 10 minutes after midnight as Sucheep Sornsung joined his wife's family to…