BNP yesterday turned down the new 47-member cabinet, led by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, which took oath on Monday. "We earlier rejected the election results as people have no relation with it. It can be said people completely boycotted the election and they didn't accept its results. So making…

India's lower house, Lok Sabha, yesterday passed legislation that will grant citizenship to members of certain religious minorities but not Muslims, sparking protests in the country's northeast. The bill covers select groups – including Hindus, Christians and Sikhs – who moved from…

Education Minister Dr Dipu Moni said yesterday that tackling question paper leak would be a priority for her. Talking to reporters at her Secretariat office, she said ensuring qualitative education was one of the important pledges in the 21-point electoral manifesto of the Awami League (AL) and she…

Prices of rice and paddy have increased by Tk. 100 to Tk. 120 per maund since the beginning of the new year. In this backdrop, the government has decided to discuss the issue with traders on Thursday. The newly appointed food minister, Sadhan Chandra Majumder, said yesterday (Tuesday) that his ministry…

President Donald Trump was set yesterday to deliver a primetime address to the nation on immigration as he pushed for a showdown in his battle for a controversial US-Mexico border wall. Trump's plans for a national address at 9:00 pm (0200 GMT Wednesday) and a trip to the actual border Thursday…

Law-enforcers yesterday detained five foreign nationals from the galleries of the Sher-e-Bangladesh National Cricket Stadium (SBNCS) in Mirpur on the third day of the Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) sixth-edition for their involvement in ‘spot fixing’. Later, a mobile court fined them Tk…

Dhaka Dynamites changed the trend of early afternoon game of the Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) and in doing so, they recorded the second biggest victory…