Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal yesterday said the business community is no longer against implementation of the new VAT law. "There was a little bit of misunderstanding with the business community over implementation of the VAT law, but now it's over," he said. The Finance Minister…

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia will be taken to Keraniganj Jail after her treatment at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU), Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan said yesterday. The old central jail, where she had been kept since February last year, will be converted into a museum, he told reporters…

Rakhine villagers trapped by a Myanmar army lockdown said Tuesday they are fast running out of water as the operation against suspected ethnic rebels -- which killed six and saw mass detentions -- entered a third week. Thousands of troops have been deployed across northern Rakhine to root out Arakan…

Myanmar's military commanders should be financially "isolated" and brought to trial to face charges of war crimes and genocide against the Rohingya minority, UN investigators said yesterday. The United Nations fact-finding mission on the situation in Myanmar called on the international…

A mobile court of Bangladesh Food Safety Authority (BFSA) yesterday fined Igloo Ice Cream, a subsidiary of Abdul Monem Group, Tk 5 lakh for various irregularities at its Kadamtali branch in the capital. Lead by Tusar Ahmed, executive magistrate of BFSA, the team conducted a drive at the Kadamtali branch…

Five people, including two Rohingya men, were killed in separate 'gunfights' in Cox's Bazar, Jashore and Pabna early yesterday. In Cox's Bazar, two Rohingya 'human traffickers' were killed in an alleged gunfight with police on Marine Drive Road in Teknaf's Shamlarpur area…

Sri Lanka announced yesterday a curfew for a second straight night after a man was killed by sword-wielding rioters in an escalating anti-Muslim backlash following the Easter terror attacks. Violence broke out late Monday, three weeks after Islamist extremist bombings killed 258 people, with rampaging…

The Moon is steadily shrinking, causing wrinkling on its surface and quakes, according to an analysis of imagery captured by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance…