Awami League (AL) general secretary Obaidul Quader yesterday said the future of the Jatiya Party (JP-Ershad) will depend upon the political steps taken by its new leadership. “I heard that the JP will be run by a joint leadership. I always tell one thing that those who can take the right decision…

The BNP has decided to hold public meetings in all the eight divisional cities before Eid-ul-Azha to demand the release of party chairperson Khaleda Zia. The decision was taken at a meeting of the party standing committee held at the Khaleda Zia's Gulshan office, with party secretary general Mirza…

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will attend a conference of Bangladesh envoys in Europe, the first of its kind, in the British capital of London today. “The prime minister will join the conference at a hotel in the British capital tomorrow afternoon (London time),” PM’s Press Secretary…

Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra was taken into preventive custody yesterday when she went to meet the victims of Sonbhadra incident in…

Tehran yesterday denied the United States had downed one of its drones, saying all Iranian aircraft were accounted for and jesting Washington may have accidentally hit their own machine. The latest incident in the strategic Strait of Hormuz comes amid soaring tensions between the two foes, with Washington…

German Chancellor Angela Merkel yesterday condemned President Donald Trump's xenophobic tweets against four minority Democratic congresswomen, saying the US leader's attacks "go against what makes America great." "I firmly distance myself from (the attacks) and I feel solidarity…

A mob in an Indian village beat to death three men suspected of stealing cattle yesterday in a new "cow vigilante" attack reported by police that highlights hardening Hindu nationalism. A fourth man was in critical condition in hospital after the attack in a village in the eastern state of…