BNP is going to celebrate its 41st founding anniversary across the country today with various programmes. On September 1, 1978, late Ziaur Rahman founded the party with a 19-point programme to build a self-reliant Bangladesh. BNP and its associate bodies have taken up elaborate programmes like holding…

The mobile courts of the Dhaka North City Corporation (DSCC) conducted drives at different parts of the city with the aim to curb the breeding of dengue mosquitoes in the capital. The DNCC yesterday (Saturday) detected the presence of the larvae of the Aedes Aegypti mosquito, which acts as the carrier…

The Commissioner of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP), Md Asaduzzaman Mia, is going to be appointed Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the proposed "National Security Affairs Cell". The appointment will be made within this month. He will be the first CEO of the proposed cell that will be formed…

Alleged 9/11 plotter Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four others held at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp will finally go on trial in 2021, almost two decades after the devastating Al-Qaeda attack, the New York Times reported Friday. A military judge at the US Navy's Guantanamo, Cuba base set the date…

Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen on Saturday said 41 non-government organisations (NGOs) have been withdrawn from all kinds of activities in Cox’s Bazar Rohingya camps for their wrongdoings. A total of 139 NGOs have been operating in the Rohingya camps since the Rohingya crisis began in August,…

Twitter said Friday the account of chief executive Jack Dorsey had been "compromised" after a series of erratic and offensive messages were posted. The tweets containing racial slurs and suggestions about a bomb showed up around 2000 GMT on the @jack account of the founder of the short messaging…

President Donald Trump on Friday released a photograph of an apparently failed Iranian rocket launch and said that the United States had nothing to do…