The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) wants to rejuvenate the party rank and file in the capital by engaging them in the forthcoming Dhaka civic polls,…

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia's sister Selima Islam yesterday said they have been planning to make a special appeal seeking her release from jail as they are worried about her life. Selima, however, did not make it clear whether they will make the appeal to the government or the apex court. Talking…

Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) -7 destroyed some poppy fields in a remote hilly area in Ruma upazila of Bandarban yesterday. Poppies were being…

Sixteen leaders and activists of Jamaat–e–Islami and Islami Chhatra Shibir were arrested by members of the district police from Charmohanpur area of Chapainawabganj Sadar upazila yesterday while holding a secret meeting. Police also seized 15 cocktails and half-kg of gunpowder from their…

Various cold-related diseases have affected 5,867 people across the country in the last 24 hours. Data from the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) control room showed that 879 of the patients received treatment for acute respiratory infection. Another 2,014 were treated for diarrhoea and…

Democratic House prosecutors made an expansive case Thursday at Donald Trump’s impeachment trial that he abused power like no other president in…

The Economist — whose sister concern Economist Intelligence Unit ranked India 10 places lower in the Democracy Index earlier this week—has dedicated its latest cover to what it calls ‘Intolerant India’ and criticised the Narendra Modi government over the new citizenship law CAA…

The Border Security Force or BSF said yesterday that a substantial increase in the outflow of illegal Bangladeshi migrants to their home country has been recorded over the past one month, following the enactment of the Citizenship Amendment Act or CAA. A top official of the paramilitary force said fear…