BNP leaders Rabiul Islam Robi, Kazi Khairuzzaman Shipon and Mainul Hasan Sadik are frontrunners as party’s candidates to contest the by-elections to Dhaka-10, Bagerhat-4 and Gaibandha-3 constituencies respectively, according to party sources. However, the party would finalise the candidates after…

Saudi Arabia sent back another batch of Bangladeshi migrant workers Thursday night amid a deportation spree. The country earlier sent back 183 migrant workers including 20 female workers on two separate flights on Wednesday night. 102 deportees arrived at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka…

Five people, including three women, drowned as a boat capsized in Kaptai Lake of Rangamati district yesterday. The deceased women were identified as Rina, Shila and Asma while the identities of the other two could not be known yet. Witnesses said the boat carrying 15 people on board sank in the lake…

At least 7 people were killed and 50 others injured in road crashes in Gopalganj, Kushtia, Jamalpur and Jhenaidah districts since Thursday night. In Gopalganj, five construction workers were killed and seven others injured when a bus hit a human hauler on Dhaka-Khulna highway at Pona Bus Stand in Kashiani…

Government forces made new gains in northwestern Syria yesterday, further chipping away at the country's last major rebel pocket, a war monitor said. Syrian government and allied forces, which have kept up a blistering assault on the Idlib region since December, are now securing areas along a key…

A plan to clear 35,000kg of rubbish from Everest and five other Himalayan peaks has been slammed by some of Nepal's leading mountaineers. The government…

US Attorney General William Barr has said that President Donald Trump "undercuts" him by tweeting, making it "impossible for me to do my job". His criticism of Trump comes amid intense scrutiny of the Justice Department over the handling of a case involving Roger Stone - a convicted…

Police recovered the body of a doctor from the room of the Director of Matuail Friendship Hospital in the city yesterday. The man was identified as Dr Mobarak Karim, 33, hailing from Lalmohon upazila of Bhola. He was an anesthesia specialist of BIRDEM-2 hospital of Segunbagicha. A police team recovered…