The authorities concerned have declared a list of 22 national highways where plying of three-wheelers, including CNG-driven auto-rickshaws and non-mechanised vehicles, has been banned. Road transport and bridges minister Obaidul Quader yesterday declared the names of the 22 highways at a press briefing…

The Detective Branch of police yesterday arrested Hefazat-e-Islam nayeb-e-amir Mufti Izharul Islam Chowdhury from Jameyatul-Ulum-Al Islamia Madrassa in the city’s Lalkhan Bazar area. Led by SM Tanvir Arafat, the sleuths arrested the Hefazat leader after conducting a raid at the madrassa at 2:30pm.…

Several international rights groups and online activists have strongly condemned the killing of blogger Niladri Chakrabarti, alias Niloy Neel, in the capital yesterday. The United Nations office in Bangladesh described the brutal attack as “a heinous crime against yet another on-line activist…

A group claiming to be Ansar-Al-Islam, the Bangladesh chapter of al-Qaeda in the Indian Sub-Continent (AQIS), yesterday claimed responsibility for the murder of progressive blogger Niladri Chakrabarty, popularly known as Niloy Neel, terming him an enemy of Allah. The militant group, in an email sent…

Amid the growing concern over deaths of children in torture across the country, a minor boy was beaten and seriously injured by some locals over a trifling matter at Charjagabandhu village in Kamalnagar of Laxmipur, reports UNB. The incident came to light on Thursday after a case was filed with Kamalnagar…

France launched a hunt for more wreckage from the ill-fated MH370 plane off Reunion island on Friday in a fresh effort to shed light on one of aviation's biggest mysteries, AFP reports from Saint-Denis de la Reunion. The tiny French Indian Ocean territory has been under intense scrutiny since a…

Two women were allegedly gang-raped, one in Chittagong and the other in the capital yesterday. A tribal woman was reportedly raped by a group of miscreants at Kumirgul Ahmed Jute mill area in Sitakunda of Chittagong. The woman’s husband alleged that Monindra Tripura, 23, and Jatindra Tripura,22,…