The Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) has detained three suspected militants of banned Islamist outfit Ansarullah Bangla Team (ABT) from the capital’s…

Bangladesh claimed their maiden SAFF Under-16 Football Championship trophy with a 4-2 victory over defending champions India in tiebreaker after the 1-1…

Sri Lanka’s ruling party won parliamentary elections yesterday, making huge gains and strengthening its mandate for reform, although it has fallen short of an outright majority, official results showed, reports AFP from Colombo. Voters swung behind Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe’s United…

All relevant labour rules will be finalised within a couple of weeks to fulfil all 16 conditions imposed by the US government for restoration of the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) facilities in the US market, commerce minister Tofail Ahmed has announced. “All the conditions will be fulfilled…

Information minister Hasanul Haq Inu regretted the arrest of journalist Probir Sikder, saying that there was no other alternative. Addressing a press conference at the Secretariat  yesterday, Inu told journalists that the government would ensure that Probir got legal assistance to fight his case.…

Police yesterday arrested Shawkat Mahmud, president of a faction of Bangladesh Federal Union of Journalists (BFUJ), in front of a meeting venue in the capital’s Panthapath area. Plainclothes policemen detained him while he was trying to enter the venue around 11:15am to attend a press conference…

A Faridpur court yesterday placed journalist Probir Sikdar, the owner of online newspaper ‘Uttaradhikar Ekattor News’, on a three-day remand in a case filed under the Information and Communi-cation Technology Act. Judge of Faridpur Cognisance Court-1 M Hamidul Islam passed the order in response…