Rapid Action Battalion (RAB)-2 Commanding Officer Lieutenant Colonel SM Masud Rana was withdrawn and attached to RAB headquarters yesterday. The authorities took the decision  after a complaint against him and three others was lodged with a Dhaka court for their alleged involvement in the death…

Major US, European and Asian stock markets slumped and commodity prices hit new lows Monday as a Chinese-led rout spread globally, fed by fears of a damaging slowdown in the world's second-largest economy, reports AFP from London. In Europe, Frankfurt's blue-chip DAX 30 index hit an intraday…

Demonstrators armed with spears and axes killed eight police officers in western Nepal yesterday during escalating protests against a proposed new constitution, reports AFP from Kathmandu. The government announced a curfew and plans to send in the army to Kailali district in the country's remote…

A Chittagong court yesterday granted fresh remand for all the three lawyers who were arrested for allegedly financing militant outfit Shaheed Hamza Brigade. The court of senior Judicial Magistrate, Mosaddek Minhaz, sent Barrister Shakila Farzana, daughter of former BNP whip Syed Wahid Alam, on a 48-hour…