“Bring my father back. He will take me to school and buy ice-cream for me on the way. My mother cannot afford to give me what I want. She cries at night for my father and I cry with her,” says a moist-eyed Ridi (5), holding her father, Pervez Hossain’s photograph in her soft hands.…

Faced with a large number of rebel candidates, the Awami League (AL) leadership is working overtime to field single candidates at any cost at all municipalities to ensure absolute victory in the upcoming civic elections, slated for December 30. Senior party leaders have directed the organising secretaries…

 The BNP is facing difficulties in finalising candidates for the upcoming municipal elections before the last date of withdrawal of candidates on December 13, as they have to keep backup candidates ready in case those nominated face administrative problems or police objections. “We have standby…

A female student of Dhaka University was ‘sexually harassed’ by a driver’s assistant of a bus on way to the capital from Manikganj yesterday. Police later arrested accused Mamun following the filing of a case with the Darus Salam Police Station in the capital. Mamun is a helper of…

Assailants attacked a Cairo nightclub yesterday with petrol bombs, killing at least 16 people in the ensuing blaze, following an apparent dispute with…

Thailand’s foreign minister yesterday urged regional nations to redouble efforts to tackle the causes of this year’s Bay of Bengal migrant crisis, warning the issue “will not simply go away”, reports AFP from Bangkok. Delegations from across Southeast Asia met in Bangkok for…

World leaders here in Paris Climate Conference on Friday agreed to stop the Earth from warming more than 2 degrees, reneging on their previous stance of keeping it within 1.5 degrees, reports UNB. The leaders came up with the announcement in the 5th day of the two-week high-level talks, aiming to reduce…