Home minister Asaduz­zaman Khan Kamal has said the law enforcement agencies would conduct anti-militancy drives across the country after the municipality elections. “The special drives would be conducted in those places where it is necessary to weed out militancy,” the minister told…

Fifty-three important river routes, including the Mongla-Ghashikhali channel, under the capital dredging project are on the verge of closure due to shortage of manpower to run dredgers, sources in the Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority (BIWTA) said. The BIWTA is implementing the project at…

Teachers of 37 public universities have threatened to shut down the institutes if their demands on pay scale revision are not met by the end of this month. The teachers said they would announce a tougher agitation on January 2 under the banner of the Federation of Bangladesh University Teachers’…

A Dhaka court yesterday directed the authorities concerned to conduct an investigation into a sedition charge filed against BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia for her comments on the count of 1971 martyrs. The court also asked the officer-in-charge (OC) of  Shahbagh Police Station to take approval from…

The body of the suspected suicide bomber, who died from an explosion in an Ahmadia mosque in Bagmara on Friday, was buried after a Namaz-e-Janaza at the Hetemkhan graveyard in Rajshahi city yesterday as the body remained unclaimed and could not be identified. The law enforcers could not ascertain the…

Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) personnel will be deployed in 229 municipalities from today to maintain a peaceful environment during the upcoming civic poll scheduled to be held on December 30. The BGB will be in the municipalities for four days to prevent any sort of untoward incidents in the polling…

At least two suspected members of banned Islamist outfit Jamaat-ul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) were killed during a clash with the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) in Bhogra Bypass area of Gazipur early today. A pistol, five bullets, ‘huge’ explosives, bomb-making materials and jihadi books…