The movement of public university teachers over their salaries and allowances has taken a different turn, with the finance minister dismissing the teachers’ demands as “baseless” and the education minister assuring them that the matter would be settled very soon. The agitating teachers…

The International edition of the New York Times newspaper had two blank pages after printers in Pakistan removed an article headlined “The imperilled…

A fresh gunbattle erupted Sunday at the Indian Air Force base in Pathankot, where 11 people died in an attack by suspected Islamic militants, police said,…

Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD), a civil society think tank, has estimated that the government will experience a shortfall of Tk 40,000 crore in revenue collection in fiscal 2015-16, reports UNB. The CPD came up with the estimate in its review report, ‘State of the Bangladesh Economy in FY2016’,…

Sacked Rab official Lt Col (Retd) Tareque Sayeed Mohammad, one of the prime accused in Narayanganj sensational seven-murder cases, was admitted to Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) yesterday as he fell sick. The former RAB official was taken to the hospital from the Dhaka Central Jail around 2:15pm…

The International Crimes Tribunal yesterday received the copy of the full verdict on war crimes convict Delwar Hossain Sayedee that commuted his death penalty to imprisonment until death. After receiving the copy, ICT registrar Shahidul Alam Jhinuk told reporters that they would send the copy of the…

Explosions and gunfire rang out yesterday as militants tried to storm the Indian diplomatic mission in a northern Afghan city, officials said, in the latest assault on an Indian installation, reports AFP from Mazar-i-sharif. Afghan news agency Pajhwok Afghan News said in a tweet: "Two attackers…