The government yesterday gave final approval to the draft “Bangladesh Citizenship Bill, 2016,” containing a provision that those holding constitutional…

BNP leaders are determined to hold the much-awaited national council, even though the situation is ‘not very favourable’. The government has taken a hard line against the BNP by filing fresh cases, carrying out attacks and arresting party leaders and activists. The party is preparing for…

Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) in a drive recovered a huge cache of firearms and ammunition from a hillock at Kalapani in Bhurunga border area of Nalitabari…

Myanmar entered a new political era yesterday as Aung San Suu Kyi’s pro-democracy MPs took their seats in parliament, bearing the hopes of a nation subjugated for decades by the military, reports AFP from Naypyidaw. Wearing pastel orange uniforms, lawmakers from the National League for Democracy…

Education minister Nurul Islam Nahid said yesterday that there is no possibility of question paper leak, as the government has taken stern steps to prevent…

The crucial meeting between Foreign Secretaries of India and Bangladesh started yesterday evening with the two sides, according to sources, have a “heavy agenda”.  Bangladesh Foreign Secretary Shahidul Haque is on a three-day visit to India. He is likely to call on India’s Water…

Bangladesh and India yesterday discussed ways on how the ‘multi-sectoral cooperation’ between the two countries can be expanded, and laid emphasis on sub-regional and regional cooperation, reports UNB. The foreign secretary-level meeting held in New Delhi discussed issues, including Teesta…

 A Dhaka court yesterday ordered a judicial probe into the allegations of sexual harassment of a female student of a private university by police Sub-Inspector Ratan Kumar. Judge Salauddin Ahmed of the Dhaka Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal-4 passed the order after the victim filed…