The government yesterday summoned Pakistan High Commissioner in Dhaka Shuja Alam to inquire about the missing and subsequent return of a staff member of Bangladesh High Commission in Islamabad and ‘strongly protested’ the incident, reports UNB. Acting Foreign Secretary and Secretary (Maritime…

A man has contracted the Zika virus in Thailand, officials said yesterday, as a global alert intensifies over the mosquito-borne infection blamed for a surge in serious birth defects in South America, reports AFP from Bangkok. Authorities said the 22-year-old Thai man is likely to have caught the same…

Three members of the Detective Branch (DB) of police (DB) were injured in a knife attack by a man in Shibbari area of Gazipur city on Monday night. The attacker, Sharafat Ali, son of late Abdul Hai, is an elder brother of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) Gazipur city unit President Ershad Hossain and…

Bangladesh shattered Namibia’s aspiration of producing yet another upset in a game of unwavering resolve yesterday when they mauled them by eight…

The country's GDP growth finally reached 6.55 percent in the last fiscal year (2014-15), which is 0.04 percent higher than the provisional GDP estimation of 6.51 percent, Planning Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal said yesterday, reports UNB. The minister said this while talking to reporters after an Ecnec…

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia is likely to visit India in mid March to join the World Cultural Festival to be held in New Delhi, according to party sources. Belgium-based public interest foundation World Forum for Ethics in Business and global educational and humanitarian movement The Art of Living foundation…

The Movement for Mass Trial of International War Criminals (MMTIWC) yesterday published a list of 200 Pakistani military officers, who committed war crimes during the Liberation War in 1971. The list included the names of their commander, Lt Gen AAK Niazi, and the infamous Maj General Rao Farman Ali,…

The government has been unable to arrive at a “concrete” solution to the problems of public university teachers relating to “salary discrimination” in the eighth national pay scale. The government said it needs much more time to sort out these problems as it involves issues such…

The commerce ministry is yet to receive the law ministry’s opinion on its proposal to appoint an administrator in the Jubo Karmosangsthan Society (Jubak), a non-governmental savings and credit organisation of the country, to return the deposits of investors across the country. The commerce ministry…