Leaders of the Hajj Agencies' Association of Bangladesh (HAAB) are yet to refund the sum of Tk. 16.71 crore borrowed from the government to deposit the necessary charges for the extra 5,000 pilgrims sent to Saudi Arabia for performing Hajj last year. The religious ministry has recently rejected…

Pakistan’s Punjab Provintial Assembly yesterday passed a resolution strongly condemning the executions of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami leaders on charges of crimes against humanity, ARY News, a Pakistan TV channel said. The resolution also urged the government of Pakistan to honour the Jamaat leaders…

The 117th birth anniversary of National Poet Kazi Nazrul Islam will be celebrated across the country today, reports UNB. Born on May 25, 1899 at village…

The head of a medical board, which has conducted the 2nd autopsy on the body of Comilla Victoria College student Sohagi Jahan Tonu, yesterday received a death threat, UNB reports. Dr Kamoda Prosad Saha received the threat through an anonymous letter which reached his Comilla Medical College Hospital…

The SWIFT secure messaging service that underpins international banking says it plans to launch a new security program as it fights to rebuild its reputation in the wake of the Bangladesh Bank heist, reports web portal ZDNet.  The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication's…

Some 40,000 Bangladeshi domestic helps have been sent back home due to various reasons, according to a report run yesterday by Arab News, a Saudi Arabia-based newspaper. “Fifty per cent of the Bangladeshi housemaids who had come to the Kingdom since the beginning of the recruitment process was…

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina leaves here for Japan tomorrow morning to attend the ‘G7 Outreach Programme’ that begins at Ise-Shima, the holiest place in all of Japan's thousands of shrines, on the same day, reports UNB. Bangladesh is giving ‘high importance’ to the visit…

New satellite imagery appears to reveal extensive damage to a strategically significant airbase in central Syria used by Russian forces after an attack…

The United Kingdom has sought consular access to detained senior journalist Shafik Rehman, a citizen of UK and also Bangladesh. British Foreign Office Minister Hugo Swire made the request in a letter written to Foreign Minister Abul Hassan Mahmood Ali, according to diplomatic sources. British High Commissioner…