Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) chairperson Khaleda Zia is likely to expand the size of the standing committee and bring about a few changes in the national executive committee to curb the discontent inside the party by accommodating some of the leaders who feel they have not been assessed properly…

Police suspect that the Gulshan attackers sent photos of their operation at Holey Artisan Bakery on July 1 to a person who directly supervised the attack…

Michael Phelps won a 22nd Olympic gold but doping reared its ugly head again Friday as Chinese swimmer Chen Xinyi and Bulgarian athlete Silvia Danekova…

Three suspected criminals, including the ringleader of a forest robber gang, were killed in three reported  gunfights with police and members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) in the capital Dhaka, Jhenidah and Khulna districts early yesterday, reports UNB. In the capital, an alleged drug peddler…

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will inaugurate the country's first eight-lane highway from Jatrabari to Kanchpur through a videoconference today, reports UNB. The videoconference will be held at her official residence Ganobhaban in the morning. Sheikh Hasina will also inaugurate the construction works…

Two siblings were found dead on the rooftop of a building at Basabo in the capital yesterday night. The deceased were identified as six-year old Humaira Binte Mahbub and her elder brother Mashrafee Ibne Mahbub. They were staying at a flat of the building with their parents Mahbubur Rahman, an employee…

The Jatiya Party (JP-Ershad), the main opposition party in Parliament, has played virtually no role in resolving national crises or other political crises of the country in recent times. The party itself admits that it cannot even speak about the people’s rights. It is caught in a bind and has…