The Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) is working out a plan to form an armed unit to conduct drives for arresting graft suspects and ensuring the security of its officials, say senior officials of the national anti-graft agency. “We’ve already sent a proposal to the Home Ministry through…

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has urged the people of Narayanganj city to cast their votes for ‘sheaf of paddy’, the party poll symbol, to elect party mayoral candidate Sakhawat Hossain in the upcoming Narayanganj City Corporation elections slated for Thursday. “I am happy to learn that…

The main opposition in parliament, Jatiya Party, yesterday extended its support to the ruling Awami League nominated mayoral candidate Selina Hayat Ivy in Narayanganj City Corporation polls.JP Secretary General Ruhul Amin Hawlader told media regarding this support. “We have not nominated anyone…

Shah Alam, 45, a Rohingya Muslim of Mangala village in the Rakhine state of Myanmar, managed to flee from Myanmar after he was shot by the army and left for dead. He entered Bangladesh territory, but could not escape death due to his bullet wound. Alam was picked up by Myanmar army personnel from his…

Malaysia’s top diplomat turned the screws on Aung San Suu Kyi at emergency talks in Myanmar yesterday, warning that an army crackdown on the Rohingya…

The actions of Myanmar’s military may constitute crimes against humanity, human rights group Amnesty International has warned, based on accounts of violence against the country’s Muslim Rohingya minority, reports AP from Bangkok. Myanmar has come under heavy criticism for its army’s…

A Turkish policeman shot dead Russia's ambassador to Turkey at an art exhibition in Ankara yesterday, in what Moscow termed a "terrorist act",…