Jamaat-e-Islami is quietly carrying on with its organisational activities, despite the execution of its top leaders on war crime charges and the scattering of its second-rank leadership after the government crackdown on the party, claimed party sources. The government has reportedly imposed an unofficial…

The University Grants Commission (UGC) has found several irregularities in the proposed Raushan Ershad International University in Mymensingh. These include errors in the deed and the authorities’ failure to show the main design of the building when UGC officials visited the site. The UGC team…

President Donald Trump is warning Israel that constructing new settlements “may not be helpful” to Middle East peace efforts, shifting toward a tougher line with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government, reports AFP from Washington. Still, the White House made clear Thursday…

Emotions are running high as Awami League activists in Haimchar are divided over the unpleasant incident of the upazila chairman walking over a "human bridge" formed by students of the Osmania High School during its annual sports day on  January 30. An inquiry committee of the local government,…

A local journalist of Daily Samakal, who got shot during a clash between two groups of Awami League supporters in Sirajganj on Thursday, died yesterday. The slain journalist, Abdul Hakim Shimul, was the Shahjadpur correspondent of the Daily Samakal, said Miraz Uddin Ahmed, superintendent of police in…

A former prime minister of Norway has spoken of his shock after he was held and questioned at Washington Dulles airport because of a visit to Iran three years ago, reports The Guardian. Kjell Magne Bondevik, who served as prime minister of Norway from 1997-2000 and 2001-05, flew into the US from Europe…