Despite applications by 1,50,000 people for fresh enlistment, the number of freedom fighters is likely to come down after the completion of scrutiny of…

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday joined the three-day Munich Security Conference, world's most important independent forum for exchanging views by international security and policy decision makers on international security challenges, that began at Bayerischer Hof hotel in German city of Munich,…

BNP senior leader Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury yesterday alleged that the government has taken a multipurpose project to control the next polls and keep BNP popular leaders away from the election race, reports UNB. "Forming a partisan Election Commission, conducting the election under a partisan…

Pakistani forces said yesterday they had killed more than 100 "terrorists" after 88 people died in an attack claimed by the Islamic State group…

A new species of -- Sykes's Nightjar -- has been spotted for the first time in Bangladesh showing a change in its distribution range, UNB reports. Sykes's Nightjar (Caprimulgus mahrattensis), is a semi-desert species of bird, is generally seen in the range of Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan and…

United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar Yanghee Lee will arrive in Dhaka tomorrow on three-day visit to see for herself the situation in Cox’s Bazar that evolved from the military crackdown across the border in the Rakhine State of Myanmar that forced about…