More than 42 people including women and children have been shot dead aboard a boat carrying Somali refugees in the Red Sea off war-torn Yemen, AFP reports quoting officials on yesterday. It was not immediately clear who was behind the attack. The refugees were hit by light weapons fire in waters off…

Leading security experts yesterday warned against more suicide blasts if the government fails to eliminate the masterminds of militant attacks. Some of them suggested that a combined anti-militant force must be formed with members from the Army, Air Force, Navy, Directorate General of Forces Intelligence…

A Chittagong court yesterday placed an alleged militant couple -- Jasim and his wife Arjina –- arrested from a ‘militant hideout’ in Sitakunda upazila on a 12-day remand in two cases, reports UNB. They were put on a five-day remand in a case filed under the Arms Act while seven-day…

The BNP has not been able to fully implement most of the decisions taken at the last national council a year ago. This has left the party rank and file…