Officials of law enforcement agencies yesterday foiled a plot to attack people going to Dhanmondi 32 by conducting ‘Operation August Bite’…

Although the deadline to submit passports for performing Hajj this year expires tomorrow, Hajj agencies were yet to submit passports of 15,599 pilgrims to the Saudi Embassy for visas until yesterday afternoon.  If the passports are not submitted within the timeframe, the quota for Bangladeshis…

The nation observed the National Mourning Day yesterday with due respect, marking the 42nd anniversary of the martyrdom of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, reports UNB. President Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina led the nation in paying deep homage to the Father of…

Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha yesterday said more ‘big fish’ were involved in the conspiracy of Bangabandhu murder, and those people did not face trial because of flaws in the investigation into the case, reports UNB. The chief justice came up with the remark at the inaugural programme…

The BNP yesterday celebrated its party chairperson Khaleda Zia's birthday by holding "doa" and "milad mahfil" instead of cutting a cake. The former Premier turned 73. Party leaders said they avoided cake cutting, as thousands of people are going through immense sufferings due…

There were a ‘significant number of attacks’ on religious minorities in the country in 2016, according to a United States report released yesterday. “Terrorist organisations claimed responsibility for a significant number of attacks, many of them fatal, against multiple religious minorities.…