The prospect of oil and gas exploration in the deep sea of Bay of Bengal is now uncertain, as the Energy Division has failed to take a final decision on the issue for several years. Sources said the Energy Division has cancelled the previous decision to conduct a two-dimensional non-exclusive multi-client…

A court in comilla yesterday issued warrants for the arrest of BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia and 45 other leaders and activists of the party in a case filed in connection with petrol bomb attack on a bus in Chouddagram upazila in 2015, reports UNB. Comilla District and Sessions Judge Jesmin Ara Begum…

Suspected ‘slain’ militant Marzan’s younger sister, Khadiza, surrendered to the police along with her three children around 3pm yesterday,…

At least 14 Rohingya people, including five children, died as a boat carrying them capsized in the Naf River in Teknaf upazila on Sunday night, reports UNB. Six men, an elderly woman and five children are among the deceased, according to the local police station. Officer-in-charge of Teknaf Police Station…

The Jatiya Party (JP) has come up with a proposal for the formation of an interim government comprising of parliamentary representation by each political party which, if accepted, would ultimately deprive the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) of participation in such a government. Jatiya Party chairman…

Detectives arrested Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Maqbul Ahmad, its Secretary General Dr Shafiqur Rahman and seven other party leaders from the city's Uttara area yesterday night, reports UNB. A team of Detective Branch (DB) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police arrested them from a house at Road-3 of…