The High Court (HC) will pass its order at 2pm today (Monday) on a bail petition filed by Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) chairperson Khaleda Zia that…

The BNP was not given permission till yesterday to hold its planned rally at Suhrawardy Udyan today to demand the release of party chairperson Khaleda Zia. A three-member BNP delegation, led by the chairperson’s adviser Abdus Salam, went to meet Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) authorities in this…

A Sylhet court yesterday remanded Foyzur Rahman’s parents and uncle in police custody in connection with the stabbing of Prof. Muhammed Zafar Iqbal. Foyzur is the main accused in the case. The Sylhet city metropolitan magistrate’s court granted five-day remand to the accused’s father,…

China's rubber-stamp lawmakers on Sunday passed a historic constitutional amendment abolishing a presidential two-term limit that will enable Xi Jinping to rule indefinitely, reports AP. The amendment upends a system enacted by former Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping in 1982 to prevent a return to the…

Mao was the ‘Great Helmsman’, Deng the ‘Paramount Leader’ — now meet Xi Jinping, whose growing personality cult has some calling him China’s ‘Chairman of Everything’, reports AFP from Beijing. On Sunday, China’s rubber-stamp parliament endorsed Xi’s…

Police yesterday detained 39 foreign nationals from near the Shaheed Minar area in Ukhia upazila as they allegedly tried to enter the Rohingya camps without valid documents, reports UNB. The foreigners were detained from 8 am to 11 am and later they were freed on bond around 2:30 pm, said officer-in-charge…