Awami League has kick-started organisational tours across the country to drum up support for the party ahead of the national polls in the yearend. As part of the programme, an AL delegation led by party general secretary Obaidul Quader boarded a train at Kamalapur railway station in Dhaka for Nilphamari…

Seventeen residents of a government-run safe home in the district fled from the facility overnight cutting the window grills of a room, reports UNB. Authorities yesterday managed to bring 12 of them back to the safe home - Hefajotider Nirapad Abasan Kendra - after hunting them down from different areas…

The United Nations has welcomed the decision of a pre-trial chamber of the International Criminal Court (ICC) on the jurisdiction over the crime of deportation of Rohingya population from their homes in Rakhine state of Myanmar to Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. The global body also described as frustrating…

The court yesterday sent Mozammel Haque Chowdhury, the secretary general of the Bangladesh Passenger Welfare Association to jail after a day’s police remand, rejecting his bail petition in a case filed over alleged extortion. The court also rejected the law enforcers’ plea for a five-day…

Clashes between Kurdish forces and regime fighters in the divided northeastern city of Qamishli killed 18 combatants yesterday, the Kurdish forces and a war monitor said, reports AFP from Qamishli. The rare flare-up in the Kurdish-majority city near the Turkish border saw 11 regime fighters and seven…