A UN human rights expert has expressed alarm at the Indian government’s plan to deport seven Rohingya men to Myanmar, saying their forcible return could constitute refoulement which violates international law. The Rohingyas from Kyauk Daw Township in central Rakhine state face deportation on October…

A court yesterday rejected the bail petition of BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia in a murder case filed over the deaths of eight people in an arson attack in 2015, reports UNB. Senior Judicial Magistrate Court Judge Biplob Debnath passed the order. Public prosecutor advocate Mostafizur Rahman represented…

The education ministry has found proof of tampering of admission test papers for Class II and Class III at three branches of Ideal School and College in the capital. The ministry yesterday issued a reminder letter, signed by its deputy secretary Anwarul Haque, to the Directorate of Secondary and Higher…

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) chairman Iqbal Mahmood yesterday said the national anti-graft agency has launched a probe sinto allegation of corruption…

US scientists Frances Arnold and George Smith and British researcher Gregory Winter won the Nobel Chemistry Prize yesterday for applying the principles…