Jatiya Oikyafront president Dr Kamal Hossain and BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir have urged the armed forces to ensure a level playing field for all political parties and candidates ahead of the December 30 polls. In separate statements, the two top Oikyafront leaders have welcomed…

The Election Commission (EC) yesterday (Sunday) quashed the appeal for the cancellation of candidatures of 25 alleged Jamaat-i-Islami candidates and permitted them to contest the polls. “As the returning officers have allotted the electoral symbols to the alleged 25 Jamaat candidates, the EC has…

A partial US government shutdown that entered its second day yesterday was set to stretch through Christmas, after Congress adjourned for the weekend with no deal in sight to end an impasse over funding for President Donald Trump's wall on the US-Mexico border. Due to the shutdown -- in which several…

A volcano-triggered tsunami has left at least 222 people dead and hundreds more injured after slamming without warning into beaches around Indonesia's…