The depression in the central and eastern parts of the Bay of Bengal and adjoining areas, present since Tuesday, intensified into a deep depression yesterday. The Met office has asked Chittagong, Cox’s Bazar, Mongla and Payra ports to hoist the local cautionary—Warning Signal Number 1. The…

BNP yesterday voiced frustration that the ruling Awami League’s 20th council could not yield any positive outcome as per people’s demand for overcoming the country’s political crisis, reports UNB. “Awami League has held a grand carnival in the name of its council. Dhaka and all…

The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) yesterday defended its decision to refrain from attending the ruling Awami League’s (AL’s) national council. “The BNP's decision not to attend the AL council was appropriate,” said party senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi…

ICT Affairs Adviser to the Prime Minister Sajeeb Wazed Joy yesterday lauded the Center for Research and Information (CRI), the research wing of the party, for carrying out a number of activities to disseminate the historic struggle of Awami League and to spread the development activities took place…

A writ petition was filed with the High Court yesterday seeking cancellation of section 39 of Non-government School College Governing Body Regulation-2009 that allowed the authorities concerned to form an ad-hoc committee to hold elections for governing bodies and management committees of the private…

Police yesterday arrested two alleged wildlife smugglers and recovered a deer skin from their possession at Kalinchi village in Shyamnagar upazila of the district, reports UNB from Satkhira. The arrestees are Yusuf Gazi, son of late Ahad Gazi, and Alamgir Gazi, son of Meher Chand Gazi, of the village.…

Iraqi forces battled yesterday through booby-traps, sniper fire and suicide car bombs to tighten the noose around Mosul, while also hunting Islamic State group jihadists behind attacks elsewhere in the country, AFP from Arbil, Iraq. Kurdish forces announced a new push at dawn Sunday on Bashiqa northeast…

Department for International Development (DFID) and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) yesterday signed a grant agreement for a programme entitled: Strengthening the national midwifery programme (SNMP), reports BSS. The UK grant, through UNFPA, will support the Ministry of Health and Family…

Criminals swooped on police and snatched a warranted accused from them in Tabalerchar in Kutubdia upazila yesterday evening, leaving six policemen injured, reports UNB. The injured -- assistant sub-inspector Aminul Islam, and constables Yousuf, Rezaul, Asim Barua, Ropan Sen and Sani Barua of Kutubdia…