Belgian Deputy Prime Minister Didier Reynders, also the country’s foreign minister, has expressed desire to ‘closely cooperate’ with Dhaka to combat terrorism and violent extremism. He also expressed his country’s ‘keenness’ in expanding economic ties between Dhaka…

An indigenous man and his son were shot dead and two others injured in an attack by their rival group over previous enmity at Tholipara in Khagrachhari sadar upazila on Thursday night, reports UNB. The deceased were identified as Chironjit Tripura, 55 and his son Korno Tripura, 30. Ali Ahmed Khan, superintendent…

Speaker of Saudi Shoura Council Dr Abdullah Bin Mohammed Bin Ibrahim Al-Sheikh yesterday praised the role of Bangladeshi workers particularly professionals, doctors, engineers and skilled workers; and showed interest to get more workers from Bangladesh at all levels, reports UNB. He mentioned about…

ClimateLaunchpad, a global green business idea competition powered by Climate-KIC and supported by the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT), has been launched in Bangladesh for the first time, reports UNB. The 4th edition of the world’s largest green business idea competition…

Myanmar is ready to hold the pending foreign office consultation (FOC) with Bangladesh, the country’s outgoing Ambassador in Dhaka Myo Myint Than told Foreign Minister Abul Hassan Mahmaood Ali during a farewell meeting at the foreign ministry on Thursday. The FOC, a platform to discuss all the…

The Chapainawabganj police conducted operations at different places of the district from Wednesday night till yesterday (Friday) morning and arrested seven members of the banned Islamic militant outfit Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB). They also seized 52.5 kg of power gel, 4.5 kg of gunpowder…

BNP senior leader Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury yesterday said Awami League leaders are criticising BNP’s ‘Vision-2030’ out of their nervousness, reports UNB. “As a major democratic political party, we may have vision and plans. But they (AL) are calling it (Vision-2030) trickery.…

Chief Election Commissioner KM Nurul Huda has said the electronic voting machines (EVMs) will be used in the next parliamentary polls if all the political parties reach a consensus in this regard. “If the political parties unanimously accept digital voting machines (DVMs) or electronic voting…

A UN committee has condemned the "widespread practice of torture" in Pakistan by police, the military and intelligence agencies in a report published yesterday, and called on Islamabad to implement urgent reforms to the law, reports AFP. "The police engage in the widespread practice of…

A woman was killed and her daughter sustained injuries after being stabbed by two youths at Akua Sardarbari in the Sadar upazila of Mymensingh yesterday, reports UNB. The deceased was identified as Anwara Begum, 45, wife of Nazrul Islam of the area while the injured was Khushi Akhter, 18, daughter of…