Outgoing Inspector General of Police (IGP) AKM Shahidul Hoque yesterday expressed his hope that the newly appointed IGP will continue present mass people-oriented policing system, reports UNB. "The newly appointed IGP is one of my batch mates. He is well experienced as he has been serving police…

Myanmar on Thursday said it made the decision to dump US diplomat Bill Richardson from an advisory panel on the Rohingya crisis, accusing the veteran politician of a "personal attack" on Aung San Suu Kyi in his stinging resignation letter, reports AFP from Yangon. The war of words has heaped…

English Department Alumni Society (EDAS) will hold reunion today at the Teachers and Students Centre. Graduates from 1940 to 2017 are expected to join the event, said one of the organizers of the reunion. Alongside feasting and cultural programmes, the alumni will walk down memory lane on their campus…

When coral reefs come in contact with plastic trash in the ocean, their risk of becoming diseased skyrockets, said an international study out Thursday, reports AFP. Researchers examined more than 120,000 corals on 159 reefs -- some polluted with plastic, others not -- from Indonesia, Australia, Myanmar…

Awami League (AL) General Secretary Obaidul Quader yesterday called upon the party leaders and workers not to recruit dishonest, corrupt people or anti-liberation elements in the party in the name of increasing the number of its members, reports BSS. "Please, do not recruit bad people in party.…

Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) in a special drive rescued a youth, who was kidnapped from Nabodaya Housing area in the city's Adabor, and held four abductors early yesterday, reports UNB. The victim is Shahria Simanto, 19, son of Hazi Md Sharif Alam, hailing from staff quarter at Hazaribagh…

Three members of law enforcers were arrested in Chittagong yesterday following a death in a clash between villagers and lawmen over the arrest of an accused at Bhatiari in Sitakundo upazila on Wednesday night, reports UNB. The arrestees are Najmul Huda, an ASI, Abul Kashem, a constable of Sitakundo…