The European Commission has released $46.63 million in humanitarian aid to provide life-saving support to vulnerable Rohingya civilians and host communities in Bangladesh and across Myanmar's Rakhine State. This comes on top of the $59.50 million the commission mobilised in 2017, said a European…

The family of 'gunned down' Teknaf municipal ward councilor Ekramul Haque demanded yesterday a fair probe into the 'shady circumstances' that led to his death and sought a prime ministerial intervention into the matter, reports UNB. In a press conference, Ekramul's wife Ayesha Begum…

Majhi Nurul Islam, a Rohingya refugee sheltered in Kutupalong camp block D, finds solace in taking Iftar during the month of Ramadan, commenting that it helps them to forget the horrors they had faced back in their homelands, reports UNB. Their pre-Iftar ritual consists of congregating for prayers,…

A man and a woman were killed in lightning strikes in Pirojpur and Barishal districts yesterday, reports UNB. In Pirojpur, Md Abbas, 42, son of Moazzem Hawlader, was killed as a thunderbolt struck him at Dabgachia village in Indurkani upazila. Police said that the thunderbolt struck Abbas when he was…

A warrant of arrest was issued by the Chittagong metropolitan magistrate's Court against the BNP vice-chairman, Gias Uddin Quader Chowdhury, yesterday after two separate cases were filed before the court for allegedly threatening to kill Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. Gias Uddin Quader Chowdhury…

BNP senior leader Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain yesterday alleged that the government has kept their chairperson Khaleda Zia in jail by regulating the judiciary to hold another 'farcical election', reports UNB. "The Appellate Division is not supposed to stay the bail (to Khaleda) without…