BNP again will come to power: Khaleda
Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson Khaleda Zia on Sunday said her party would again come to power through waging movements, in due time.
JP to contest next polls independently: Ershad
Jatiya Party chairman Hussein Muhammad Ershad on Sunday said that the next general election would be the last one in his life and that his party would contest the poll independently.
350 more Rohingyas enter Bangladesh
At least 350 Rohingya refugees, fleeing persecution by military in their home country Myanmar, entered Bangladesh on Sunday.
Istanbul attack: Dozens killed at Turkish nightclub, official says
Thirty-five people were killed and 40 wounded in an attack in a nightclub early Sunday as they were celebrating the new year, Istanbul Governor Vasip Sahin said.
Putin congratulates Trump, not Obama, in New Year's statement
Russian President Vladimir Putin congratulated US President-elect Donald Trump, rather than President Barack Obama, in his annual New Year's greetings statement to foreign heads of state and government.
AL MP shot dead
Ruling Awami League lawmaker Manzurul Islam Liton was shot dead by unknown assailants at his village home at Sundarganj upazila in Gainbandha Saturday evening.
New Year welcomed amid tight security
New Year 2017 was ushered in through celebrations on Saturday night amid tight security as police and Rapid Action Battalion put restrictions in Dhaka and other metropolitan cities in a bid to ward off any untoward incident.
Govt working to expand media: PM
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday said the government has been working to expand the media both in the public and private sectors to ensure the free flow of information.
Killer with a conscience: Could this former death squad member bring down Duterte?
Edgar Matobato's days are spent -- for now, at least -- in a verdant, bucolic compound some way outside Manila.
What's their angle? Breaking down the Putin, Trump and Obama spy games
President Barack Obama and his first secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, entered the White House in 2009 with visions of a "Russian reset." But Obama will leave office next month in the midst of a shadowy Cold War-era fever dream, as Washington and Moscow are, once again, beset by accusations of diplomatic chicanery and outright espionage.
