Huda to back 14-party alliance programmes: Nasim

The Nazmul Huda-led Trinamool BNP from now on will express solidarity with and join programmes to be announced by the Awami League-led 14-party alliance.

Khaleda Zia hosts iftar in honour of foreign diplomats

BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia on Monday took her iftar with the international diplomats stationed in Dhaka.

Maniruzzaman Miah dies

Educationist and a former Dhaka University vice-chancellor M Maniruzzaman Miah died of old age complications at Square Hospitals in Dhaka on Monday noon.

8,569 rounded up in 3 days

Law enforcers rounded up 8,569 people including 119 militancy suspects till 8:00am on Monday in a weeklong ‘anti-militant’ special drive beginning on Friday morning across the country.

Orlando shooting: 50 killed, shooter pledged ISIS allegiance

An American-born man who'd pledged allegiance to ISIS gunned down 50 people early Sunday at a gay nightclub in Orlando, the deadliest mass shooting in the United States and the nation's worst terror attack since 9/11, authorities said.

Clinton targets Trump in first general election ad

The general election is here. Hillary Clinton's campaign will air their first general election television ad this week, targeting Donald Trump for comments about violence at his events and mocking a disabled New York Times reporter.

The real terror threat in America is homegrown

The mass killing in Orlando this weekend fits a grim pattern: Every lethal terrorist attack in the United States in the past decade and a half has been carried out by American citizens or legal permanent residents, operating either as lone wolves or in pairs, who have no formal connections or training from terrorist organizations such as al Qaeda or ISIS.

Man hurls explosive device at Shanghai airport, then attempts suicide

Four passengers were wounded after a man hurled an explosive device at a check-in counter at Shanghai's Pudong International Airport on Sunday afternoon, before attempting to kill himself.

Post-poll violence: Chairman, two others killed

Three more people including a newly elected chairman and a nonagenarian woman were killed on Sunday and Saturday night in post-poll violence in three districts as the maiden partisan elections to union parishads ended on June 4.

2 suspects remanded, IO changed over death of police officer’s wife

The Chittagong Metropolitan Police authorities changed the investigation officer of a case filed following the shoot-to-death of counter-militancy police officer Babul Akhter’s wife Mahmuda Khanam Mitu, for the IO’s ‘poor performance.’