BNP Dhaka city committees announced
New partial committees of the Dhaka city north and south units of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party were announced Tuesday late night with M Abdul Qayum and Habib-un-Nabi Khan Sohel as presidents respectively.
Rajuk under ACC scanner
A good number of Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha officials are facing probe by the Anti-Corruption Commission into allegations of irregularities and corruption.
Scarcely in office, Comilla mayor faces arrest warrant
A Dhaka Court on Tuesday issued a warrant for arrest of newly elected Comilla city mayor Monirul Haque Sakku, also a Bangladesh Nationalist Party leader, in a corruption case. Anti-Corruption Commission had filed the case nearly a decade ago.
30 injured as BCL, police clash in Ctg
At least 30 people, including five cops, were injured as the police and activists of Bangladesh Chhatra League, the ruling Awami League-backed student organisation, clashed in Chittagong Tuesday afternoon over construction of a swimming pool.
North Korean envoy at UN warns of nuclear war possibility
Only at a North Korean press conference at the United Nations, can you hear a diplomat say he hoped journalists had a good holiday weekend and then warn of possible thermonuclear war.
Syria photographer takes action instead of pictures, picks up injured boy
Every so often, a photograph cuts through the grim cacophony of the war in Syria and pierces viewers' hearts.
Religious tensions rise in Jakarta ahead of crucial gubernatorial vote
Indonesia's capital is on edge one day before a vote that has become a test of tolerance in the world's most populous majority-Muslim nation.
Bashar al-Assad's wife should lose her UK citizenship, say lawmakers
British lawmakers have called for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's UK-born wife to stop backing his "murderous" regime or have her citizenship stripped.
Gaza crippled by electricity crisis as power plant runs out of fuel
Gaza's only power plant has run out of fuel, leaving 2 million residents of the coastal enclave with only four hours of electricity a day in what the UN cautions could be the tipping point to making Gaza "unlivable."
No end to commuters’ plight in sight
Increased fare as usual coupled with a shortage of transport caused the commuters to suffer on Monday as the drive to restore order to the chaotic city transport sector entered its second day. Altercations between transport workers and passengers were the common scene on the road while a journalist was injured at Mirpur for protesting at charging of extra fare.
