Syria: 100 killed as bomb hits buses with evacuees

About 100 people were killed Saturday in a car bomb explosion targeting pro-regime evacuees leaving besieged Syrian towns, a volunteer rescue agency said.

'Mother of all bombs' killed 94 ISIS fighters, Afghan official says

At least 94 Islamic State fighters were killed when the US military dropped America's most powerful non-nuclear bomb on ISIS targets in Afghanistan, an Afghan official said Saturday.

North Korea surprises with display of new missiles

North Korea put its adversaries on notice Saturday, when it showed off a bevy of new missiles and launchers at its annual military parade.

How Erdogan transformed Turkey's democracy in a decade

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has steered his country through a period of extraordinary change.

Low wages, high migration costs Unskilled workers baffled

Skilled workers spend less on migration from Bangladesh compared to their unskilled compatriots but they also earn more than the unskilled ones.

QOUMI COURSE RECOGNITION Govt puts cart before horse: academics

Academics have observed that the government has put the cart before the horse recognising Dawra-e-Hadith degree of Qawmi madrassahs as equivalent to master’s degree while the Qawmi madrassah education is not recognised and syllabus of the course is backdated.

PM for consensus among three organs of state

Prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday laid high importance on consensus and good relations among the three state organs which have to work as complementary to each other. ‘Here we expect a situation where the three organs of the state — executive, legislature and judiciary — would not supersede each other or show their strength to each other,’ she said.

Dhaka 2nd largest Facebook user

With 2.2 crore active Facebook users, Bangladesh’s capital Dhaka has the second largest number of people on the Facebook among global cities.

None to be allowed to interfere in internal affairs: Khaleda

Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson Khaleda Zia on Friday said that none would be allowed to interfere in Bangladesh’s internal affairs in the name of friendship and development.

North Korea puts on a show for Day of the Sun

A military parade in the heart of Pyongyang is underway where it's expected the North Korean regime will show off some of its latest arsenal.