Cop held for demanding bribe from SC judge’s wife
Supreme Court police arrested an assistant sub-inspector of police on Wednesday for demanding bribe from the wife of a Supreme Court judge for passport verification.
Shahid Qadri laid to rest
Poet Shahid Qadri was laid to rest at Martyred Intellectuals Graveyard in Dhaka on Wednesday afternoon after people from all walks of life paid their last respect as his body reached home from New York in the morning.
Trump announces surprise meeting with Mexican President
Donald Trump announced Tuesday night that he will meet Wednesday with the President of Mexico just hours before he is set to deliver a speech focused on immigration policy.
Key ISIS deputy and spokesman killed in Aleppo, group says
Mohammad al-Adnani, the official spokesman of ISIS and one of its most senior members, has died in Syria, the terror group said in a rare public statement.
Blue skies and police vans: China prepares to host its first G20 summit
World leaders touch down in the Chinese city of Hangzhou this week for the G20 summit and Beijing is determined it will proceed without a hitch.
French mayor on burkini ban: They must accept our way of life
The mayor of a seaside town on the French Riviera is sticking by his town's burkini ban, telling beachgoers, "if you don't want to live the way we do, don't come."
Singapore Zika cases increase to 82
Twenty six more cases of locally-transmitted Zika virus have been confirmed in Singapore, the city-state's Ministry of Health (MOH) said late Tuesday.
Zia, Khaleda need to be tried in public: PM
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday said Ziaur Rahman and Khaleda Zia should be tried in public for inducting convicted war criminals into their cabinets.
BB profits drop by 25pc in FY16
The net operating profit of Bangladesh Bank decreased by 25.63 per cent to Tk 772.51 crore in the financial year 2015-16 although the central bank had avoided keeping provision against IS$ 81 million stolen from its reserve.
BNP to try perpetrators of enforced disappearance
Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Tuesday cautioned that those who are involved in staging crimes of enforced disappearances of the party’s leaders and activists will one day be tried.
