Arrest of Selima Rahman, 66 BNP leaders ordered
The Dhaka Metropolitan Sessions Judge’s Court on Wednesday issued warrants for the arrest of 67 Bangladesh Nationalist Party leaders and activists, including its vice-president Selima Rahman, in a case filed under the Special Powers Act 1974.
Citycell staff form human chain for dues, compensation
Employees of Citycell Wednesday formed a human chain demanding their outstanding salaries along with compensations as the country’s first mobile phone operator faces shutdown for defaulting a huge amount of government dues.
1 dead, 100 missing as boats capsize on turbulent rivers
A woman died while around 100 fishermen went missing as a boat capsized in Noakhali, Barguna and Patuakhali due to rough weather.
Shut down offshore detention camps, Nauru and Manus staff urge Australia
More than a hundred former and current staff members at Australia's offshore detention camps have called for all refugees to be moved immediately, saying children's lives are being "destroyed."
Russia launches Syria airstrikes from Iranian base
Russians warplanes have conducted missions over Syria from an airbase in Iran -- the first time a major power has done so since the Islamic Revolution there in 1979.
Escaped Chibok girl: I miss my Boko Haram husband
Escaped Chibok girl Amina Ali Nkeki says she misses her Boko Haram fighter husband and is still thinking about him three months after escaping the militants' camp.
Official: Son of 'El Chapo' has been kidnapped
Shortly before 1 a.m. on Monday, seven armed men stormed into a trendy restaurant on the main drag of Mexican beach resort Puerto Vallarta.
Khaleda shows no magnanimity, says Hasina
The prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, on Tuesday said that Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson Khaleda Zia
Kader Siddique blames Mujib’s sycophants for his killing
Krishok Sramik Janata League president Abdul Kader Siddique said on Tuesday the sycophants of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman had prepared the ground for the killing the country’s founding president.
Anti-Rampal project campaigners block city road
Progressive Students Alliance, a platform of left-leaning student organisations, held demonstrations in the capital on Tuesday, protesting at the Rampal coal-fired power plant project.
