BSEC, India stock regulator sign cooperation deal

Prime minister Sheikh Hasina Sunday pinned on robust Indo- Bangla relation in all socio-economic areas saying the two countries need to come forward with liberal mentality and sink narrowness to boost up ties.

Path of democratic change in govt now blocked: Ershad

Jatiya Party chairman HM Ershad on Sunday said the path of change in the government through a democratic process in Bangladesh was blocked.

Today’s primary exam shifted to Nov 30

The primary and the ibtedayi completion examinations scheduled for today has been shifted to November 30, due to the general strike called by Jamaat-e-Islami.

Political parties, campaigners hail SQC, Mojaheed execution

Different political parties and organisations on Sunday hailed the execution of condemned war crimes convicts Salauddin Quader Chowdhury and Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed. In independent reactions to the execution, they said it is the beginning of the end of an ignominious chapter.

Jamaat’s hartal today

Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami said it would enforce daylong hartal today protesting at the execution of the party secretary general, Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed, while the government has taken precautionary measures to keep law and order normal.

Salah Abdeslam: The mystery of France's most-wanted man

Salah Abdeslam -- the only one of the suspected Paris attackers known to have survived -- is still at large and still very much at the center of a mystery.

Salem, Utah, teacher has students design ISIS poster

When parents got word their children were making terrorist propaganda posters in class, they demanded answers.

Mark Zuckerberg to take two months paternity leave

Mark Zuckerberg is taking two full months of paternity leave when his baby daughter is born, the Facebook CEO announced Friday.

Cameroon: At least 6 killed in suspected Boko Haram suicide bombings

Four suicide bombers blew themselves up in a northern Cameroonian town near the Nigerian border Saturday, killing at least six people and injuring about 12 others, a Cameroonian military spokesman said.

Mojaheed buried in Faridpur

Executed war crimes convict Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed was buried on the premises of Ideal Cadet Madrassah established by him at West Khabaspur of Faridpur town early Sunday. Mojaheed’s body reached Faridpur at around 6:40am amid strict security.