Shajahan, Selim take part in electioneering in breach of electoral code.
Independent lawmaker Haji Mohammad Selim on Friday sought blessings and vote for Awami League-backed mayoral candidate for Dhaka south city corporation, Sayeed Khokon,
Kenya's Garissa University College awakens to Islamist militants' terror.
The sun hadn't risen at Garissa University College. Most students slept in their beds. A few had woken up to head to early morning Christian prayers.Then the terror beganIt started with an explosion and gunshots around 5:30 a.m.
Hasina tells MPs to resist BNP, allies from local constituencies.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Thursday night asked her party lawmakers to go and stay in their respective constituencies and form committees to resist ‘unruly’ activities of the BNP-led 20 party alliance,
54 dead after trawler sinks off Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula.
At least 54 people have died and 15 others are missing after a Russian fishing vessel sank off the Kamchatka Peninsula, according to Russia's state-run Tass news agency.
PM for more sympathetic towards disabled persons.
Terming the persons with disabilities as a part of the society, prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday called upon all to be more sympathetic towards them for flourishing their latent talents.
Officials: Al Qaeda fighters free 270 from Yemeni prison.
Al Qaeda fighters attacked a prison in the coastal Yemeni city of Al Mukallah early Thursday, freeing nearly at least 270 prisoners, a third of whom have al Qaeda links, a senior Defense Ministry official has told CNN.
Al-Shabaab storms Garissa University College in Kenya; 15 dead, hostages taken.
- 7:07 a.m. ET: Heavy gunfire and explosions continue at Garissa University College, more than nine hours after the attack began, CNN affiliate NTV says. Hundreds of students flee, some crawling.
Nominations of Mintoo, Pintu cancelled.
The Election Commission on Wednesday cancelled the mayoral nominations of BNP leaders Abdul Awal Mintoo and Nasiruddin Pintu and four independent aspirants. Returning Officer Shah Alam said that the nomination of Mintoo,
Trainee pilot killed as aircraft crashes.
A female trainee pilot of a private flying academy was killed and her trainer sustained critical injuries after their small aircraft crashed and caught fire a while after it took off at Shah Makhdum Airport in Rajshahi on Wednesday,
Kamal quits as ICC president.
Bangladesh’s AHM Mustafa Kamal resigned as president of the International Cricket Council on Wednesday having fallen ‘victim to unconstitutional strong-arming by the ICC high-ups’ during the just concluded World Cup.
