5,000 doctors to be recruited in next two months: Zahid

Health and family welfare minister Zahid Maleque on Thursday said 5,000 doctors would be recruited within the next two months to provide smooth healthcare at the doorsteps of the people living in rural areas.

Plots still on to carry out terror attack in Bangladesh: PM

Prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday stressed the need for forging a collective resistance of all against extremism as it had become a common problem of the world which hindering peace, prosperity and development.

BNP’s Zahidur takes oath as MP

Bangladesh Nationalist Party MP-elect Md Zahidur Rahman from Thakurgaon 3 constituency was sworn in as member of parliament on Thursday violating the party’s decision.

Shamim placed on fresh remand, Sonagazi AL chief sent to jail

A Feni court on Thursday placed Shahadot Hossain Shamim, among the five accused who set Nusrat Jahan Rafi ablaze, on fresh remand for three days for further interrogations by the Police

Fake news and public executions: Documents show a Russian company's plan for quelling protests in Sudan

When anti-government protests erupted in Sudan at the end of last year, the response of President Omar al-Bashir came straight from the dictators' playbook -- a crackdown that led to scores of civilian deaths.

Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un hold first summit

Kim says visit to Russia an opportunity to exchange opinions From CNN's Jake Kwon in Seoul

Two Sri Lanka bombers were sons of Colombo spice tycoon, sources say

Two of the suicide bombers involved in the Easter Sunday attacks in Sri Lanka were members of a prominent and wealthy family in Colombo, sources have told CNN, in a development that has rocked the small Muslim community in the city.

Trump digs in against Democrats but there may yet be consequences

It had been more than two years since Michael Caputo, the onetime campaign communications adviser to Donald Trump, had spoken to the man he helped elect president. It was a span that encompassed special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation, a probe with which Caputo had

NATO at 70: retirement or renaissance?

US VICE-PRESIDENT Mike Pence has recently referred to NATO as, ‘the most successful military alliance in the history of the world.’ Of course, ‘success’ needs to be defined, especially when

Bangladesh a key partner for UK: British FS

British Foreign and Commonwealth Office permanent under-secretary Simon McDonald said on Wednesday in Dhaka that Bangladesh and the United Kingdom were on the verge of improving their bilateral relations to strategic partnership.