47th Independence and National Day celebrated
People flock to the national memorial at Savar and other monuments across the country to pay homage to the brave freedom fighters who laid down their lives for the liberation of the country on Sunday as the nation celebrated the 47th Independence and National Day.
13 killed in Chuadanga road accident
At least 13 people were killed and seven others injured in a head-on collision between a truck and an engine-run vehicle at Damurhuda upazila in Chuadanga on Sunday morning.
PM urges extremists to return to normal life
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday urged those wasting their lives in suicide attacks to return to the right path and assured them of doing whatever necessary to ensure their livelihoods. ‘But, I'll urge them [extremists] not to choose the wrong path of suicide attacks as well as the path of terrorism and extremism,’ she said.
Khaleda pays tribute to Liberation War heroes
Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson Khaleda Zia paid homage to the martyrs of the War of Independence by placing a wreath at the National Memorial in Savar, on the outskirts of Dhaka, on Sunday morning marking the 47th Independence and National Day.
Trump's art of no deal: Find someone to blame
President Donald Trump likes winning. But on Friday he failed.
Five months, eight prominent Russians dead
The brazen daytime slaying of a Russian politician outside a Ukrainian hotel this week brings to eight the number of high-profile Russians who have died over the past five months since the US presidential election on November 8.
Rex Tillerson to attend NATO meeting after all
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson will attend a NATO summit on March 31, according to a State Department official, after originally planning to skip the international gathering.
China versus the US: Australia's increasingly hard choice
At the start of his five-day visit to Australia, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang told parliamentarians in Canberra that "peace was the most precious thing."
Raid at Sylhet extremists’ den starts
Joint forces, including an army team, started an operation at a suspected hideout of extremists in a building at Dakkhin Pathanpara in Sylhet city on Saturday morning.
‘Bomb carrier’ killed in explosion near airport
A suspected bomb carrier was killed in an explosion of the explosive he was reportedly carrying between two police boxes in Airport crossing near Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka on Friday evening.
