Three persons were killed in separate ‘gunfights’ in Kushtia and Bhola yesterday, reports UNB. Two young men, accused in a schoolboy abduction and murder case, were killed in a reported gunfight with police in Paharpur village of Mirpur upazila of Kushtia early yesterday. The deceased were…

The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court (SC) yesterday upheld a High Court (HC) order that granted six months' bail to BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia in a vandalism case filed in Cumilla. The case was filed in connection with the vandalisation of vehicles in Cumilla's Chouddagram area on January…

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) yesterday filed a case against Badiur Rahman, a director of Al-Arafah Islami Bank Ltd, on charges of siphoning of five lakh Singaporean dollars equivalent to over Taka 1.68 crore to Singapore, reports BSS. Deputy Director (DD) of the ACC Jalal Uddin Ahammed filed…

The US Supreme Court yesterday upheld President Donald Trump's controversial ban on travelers from five mostly Muslim countries -- a major victory…

India’s top diplomat has become the latest high-profile woman to be targeted by trolls on social media, an endemic problem for Indian women that has attracted United Nations scrutiny, reports The Guardian from New Delhi. External affairs minister Sushma Swaraj has been highlighting a selection…

Researchers have discovered the oldest-known European illustrations of an Australasian cockatoo, in a manuscript from the 13th Century, reports BBC from…