India's Border Security Force (BSF) gunned down a Bangladeshi man inside their territory near Palianpur village of Maheshpur upazila yesterday. The deceased was identified as Abdur Rahim, 50, son of Abul Quasem of Baulia village in Sejia Union. Lt Col Quamrul Ahsan, commanding officer of 58 Border…

The Bangladesh government would provide necessary support for the issuing of travel permits to ailing Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) leader Sadeque Hossain Khoka and his family members so that they can return home, said State minister for foreign affairs, Shahriar Alam, yesterday. When Khoka’s…

India has reiterated that it would support Bangladesh’s efforts to resolve the Rohingya crisis. The assurance came in a recent letter that the Indian foreign minister, S Jaishankar, wrote to his Bangladeshi counterpart AK Abdul Momen. In the letter, Jaishankar mentioned that the safe, speedy and…

A legal notice was served to the national daily Prothom Alo and its affiliate publication Kishor Alo yesterday, seeking Tk. 10 crore in compensation for the death of a student of Dhaka Residential Model College (DRMC), Naimul Abrar Rahat (14). Naimul, a student of Class IX, had died of electrocution…

India has gotten a new map. The Centre has notified geographical boundaries of newly carved Union Territories (UTs) of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh. The…

Acting Vice Chancellor of Dhaka University (DU) Prof Dr Md Akhtaruzzaman has been appointed Vice Chancellor of the university for the next four years. Meanwhile, Chittagong University (CU) has got its first female Vice Chancellor (VC) with the appointment of Prof Shireen Akhter and Prof Dr Md Sadequl…