Police verifying identities of 10 of 12 killed ‘extremists’

Law enforcing authorities said on Sunday that they were examining the identities of 10 of the 12 suspected extremists killed in Gazipur, Tangail and Ashulia in Dhaka on Saturday.

HC declines bail for AL MP Amanur

The High Court on Sunday declined bail to ruling Awami League lawmaker Amanur Rahman Rana to jail after rejecting his bail petition in a case for killing freedom fighter Faruk Ahmed in 2013.

Nine Myanmar policemen killed near Bangladesh border

Nine police officers were killed during coordinated ambushes in Myanmar’s strife-torn Rakhine state on Sunday with authorities saying the attackers hailed from the Muslim Rohingya community, a persecuted minority.

Donald Trump to Howard Stern: It's okay to call my daughter a 'piece of ass'

Donald Trump engaged in crude and demeaning conversations about women over a 17-year-period with radio shock-jock Howard Stern, according to a review by CNN's KFile of hours of

US: No 'blank check' for Saudi Arabia in Yemen

The White House on Saturday condemned a Saudi-led coalition airstrike on a funeral home in Yemen that local health officials said killed at least 155 people.

Four including JMB donor held in Ashulia

Rapid Action Battalion men in a drive arrested four extremists, including prime donor of outlawed Jama'atul-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh Abdur Rahman, from a five-storey building at Baipal of Ashulia in the outskirts of the capital on Saturday evening.

Nahid for social resistance over attacks on female students

The minister for education, Nurul Islam Nahid, on Saturday called for waging up social resistance alongside the law to contain the incidents of attacks on female students.

BNP looking at US polls for succor: Obaidul

The minister for road transport and bridges, Obaidul Quader, on Saturday said that Bangladesh Nationalist Party is now looking to the United States election for succor, after becoming frustrated with India.

BSF shoots in head, chest, eyes: BGB chief

The Border Guard Bangladesh director general, Major General Aziz Ahmed, on Friday said that the Indian Border Security Force shot Bangladeshi people in the head, eyes and chest.