Two ‘extremists’ killed in Basila raid

At least two suspected extremists were killed in an explosion after members of Rapid Action Battalion cordoned off a corrugated sheet roofed house at Basila in Mohammadpur area of Dhaka on early Monday.

BRI: a historic opportunity

CHINA’S president Xi Jinping hosted the Second Belt and Road Forum in Beijing on April 26–27 — 125 countries and 40 international organisations have joined the Belt and Road Initiative.

SRI LANKA BLASTS Terrorism targets another Chinese ally

Sri Lanka’s violence is an artificial construct carried out by a tiny minority of extremists on either side of an equally artificial ethnoreligious divide. The nation and the region must unite in purpose.

‘Extremist den’ cordoned off in Dhaka

Members of Rapid Action Battalion cordoned off a corrugated sheet roofed house at Basila in Mohammadpur area of the capital on early Monday, suspecting it to be an extrimist den.

BNP asks MPs-elect not to take oath

The Bangladesh Nationalist Party standing committee sat in a meeting with party lawmakers-elect at the jailed BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia’s Gulshan office in Dhaka Sunday evening.

FATHER'S PROPERTY Find way, let girls not be deprived

Prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday directed the authorities concerned to make sure that trial procedures would not be delayed since many people were behind bars without knowing their faults.

Principal Siraj confesses to giving order from jail

Sonagazi Islamia Fazil Madrassah principal Siraj-ud-Doula on Sunday gave confessional statement before a court in Feni admitting that he gave order to kill Nusrat Jahan Rafi by setting her on fire for

China is watching Western democracy eat itself

Over the next few months, the world's current and previous superpowers are set to undergo enormous self-harm.

15 killed as Sri Lanka forces raid Islamist hideout

Fifteen people including six children died in a battle between Sri Lankan security forces and suicide bombers who blew themselves up in the latest fallout from the Easter attacks, police said Saturday.

Chief Justice asks judges to speed up disposal of cases

Chief Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain on Saturday asked judges to restrict inflow of cases before they are filed to reduce the backlog of lawsuits.