Emboldened by its success in the Kashmir suicide bombing, Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) plans to carry out another guerrilla attack of a much bigger magnitude, intelligence intercepts of conversations on February 16-17 between JeM leadership in Pakistan and its terrorists in Kashmir have revealed.

As the nation paid homage to the Language Movement heroes on the International Mother Language Day, people visited the capital's Central Shaheed Minar.

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia did not appear before the Special Judge Court-9 for hearing on charge framing in the Niko graft case yesterday.

Malaysia wants the perpetrators of atrocities against the Rohingyas be tried immediately at the International Criminal Court (ICC).

BNP standing committee member Nazrul Islam Khan yesterday said Jamaat-e-Islami should apologise to the nation for its anti-liberation role in the 1971 Liberation war.

At least eight people were injured as a bus and a pick-up van caught fire from a leaking gas pipeline on Mirpur road in the capital's Dhanmondi area yesterday afternoon.

Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Indian leader Narendra Modi yesterday vowed to increase pressure on countries that fuel terrorism.

Two senior BNP leaders -- Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and Moudud Ahmed -- came under fire by the party rank and file at a discussion programme in the capital yesterday for lack of action programmes to free its chairperson Khaleda Zia from jail.

President Vladimir Putin promised Russians rapid improvements in their living conditions as he delivered his annual state of the nation address yesterday under pressure from falling approval ratings.

French President Emmanuel Macron will announce measures to fight a flare-up in anti-Semitism during a dinner with Jewish community leaders yesterday, a day after a spate of hate crimes brought thousands onto the streets in protest.

The radicalised IS teenager Shamima Begum is not a Bangladeshi citizen and there is no question of allowing her to enter the country Bangladesh, the foreign ministry said yesterday.

A reporter of the Bangla daily Jugantor was arrested in Keraniganj on Tuesday, hours after a case was filed against him and four other reporters of the newspaper under the controversial Digital Security Act.

Barely a day after his birth, he found himself in the midst of rumbling bulldozers destroying the little world around him. The next day, the baby, who was yet to be named, and his mother Tanjila Begum, 24, were homeless.

Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader yesterday expressed discontent over the quality of roads as some of them get damaged even after a short spell of rain within two or three months of construction.

A Pirojpur court yesterday sent war criminal Delowar Hossain Sayedee's son Masood Sayedee to jail in connection with a case filed under the explosives substances act.

The government cannot disclose the Farashuddin-led committee's investigation report on Bangladesh Bank reserve heist so that probe by the Criminal Investigation Department is not “influenced”, Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal told parliament last night.

National Housing Authority (NHA) conducts an eviction drive at a slum in Bhashantek of the city.

An explosion in Cairo on Monday killed two policemen who were chasing a man believed to have targeted security staff near a mosque last week, Egypt's interior ministry said.

Zambia's Infrastructure Minister Ronald Chitotela yesterday denied corruption charges in court following his arrest a fortnight ago in a rare case of a government official being pursued by investigators.

Eurosceptic populists are projected to make gains in European Parliamentary elections in May but mainstream political groups ought to retain their majority, albeit with increasing signs of fragmentation, according to opinion polls.