International Crisis Group has warned that Bangladesh's contentious national politics have played a role in “enabling the jihadist resurgence”.

The BNP has sent a letter to the Election Commission, saying that Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina must not carry out any election campaign on behalf of her party with public money.

A Chhatra League man and a former leader of the student body have confessed to snatching Tk 37 lakh from two gold traders in the capital's Sutrapur nine days ago, according to court sources.

Monday was another day of reckoning for the United Nations. As the UN chief and the UN high commissioner on human rights decried the mass violation of human rights, genocide and unjust wars raging all over the world from Syria to Myanmar to Congo, one thing came out even clearer -- the undemocratic character of the UN system has left the world an unsafe place for the weak.

The UN rights chief has slammed a lack of international action to rein in the carnage in conflict zones including Syria and Myanmar, and described the places as "some of the most prolific slaughterhouses of humans."

The visiting Nobel Peace laureates have promised Rohingya women to be their voice and pursue justice on their behalf.

The six-year-old daughter painfully narrated to her mother how she had been raped. She is so little, her father said. “I cannot describe

Opposition Leader Raushan Ershad yesterday urged Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to relieve three Jatiya Party lawmakers of cabinet posts to help it emerge as the “real opposition” party.

Attending a wedding in Gazipur on Sunday night, Kajal Rani Saha and her son Shuvo Saha were on way to their home in Chandpur's Haziganj yesterday.

The BNP would not go for any tough movement at least until July as it feels it would not be able to carry on with the agitation up to the elections later this year, party insiders claimed.

Kuliarchar Sea Foods, a Cox's Bazar-based fish exporter, withdrew about Tk 19 crore in cash incentives from Mercantile Bank last year, violating government rules.

European Union foreign ministers yesterday agreed to prepare sanctions against Myanmar generals over the killings of Rohingya Muslims and to strengthen the EU arms embargo, accusing state security forces of grave human rights abuses.

No one would realise better than a woman how it feels when a child is snatched away from the arms of a mother and slaughtered, a man is murdered before the eyes of his wife, or a girl is raped. That is what happened to countless Rohingya women back in Rakhine State of Myanmar.

Pilgrims have to spend around Tk 16,000 more this year to perform hajj, mainly because of high airfare.

The Supreme Court yesterday asked the High Court to expedite hearing and disposal of its previous rules that halted the by-election to Dhaka North City Corporation mayoral post and polls in the 36 new wards under two Dhaka city corporations.

The call for reforming the quota system in public service recruitments is getting louder as demonstration over the issue has spread to various educational institutions across the country.

“Incidents of question leaks in the past cannot be a justification for the recent leaks.”

China's ruling Communist Party yesterday set the stage for President Xi Jinping to stay in office indefinitely, with a proposal to remove a constitutional clause limiting presidential service to just two terms in office.

Two and a half years back, the Rapid Action Battalion arrested seven suspects and claimed they were involved in the 2015 killing of writer Avijit Roy.

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia, who landed in jail on February 8 upon conviction in a graft case, has to wait for a few more days to know the fate of her bail petition.