Prime Minister Theresa May yesterday called for a snap general election on June 8, in a surprise announcement as Britain prepares for

Hefazat-e-Islam Nayeb-e Ameer Mufti Izharul Islam Chowdhury yesterday praised Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina for recognising certificates of Dawra-e Hadith exams of Qawmi Madrasa as equivalent to Master's degree.

The BNP has issued a rejoinder to our report headlined “Huji kingpin Mufti Hannan Hanged” published on April 13. For better understanding of our readers, we have numbered each paragraph of the rejoinder and replied accordingly.

A Dhaka court yesterday framed charges against Obaidul Khan, the lone accused in a case filed over last year's killing of Suraiya Akter Risha, a student of Willes Little Flower School in the capital.

The assurance of an employment-related pension in old age is an important consideration for many who choose to pursue public sector careers. But for sweepers like Faridpur town's 75-year-old Babur Ali, retirement is unimaginable. Despite 45 years service in keeping the town clean he is still hired on a day-to-day basis, without any of the benefits one might expect from such dedicated public service.

“Farm chickens have infiltrated into the Awami League. Local chickens have been cornered by those. Local chickens are needed, not farm chickens. Farm chickens are not good for health.”

Queues get longer under the scorching sun at midday at the backswamp of Sunamganj for subsidised rice and wheat flour. People start lining up at 10:00am at points of open market sale (OMS) across the district to buy rice and flour at Tk 15 and 17 a kg, a lot cheaper than the market prices.

Fertiliser “disappearing”, fund embezzlement, and corrupt officials going unpunished plague the Bangladesh Chemical Industries Corporation (BCIC) but a class-I civil servant “vanishing into thin air” with fertiliser worth crores of taka was a new low for the corporation.

A man was killed in a “gunfight” with detectives in the city's Bhashantek area early yesterday, four days after he was called out from his Ashulia house allegedly by a criminal gang.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said she had suggested Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha either remove the statue of Greek Goddess Themis from the Supreme Court premises or reinstall it at another place so that it cannot be seen from the National Eidgah.

A culture of impunity has been reigning supreme in the state-run Bangladesh Chemical Industries Corporation (BCIC) for years. A look into the affairs of the corporation reveals that even a parliamentary standing committee could not get the corporation to take action against its officials for corruption, negligence and malpractice.

There was pin-drop silence inside the conference room of the Police Headquarters.

The Centre for Policy Dialogue yesterday said the value-added tax rate should be 12 percent in the low- and middle-income countries in South and East Asia.

Tahmid Hasib Khan, who was arrested for “instigating” the Gulshan café attackers and also charged with hiding information from police, is now free.

“Such a strong movement would be waged that it would remove the statue and the chief justice.”

The “Yes” camp in a referendum to give Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan greater powers claimed victory yesterday but the knife-edge result left the country bitterly divided with the opposition crying foul.

People of all ages, irrespective of cast and creed and religious beliefs, celebrated the Bangla New Year 1424 across the country on Friday but for most Dhaka Dwellers the festivities were somewhat dampened due to strict security measures.

North Korea's weapons of war yesterday rolled through Pyongyang streets and it promised "nuclear justice" in response to any atomic attack as leader Kim Jong-Un mounted a spectacular show of strength.

“Hassle in the name of security and strict enforcement of time limit [for entry and exit from the venue] dampened the festivity of Pahela

Two Bangladeshi youths have made the list of "Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia: Social Entrepreneurs".