The Olama League has all along been claiming to be an affiliated body of the Awami League, and issuing media statements and holding programmes using that identity.

The Associated Press won the Pulitzer Prize for public service for reporting on abuse in the seafood industry that helped free 2,000 slave labourers, and Reuters and The New York Times shared the breaking news photography award for images of the European refugee crisis.

Casino junket operator Kim Wong has returned another P200 million ($4.34 million) to the Anti-Money Laundering Council (AMLC), which was believed to be part of the alleged $81million stolen funds from Bangladesh's central bank.

Police yesterday claimed Shafik Rehman admitted to having held "more than one meeting" with those convicted by a US court for bribing an FBI special agent to collect "confidential information".

The government has revised a project to lay a 129-km rail track from Dohazari to Gundum near Myanmar border via Cox's Bazar at a cost of Tk 18,034 crore.

Three men were found dead in remote Thanchi upazila of Bandarban yesterday two days after they had been abducted.

Yet another fire broke out in Chandpai range of the Sundarbans in Sharankhola upazila of the district yesterday morning.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said a conspiracy to abduct and kill her son Sajeeb Wazed Joy was unearthed in the United States, and the names of Shafik Rehman and Mahmudur Rahman came up in this connection in a US court.

The government is going to scrap the traditional tender floating system and introduce a full-fledged online tendering method for all public purchases from December, say planning ministry officials.

“They are cutting down the time for programmes [on Pahela Baishakh] on security grounds. How can we be sure that some other

The BNP has announced names of 21 leaders for its new National Executive Committee -- one organising secretary and 20 assistant organising secretaries.

In 2013, five employees of the Directorate of Secondary and Higher Education (DSHE) drew two months' salary of 265 teachers and employees.

The Criminal Investigation Department of police claims to have identified 20 foreign nationals involved in the $101 million cyber theft from Bangladesh Bank fund from Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

Detectives are likely to show daily Amar Desh Editor Mahmudur Rahman arrested in the case filed for alleged attempts to abduct and murder Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's son Sajeeb Wazed Joy, said a top DB official yesterday.

The death toll from Ecuador's biggest earthquake in decades soared to at least 235 yesterday as rescuers using tractors and bare hands hunted desperately for survivors in shattered coastal towns.

The Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal (JSD) faction led by Information Minister Hasanul Haq Inu was given 'moshal' (torch) as its electoral symbol by the Election Commission yesterday.

Frustration and resentment have created divisions within some left political parties in the Awami League-led 14 party alliance over the question of parting with the government and the alliance.

“A sword rusts if it's left unused. The same happened with the ACC."

The Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) has not been allowing 160 doctors, recruited in 2005, to attend their offices since Wednesday.

The Editors Guild of India has expressed its deep concern at the barrage of criminal defamation and sedition cases filed against Mahfuz Anam, editor and publisher of The Daily Star and a columnist of several Indian newspapers.