“He [Salauddin Quader Chowdhury] has a commitment to the independence and sovereignty of the country. He is a clean and honest politician. He … never compromised on the question of democracy."

Pacific-rim nations closed ranks against terrorism yesterday at the end of a summit that was darkened by last week's attacks in Paris, but still Washington and Moscow sparred over how to deal with Syria and the Islamic State fighters sheltering there.

The Islamic State jihadist suspected of masterminding the Paris attacks was killed during a major police raid, prosecutors confirmed Thursday, as French lawmakers voted to extend a state of emergency imposed after the carnage.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's official visits to Malta and France have been cancelled considering the overall situation at home and Paris, diplomatic sources have said.

It was not excitement that you saw on their faces when they reached the zero point on the Burimari border in Lalmonirhat. There was a pall of gloom cast over everybody instead. Many could not hold their tears back thinking, perhaps, about the life they were leaving behind.

The government has cancelled licences of 69 hajj agencies for trafficking people in the guise of Umrah pilgrims to Saudi Arabia last year.

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia is returning home tomorrow after her over two months' stay in London, the party has said.

A deep sense of insecurity has gripped Christian priests in the country.

Anonymous has released a guide to catching Islamic State (IS) extremists, and claims that it has already found thousands of extremists online.

A woman suicide bomber blew herself up in a police raid that sources said had foiled a jihadi plan to hit Paris's business district, days after attacks that killed 129 across the French capital.

For the first time in its history, the government yesterday temporarily shut down the internet in Bangladesh, affecting businesses and services heavily dependent on the digital network. The government said the internet was shut down “mistakenly”.

A parliamentary committee will recommend to the NGO Affairs Bureau that the registration of Transparency International Bangladesh be scrapped for not apologising yet for making “derogatory comments” on parliament.

Yet another foreigner came under attack by unidentified assailants in Dinajpur yesterday, around one and a half months after two others were shot dead in the capital and Rangpur.

He and his men used every means at their disposal to delay his case proceedings and to create controversy over the war crimes trial.

Alleged pro-hartal supporters set fire to a bus and vandalised one more in the capital's Jatrabari area last night, hours before a countrywide hartal was called by the Jamaat-e-Islami.

The long legal battles in the war crimes cases against Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed and Salauddin Quader Chowdhury have finally come to an end, drawing the two condemned war criminals closer to the gallows. The Supreme Court yesterday dismissed their petitions for reviewing its verdict that upheld their death penalty given by two special tribunals in 2013.

"We are facing a third world war against humanity and this is what brings us all together."

President Vladimir Putin vowed vengeance yesterday as Moscow confirmed that a bomb attack brought down a Russian passenger jet over Egypt last month, killing all 224 people on board.

A new Malayalam book “Njaan enna Murivu” has three Bangla words written on its cover -- “Ahoto Ami” (The injured

The Supreme Court yesterday set 11:30am today for delivering the verdict on the petition filed by condemned war criminal Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed seeking review of the apex court judgment that upheld his death penalty.