French warplanes pounded Islamic State targets and Russia vowed to ramp up its bombing campaign in Syria

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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.

India yesterday agreed to pay Bangladesh a transit fee of Rs 192.22 per tonne of goods to be transported from its Tripura state to Ashuganj port in Bangladesh.

We can help them [Syrian refugees] form an army...They can go to fight to liberate their country.

Queen of the Netherlands Máxima Zorreguieta Cerruti arrived here yesterday on a three-day visit to support global efforts to reduce poverty, achieve economic development and empower women.

Would Bangladesh ever be able to protect the rights of its citizens who work on foreign soil? The ongoing negotiation on labour recruitment with the Malaysian government makes it doubtful.

The Supreme Court is set to hear today two petitions of condemned war criminals Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed and Salauddin Quader Chowdhury seeking review of its judgments that upheld death penalties for them.

Brac founder and Chairperson Sir Fazle Hasan Abed has suggested a 10-year rigorous plan to draw talented graduates to the teaching profession for improving the country's education quality.

World leaders promised to tighten border controls, step up intelligence sharing and crack down on terrorist financing at a summit in Turkey on Monday, but there was little sign of a dramatic shift in strategy against Islamic State in Syria.

Islamic State warned in a new video yesterday that countries taking part in air strikes against Syria would suffer the same fate as France, and threatened to attack in Washington.

A French official has named the suspected mastermind behind the Paris attacks as a Belgian man called Abdelhamid Abaaoud.

A German minister yesterday warned against drawing a hasty link between refugees and perpetrators of the deadly Paris attacks, warning that the IS group could be trying to exploit the debate over Europe's migrant influx.

Twelve French warplanes have bombarded Raqqa, the de facto “capital” of IS in Syria, two days after bombing and gun attacks in Paris killed 129 people. The air strikes late on Sunday were the first since the Paris attacks, and saw 12 French air force planes drop 20 bombs on Islamic State group positions.

Belgium issued an international arrest warrant Sunday for one of three brothers linked to the brutal attacks in Paris that killed 129 people, as the probe spread across Europe.

Bangladesh would request repatriation of top criminals hiding in India at the home secretary-level meeting between the two countries beginning in Dhaka today.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said the hardworking and resilient people of Bangladesh will be the "development miracle" in near future if they get support from her development partners.

The government yesterday sought more support from international partners to help attain its ambitious development goals for the next five years and beyond, while donors pointed out three major challenges facing Bangladesh. Bangladesh has to raise its investment-GDP ratio to accelerate economic growth to 7-8 percent from the average of 6 percent, said Martin Rama, chief economist for South Asia at the World Bank, speaking at the Bangladesh Development Forum 2015.

“When you look at Paris, toughest gun laws in the world, nobody had guns but the bad guys… if they had guns… if they were allowed to carry, it would have been a much, much different situation,”

Eminent writer Hasan Azizul Haque received a death threat over the phone from an unknown caller yesterday reportedly for his views on freedom of expression.