‘BNP will resist attempt to remove Zia’s grave’

BNP will resist if the government tries to remove the grave of the party founder Ziaur Rahman from Jatiya Sangsad area, a party leader said today.
12 November 2015

Slovenia unrolls wire on Croatia border

Slovenia's army yesterday began rolling out razor wire along the border with Croatia, in a move the government says will help it better manage the influx of migrants.
11 November 2015

Spain challenges Catalan secession bid

Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy said yesterday his government had launched a Constitutional Court challenge to a resolution passed by Catalonia's
11 November 2015

Five dead in PKK attacks in Turkey

Three Turkish policemen, a civilian and a soldier have been killed in new attacks in the restive southeast blamed on fighters from the rebel Kurdistan Workers'
11 November 2015

Democracy is confined: Khaleda

BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia says the country’s democracy is under attack in a bid to destroy it forever.
9 November 2015

HC again rejects medical admission retake plea

The High Court further rejects a writ petition seeking the authorities to cancel the medical admission test held on September 18, and to probe into the allegations of question leakage.
9 November 2015

The Real Winnie the Pooh

Winnie the Pooh is one of the best-known characters in children's literature, and the inspiration is in fact a female bear from Winnipeg in Canada.
9 November 2015

Putin to attend Paris climate summit

Russian President Vladimir Putin will attend the November 30 opening of a UN summit in Paris tasked with producing a climate rescue
8 November 2015

Croatia votes amid migrant crisis

Croatians voted in a general election yesterday with conservatives aspiring to return to power as the EU nation faces a wave of migrants
8 November 2015

Wentworth Woodhouse sold to Hong Kong investment company

One of Europe's biggest private stately homes is due to be sold to a Hong Kong based investment company.
8 November 2015

Sinai plane crash: Russia suspends Egypt flights

Russia orders the suspension of all flights to Egypt following indications that the crash near Sharm el-Sheikh was caused by a bomb.
6 November 2015

Refugee boy Azam reunited with parents in Germany

A Syrian boy whose disappearance from a hospital in Belgrade while on the European refugee trail sparked a huge social media campaign is reunited with his parents in Germany.
6 November 2015

8 Jamaat-Shibir men land in Dinajpur jail on surrender

A court here on Tuesday sent eight local Jamaat-Shibir men to jail, rejecting their bail prayers in cases for vandalising and torching different polling centres in Nashratpur union under Chirirbandar upazila of the district during the January 5 national elections.
4 November 2015

‘I feel insecure, like I felt in 1971’

Four days into the murder of publisher Dipan, his father Prof Abul Quasem Fazlul Huq says he feels insecure as he had felt during the nine months of Bangladesh’s 1971 Liberation War.
4 November 2015

20% pass DU ‘Ka’ unit test

Just over 20 percent of the aspirants have passed the admission tests of Dhaka University ‘Ka’ unit, under science faculty, in results published today.
4 November 2015

House gutted in fire

A devastating fire gutted properties worth around Tk 30 lakh at village Futanir Bazar in Saghata upazila of the district yesterday. The fire
3 November 2015

Watch: Paris street temporarily 'renamed' after blogger Avijit

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) temporarily labels the street name in front of Bangladesh Embassy in Paris after slain Bangladeshi-American secular activist and blogger Avijit Roy marking the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists.
3 November 2015

Tomorrow’s JSC, JDC exams deferred by 4 hrs

Tomorrow’s Junior School Certificate (JSC) and Junior Dakhil Certificate (JDC) examinations will begin at 2:00pm instead of 10:00am due to a half-day hartal called by Gonojagoron Mancha.
2 November 2015

Sinai plane crash: Victims flown back to Russia

The bodies of 144 of those killed in Saturday's air crash in Egypt are flown back to the Russian city of St Petersburg as an investigation into the cause continues.
2 November 2015

Britain to unveil new online spying laws

Britain's government gave the first details yesterday of contested plans to update Internet spying laws to keep pace with the digital age.
1 November 2015