Mohammad Atiqul Islam, former mayor of Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC), was arrested in the capital on Wednesday. A team of Mohammadpur police arrested him from Mohakhali DOHS area in the evening, said Deputy Commissioner (media) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Talebur Rahman. The police official, however, did not disclose in which case he was arrested.

Leaders of Kashmir's biggest political party were sworn into office Wednesday to run a largely powerless government after the first local election since India stripped the disputed…

Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus on Wednesday visited Dhaka University campus to see the graffiti drawn by young revolutionaries during the student-led mass uprising in July and August.…

Awami League senior leader Matia Chowdhury passed away at the age of 82. She breathed her last at Dhaka’s Evercare Hospital on Wednesday afternoon after suffering a cardiac arrest…

A body believed to be that of BNP leader Harris Chowdhury was exhumed from a graveyard in Savar on Wednesday to confirm its identity through a DNA test.  The exhumation took place…

Foreign Affairs Adviser Md Touhid Hossain on Wednesday expressed "deep concern" over the recent influx of more than 40,000 Myanmar nationals into Bangladesh fleeing conflict in the…

Iran’s top diplomat has warned UN chief Antonio Guterres that Tehran is ready for a “decisive and regretful” response if Israel attacks his country in retaliation…

Lebanon’s health ministry said five people were killed in Israeli strikes Wednesday on the municipality of the southern city of Nabatiyeh, after an official said the mayor was…

The Council of Advisers of the Interim Government has recently decided to cancel eight national days, according to a post of verified Facebook page of the chief adviser today. The…

Students of Begum Rokeya University in Rangpur staged protests on the campus late Tuesday night over the teasing of a female student allegedly by some outsiders. They also blocked…

The Biden administration has warned Israel that it must increase the amount of humanitarian aid it is allowing into Gaza within the next 30 days or it could risk losing access to U.S.…

Demanding resignation of 'fascist judges', the anti-discrimination student movement has announced a siege of the High Court at 11 am on Wednesday. Hasnat Abdullah, one of the coordinators…

BNP Senior Secretary General Advocate Ruhul Kabir Rizvi on Tuesday said that Bangladesh was turned into a mass grave during the “fascist Sheikh Hasina’s regime”. …

President and Chief Executive Officer of the Excelerate Energy Steven Kobos on Tuesday said there has been a lot of interest in Bangladesh from American companies and his company has…