The High Court yesterday blasted BTRC for its failure to prevent the spread of hateful contents on Facebook, which has caused disruptions in social and communal harmony in the country.

The Bangladesh Railway is likely to make the National Identity Card or any other valid identity card mandatory for buying advance train tickets – the sales of which will begin on April 23 – ahead of Eid-ul-Fitr.

Pakistan lawmakers yesterday elected Shehbaz Sharif as the country’s new prime minister following the weekend ouster of Imran Khan, who resigned his national assembly seat -- along with most of his party members -- ahead of the vote.

“I will go back to the classroom and continue teaching my students. Forgiving them for their mistakes and helping them differentiate between right and wrong is my job.”

Both of them shared some common principles and championed the causes of freethought and secularism. And both met the same fate.

As Pakistan recovered from Saturday’s long and tiring National Assembly (NA) session which saw Imran Khan lose his government, politicians yesterday submitted their nomination papers for the prime minister’s election.

Hriday Chandra Mondal was released on bail yesterday afternoon, after spending 19 days behind bars on charges of hurting religious sentiments.

Excluded from the government’s social safety net, middle-income families are struggling to cope with the rising prices of basic goods and services.

Shahinoor Begum left no stone unturned in the search for her kidnapped son even though everyone told her that there was no hope.

After spending Tk 4 crore on an experimental direct flight to Toronto, Biman is now studying the feasibility of commercial flights to the Canadian city with stopovers.

A woman who had sued a man for sexually harassing her on a moving bus is now facing a case filed by him under the Digital Security Act.

Pakistan’s lower house of parliament today voted in favour of removing Prime Minister Imran Khan from office, following a nearly 14-hour standoff between the opposition and Khan’s ruling party that started yesterday morning. 

Farmers in the northern region of the country are fearing huge financial loss in this Boro season because of flash floods.

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan yesterday said he would accept the Supreme Court’s verdict on a no-confidence motion, but added he would not recognise an opposition government if it succeeded in an attempt to oust him, the latest twist in a political crisis engulfing the nuclear-armed nation. 

A police probe has found authenticity in the allegation that a constable on April 2 harassed a teacher of Tejgaon College for wearing “teep”.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday called upon the development partners to increase their contributions and vaccines to Covax Advance Market Commitment (AMC) for helping all countries reach vaccination targets.

Bangladesh’s Covid-19 vaccination campaign has so far turned out to be quite a triumph.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday directed the authorities concerned to pay more attention to digital security in every sector of the country.

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan faces being booted from office at the weekend after the Supreme Court yesterday ruled that parliament had been illegally dissolved and a no-confidence vote on his government must go ahead.

Poor maintenance of an explosive detection system (EDS) at the Dhaka airport has repeatedly been putting exporters in trouble.