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, 14:42 PM

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, 11:50 AM

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, 18:00 PM

‘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, 08:45 AM

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, 08:00 AM

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, 18:00 PM

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, 07:46 AM

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, 11:31 AM

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, 10:55 AM

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, 18:00 PM

UK builds first permanent base in ME

Work has begun to construct Britain's first new permanent military base in the Middle East since 1971. Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond
1 November 2015, 18:00 PM

Six more kids drown off Greek islands

At least 13 migrants, six of them children, drowned as two boats making the hazardous crossing from Turkey capsized in the Aegean Sea
1 November 2015, 18:00 PM

Campaigning wraps up for Turkey vote

Turkish politicians yesterday held their final campaign rallies for a vote many fear is unlikely to bring an end to months of instability as the country confronts bloody jihadist attacks and a renewed Kurdish conflict.
31 October 2015, 18:00 PM

Spain parties unite against 'separatists'

Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy said Friday the nation's main parties have reached an agreement to defend national unity as an
31 October 2015, 18:00 PM

Romania mourns victims after club blaze kills 27

Romania was plunged into mourning yesterday after 27 people were killed and nearly 200 injured when a fire ripped through an
31 October 2015, 18:00 PM

Germany seeks to slow migrant flow

Germany on Friday said that asylum seekers would only be able to enter the country at five points along its border with Austria to
31 October 2015, 18:00 PM

Migrant crisis: 22 drown off Greek islands

At least 22 migrants - many of them children - drown trying to reach Kalymnos and Rhodes from Turkey, in the second major boat tragedy off Greek islands this week.
30 October 2015, 11:35 AM

Moulvibazar-3 by-polls Dec 8

The by-election to the Moulvibazar-3 constituency will be held on December 8, the Election Commission announced today.
29 October 2015, 09:07 AM

World's oldest bible on show as British Museum tracks Egypt's religions

The world's oldest bible is among 200 objects tracing Egypt's religious evolution in an exhibition at London's British Museum that spans the 1,200 years since Cleopatra's death.
29 October 2015, 05:57 AM

Students to get textbooks on time: Nahid

Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid today assured that the printing of textbooks would be completed on schedule and school students would get them by the start of next year.
28 October 2015, 08:18 AM