Bangladesh willing to work with Climate Club: Yunus

Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus on Tuesday said Bangladesh is willing to work with the 'Climate Club' to catalyse international cooperation in terms of capacity building, technology transfer and concessional decarbonisation finance. "LDCs will need preferential treatment owing to their special circumstances and development needs," he said while attending the high-level

Missing girl found dead in pond near her home

The body of six-year-old Muntaha, who went missing from her house on November 3, was recovered from a pond in Sylhet's Kanaighat upazila early Sunday, said police. Muntaha Aktar Jerin was daughter of Shamim Ahmed of Bharafoud village under Birdal union of Kanaighat upazila. Kanaighat police station's Officer-in-Charge Md Abdul Awal confirmed

BGB busts insurgent den, recovers huge arms, ammos

Members of the Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) busted a den of insurgents and recovered a huge amount of arms, ammunition, drones, and advanced technology equipment from a hilly, remote area along the Bandarban border on Thursday. Based on an intelligence report, it was revealed that a group of hilly insurgents had

Ex-BCL leader, 4 others held over lynching of a man at DU

Police arrested five students including a former Chhatra League leader in connection with the lynching of a 'mentally retarded' man over suspected theft inside a dormitory of Dhaka University (DU). Al Amin, sub inspector (SI) of Shahbagh police station, confirmed the matter saying that they arrested the students from Fazlul Huq

India cancels visa, detain Bangladeshi over anti-India posts

Alamgir Sheikh (34) from Patgram, Lalmonirhat, has been detained by Indian authorities and had his tourist visa canceled due to anti-India posts and comments made on social media. On Monday morning, Ahsan Habib, in charge of immigration police at the Burimari land port, confirmed the incident. Alamgir Sheikh, son of Nuru Sheikh

Journalists Mozammel Babu, Shyamal Dutta held in Mymensingh

Four people, including the managing director of Ekattor TV, Mozammel Babu, and the editor of Bhorer Kagoj, Shyamal Dutta, have been apprehended by locals while attempting to cross the border into India through the Dhobaura border in Mymensingh. Locals apprehended them in the border area and handed them over to the

Former Rajshahi-4 MP Enamul Haque held from Adabor

Members of the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested the former member of parliament for Rajshahi-4, Engineer Md. Enamul Haque from Dhaka's Adabor He was arrested over attacking students and the public during the Anti-discrimination Student Movement in Rajshahi's Bagmara on August 5, said ASP Imran Khan of the RAB Headquarters (media

Soldiers will be on streets until normalcy returns: Army Chief

Army Chief General Waker-Uz-Zaman on Tuesday said soldiers will patrol the streets until the return of normalcy in the country. He said this during a call on with President Mohammed Shahabuddin at Bangabhaban at noon, President's Press Secretary Joynal Abedin told reporters. During the meeting, the army chief said that a total

Terrorists involved in violence, attacks on state establishments: Home Minister

A terrorist group or quarter with vested interest was involved in the violence and arson attacks on state-owned establishments in an attempt to topple the government, Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan said on Tuesday. "A terrorist group that is against the Liberation War was behind the violence in the country on October