Bollywood heartthrob actress Shilpa Shetty is all set to visit Dhaka for the first time to take part in a ramp fashion show which will be held at the Gulnaksha Hall of International Basundhara Convention on May 13, Friday at 7 pm. Shilpa will arrive in Dhaka for the first time to take part in the show at Gulnaksha Hall of International Convention City Bashundhara in the capital that evening. The diva…

The National Assembly of Pakistan on Wednesday passed a unanimous resolution expressing serious ‘concerns’ over the execution of death sentence of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami ameer Motiur Rahman Nizami. The resolution was moved by Minister for Science and Technology Rana Tanvir Hussain. Sidewise, the country’s foreign ministry has issued a statement raising sadness over the hanging.…

Police on Wednesday pressed charges against BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia and 23 others in two cases filed for arson attacks in Darussalam area of Dhaka in 2015.   The charge sheets were submitted by Darussalam police with the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court in Dhaka.   Khaleda has been shown as the mastermind of both the attacks in Darussalam area during the BNP-led 20-party alliance…

Awami League publicity and publication secretary Dr Hasan Mahmud today slammed BNP its alleged meeting with the head of Israeli intelligence agency chief Mossad for hatching conspiracy to topple the government. Mentioning many Muslim countries, including Bangladesh, Mahmud said most of the Muslim countries have no diplomatic ties with Israil. So from now on it is clear that BNP can follow any path…

The result of this year’s SSC and its equivalent exams has been published, 88.29pc students have passed while 109761 get GPA-5. In the Wednesday morning, Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid handed over copies of the results to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. Later, the PM in her speech highlighted the results. Students will be able to get the results from their schools, education ministry website…

Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) chief Bilawal Bhutto Zardari hit out at Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, accusing him of “damaging” the country’s foreign policy by giving his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi a “certificate of friendship” and over his handling of the Kashmir issue. Addressing an election rally in Bagh area of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK), where his…

British police apologised on Tuesday after officers shouted the Arabic phrase “Allahu akbar!” during a terror training exercise in a shopping centre in northern England. In video footage of the exercise broadcast on British television, a masked man dressed in black could be seen running into the complex in Manchester shouting the words before setting off a bomb and falling to the floor.…

In the dusk of his White House bid, Bernie Sanders saw some sun from voters still shining on him on Tuesday as he won the Democratic race in West Virginia against Hillary Clinton, though his victory will do little to slow her steady march toward the Democratic presidential nomination. Meanwhile, Republican Donald Trump also won there and in Nebraska, a week after he cleared the field of his remaining…

Condemned war Criminal Matiur Rahman Nizami was buried at the family graveyard beside a madrasa at Monmotpur village of Dhopadaha union council under Santhia Upazila of Pabna at 7:15am today. Nizami was buried after a namaz-e-janaza around 6:45am. The janaza was administered by Nizami's elder son Barrister Najib Momen. His son Nazib Momen received the body from Upazila executive officer around…

Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami has called a 24-hour countrywide hartal for Thursday protesting the execution of its Ameer and war criminal Motiur Rahman Nizami. Terming it as a ‘planned killing’ by the government, the party published a statement in their website within one hour after the hanging of 71-year-old Jamaat leader in Dhaka Central Jail at 12:10am. The statement said acting Ameer…

Finally, the convicted war criminal Motiur Rahman Nizami was hanged in the wee hours of Wednesday for the heinous crimes he had committed against humanity during the Liberation War in 1971 to dismiss Bangalees hope for independence.   The 71-year-old Ameer of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami was hanged by the rope inside Dhaka Central Jail at 11:55pm, Jahangir Kabir, superintendent of the prison, said.…