Plainclothes police arrested BNP’s newly appointed Joint Secretary General Aslam Chowdhury from the capital city on Sunday afternoon for his alleged involvement in an oust-government plot.   Earlier on the day, police authorities had announced that he would be arrested wherever he is seen.   Members of the Detective Branch of Dhaka Metropolitan Police arrested the BNP leader from his…

A Jatiyatabadi Sramik Dal, a wing of BNP, leader was killed and another injured in a factional clash in front of the BNP’s Nayapaltan central office on Sunday. Quoting witnesses and BNP sources news agency UNB said Sramik Dal Dhaka City South and North units jointly arranged a doa and milad mahfil on the ground floor of the BNP’s central office seeking early recovery of ailing BNP vice…

A Bangladeshi origin British man has been jailed for life for planning a terror attack on a US airbase in Britain. A court in London on Friday sentenced Junead Khan, 25, for contacting the Islamic State militant group following a plan to attack the US airbase in East Anglia, bdnews24.com reported. He was preparing to go to Syria to join the IS, the police said. Junead's relative Shazib Khan joined…

Barcelona sealed its 24th La Liga title as Luis Suarez took his tally for the season to 59 goals with a hat-trick in a 3-0 win at Granada to hold off Real Madrid’s late-season surge. Real registered its 12th consecutive La Liga win, 2-0 at Deportivo la Coruna, thanks to Cristiano Ronaldo’s double, but finished a point behind its bitter rivals. Suarez’s treble also sees him become…

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal on Saturday termed the killing of Bandarban Buddhist monk as an isolated incident and pointed finger at the relatives of the victim.   The Minister delivered the statement in reply of a query by the reporters at the Rajshahi University, hours after the Buddhist monk murder.   “It is an isolated incident and the victim’s relatives are involved…

Over the last 15 years, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan has become a regular at Cannes. Her association began with the festival with the screening of 'Devdas'. She said that the opportunity of representing the Indian film fraternity at the festival over the years makes her feel both humbled and privileged. An IndianExpress.com report quoted her as saying, "Even when it is not about my film, I…