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The two-day 45th session of the foreign ministers meeting of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) concluded here today with a call for accountability for the atrocities and human rights violations in Rakhine state and to...

In a move likely to displease Pakistan, Bangladesh has sounded the first official call to induct countries with large Muslim populations, like India, as observers to the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, a club which has only...

No Nobel Prize for Literature will be given this year, because of a scandal over sexual misconduct allegations that has seen a string of board members resign from the board of the Swedish Academy that makes...

Vietnam sought Bangladesh’s support to its candidature for membership to the UN Security Council (UNSC) for the 2020-2021 session. Vice President of Vietnam Dang Thi Ngoc Thinh sought the support when she called on Prime Minister...

The launch of Bangladesh’s first satellite Bangabandhu-1 has been delayed again. Although the satellite was expected to be launched on May 4, the date may be postponed to May 7, Telecom and Information Technology Minister Mustafa...

An Indian court jailed a self-styled religious preacher for life on Wednesday for raping a teenage girl, the latest sexual abuse case against a so-called “godman”. The case highlights the Indian heartland’s fascination with spiritual gurus,...

Posts, Telecommunications and Information Technology Minister Mustafa Jabbar today said the launch of country’s first communication satellite “Bangabandhu-I” has been rescheduled for May 7. “Bangabandhu-I was earlier scheduled to be launched on May 4 from Florida,...

A driver deliberately plowed his white Ryder rental van into a lunch-hour crowd in Toronto on Monday, killing 10 people and injuring 15 along a roughly mile-long (1.6-km) stretch of sidewalk thronged with pedestrians, police said,...

The US-Bangla airlines authority yesterday tended to contradict the Nepalese commission’s preliminary investigation report on the deadly March 12 crash of one of their aircraft in Tribhuvan International Airport (TIA) particularly regarding the promptness of rescue...

India’s cabinet on Saturday approved the death penalty for rapists of girls below the age of 12, after Prime Minister Narendra Modi held an emergency meeting in response to nationwide outrage in the wake of a...