9 sued, 2 arrested in Zahid murder case

'Tis the season of apologies - specifically, grovelling apologies by some of our finest academic brains for homophobic remarks they've made in public. The Cambridge University theologian Dr Tim Winter, one of the UK's leading Islamic scholars, ...

. Chapainawabganj Correspondent General Manager of Kansat Palli Bidyut Samity (PBS) Hasan Shah Newaj in an opinion exchanging meeting on Tuesday assured of re-starting electricity supply in Shibganj Upazila within a month. The opinion exchanging ...

KARACHI, April 15: Jamaat-i-Islami chief Syed Munawwar Hasan has warned against postponement of May 11 elections saying that its consequences for the country were beyond imagination. While launching the party manifesto Elections 2013 at a hotel on ...

Balochistan National Party President Sardar Akhtar Mengal has said he has not appealed to the Baloch rebels to lay down their arms. He was speaking at a luncheon he hosted for journalists at his residence on Tuesday. He said that when he did not ...

Patna, April 2: Investigations have revealed that several top industrialists and politicians helped stud firm owner Hasan Ali get his fake passport done in just seven days here in 1997. The court of chief judicial magistrate Rama Kant Yadav today ...

Govt examining laws for Jamaat ban, AK Khandaker tells them Sardar Mahabbat Ali Members of Shaheed Rumi Squad, who had been on fast-unto-death at Shahbagh since March 26 to push for ban on Jamaat-e-Islami and Islami Chhatra Shibir, on Monday night ...

Say Shahbagh hunger strikers seeking ban on Jamaat Sardar Mahabbat Ali Protestors taking part in the fast-unto-death at Shahbagh Ganajagoran Mancha on Thursday said they would not end the programme until the government issued a specific directive to ...

Women collecting water from a deep tube well in Chapainawabganj, Bangladesh. Credit: A.S.M. Shafiqur Rahman/IPS CHAPAINAWABGANJ, Bangladesh, May 22 (IPS) - Fahima Begum rises each morning at dawn and walks two kilometres to a small pond, the nearest ...

Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy has appointed Rasool Khan as chairman of the Andhra Pradesh Minority Commission on Thursday. The Chief Minister also named Subhash Chandra Bose (Guntur) for vice-chairman's post. The Commission members are: Basha ...