The High Court yesterday issued a ban on future mobile call rate hikes and on charging subscribers for dropped calls.

Britain's weakened prime minister, Theresa May, yesterday said she did not expect to secure a quick breakthrough in Brexit talks that would give her fractured party the reassurances needed to get her deal through parliament.

The gates of the Sylhet International Stadium were barely visible from the road leading up to one of Bangladesh's most picturesque

Bangladesh Association of Banks, a platform of the directors of private banks, yesterday heavily criticised the Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) report that claimed Tk 22,000 crore was embezzled from the country's banking sector in the last decade.

Criminals stabbed a Sramik League leader in Baliadighi village of Chapainawabganj's Shibganj upazila last night.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday urged all to cast vote for Awami League in order to continue the development activities of her government and ensure a hunger and poverty-free Bangladesh.

Candidates from Awami League allies competing against AL nominees in different constituencies is part of a strategy, AL General Secretary Obaidul Quader said yesterday.

China yesterday confirmed two Canadians are under investigation on suspicion of endangering the country's national security, fuelling tensions after Canada's arrest of a top Chinese telecom executive on a US request.

A near-record number of journalists around the world are behind bars for their work, including two Reuters reporters whose imprisonment in Myanmar has drawn international criticism, according to a report released yesterday.

Seeing Yusuf Molla's collection of paddies, one is likely to reminisce about the famous verses of Jogindranath's poem “Kajer Chhele”: “Dadkhani chal, mosurir dal, chini-pata doi...”

BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi yesterday claimed a city BNP leader had died during a raid by plainclothes men early yesterday in the capital's Vatara area.

At least 40 BNP men, including its Organising Secretary Ruhul Kuddus Talukder Dulu, have either been arrested or picked up in separate drives since Tuesday night, party leaders said.

Chief Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain yesterday assigned a High Court bench to hear and dispose of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia's writ petitions regarding the cancellation of her nomination papers.

Prime Minister Theresa May yesterday vowed to win a vote of no confidence triggered by angry Brexit supporters in her Conservative Party, saying her ouster would jeopardise Britain's divorce from the European Union.

The Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit yesterday arrested three people who they claim are mainstream JMB members, including a regional commander, who were “motivating and providing training to Rohingya refugees”.

The hour of judgment has come for Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump's former personal lawyer, who was set to learn yesterday if cooperating with authorities conducting the Russia probe will spare him a long prison term.

The ruling Awami League is expected to return to power with majority of parliamentary seats in the upcoming election partly owing to its well-entrenched system of patronage at local level and also because it has overseen a period of solid economic growth, according to London-based Economic Intelligence Unit (EIU).

Top bankers yesterday claimed that the anomalies that surfaced in the banking sector were nothing big and serious in comparison to the industry's loan volume of more than Tk 8 lakh crore and healthy economic growth.

It was 6:00pm on November 13 when a young man was spotted shouting while vandalising a residence at Kaptan Bazar area in Cumilla.

In a tiny tin shed in the Barind village of Bohora, Abdul Hamid scoops out a handful of stinky cattle dung from a bucket with his bare hands. He seems undeterred by the earthworms squirming in and out of the compost.