A lawyer says the son of legendary boxer Muhammad Ali was detained by immigration officials at a Florida of the United States airport.

Today (Feb 25) is the 8th anniversary of the atrocious carnage at Pilkhana the then headquarters of Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) in Dhaka that left 74 people, including 57 army officers, killed in 2009.

Joya Sengupta, wife of recently late Awami League leader Suranjit Sengupta, collects nomination paper to contest Sunamganj-2 by-poll scheduled to be held on March 30.

Echoing a Canadian court verdict, ruling Awami League President Sheikh Hasina describes her party’s archrival BNP as “really a terrorist” political organisation.

Referring to a recent observation of a Canadian Federal Court, lawmakers belonging to the treasury bench today blasted BNP for resorting to terrorism, anarchy and destructive politics with an aim of hindering the ongoing development initiatives of the present government led by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will make an official visit to neighbouring India in the first half of April. PM’s Deputy Press Secretary M Nazrul Islam discloses the information to reporters after visiting Indian foreign secretary Subrahmanyam Jaishankar called on the premier.

BNP rejects a verdict of a Canadian court that observed the party as a terrorist organisation after denying asylum to a leader last month.

Former Jatiya Party lawmaker Abdul Kader Khan is the mastermind behind the killing of Gaibandha MP Manzurul Islam Liton, police authorities claim. He spent a year planning to kill Liton, said Khandakar Golam Faruk, deputy inspector general of police (DIG) of Rangpur range, at a press briefing.

Election to Comilla City Corporation and Sunamganj-2 by-polls, which will be the held under the newly reformed Election Commission, has been slated for March 30.

Health and Family Welfare Minister Mohammad Nasim says no 'formula' on the next general election will be accepted as the next national polls to be held as per the constitution.

Nine candidates submit nomination papers for contesting the by-elections to Gaibandha-1 constituency scheduled to be held on March 22.

BNP alleges that Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is trying to influence the court by making comments on Khaleda Zia’s under-trial Zia Orphanage Trust graft case.

Dhaka University authorities allow BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia to pay tribute to the Language Movement martyrs at the Central Shaheed Minar in Dhaka at the first hours on February 21.

Information Minister Hasanul Haq Inu says that the draft of the National Broadcast Act-2016 will be placed in the next session of the parliament for passage.

A local BCL leader and three others are arrested in Rajapur upazila of Jhalakathi as they allegedly attack a family and injure seven people mostly women “with an intention to grab land”.

A clash between two factions of the Awami League foils a rally, being addressed by Housing and Public Works Minister Engineer Mosharraf Hossain at Hathazai upazila of Chittagong.

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader considers BNP as sole rival and asks his party’s leaders and activists not to underestimate it.

BNP Standing Committee Member Goyeshwar Chandra Roy says that his party will not take part in any election under the incumbent Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina-led administration.

The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar, Yanghee Lee, will visit various locations in Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar district where people fleeing Myanmar are residing temporarily in makeshift shelters.

The Hindu community in Pakistan is set to have a personal law for the first time as the country’s senate unanimously passes ‘The Hindu Marriage Bill 2017’.