In April 2013, terrorist group Islamic State announced it would expand its operations beyond Iraq as the civil war in Syria worsened. That same year, a group of Bangladeshi construction workers in Singapore began a closed religious study group to discuss these conflicts that involved Muslims, and whether they should take up arms.

Jatiya Party (JP) observes a dawn-to-dusk hartal in Rangpur city protesting an attack on SM Yasir, member secretary of the city unit of JP.

Dhaka-Pabna bus services through Sirajganj district remained stopped from yesterday as transport workers and owners stopped plying of the vehicles protesting rampant extortion on the highway.

The Bangladeshi community in Singapore has expressed shocked at the news that 27 Bangladeshi nationals who were working there had been arrested for supporting IS, al-Qaeda.

Midway through the winter, today’s untimely rain may result in temperature drop by 1 to 3 degree centigrade, the Met office has said.

Twenty-seven male Bangladeshis working in Singapore are arrested for supporting the armed jihad ideology of terrorist groups such as Islamic State (IS) and al-Qaeda.

Police foiled a human chain programme organised by indigenous people in Changhi square area of Khagrachhari town yesterday morning.

Indigenous people organised programmes in different districts yesterday demanding adequate steps to protect the rights of indigenous

Law enforcers claim the biggest haul of contraband yaba tablets in drives through Dhaka and Chittagong and detains three persons in this connection.

Unidentified criminals assaulted Badal Pramanik, secretary of transport workers' association of Natore, at Kanaikhali in the town yesterday afternoon. Agitated

An abducted schoolgirl was rescued from Banbhasa village in Sadar upazila of the district yesterday.

Over 10,000 people of four villages of Nilganj union in Kalapara upazila under the district are suffering a lot as the bridge on Ural canal has became unusable after a few wooden sleeppers of it broke under the pressure of a paddy-laden improvised van on Friday. Seven people received minor injuries due to the accident. Local Government Engineering Department (LGED) constructed the bridge with iron structure and wooden slippers in 1992-93 fiscal year to ease communication from Uttar Nilganj, Faridganj, Naubhanga and Nilganj villages to Kalapara upazila headquarters.

The government today directed educational institutions to stop collecting hiked fees from students as most private schools in Dhaka have increased the fees by a huge margin.

A Supreme Court lawyer has challenged the legality of the ongoing strike enforced by teachers of public universities across the country demanding the removal of “discrimination in salaries”.

Autopsy reports say the Narayanganj 5-murder victims died of head injuries.

A gang of extortionists attacked a shop named Talukder Cloth Store in Bazar road area in Barguna district town and looted Tk 5 lakh from there yesterday. The gang also attacked the residence of Md Shahjada Talukder, owner of the shop.

Tea workers of Habiganj chase away a muscle showdown of Chunarughat upazila chairman and block a highway for nearly three hours protesting a special economic zone in the area.

Suchitra Sen had dominated the silver screen, mostly in Kolkata and briefly in Mumbai, for three decades, beginning in the '50s and

Renowned poet Rafiq Azad is admitted to the ICU of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) in Dhaka following a stroke.

An unidentified youth was found murdered at Chawkgupinathpur village in sadar upazila of the district yesterday morning.