A bomb blast at a Shia mosque in the southeastern Iranian city of Zahedan on Thursday killed at least 23 worshippers and wounded 80 others, the official IRNA news agency reported. [Read more]

DU Correspondent
BNP-Jamaat led ‘White Panel’ won majority of seats in the election of 35 teachers’ representatives to the Dhaka University Senate held yesterday. Of the 35 seats, white panel bagged 18 seats while pro-Awami League led ‘Blue Panel’ got 17 seats in the Senate, the highest policy-making body of the University. The winners from White [...]

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Three committees in Bangladesh are investigating the mutiny by border guards at their Peelkhana headquarters on Feb. 25-26 that killed 57 army officers deputed to the paramilitary force. [Read more]

The High Court (HC) yesterday granted anticipatory bail for six months to Jamaat-e Islami leader Maulana Abul Kalam Mohammad Yusuf and eight others in a war crime related case. [Read more]

DU Correspondent
Jatiyatabadi Oikya Parishad protested the attempt of arresting its’ convenor and former treasurer of Dhaka University Syed Abul Kalam Azad in a manipulated case while election of registered graduate representatives is going on.The protest came from a joint statement given yesterday by the candidates of the organisation in the senate election.They said that Gonotantric [...]

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Bangladesh Finance Minister AMA Muhith said that the nation plans to earn a revenue of 80,000 crore Taka in the next fiscal year without imposing new taxes. [Read more]

Mexican police on Tuesday detained 27 officials, including 10 mayors and a judge, for questioning in a massive operation against organised crime, the federal attorney general’s office said. [Read more]

UNB, Dhaka
Foreign Minister Dipu Moni met with OIC secretary general Prof. Dr Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu in Damascus yesterday and sought cooperation from the Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) to help Bangladesh attain Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).Dipu Moni, who went to Syria to attend the 36th ICFM, apprised the OIC secretary general of the recent political and [...]