US regulators on Thursday shut down BankUnited FSB, an ailing Florida lender, in the largest American bank failure this year. [Read more]

UNB, Chittagong
Former National Security Intelligence (NSI) Director General Brigadier General (retd) Abdur Rahim now in custody in connection with the Chittagong arms haul case was yesterday sent to the Task Force Interrogation (TFI) Cell in Dhaka for interrogation.Another former NSI Chief Major General (retd) Rezzakul Haider will be sent to the TFI Cell later, police [...]

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Major General (retired) Rezzaqul Haider Chowdhury and Brigadier General (retired) M Abdur Rahim, former director generals of NSI, were taken into custody from their residences in Dhaka on Saturday and later taken to Chittagong the same day.  [Read more]

Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) ATM Shamsul Huda yesterday said he would recommend to the prime minister for employing one lakh data entry operators who were earlier engaged in voter list and national ID card programme. [Read more]

Reuters, Yangon
Aung San Suu Kyi sat confidently in the prison courtroom, listening over the din of a clacking typewriter and noisy ceiling fans.The 63-year-old Nobel Peace laureate, charged with breaking the terms of her house arrest, was unmoved as the police investigator spoke.“She asked why I had come. I showed her the warrant and a [...]

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In a landmark judgment, Bangladesh High Court has issued a set of guidelines defining "sexual misdemeanors", to prevent any kind of molestation of women, girls and children at their workplaces, educational institutions and other public areas. [Read more]

An Indonesian military transport plane carrying soldiers and their families crashed into homes and erupted in flames yesterday, killing at least 98 people, the air force spokesman said. [Read more]

BBC Online
At least 153 of the newly-elected MPs in India have criminal cases pending against them, according to a study by civil society groups. Groups working on electoral reforms say the opposition BJP has the highest number of tainted MPs at 43 while the Congress party is number two with 41. The group has written [...]