Dhaka,  A Dhaka court has sentenced five militants including fugitive sacked army major Syed Ziaul Haq to death in connection with the 2015 writer-blogger Avijit Roy murder case.

Another defendant, Safiur Rahman Farabi, has been jailed for life, bdnews 24 reported on Tuesday.

Judge Mojibur Rahm

Chennai,  The second Test against India was an education for England on how to play in conditions favouring spin bowlers, said England captain Joe Root after his team lost the second Test by 317 runs to India on Tuesday. The win helped India level the four-match series 1-1 at the M.A. Chidambaram Stadium.

Melbourne, American 23-time Grand Slam champion Serena Williams on Tuesday reached the semi-final of the 2021 Australian Open after beating Romanian world No.2 Simona Halep in straight sets at the Rod Laver Arena. Williams beat Halep 6-3, 6-3 to set up a semi-final clash against Japanese third seed Naomi Os

Kochi, The controversial Life Mission housing project that shook the Pinarayi Vijayan government, on Tuesday took a new turn when the Customs department arrested Santhosh Eapen, whose company - Unitac Builders - was entrusted with the construction of 140 flats for the homeless under a Kerala government housing project in Th

Chandigarh, TikTok star and Haryana BJP leader Sonali Phogat has reported theft of jewellery, a licenced revolver, Rs 10 lakh cash and valuables from her house in Hisar town.

According to the police, Phogat, who was one of the contestants in this season's Bigg Boss, was away to Chandigarh when the alleged thef

New Delhi/Chandigarh, The Congress' central leadership is trying to rehabilitate cricketer-turned-politician Navjot Singh Sidhu in Punjab for which deliberations are on between party state in-charge Harish Rawat and Chief Minister Amarinder Singh.

After Sidhu met party interim chief Sonia Gandhi in Delhi, Rawa

Amaravati,  Following months of dry winter weather, the Met department forecast thunderstorms in parts of south coastal Andhra Pradesh for two days on Friday and Saturday.

"Thunderstorm accompanied with lightning are very likely to occur at isolated places over south coastal AP," said a Met off

Chandigarh,  The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has filed a chargesheet in a special court in Panchkula in connection with the multi-crore industrial plot allotment scam in which former Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda, his relatives and others have been named, an official said on Tuesday.

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Kolkata,  Ahead of the Assembly polls, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerji launched the Maa canteen to provide subsidised meals to the poor and the destitute at a nominal price of Rs 5 a plate. This has rattled the Opposition as it draws parallels with Indira canteen launched by the earlier Congress government in

New Delhi/Ajmer,  Union Minister for Minority Affairs, Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, on Tueday offered a 'chadar' on behalf of Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the Ajmer Sharif Dargah of Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti on the occasion of the 809th Urs of the Sufi saint.

Naqvi said that tolerance and harmony is th