Lionel Messi was named the UEFA Best Player in Europe for the 2014-15 season for helping Barcelona to a Treble of trophies, report agencies. The Argentine pipped his Barcelona teammate Luis Suárez and Real Madrid star Cristiano Ronaldo to the prize with Neymar finishing in fifth place. Messi…

Thousands of troops patrolled Gujarat yesterday after at least nine people including a police officer died in the worst violence to hit the Indian prime minister’s home state in more than a decade, reports AFP from Ahmedabad. Schools were closed as authorities imposed a curfew in the worst-hit…

A legal notice was served on the government yesterday to scrap Section 57 of the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Act. Supreme Court lawyer Barrister Jyotirmoy Barua served the legal notice, on behalf of 11 eminent citizens of the country, asking the government to respond to it within…

The government has imposed a ban from September 25 to October 9 on catching, selling and transporting hilsa in the coastal areas to ensure the safe spawning of this popular fish during its peak breeding period, reports UNB. The decision came from a views-exchange meeting on hilsa catching and selling…

The 39th death anniversary of National Poet Kazi Nazrul Islam was observed yesterday in the capital as elsewhere across the country with a  call to spread his immortal literary works and ideologies among the new generation, reports BSS. Different political parties, socio-cultural-professional bodies…

A Bangladeshi young man was allegedly beaten to death by members of Border Security Force of India (BSF) near Kolumdanga border in Sapahar upazila of the district early yesterday, reports UNB from Naogaon. The deceased identified as Kabir Hossain, 30, son of Saiful Islam, a resident of the area, was…

Detectives yesterday arrested two suspected members of banned militant outfit 'Ansarullah Bangla Team’ in connection with the murder of blogger Niladri Chatterjee Niloy from the capital’s Mirpur and Shyampur areas, reports UNB. The arrested men were identified as Kawsar Hossain Khan,…

A federal anti-corruption court in Karachi, Pakistan yesterday issued non-bailable warrants for the arrest of Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) leaders Yousuf Raza Gilani, also a former prime minister, and Makhdoom Amin Fahim, reports Dawn. The order against the former prime minister and the senior PPP leader…