Though the party has disagreement about holding the upcoming Union Parishad (UP) election along party line, BNP yesterday announced to join it as part of the party’s movement strategy. BNP joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi came up with the announcement at a press briefing at BNP’s…

Three UN peacekeepers from Guinea were killed and 30 wounded in an attack on a UN base in Kidal, sources in the UN and the ISPR said yesterday. No Bangladeshi peacekeeper was injured in the attack. Eight mortar shells were fired at the base and there was also gunfire at about 7am of  the MINUSMA…

World powers Friday agreed an ambitious plan to cease hostilities in war-racked Syria, but the Munich deal left out the Islamic State group and Al-Qaeda’s local branch, leaving analysts to doubt its viability, reports AFP from Munich. The 17 countries agreed “to implement a nationwide cessation…

The father of Aylan Kurdi, the Syrian toddler whose drowning shocked the world last year, went on trial on Thursday along with two alleged people smugglers accused of causing the death of migrants, reports AFP from Istanbul. A photograph of the three-year-old, face dowGreecn in the sand on a Turkish…

Large-scale trials for Zika virus vaccines are at least 18 months away, while establishing a possible link between the virus and two more harmful conditions will likely only take weeks, the World Health Organization said yesterday, reports AFP from Geneva. An estimated 15 companies or groups have begun…

Commerce Minister Tofail Ahmed yesterday criticised BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia for making false comment about the number of martyrs of Liberation War and said Khaleda Zia has taken the side of Pakistan which always carries out negative publicity about the number of martyrs and Bangladesh, reports BSS.…

The first-ever census of unregistered Rohingya population in Bangladesh began in six districts yesterday to determine their exact number and stop their further influx into Bangladesh, reports UNB. Resolving the long-pending issue in a systematic and transparent way is also the aim of the census. In…