A joint meeting of BNP was held yesterday at the party chairperson Khaleda Zia’s Gulshan office in the capital yesterday calling for the release of their imprisoned leader. Starting at 4:30pm continued for four hours the meeting, which was presided over by the party secretary general Mirza Fakhrul…

Asian Development Bank (ADB) said it is firmly committed to partnering with the private sector to help achieve the Paris Agreement on climate change and the Sustainable Development Goals, reports UNB. ADB has also expressed its commitment to help improve infrastructure and expand access to finance.…

NASA is poised to launch its first lander to Mars since 2012, an unmanned spacecraft called InSight that aims to listen for quakes and unravel the mystery…

Syrian rebels yesterday were surrendering their heavy weapons after reaching a new deal with the government for a central swathe of territory, a war monitor said, reports AFP from Beirut. Opposition fighters agreed with regime forces and their allies to a ceasefire deal earlier this week for parts of…

The Detective Branch (DB) of Chattogram Metropolitan Police (CMP) in a drive arrested two brothers along with 13 Lakh pieces of contraband yaba tablets from Shyamoli residential area under city's Halishahar thana early yesterday, reports BSS. The arrested were identified as Mohammad Ashraf Ali,…