The United Nations has honoured three Bangladeshi peacekeepers who laid down their lives while serving in the peace operations of the global body. Md Abul Bashar, Sainik of Bangladesh Army, serving in the UN stabilisation mission in Mali, Africa made the supreme sacrifice on October 13, last year. Constable…

The government has decided to build 111 permanent houses for victims of floods and erosion of rivers across the country with money from the Climate Change Trust Fund. As part of this initiative, the disaster management and relief ministry has taken up a project to initially build 111 disaster-resilient…

BRAC founder Sir Fazle Hasan Abed yesterday inaugurated the ground station of "BRAC Onnesha", the nation’s first nano-satellite made by BRAC University.  Researchers said the ground station, set up on the roof of BRAC University’s building no. 4 in the capital, was now ready…

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina leaves Dhaka for Vienna on Monday to attend a conference of International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and hold bilateral a meeting with the Federal Chancellor of Austria, reports UNB. Christian Kern was sworn in as Austria’s Federal Chancellor on May 17 last year.…

An Awami league leader was stabbed to death in a clash over the recently held Peroli UP election in Kalia upazila yesterday morning. The deceased was identified as Sheikh Mofazzal Hossain, 50, vice-president of upazila unit of Awami League. Sheikh Goni Miah, officer-in-charge of Kalia Police station,…

Members of the Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) in separate drives arrested four suspected members of Neo JMB 'Sarwar-Tamim group' from different parts of Dhaka, Narayanganj and Munshiganj districts, reports UNB. The drive was conducted from Wednesday night till Thursday morning, said Rab. Commanding…

At least six people, including a policeman, were killed as a microbus hit a human hauler on Dhaka-Khulna highway at Chechaniakandi in Sadar upazila yesterday noon, reports UNB from Gopalganj. Five of the deceased were identified as Delwar Hossain, assistant sub-inspector of Sadar Police Station, Azad…

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee met Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi yesterday and discussed the issue of water-sharing of common rivers with Bangladesh, reports IANS from New Delhi. During the discussion Mamata urged Modi to take up with Bangladesh the issue of decreased flow of Atrai…

A local BNP leader was shot dead by miscreants at Damodar in Phultala upazila in Khulna yesterday night, reports UNB. The deceased is Alauddin Mihtu, 45, organising secretary of district BNP. Officer-in-charge (Investigation) of Phultala Police Station Hawlader Sanwar Hossain Masum said a gang of five…

Chittagong Abahani moved into the semifinals of the Walton Federation Cup Football tournament, outplaying Sheikh Russel Krira Chakra by 4-2 in the tie-breaker, yesterday. The teams were locked 1-1 in the scheduled 90 minutes and 30 minutes of extra time. Held at the Bangabandhu National Stadium, Mehbub…

A court in Gopalganj yesterday sentenced five people to death and 17 others to life term imprisonment for killing a man in 1999, reports UNB. The condemned convicts are-Zakaria Sapu, Khokon Master, Shahadat, Hemayet Molla and Shahjahan. The lifers are-Kaikobad, Muzaffar, Fayek, Pervez Shahnur, Mosharraf,…