The U.N. mission in Mali says at least two peacekeepers have been killed and 10 others wounded by an attack in northern Mali, reports AP from Bamako. Mission spokesman Olivier Salgado says the deaths happened Thursday night when several mortar rounds struck a peacekeeper camp. The attack took place…

Chairperson of National Advisory Committee on Autism in Bangladesh and daughter of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Saima Wazed Hossain has laid stress on combined efforts of all to mainstream the people with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD), reports BSS. "Combined efforts and positive attitude of the…

Bangladesh has launched a billion-dollar campaign to build hundreds of "model mosques", partly with Saudi funding, to try to counter radical Islam in the Muslim-majority country, officials said yesterday, reports AFP. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who inaugurated work on nine mosques through…

Claiming that BNP is a 'self-confessed' corrupt party, Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader yesterday said the party has become synonymous with graft, reports UNB. "They changed the section 7 of the party constitution at night under cover of darkness as they're corrupt,"…

At least nine people were killed in three separate road accidents on the Dhaka-Sylhet highway near Madhabdi and Baghata in Narsingdi upazila and Charpara in the Morzal area in Raipura upazila yesterday morning and afternoon. In the first accident, four persons including a motorcycle rider and his three…