In the wake of the recent murder of two foreigners, BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has called for national unity to tackle militancy and extremism in the country. His Awami League counterpart Mahbub-Ul-Alam Hanif, however, outright dismissed any such possibility, once again exposing the deep division between the two rival parties.

Lingering shortage of train operators and other essential staff for the past two decades has hobbled the services of Bangladesh Railway, the largest public transport sector in the country. Years of attrition, corruption, interference in appointments from powerful quarters and legal wrangling are responsible for the sorry state of the once most effective and cheap transport system for millions.

Claiming that a vested quarter was behind the recent planned killing of two foreigners, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said no one will be able to destabilise the country by carrying out such activities.

Bangladeshi rice scientists are all set to conduct field tests of the world's first vitamin A-enriched rice, popularly known as Golden Rice, before taking the variety to production phase. The success in vitamin A-rich rice comes in quick succession of the world's first three zinc-rich rice varieties that Bangladesh released over the last couple of years.

Sweden's Tomas Lindahl, Paul Modrich of the United States and Aziz Sancar, a Turkish-American, won the 2015 Nobel Chemistry Prize yesterday for work on how cells repair damaged DNA.

Police yesterday baton-charged and dispersed the agitating medical admission seekers at the capital's Karwan Bazar as the students were marching towards the health directorate to submit “evidence of question paper leak.”

What happens when a train driver is fatigued, having worked late into the night, and has a train to drive in the morning?

We test the Mercedes C250 coupe. Can it match the good looks in the way it performs on Dhaka roads?

Return of rear wheel fun in rallying: Toyota Motorposrt Germany introduces GT86 CS-R3

The murder of Italian citizen Cesare Tavella in Dhaka's Gulshan diplomatic area is covered widely in different media across the globe

Medical admission seekers and their guardians scuffled with the police at Dhaka Medical College, trying to stop the admission process

The killing of Italian national Cesare Tavella inside the capital's diplomatic zone has created a security flutter among different foreign

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has urged all the members of the UN peacekeeping community to work together to ensure peace and security around the world.

More than 50 countries have pledged 40,000 troops for United Nations peacekeeping to shore up missions under strain from the rise in global crises. The pledges, made at a US-led summit in New York on Monday, represent a major boost to UN peacekeeping that relies on voluntary contributions from UN member states to run its 16 missions worldwide, reports AFP.

The journey from Moulvibazar's Kulaura to the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York was tiring for 16-year-old Moni Begum, yet she wore a self-confident smile, as seen in Save the Children in Bangladesh's Facebook page.

Nobel laureate Prof Muhammad Yunus, founder of Grameen Bank and the pioneer of microcredit, has been ranked third in the UK-based Salt magazine's list of the top 100 compassionate business innovators.

The foreign ministers of Germany and France yesterday promised to stay alongside Bangladesh in its fight against climate change and called for joint efforts to stop global warming now.

Around 10:00am yesterday, Golam Kibria and his family started their journey to Tangail from the Mohakhali bus terminal in the capital.

The Anti-Corruption Commission yesterday started filing cases against bankers and borrowers linked with the BASIC Bank scam. Three cases were filed with Motijheel Police Station in the evening, and the process was on to file 15 more cases with Paltan and Gulshan police stations, accusing 153 people of embezzling over Tk 650 crore from the state lender, said police sources.

The authorities yesterday withdrew seven cops in connection with the deaths of three people in Friday's police firing during a protest against the torture of a mother and her son. Although police on Friday dismissed that the three died in their shooting, autopsy reports yesterday confirmed that all the three succumbed to bullet injuries.