A small green shoot is growing on the moon in an out-of-this-world first after a cotton seed germinated on board a Chinese lunar lander, scientists said yesterday.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's Political Affairs Advisor HT Imam yesterday said the PM would invite all political parties for “talks”, just a day after Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader said Hasina would invite the parties to “exchange post-election greetings”.

Hizb ut-Tahrir is campaigning secretly in Chattogram city, targeting private university students to recruit fresh operatives, said officials of Counter Terrorism (CT) unit of Chattogram Metropolitan Police.

After the death of her father, Chhobi Das Gupta started working as a garment worker at the age of 12. She dropped out of school and became the bread winner of a family of seven struck hard by poverty.

A Noakhali court yesterday sent 218 leaders and activists of the BNP and its associate bodies to jail after rejecting their bail petitions in a case filed over the murder of Jubo League leader Mohammad Hanif.

In a big leap forward, the Payra Port Authority (PPA) yesterday signed a deal with a Belgium-based company to start capital dredging of the port's main channel to facilitate entries of large ships at the Chattogram and Mongla ports.

A member of Jubo Samity, a pro-Parbatya Chattagram Jana Samhati Samiti (PCJSS-MN Larma) body, was shot dead in Khagrachhari's Ramgarh upazila yesterday.

Two suspected robbers were killed in what police said was a gunfight between law enforcers and armed gang members in Dakshin Dehobhog area of Shariatpur's Sadar upazila early yesterday.

Jatiya Party Co-Chairman GM Quader yesterday said his party would never become a “questionable opposition” in parliament.

Prime Minister Theresa May yesterday published further assurances from the EU on the eve of a crucial parliamentary vote on her Brexit deal and warned MPs that rejecting it would lead to "paralysis" that could see Britain stay in the bloc.

The United Nations (UN) calls on the Myanmar government to allow “rapid and unimpeded” humanitarian access to Rakhine State, where fighting between government troops and autonomy-seeking rebels has displaced thousands of people.

Russia has lost control of its only space radio telescope but officials are working to re-establish communication, the country's beleaguered space agency said yesterday.

A Palestinian teenager succumbed to his wounds yesterday three days after being shot by Israeli forces during clashes on the Gaza border, the health ministry in the coastal enclave said.

One person was killed and four were missing after a gas explosion tore through a multi-storey residential building in southern Russia early yesterday, authorities said.

Weeks of heavy rains and flooding have killed at least nine people in Papua New Guinea, with authorities warning more bad weather and devastation could be on the way.

A bridge built 21 years ago over a canal at Chilarkandi village in Moulvibazar's Kulaura upazila remains useless as it has no approach roads.

It took Smash customer Qiu Siyu just a few sharp blows with a baseball bat to wreck what looked like an old car radio, after which two friends battered telephones, audio speakers, rice cookers and even a mannequin.

Indonesian authorities yesterday said they will immediately begin to download contents of a cockpit voice recorder (CVR) from a Lion Air jet that crashed into the sea near Jakarta more than two months ago, killing all 189 people on board.

Once a housewife struggling to make ends meet, Khursheda Begum Khushi has now become a shining example of self-employment in her locality in Jamalpur.

Detectives rescued a college student from Lohagora upazila early yesterday, four days after he was kidnapped from Satkania for a ransom of Tk 50 lakh.