Bangladesh Bridges Authority and Spanish consultancy firm TYPSA yesterday signed an agreement for conducting a feasibility study on building an subway in the capital.

The NGOs run with foreign funding have made notable progress in terms of governance over the last decade, although some corrupt practices still persist, finds a new research by the Transparency International Bangladesh.

An endangered species of turtles may see a revival in their numbers following a successful breeding programme in Bhawal National Park in Gazipur.

It was around 1:45pm yesterday. With his left leg in a plaster cast, Sharif, 25, tightly held onto his brother Selim and limped in front of Kurmitola General Hospital in the capital.

Jahangir Fakir, father of road accident victim Dia Khanam Mim, yesterday urged the students to go back home as he expressed optimism that the prime minister would take effective measures to check road accidents.

A massive corruption scandal has rocked the health service of ex-Soviet Belarus, leading even officials in the country dubbed "Europe's

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen said opposition calls to boycott elections failed as he celebrated his "crystal clear" victory in the uncontested vote in a speech to thousands of garment workers yesterday.

The French parliament on Wednesday adopted new legislation making it easier to prosecute crimes of sexual violence against minors in the wake of two recent cases of sex involving 11-year-old girls.

Agitating students yesterday stopped the motorcade of Water Resources Minister Anwar Hossain Manju in Dhanmondi to check the papers of the vehicle.

Planet-warming greenhouse gases surged to new highs as abnormally hot temperatures swept the globe and ice melted at record levels in the Arctic last year due to climate change, a major US report said Wednesday.

The Editors' Council and the Newspaper Owners' Association of Bangladesh (Noab) yesterday expressed their heartfelt sorrow and condolences at the demise of AHM Moazzem Hossain, editor and publisher of The Financial Express.

A three-member high-powered committee formed by the government to investigate the Barapukuria coal scam arrived at the company in Dinajpur on a two-day visit yesterday.

The Anti-Corruption Commission has asked the Special Branch of Police (SB) to take steps to prevent BNP leader Mosaddak Ali Falu and eight others from leaving the country over allegations of money laundering and illegal offshore investments.

The Anti-Corruption Commission yesterday interrogated SM Nurul Aurangzeb, former managing director of Barapukuria Coal Mining Company Ltd (BCMCL), over the “disappearance of coal” from Barapukuria coalmine.

A truck ran over a student demonstraing for road safety in Shanir Akhra in the capital at around 9:30am yesterday, angering the protertors demonstrators further.

A woman was found murdered at her residence in Chittagong city's Farider Para area yesterday evening.

Amid concern over the controversial citizenship verification process which put a question mark on the status of over 4 million people living in Assam, India has said Bangladesh has nothing to worry about and it will have no impact on relations between the two countries.

As fear and anger run deep over Assam's citizenship issue, many of those left off the final draft of National Registration of Citizens (NRC) complain of being harassed at different places of neighbouring state of Meghalaya.

In a landmark move, the United Arab Emirates yesterday launched a three-month visa amnesty programme, hoping to resolve a “Catch-22” for foreign workers who are fined daily for overstaying their permits but prevented from leaving until they pay the penalties.

Two alleged drug peddlers were killed in separate “gunfights” with Rab in Natore and Rajshahi on Tuesday.