Two UAE business giants -- Lulu Group International and NMC -- yesterday expressed their keen interest in investing in Bangladesh's different sectors, including healthcare, hotel and tourism.

Indian troops yesterday suffered new losses in a battle with Kashmir militants that left at least nine dead, officials said, just days after a major suicide bomb attack escalated tensions with neighbouring Pakistan.

Two workers were killed and another was injured in an oil tanker explosion at a ship-breaking yard in Chattogram's Sitakunda upazila yesterday.

At least 43 people, including six journalists and two policemen, were injured as factions of Bangladesh Chhatra League activists clashed in the capital and Sylhet yesterday.

An opposition lawmaker yesterday questioned the government decision to appoint Shajahan Khan as the chief of a 15-member committee formed to recommend ways on curbing road accidents and bringing discipline to the road transport sector.

Saudi Arabia plans to invest several billion dollars in more than 30 projects in Bangladesh, including setting up an aircraft repair and maintenance facility in Lalmonirhat.

A virtual reality (VR) project developed by four students of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST) has won NASA's Space Apps Challenge, a global competition.

Citing widespread irregularities, five more BNP candidates yesterday filed separate election petitions with the High Court, asking it to cancel the results of the December 30 national polls in their constituencies.

Bangladesh will not be able to sustain its development without participatory democracy and good governance, said a number of political analysts and economists yesterday.

Despite the surrender of 102 top narcos in Teknaf, yaba smuggling continues under the supervision of some listed godfathers and hundi traders who recently launched credit sales of the pink pills.

Bangladesh and the United Arab Emirates yesterday signed four memoranda of understanding on establishing port, industrial park, LNG terminal, power plants and a special economic zone in Bangladesh.

At least nine people, including four of a family, are burnt to death and several others injured as a fire broke out at a slum in Chattogram city. All the victims were sleeping when the fire ripped through the slum.

Two suspected drug peddlers and a suspected robber were killed in separate “gunfights” in three districts early yesterday.

Hours after two college students were killed by a speeding bus in the capital in July last year, Shajahan Khan smirked when reporters sought his reaction as a transport leader.

Gas supply to tens of thousands of households, factories and other establishments in the capital and its adjoining areas came to a complete or partial halt in the morning yesterday because of a technical glitch in the gas network, inflicting untold sufferings on the city dwellers.

With one police jeep in front and another behind, four buses brought 102 yaba godfathers and dealers to Teknaf Model Primary School from Cox's Bazar Police Lines around 9:00am yesterday.

The first Akheri Munajat of the 54th Biswa Ijtema, the second largest congregation of the Muslims in the world, was held on the bank of the Turag river in Tongi yesterday.

Bangladesh were handed an eight-wicket thumping by hosts New Zealand in the second of a three-match ODI series at the Hagley Oval in Christchurch yesterday. With an identical-margin defeat in the opening ODI, the Tigers have already lost the series and will have precious little to salvage in the third and final ODI in Dunedin on Wednesday.

The Jamaat-e-Islami has formed a five-member high-powered committee to devise a strategy for emerging as a new political party with a different name, say its insiders.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said the BNP had an evil intention to make the December 30 general election questionable and it is still trying to do so.