The United States yesterday vetoed a draft UN resolution rejecting President Donald Trump's decision to recognise Jerusalem as Israel's capital, after all 14 other Security Council members backed the measure.

The AB Bank has allegedly laundered around Tk 165 crore to the United Arab Emirates through two shady organisations in the name of investment, according to a Bangladesh Bank probe report.

Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid yesterday apparently expressed his helplessness in checking the leak of question papers for different examinations, once again holding a section of teachers responsible.

The by-polls to Dhaka North City Corporation's mayoral post will be held in the last week of February. Elections to the newly included 36 wards in two Dhaka city corporations are slated to be held with the by-polls, the Election Commission said yesterday.

The number of Bangladeshis working abroad is increasing every year but their safe migration still remains a big challenge for the government, posing a threat to the country's top remittance-earning sector.

A six-member Myanmar delegation arrives in Dhaka today for a meeting to set up the Joint Working Group, which would facilitate the repatriation of Rohingyas who fled violence in Rakhine State.

The stalker of a schoolgirl entered her home and fatally stabbed her on Saturday night in Dirai Municipality area of Sunamganj.

The nation celebrated the 47th Victory Day yesterday paying rich tributes to the Liberation War martyrs with a call for building a peaceful country free from militancy, extremism and communalism.

The burial ground of 49 martyred freedom fighters at Dalura of Sunamganj is unique in the country.

Activists of Bangladesh Chattra League (BCL), Bandarban unit beat up four plainclothes policemen following an argument over a trifling matter on Friday night.

Ezazur Rahman Chowdhury started his online business in 2013 selling perfumes and watches. The idea struck him during his post-

Every dawn, Hamida's two-year-old girl wakes up and cries, hearing the sound of Myanmar army's heavy vehicles. She grabs her mother

Even though there have been no complaints or reports of an uptick of hate crimes against Bangladeshis in the US, the community is feeling jittery in the aftermath of the morning attack at Port Authority Bus Terminal in New York City on December 11.

In a doa mahfil for the Liberation War martyrs in Gopalpur upazila of Tangail yesterday, a madrasa principal sought heaven for the killers of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.

Sekandar Ali, a morgue attendant, who worked on more than 80,000 bodies in his 35 years in the profession at Dhaka Medical College, also nurtured a rather wholesome hobby.

Depositors are concerned about getting back their money from the trouble-hit Farmers Bank as cases of its failure to pay clients continue to come up.

Awami League stalwart and former Chittagong mayor ABM Mohiuddin Chowdhury died yesterday, bringing an end to a decades-long, colourful political career.

It was sometime in mid-August of 1971. The Pakistan occupation forces continued its atrocities in the then East Pakistan, now Bangladesh. In the Haor region, encompassing Sunamganj, Habiganj, Kishoreganj and Netrakona, the marauding army was using the Bheramohona River on Sherpur-Ajmiriganj route to supply arms and ammunition to different places.

At least 6,700 Rohingyas were killed in the first month of a Myanmar army crackdown on rebels in Rakhine State that began in late August, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said yesterday.

Bangladesh and Myanmar are going to set up a Joint Working Group next week to facilitate the repatriation of thousands of Rohingyas who fled violence in Rakhine State.