Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said a process is underway to declare all the national award-winning and war-wounded freedom fighters as the Very Important Persons (VIPs).

The trial of BDR soldiers held in connection with the February 25-26 mutiny at the force's headquarters and other battalions across the country is starting Tuesday with the trial of alleged rebellions of Rangamati sector.

Default loans in the first nine months of this year have increased by 4 percent or Tk 928 crore and stood at Tk 23,904 crore, thanks to sluggish business and global economic recession.

About 1.83 million class V students took part in the newly introduced public examinations across the country yesterday with great enthusiasm.

The Dhaka Metropolitan Police authorities are going to swing to traffic light signals phasing out the manual controlling system from today to ease traffic congestion in the capital.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday pledged to ensure trial of all the major incidents of killing, including Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) mutiny.

Ruling party backed trade unions within Dhaka's Water and Sewerage Authority (Wasa) have over the last two decades been at the centre of a network of corruption involving crores of taka being siphoned off from the organisation every year by its revenue inspectors, commonly known as 'meter readers'.

Police yesterday arrested 14 members of banned militant outfit Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) from a house near the district truck terminal in Jhenidah.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and Leader of the Opposition in Parliament Khaleda Zia yesterday exchanged pleasantries after over two months at a reception organised at Dhaka Cantonment on the occasion of Armed Forces Day.

Bishwa Ijtema, the second largest congregation of the Muslim Ummah after hajj, will begin from January 22 on the bank of the Turag River in Tongi.

Speakers at a seminar yesterday said referring to a World Bank study that environment pollution is responsible for 22 percent of all deaths from diseases in Bangladesh.

A leader of inter-district dacoit gang was shot dead in a gunfight with police at Salabhara bus stand under Kaliganj upazila, Jhenidah early yesterday.

An extortion case has been filed against The Daily Star Netrakona correspondent Jahangir Alam and Jai Jai Din correspondent Mizanur Rahman Nannu.

Ten people were injured as a local train hit an auto-rickshaw at Dhukurjhari level crossing in Birol upazila yesterday.

An angry mob killed a man and critically injured two others suspecting them to be the murderers hours after a farmer was strangulated to death at his house at Aliganj in the district yesterday.

Taliban militants blew up an empty school in a tribal town in northwest Pakistan on Saturday severely damaging the building, officials said.

A gas explosion tore through a state-run coal mine in northern China yesterday, killing 42 people and leaving 66 others trapped underground as rescuers worked hastily to save them.

Believe it or not - the authorities in Andhra Pradesh have issued a ration card in the name of Mahatma Gandhi along with his picture!