Additional District and Sessions Judge and Judge of Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal-2 Md. Mafizur Rahman Bhuyan sentenced two persons to death for killing a woman in Manikganj. The Court handed down the verdict to Santash and his brother…
The agricultural –experts at a day long workshop on “minimisation of rice yield gap through training and demonstration on modern cultivation” held here on Tuesday last said that the target of production of rice in research station is higher, but…
A mobile court on Friday fined a councillor candidate in Gazipur City Corporation election for violating election code of conduct in the municipality area. The accused is councillor candidate Shahjahan Mia Saju. Sources said Saju was fined Tk20,000 for distributing…
Two people were killed and two others injured in a head-on collision between a truck and a CNG-run auto-rickshaw at Amtali on the Dhaka-Sylhet Highway in Bijoynagar upazila on Friday night. Identity of the deceased could not be known immediately.…
A three-day training for the elected people’s representatives of Sadullapur upazila in the district ended on Friday. SKS Foundation, a local non-government organization, arranged the function at its training center at Radhakrishnapur area of Sadar upazila under strengthening Democratic Local…
Gas is gushing out through different leaks of Tengratila-Chhatak gas field in Sunamganj. People of Tengratila and its adjacent areas fear big accident at any moment due to the gas leakage. Villagers are using the leaked gas in household works…
Cultivation of Kalambo Lemon in four upazilas of the district has been increasing gradually as the farmers are showing interest in the farming due to economic returns that the crop promises. A number of farmers started small scale cultivation of…
A minor child drowned in a pond at Talpukur village of Nandigram municipality area under Nandigram upazila of Bogra district on Thursday. The deceased was identified as Arafat Hossain, 2, son of Meherul Islam of the village. Locals said, Arafat…
It has been a decade since South Africa’s miscalculation of Duckworth-Lewis saw them exit the World Cup in the first round. Finally, they will consider themselves redeemed.
The capital club have spent the past few weeks pondering who will replace Jose Mourinho following the Portuguese’s departure for Chelsea after three years in the Bernabeu hotseat.
Maasranga TV’s celebrity talk-show ‘Ranga Sokal’ will feature eminent actor Alamgir and his daughter Ankhi Alamgir, also a celebrated singer, together for Sunday’s episode.
Popular singer Nancy is going to release a one song album titled Maa with a music video featuring the artiste herself.
Nearly six years after her model-to-actress career move, Deepika Padukone says she is finally being praised for her acting in films and not just for her good looks.
The aviation industry has announced what it claims is “a historic agreement” to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, but industry experts and environmentalists say the agreement is vague and lacks the enforcement mechanisms necessary to give it teeth.
RenewableUK has heralded new announcements today which will bring floating turbines a step closer to UK waters and open up the possibility of further developments.
Google has launched 30 balloons into the stratosphere from New Zealand as it experiments with ways to bring affordable internet access to the world.
By Matthew Miller
Atiur Rahman
Sylhet – Finance Minister AMA Muhith said BNP’s allegation against me of interfering in city polls is totally rubbish and bogus.
The Election Commission has said free, fair and peaceful polls were in progress at Rajshahi, Khulna, Sylhet and Barisal city corporation polls.
By Amantha Perera
Speakers on a dialogue on ‘Mass media: Freedom and responsibility’ retaliated as receivers are more dependants on online Media than previous days.
A Dubai taxi driver who discovered Dhs200,000 in cash and Dhs1 million worth of jewellery in his cab said he returned the haul to its rightful owner because he did not want to keep something he hadn’t worked for himself.
Rights activists at a roundtable discussion here on Monday observed that the recently amended Vested Property Repeal (Amendment) Act 2013 is part of a plot by corrupt land officials to prolong the return of ‘vested property’.
President Barack Obama could soon decide to cut off trade benefits for Bangladesh, in a largely symbolic response to tragedies in the country’s garment sector that have cost more than 1,200 lives in the past eight months.
Communication Minister Obaidul Quader on Friday said country’s people will give a lesson to the public representatives who behave like zeminders (landlords) forgetting public interests.
The BNP-led 18-party backed-mayoral runners of the four city corporations that go to polls on Saturday are confident of coming out winners as they think people are quite likely to demonstrate their grievances against the current regime through the ballot,…
The ruling Awami League-led 14-party-backed mayoral candidates in Saturday’s elections to four city corporations are highly hopeful of their reelection as they think people will assess the ‘huge development’ activities activates done by them in the last five years in…
A U.N.-led convoy of trucks in Myanmar has for the first time in nearly a year been allowed to deliver food and household supplies to areas beyond government control in the northernmost part of the country.
The government can earn additional revenue of Tk 1,500 crore a year if it imposes 70 percent specific excise tax on all sorts of cigarettes and the Padma Bridge could be built within seven years with the additional revenues, said…