Mostafa Kamal Majumder The readymade garment (RMG) sector is fighting two odds to keep its production and export performances rolling and has convened the annual Bangladesh Apparel and Textile Exposition (BATEXPO) from 10-12th of this month, one month ahead of…
Sylhet – Opposition leader and Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) chairperson Khaleda Zia has called for formation of all-party Sangram Committees centring each polling centres across the country, to stop the ruling Awami League holding one sided elections.
Reaffirming her firm resolve to execute the verdicts of the ongoing war crimes trial, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday warned the opposition leader that she would not able to protect the war criminals no matter what she does.
More than 60 percent residents of the country’s city corporations and municipalities are unhappy with the civic amenities they are provided with, says a study conducted by Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD).
Detective Branch (DB) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police foiled an attempted robbery and arrested eight alleged robbers from inside a Kolkata-bound Green Line Paribahan bus at the city’s Gabtoli bus stand early Saturday.
Miscreants decamped with nearly Tk 1.7 million collected sale of tickets after murdering a railway employee at Dhaka’s Kamlapur railway station.
A youth died from electrocution at Uttar Kanthalkandi village in Kamalganj upazila on Thursday night.
Leaders of the National Committee to Protect Oil-Gas and Power-Port on Saturday threatened to announce tough programmes like nonstop sit-in at the project site in protest against the Rampal coal-fired power plant.
Thousands of people from all walks of life thronged the Digital Innovation Fair-2013 at Independence Square of the town here on Thursday and Friday.
Indian Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh on Saturday assured Bangladesh that India would remain long-term partner in its development efforts as India wants to see a strong and prosperous Bangladesh.
Former president of Jhenidah Krishak League, Abdullah-Al Baki, 55 , was killed in a road accident in Bejpara area on Kaliganj-Jhenidah Highway under Kaliganj upazila of the district on Friday.
Two staff of the International Crimes Tribunals, arrested in connection with the leakage of the draft verdict on condemned convict war criminal BNP MP Salauddin Quader Chowdhury, were put on eight-day police remand each on Saturday. Both the accused —…
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is of the view that there is some other motive behind the Rampal power plant protests.
Supply of sacrificial animals has marked an all-time record in the northern districts now while the sale is yet to get momentum despite lower price with less than two weeks ahead of the upcoming Eid-ul-Azha.
Dhaka – State minister for Law Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Advocate Qamrul Islam alleged that the main opposition BNP was hatching various conspiracies to destroy the country and its democracy.
Robbers looted cash and gold ornaments worth over Tk 10 lakh from an expatriate’s house at Korotol village in Rajnagar upazila early Friday.
Members of Detective Branch of Police in a drive arrested a top terror and his two accomplices along with arms after a gunfight at Kagajpukur village here early Saturday.
Members of Border Guard Bangladesh seized 2080 kgs of Hilsa fish worth Tk 62.40 lakh from Sadipur border here Saturday.
Two children drowned in a pond at Baghhasla in Ishurdi upazila on Friday evening.
Dhaka – Tahmina Rushdi Luna, wife of disappeared BNP leader Ilias Ali, on Saturday expressed her hope that her husband would return to them if there is a change of power.
An alleged robber was killed in a lynch-mob attack at Dalalpara in Sadar upazila early Saturday.
Dhaka – The main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) on Saturday protested and condemned the police restriction to hold a mass ritual to pay respect to the souls of those Hindus who died during the war of liberation in 1971.
Police recovered the body of a schoolboy from a dustbin at Chandra Bazar in Faridganj upazila on Friday, three days after his abduction.
Dhaka – One Bank Limited (OBL) has launched its ‘OK mobile banking’ service for Grameenphone (GP) customers to facilitate mobile banking.
Dhaka – The Export Promotion Bureau’s annual showcase, the month-long Dhaka International Trade Fair (DITF), will kick off the New Year bringing a host of local and international manufacturers and retailers under a single roof, or in this case the…
Serena Williams overcame a back injury to reach the China Open final where she will play Jelena Jankovic.
New figures from the UK Government have shown that more than 10 million tonnes of CO2 emissions were displaced by renewable electricity generation in Scotland – up by almost a quarter from the previous year.
Authorities in Myanmar said Friday that they have detained 10 more suspects in connection with this week’s deadly anti-Muslim violence in western Rakhine state during a visit by President Thein Sein, who has questioned the motive behind the attacks instigated…
By Dr. Kevin Barrett