Police claimed to have identified seven organisations which had played a vital role behind the violence unleashed by Hifazat-e Islam in the capital’s business hub, Motijeel on May 5. Additional Inspector General AKM Shahidul Haque told a press conference on…
DHAKA – Anti-Corruption Commission on Thursday expressed its apprehension about the future of the ACC case filed in connection with Padma bridge corruption conspiracy.
A meeting of the Board of Directors of Islami Bank Bangladesh Limited was held at the Board Room of Islami Bank Tower on Thursday.
British High Commissioner in Dhaka Robert Gibson on Thursday said they will raise with Bangladesh authorities their concerns should a UK company have problems implementing its respect for human rights due to any incompatibility between local regulations and international law.
At least 30 people, including seven students of Dhaka University, were injured in a triangular clash at Ananda Bazar market in city’s Chankharpool area on Thursday.
Law Minister Barrister Shafique Ahmed on Thursday said speedy disposal of financial and business disputes can encourage the investors.
Bangladesh and Panama will sign a bilateral agreement in October bringing an opportunity for Bangladeshi seamen to get jobs in Panama-flag carrying vessels. Panama, which is the world leader in shipping registry with a total of 9,000 ships worldwide, will…
Armed muggers shot an official of private mobile phone operator, Banglalink, to death and snatched Tk 2.5 lakh from him at Tongi here on Thursday.
A new alliance – The Girls Not Brides Bangladesh Alliance – was formed with the hope to end child marriage in Bangladesh on Thursday.
BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Thursday said a cultural movement is needed to be launched to protect the country’s independence, sovereignty and democracy.
The government on Thursday published the gazette notification of the Multi-Level Marketing Activities (Control) Ordinance 2013 which has provisions for meting out harsher punishments.
Three international exhibitions on readymade garment technologies and machineries began in the city on Thursday.
Five Bangladeshis were picked up by some Indians nationals at Gayeshpur frontier in Jibannagar upazila early Thursday.
The fourth death anniversary of M Saifur Rahman, the country’s longest-serving finance minister and former BNP standing committee member, was observed with due respect on Thursday.
A youth who was under custody of Shahjahanpur thana police died at Dhaka Medical College Hospital on Thursday morning.
A court here on Thursday placed Dr Dewan Md Faridullah Pappu, arrested in the Jubo League leader Riazul Haque Khan Milky murder case, on a three-day remand.
A Dhaka court on Thursday rejected the bail petition of Oishee Rahman, the key suspect, facing the charge of murdering her parents, Special Branch Inspector Mahfuzur Rahman and his wife Swapna Rahman for the third time.
Police arrested an organiser of so-called ‘Sayedee Mukti Mancha’, also a local Jamaat leader, from Assasuni upazila headquarters on Wednesday noon.
A court here on Monday sentenced a young man to six months’ imprisonment for sexually harassing a schoolgirl in the city’s Nirala area.
A lawyer was killed and five other people were injured as a pickup van collided head-on with a CNG-run auto-rickshaw in the district town on Wednesday morning.
Undue interference by VC PA alleged Prof M Nazrul Islam, registrar of Rajshahi University resigned Wednesday showing “personal cause.”
A welfare project entitled “Improving Maternal and Child Nutrition (IMCN)” launched in August, 2011 runs smoothly creating positive impacts to the undernourished mothers and children in the district.
So far a total of 2,464 tonnes of boro rice has been procured from all the four upazilas of the district under the ongoing boro rice procurement of the government against the target of 4,776 tonnes.
Proper exploration of prevailing brighter prospect in pisciculture sector can increase fish production to bring economic self- reliance to the farmers through alleviating poverty in rural areas, experts said yesterday.
A septuagenarian man was chopped to death by a miscreant over previous enmity at Nowdagram Bazar in Sadar upazila of Jessore district last night.
One person was killed and 30 others were injured in a clash between two groups of villagers over establishing supremacy at Shibpur village in Lakhai upazila on Tuesday afternoon.
Police on Wednesday noon seized 88 bottles of Indian liquor from a shop in Sadar Road area in Dirai upazila.
A member of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) was injured in an attack by smugglers on Kakdanga border in Kalaroa upazila early Thursday.
A local Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) activist, who was beaten up allegedly by BNP activists on Wednesday evening, succumbed to his injuries on the way to a hospital in the capital early Thursday.
Muslim-majority Malaysia has pulled the plug on a planned concert by US heavy metal group Lamb of God after Islamic authorities declared the band’s music religiously offensive.