Students of Secondary School Certificate Examination of 2015 and 2016 batches protesting introduction of creative (srijonshil) type of curriculum in Mathematics took out procession on city roads, formed human chain and handed over memorandum to the education board officials on…
Police in a drive arrested seven suspected activists of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami from Koillanpur village in Belkuchi upazila of the district early Wednesday.
Police recovered the body of a schoolboy from his house in Muslimpara area of Sadar upazila on Tuesday afternoon.
Local people caught an alleged terrorist along with arms and handed over him to police at Phulbagadi village in Alamdanga upazila on Tuesday night.
Commercial cultivation of cardamom has begun in Benapole stirring interests of many even at the research level.
Police arrested a hemp peddler along with 75 packs of hemp at Mandalgati village in Sadar upazila early Tuesday.
A mobile court here on Tuesday fined owners of six shops a total of Tk1.10 lakh in the district town for selling polythene bags illegally.
A young man was crushed to death under the wheels of a truck at Shankarpur in the district town on Tuesday.
A local Jubo League worker was chopped to death by unidentified miscreants at Badedihi village near Barbazar in Kaliganj upazila on Tuesday night.
With onrush of huge sellers and purchasers the market of fazli, king of mango, has gained momentum in Rajshahi and Chapainawabganj districts, famous for mango production, on the last leg of the mango season.
The Solar Impulse plane has landed at New York’s JFK airport, completing the final leg of a journey across the US on solar power alone.
A Glasgow designer has unveiled a prototype pair of headphones which he claims can harness solar power to keep mobile devices charged.
A ruling Awami League leader was stabbed by ‘miscreants’ at his own home in Netrokona’s Madan Upazila early on Wednesday.
A bomb thrown on Monday night in Laxmipur Bazar area missed former MP of Kushtia and President of Jatiyatabadi Muktijudhha Dol Sohrab Uddin but ended up injuring some of his companions, says police.
An explosive-laden car targeted a shopping mall in the Bir al-Abed area, nearby Hezbollah’s so-called security square’, where many of the party’s officials live and have offices.
CAIRO – Saudi Arabia pledged $5 billion in grants and loans to Egypt’s new government on Tuesday, a second major promise of aid from the Gulf after the ouster of the country’s Islamist president.
The economic (market) value of FC Barcelona’s Argentine superstar Lionel Messi is more than twice that of the second-best soccer player in the world, Portugal’s Cristiano Ronaldo who plays for Real Madrid, according to an annual report published in June…
Air pollution can cause lung cancer and seems to worsen heart failure, researchers reported in two studies released Tuesday.
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Rejecting the Prime Minister’s remarks that the next general election will be held the way elections are held in other parliamentary democracies, opposition BNP on Tuesday urged the government to arrange it under a non-party caretaker government shunning its stubbornness…
Awami League presidium member Mohammad Nasim on Tuesday said that his party is neither frustrated nor worried by the defeat of five party supported mayoral candidates.
Political parties and police are the most corrupt sectors in Bangladesh followed by the judiciary, says a newly revealed report of the Transparency The report says about 60 percent people think that corruption has been increased in the country in…
Jatiya Party chairman HM Ershad on Tuesday said that he did not make any mistake by extending his party’s support to Awami League-backed mayoral candidate of Gazipur City Corporation polls.
Bangladesh failed to achieve its export target for last fiscal year (2012-13) having a shortfall of US$ 981.74 million although the export earnings witnessed 11.18 percent growth over the previous fiscal (2011-12).
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday invited Belarusian entrepreneurs to massively invest in Bangladesh availing attractive incentives, cheap labour and a huge domestic market of around 160 million people.
Holy Ramadan, the lunar month of self-purification through fasting and abstinence, will begin on Thursday as the new moon was not sighted anywhere in Bangladesh sky on Tuesday.
The government on Tuesday decided to withdraw both the cases filed by Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) against Jhalakati college student Limon Hossain, maimed by the elite force two years back.
The country’s remittance inflow in the immediate past fiscal year stood at US$ 14.46 billion, up by 12.59 percent compared to its preceding fiscal.
Bangladesh and Belarus on Tuesday signed eight instruments, including two agreements and four Memorandum of Understanding (MoUs), aiming to strengthen economic and cultural relations between the two countries.
State-owned China Poly Group International has promised to invest $2.4 billion in the 6.15 kms rail-road bridge, which Bangladesh wants to build with its own resources.