Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Friday evening inaugurated the country’s first ‘light and sound show’ at Lalbagh Fort, an archaeological site, in the city aiming to attract more local and foreign tourists apart from projecting its history. The show involves…
Dhaka – BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Friday alleged that state-sponsored terrorism has spread across the country as the Prime Minister is defending the ‘terrorist acts of her party men’. “Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is encouraging…
The prospects for reaching any viable peace deal with the Taleban are growing dim with each passing day. The talks, initially planned for Tuesday, did not take place due to government’s reported confusion about the make-up of its team.
Russia exported $4.78 billion worth of arms and military equipment to India last year, a senior Russian arms industry official said Thursday, Feb 6, according to RIA Novosti.
Germany’s Angela Merkel has said a US official’s apparent insult of the EU’s efforts to mediate in the Ukraine crisis is “totally unacceptable”.
Demonstrators in Bosnia-Hercegovina have set fire to government buildings as violent protests continue across the country for a third day.
It is not lazy shorthand to call Sochi 2014 “Putin’s Games”. The Russian president has been the driving force ever since the International Olympic Committee was persuaded that his vision for the Black Sea city could be made real.
Manchester United captain Nemanja Vidic’s departure from the club is a “mutual decision”, Old Trafford manager David Moyes has said.
Wes Anderson’s latest movie The Grand Budapest Hotel has opened the Berlin Film Festival to rave reviews.
Amazon has announced 10 new pilot shows, the future of which will depend on a public vote.
Scientists have discovered the earliest evidence of human footprints outside of Africa, on the Norfolk Coast in the East of England.
Customs officials seized six gold bars weighing 700 grams at Shah Amanat International Airport in the city on Friday morning.
A minor boy was killed and his mother injured as the mud wall of their house collapsed on them at Sitarampur village in Sadar upazila of the district on Thursday.
A mobile court here on Thursday sentenced a man to one year imprisonment for selling hemp in Sharsha upazila.
A court here on Thursday sentenced a man to life term imprisonment for killing a man in 1999.
Police on separate raids arrested 14 alleged criminals from different areas of five upazilas of the district during last 24 hours till this morning.
Some unidentified miscreants vandalised the idol of Devi Sharaswati at Char Basudevpur under Chapainawabganj sadar upazila here in the early hours of today.
Hundreds of char people at a daylong community fair yesterday vowed for eradicating social curses like dowry, child marriage and making birth and marriage registration campaign successful to build a flourishing char society.
By Dave Lee A father’s plea to watch a video based on his dead son’s Facebook page has provoked the network to look again at how families can remember loved ones.
The idea to distribute millions of the digital coins to all of Iceland’s 333,000 citizens has been dreamt up by entrepreneur Baldur Odinsson.
Robert J. Burrowes In a recent report titled ‘Working for the Few: Political capture and economic inequality’ Oxfam informs us that ‘Almost half of the world’s wealth is now owned by just one percent of the population’. Their report goes…
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has awarded three of its best performing project teams in Bangladesh as part of its efforts to promote efficient project implementation. ‘Second Crop Diversification Project’ executed jointly by the Department of Agricultural Extension and Bangladesh…
Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) on Thursday signed an agreement with leading consultancy firm Impactt to improve the productivity in the readymade garment (RMG) sector.
Governor of Bangladesh Bank Atiur Rahman on Thursday asked banks and financial institutions to finance environment-friendly industrial infrastructures. He said the Investment Promotion and Financing Facility (IPFF) Cell of the central bank, backed by the World Bank (WB), has been…
The government has announced to give the National Film Award 2012 to 24 artists and film professionals in recognition of their outstanding contributions to development of Bengali movies.
‘Light and Sound Show’ set up at Lalbagh Fort in the capital to project the history of the 17th century Mughal fort complex will be inaugurated on Friday. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will open the aesthetic show, first of its…
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court has vacated the High Court’s stay order on a proposed hi-tech park in Gazipur. The directive removes all legal barriers to the commencement of work on the project that had been planned almost…
The nationwide daylong hartal, called by Jamaat-e-Islami protesting the capital punishment against its ameer Motiur Rahman Nizami in the 10-truck arms smuggling case, passed off without any major incident of violence today (Thursday).
A Dhaka court on Thursday heard the further submission on behalf of the prosecution in the case filed over killing of 10 persons in the gruesome Ramna Batamul blasts on Pahela Baishak about 13 years back and fixed February 13…
The Election Commission (EC) wants to stay ahead of the season of storms by holding the third phase of the Upazila Parishad elections on March 15 in 83 bodies, including eight in coastal and wetland areas.