Amid strong protests against the murder of Rajshahi University teacher Prof AKM Shafiul Islam, police arrested 20 people, including a college principal, in connection with the killing. Officer-in-charge of Motihar Police Station Amagir Hossain said local police and detectives launched…
Naudero: He was a 19-year-old Oxford undergraduate when his family named him chairperson of country’s oldest dynastic party – Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP). In the years that followed, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, now 26, has been groomed to take over the…
The government has fixed an all-time record target of producing 95.55 lakh tonnes winter vegetables from 4.90 lakh hectares of land in the country during the current 2014-2015 Rabi season, official sources said.
Experts at a divisional level views-sharing meeting here have stressed for comprehensive and well-coordinated efforts of all stakeholders for eradicating the completely curable disease of tuberculosis from the society.
Speakers at a discussion yesterday said Begum Rokeya clearly understood the essence of spreading female education for women renaissance and socioeconomic and political empowerment of the womenfolk.
Former Bangladesh and Indian diplomats have called on their respective governments to train their focus on economic engagement and intensify security cooperation. Participating in a two-day first ever Bangladesh-India High Commissioners’ Summit organised by the international relations department of Dhaka…
Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB)-5 in a drive arrested an alleged arms trader with a foreign made pistol and two magazines from Durlavpur village under Shibganj upazila of the district on Saturday evening.
Police in a drive arrested a hemp trader with 47-kg hemp from Boubazar-Balasul area under Srinagar upazila of the district last night.
Members of Detective Branch (DB) of police detained two leaders of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) for quizzing in the Tangail district Awami League leader Faruk Ahmed killing case on Saturday night.
Police recovered the body of a saloon owner with the throat slashed from a mango orchard at Ballavpur village in Mujibnagar upazila on Sunday morning.
An activist of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) was stabbed in an attack by his rivals in Pathantula area of the city on Saturday night.
Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested a young man in possession of a foreign-made pistol and two magazines at Durlobhpur village in Shibganj upazila on Saturday.
Police arrested six leaders and activists of Islami Chhatra Shibir, including its east district president S M Monwar Hossain, from a house in the city’s residential area on Saturday night.
A man was killed as a CNG-run auto-rickshaw ran over him in Kusumbagh area on the Moulvibazar-Sylhet Highway in the district town on Saturday afternoon.
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Work has begun to remove wreckage from the MH17 crash site in rebel-held eastern Ukraine after months of delays, Dutch officials say.
A video posted online claims to show that Islamic State militants have killed the captured US aid worker Abdul-Rahman Kassig.
Parliament on Sunday adopted a resolution greeting Speaker Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury and lawmaker Saber Hossain Chowdhury for being elected chairperson of executive committee of Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA) and president of Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU). Taking part in the motion…
Popular singer and music composer Hridoy Khan and TV actress and model Sujana performed together as models in a music video recently.
Deepika Padukone is currently shooting in Kolkata for her upcoming film Piku.
Third Test, Chittagong (day five): Bangladesh 503 & 319-5 dec beat Zimbabwe 374 & 262 by 186 runs Match scorecard Bangladesh claimed a 3-0 Test series win for the first time with a 186-run victory over Zimbabwe in Chittagong.
Ghana expect to have a deal in place for Avram Grant to be their new national coach after their final 2015 Nations Cup qualifier on Wednesday.
H. E. Mahmoud EZZAT Geopolitics inevitably shaped Egypt’s foreign policy. Egypt occupies a strategic position as a land bridge between two continents and a link between two principal waterways; The Mediterranean Sea and the Indian Ocean. It must be therefore…
Muslims discovered the Americas more than three centuries before Christopher Columbus, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said. He made the claim during a conference of Latin American Muslim leaders in Istanbul, pointing to a diary entry in which Columbus…
The Australian Prime Minister, Tony Abbott, has brought the G20 summit to a close by detailing economic pledges agreed by the world leaders. He said the package, if implemented, would boost global economic growth over five years by 2.1% more…
Prime Minister’s son and Information and Communication Technology (ICT) adviser Sajeeb Wazed Joy on Saturday lamented that the positive activities of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) do not receive media coverage. “If Chhatra League does anything (wrong), the media covers it…
Bangladeshi cricketers have given another joy to celebrate as they beat Zimbabwe by 186 runs in the third and final match of the 3 match test series thus white washing the visitors in the Test series. The bowlers worked very…
Fresher’s admission test for admission into Level-1, Semester-1 (2015-intake) B.Sc.Ag.(Hons), BBA (Agribusiness), B.Sc. Veterinary Science and Animal Husbandry of Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University (SAU), Dhaka was held peacefully on November 14 Saturday. A total of 21800 candidates took part in the…
About a thousand Hijras took part in Bangladesh’s first ever “Hijra Pride” in the capital Dhaka last week to celebrate the first anniversary of their recognition as a separate gender by the government. Hijra is a feminine gender identity that…
After going into the breather with a narrow 1-0 lead, the Indian eves dished out a dominating performance in the second period and found the opposition net as many as four times to pile on the misery on Bangladesh. Islamabad:…