Bangladesh ranked 14th from the bottom in the Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) 2014, two notches worse than last year’s 16th position, showing that the country’s overall corruption scenario has deteriorated compared to the previous year. Executive director of…
The newly elected chairman of executive committee of Commonwealth Parliamentary Association Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury and president of Inter-Parliamentary Union Saber Hossain Chowdhury yesterday expressed their vow to improve Bangladesh Jatiya Sangsad to international standard. Speaking at a “Meet the…
Sakib may feature in the next season of Australian domestic T20 tournament Big Bash League (BBL). Bangladesh Cricket Board President Nazmul Hassan Papon said unofficially that Sakib’s appeal to play in overseas leagues may be approved due to his present…
Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) in two separate drives recovered 30,000 pieces of Yaba tablet and arrested one person in this connection from Baraitali of Teknaf upazila on Tuesday night and early Wednesday.
A motorcyclist was killed and two others were injured in a road accident at Dudhsar area on the Jhenidah-Kushtia highway under Shailkupa upazila of the district this morning.
At least four timber shops were gutted in fire in Shah Amanullah residential area under Chandgaon thana in the city on Tuesday night.
BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia will address a public meeting in Narayanganj on December 13, according to BNP party sources. When contacted BNP assistant office secretary Abdul Latif Jony confired that that Khaleda Zia would visit the port city on December…
Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB)-9 in a drive recovered three foreign made pistols, six magazines and 12 round bullets from Kaliganj village under Shibganj upazila of the district early this morning.
Police on Wednesday arrested a local leader of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) in connection with the attack on convoy of the then opposition leader Sheikh Hasina in Kolaroa upazila on August 30, 2002.
Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) recovered three pistols, six magazines and 12 rounds of bullet from Kaliganj area at Mankasha border point in Shibganj upazila early Wednesday.
The Special Judge Court-5 of Dhaka yesterday (Wednesday) awarded death sentence to a fugitive convict while imprisoned another for life in Milton Barua murder case. Judge Rezaul Islam of the court pronounced the verdict in presence of the life term…
A Bangladeshi young man was shot by members of Indian Border Security Force (BSF) at Gazipur border point in Sadar upazila early Wednesday.
A local leader of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) was stabbed by his rivals over constructing a shop at Sipahipara in Sadar upazila on Tuesday night.
A woman was hacked to death allegedly by her co-wife at Nodakandar village in Bagmara upazila on Tuesday.
December 3 is a red letter day in the history of Thakurgaon. On December 3 Thakurgaon was liberated from the clutches of the Pakistan occupation Army through a valiant freedom struggle.
A mobile court sentenced four people to six months’ imprisonment for their involvement in drug peddling in Sharsha upazila on Sunday night.
The international coalition’s fight against the Islamic State militant group may take years, US Secretary of State John Kerry has said.
Australia cricket captain Michael Clarke broke down in tears as he paid tribute to friend and team-mate Phillip Hughes at the batsman’s funeral.
More than 180 supporters of the banned Muslim Brotherhood have been sentenced to death in Egypt over a 2013 attack on a police station near Cairo.
Several people have been killed in a suicide car bomb blast next to a UN convoy in Somalia, police say.
A recent meeting in Vienna, between the member states of Opec finally uncovered what the world had expected for months.
This year could be the UK’s warmest for almost 250 years as measured by the world’s oldest temperature record, say researchers.
The third one-day international between England and Sri Lanka was delayed by rain after only two overs in Hambantota.
A court of Dhaka yesterday (Wednesday) placed Abdur Rauf Daud Merchant, an alleged aid of India’s top terrorist and mafia don Daud Ibrahim, on a three-day remand in a case filed under section 54 of the Code of Criminal Procedure…
Speakers at a roundtable in Dhaka city on Tuesday underscored the need for strong national unity to free the nation from the curse of political intolerance and make the fundamental human rights of the people meaningful. They said that opposition…
Malaysia has shown interest in construction of low-cost flats under housing projects at Kamrangirchar to provide flats to the poor at an affordable costs. Special Envoy of the Malaysian PM on Southeast Asian Affairs, Seri Samy Vellu, showed the interest…
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said her government would promote G2G basis manpower export to Malaysia to ensure greater benefit of the workers, despite the fact that a section of manpower exporters are not pleased with the decision. Addressing a reception…