Dhaka – Bikalpadhara President Dr AQM Badruddoza Chowdhury on Tuesday alleged that Awami League has formed a hotchpotch cabinet along with the so-called opposition with a mandate of five percent voters. “Those who are now in power, they’re the players…
BNP on Tuesday alleged that both the government and the opposition have been formed illegally and unethically following the January 5 ‘voter-less farcical’ elections. “The government has been formed illegally and unethically through a questionable, farcical election. The formation of…
Echoing his other cabinet colleagues, Finance Minister AMA Muhith on Tuesday said the new government has been elected to work for five years. “The new government is there for five years. The Prime Minister has already said that since BNP…
The poultry industry in the district has suffered a severe recession for the political turbulence, marked by hartals and blockades, the country has passed through for the last several months.
Agri experts in a function here on Monday urged farmers to farm boro seedlings in dry seedbed with covered polythene sheets to get more yield adapting to changed climatic condition.
Dhaka – Some 225 Bangladeshis have been held after a series of drives against irregular migrants in Malaysia, reports Malaysian media on Tuesday. A total of 1,565 illegal immigrants have been arrested by authorities under ‘Ops Sepadu’ drive, which started…
Speakers at a seminar have unequivocally called for substantial and sustainable development of the country’s animal resource sector through removing its existing problems to face the nation’s protein deficiency.
A trial court here on Monday sentenced 12 persons to life imprisonment in city’s Chandu murder case around 20 years back.
About 400 poor women in Khetlal upazila of the district have achieved self-reliance after receiving loan from Bangladesh Rural Development Board (BRDB) and engaged themselves in various income generating activities.
The Second phase of rural employment and road maintenance programme for destitute women in all the six upazilas of Narsindhi district is going on satisfactorily.
Five people were injured in a clash between two groups of villagers in Gajaria upazila on Tuesday morning.
At least 13 shops were gutted by a fire that broke out in Municipality Market area of Daudkandi upazila early Tuesday.
Police arrested two people along with a pistol, four rounds of bullet, two machetes and two pieces of iron rod on the Dhaka-Chittagong Highway in Daudkandi upazila early Tuesday.
Police recovered the body of a housewife, cut into six pieces, kept in a bag and two sacks from her house in Naljani area of the city on Tuesday morning.
Ferry service on the Paturia-Daulatdia route remained suspended for six hours till Tuesday morning due to poor visibility caused by dense fog.
The 85 richest people on Earth have the same amount of wealth as the bottom half of the population, according to a new report that highlights growing income inequality as political and business leaders gather for the annual World Economic…
An award-winning chip capable of being powered just from surrounding energy sources, such as light, vibrations and even temperature variations, has been developed by researchers at the Public University of Navarre (NUP/UPNA).
Leading Kenyan author Binyavanga Wainaina has come out to say he is gay, making him one of the most high-profile Africans to do so.
The passwords and other details of 16 million email users in Germany have been stolen, the country’s security agency has revealed.
Washington – Air pollution from China blows across the Pacific Ocean and ends up over the US west coast — and American consumerism is to blame for a portion of it, said a study Monday.
Its been almost 30 years since the rare jaguarundi was last spotted in Texas, but the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has plans to change that.
Stanislas Wawrinka ended the three-year reign of Australian Open champion Novak Djokovic with a stunning quarter-final victory.
Manchester United have not bid for Juan Mata, but refuse to rule out making a future offer for the Chelsea player.
David Beckham has joined Sir David Jason and Nicholas Lyndhurst for an Only Fools And Horses Sport Relief sketch that reunites Del Boy and Rodney for the first time in over a decade.
A senior Italian cleric has been charged with laundering millions through the Vatican bank, police say.
The Thai government has imposed a 60-day state of emergency in the capital, Bangkok, and the surrounding provinces, from Wednesday, to cope with unrest.
The first step in General Abdel Fattah El-Sisi’s roadmap to “democracy” has been implemented.
One aspect of our life is, once the people were in favour of the Muslim League and later changed their opinion that supported the Awami League. People then left the Awami League and accepted the BNP and then again went…
Dhaka – Singapore and Sri Lanka on Tuesday congratulated Sheikh Hasina on her assumption of office of Bangladesh Prime Minister for the third time. In a message to Sheikh Hasina, Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong appreciated the steady progress…
Dhaka – Police recovered the beheaded body of a young man from the rooftop of traffic police barrack in the capital’s Paltan area on Tuesday. The body of the man, aged around 30-35, could not be immediately identified.