BNP’s executive committee member Khaleda Yasmin and six women lawyers of the Jatoyatabadi Ainjibi Forum were arrested by police from in front of the BNP chairperson’s Gulshan office on Saturday evening as they came out after supplying candles as power…
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said on Saturday that the Bnp-led 20-party combine has turned into a ‘poisonous abscess’ for the nation, she said and urged the people to forge unity being imbued with the spirit of the War of Liberation…
At least 13 people were killed and three others injured in a devastating fire that raged a plastic factory in the city’s Mirpur area on Saturday afternoon. The identities of the deceased could not be known yet, said Salimuzzaman, officer-in-charge…
Marion “Suge” Knight has been arrested on suspicion of murder in connection with a “fatal traffic incident”, the Los Angeles County Sheriff says.
A chemical weapons expert with the Islamic State (IS) militant group in Iraq has been killed in a coalition airstrike, the US military has said.
Scientists who claimed last year to have found a pattern in the sky left by the super-rapid expansion of space just fractions of a second after the Big Bang were mistaken.
Police arrested 11 activists of Jamaat-e-Islami from different parts of the district in 24 hours ending on Saturday morning on charge of violence in the name of the blockade.
An anti-smuggling squad of Bangladesh Navy in a drive seized 30,000 pieces of Yaba tablet from a boat at the outer anchorage of Chittagong port early Saturday.
Detectives in a drive arrested two alleged drug peddlers along with 44 kilograms of hemp at Amertal of Kathalbari area in the district town early Saturday.
Police arrested a young man in possession of 50,000 pieces of Yaba tablet from SK Khal area of the Naf River in Teknaf upazila on Friday night.
More than 30,000 poor and slum households are enjoying sanitation facilities by dint of commissioning of 11,000 hygienic latrines in the metropolis.
Regional members of Anti Tobacco Media Alliance (ATMA) have expressed their grave concern over gross violation of tobacco control law in Rajshahi region and urged the authorities concerned to take punitive measures to resist the violation.
Chittagong district police detained 10 activists of BNP-Jamaat-Shibir from different upazilas of the district on Thursday night.
Electricity, cable television and internet connections to Bnp chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia’s party office in the Gulshan Model Town of Dhaka city were snapped Saturday, in an apparent move to disrupt her communication links and also to make her continued…
Washington, D.C.-For more than 50 years, global production of plastic has continued to rise. Some 299 million tons of plastics were produced in 2013, representing a 4 percent increase over 2012. Recovery and recycling, however, remain insufficient, and millions of…
Dr Atiur Rahman Attaining high quality of corporate governance is important for creating and maintaining investor confidence in corporate businesses and much more so for banks as they are highly leveraged and engaged in risk bearing investments with depositors’ funds…
Russia-Bangladesh workgroup of joint coordination committee for implementing Bangladesh nuclear power programme has adopted action plan for nuclear infrastructure development in Bangladesh for next two years. The workgroup met in Dhaka from January 13th to 15th. More than 40 experts…