The Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) Court of Dhaka on Wednesday allowed cricketer Rubel Hossain, now on bail in a rape case filed by new actress Nazneen Akter Happy, to go abroad. Turning down the complainant’s objection, Magistrate Rashed Talukder passed…
BNP has expelled two of its US-based leaders based for issuing a fake statement in the name of six US Congressmen expressing their concern over confinement of Khaleda Zia at her office that created controversy home and abroad. The two…
BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia yesterday asked the people as well as her party leaders and activists to make Thursday’s daylong hartal a success. Mohila Dal vice president Dr Nurjahan Mahbub said this while taking to reporters after a team of…
Tomorrow is the fourth anniversary of death of renowned journalist Sayed Eqbal Rezvi, Associate Editor, The Good Morning. Eqbal Rezvi died at the Central Hospital, Dhaka on this day in 2011.
As the flow of the Teesta River has hit extremely low – less than one fourth of the flow recorded between 1973 and 1985) levels seriously affecting its environment Bangladesh has written to India to ensure adequate flow of the…
The Burmese government should accept the United Nations call to amend the discriminatory law that deprives Rohingya Muslims of Burmese citizenship, Human Rights Watch said Tuesday in a letter to President Thein Sein. On December 29, 2014, the UN General…
Washington, D.C.- As national governments flounder to resolve pressing global challenges, corporations are positioning themselves within the United Nations framework as efficient players and indispensable partners in international policy debates. But with their immense economic and political sway, can corporations…
New Level-1 Students’ Orientation Orientation of the newly admitted Semester-1 Level-1 students of Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University (SAU) was held on Monday 12 January in the university auditorium. Prof. Md. Shadat Ulla Vice-Chancellor of SAU attended the orientation function as the…
Robert J. Burrowes Unfortunately, in many circles, anger has a bad reputation. There are several reasons for this. One reason is that we are scared when people are angry at us, so we try to scare people, especially children, out…
Four people, including a child, were burnt to death and 10 others suffered injuries in a petrol bomb attack by pickets in Mithapukur upazila early Wednesday on the 9th day of the countywide non-stop blockade, enforced by the BNP-led 20-party…
By Joanna Jolly Each country has its own invasive species and rampant plants with a tendency to grow out of control. In most, the techniques for dealing with them are similar – a mixture of powerful chemicals and diggers. But…
The Bnp has called a 24-hour hartal for thursday in protest against the gun attack on Khaleda Zia’s adviser Reaz Rahman injuring him at about 8-45 pm on Tuesday in the Gulshan area. His car was torched and burnt in…
Ferry service on Shimulia-Kawrakandi route has resumed at 10 am after suspension of seven and half hours due to thick fog in the area.
RDRS Bangladesh distributed 6,660 pieces of quality blankets among the cold- hit poor and distressed people, including women and children, of all eight districts in Rangpur division during this winter season.
A 14-day annual training course of Mohasthan Regiment of Bangladesh National Cadet Corps (BNCC) began at the playground of Bangladesh Postal Academy in Rajshahi city yesterday.
Speakers at a rally have stressed for launching vigorous movement against social erosion, unhealthy culture, pornography, drug abuse, gambling, rape, human trafficking and repression and violence against women.
Police arrested Sylhet city unit Jamaat-e-Islami ameer Ehsanul Mahbub Jubayer from Zindabazar area in the city on Tuesday morning.
Ferry services on the Daulatdia-Paturia route in the Padma river resumed on Tuesday morning after seven and a half hours’ disruption due to dense fog.
The National Standing Committee of BNP, the highest policy making body of the party on Tuesday urged the country people to intensify their movement to make it a success. It accused the government of being desperate to foil 20-party’s ongoing…
Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) arrested 25 people while they were going to India illegally through Boro Achra border here on Monday night.
Police arrested BNP city unit member secretary Badruzzaman Selim from Topkhana area in the city on Monday.
England bowler James Anderson says he had “huge doubts” about bowling following Phillip Hughes’s death.
Funeral ceremonies are being held for seven of those shot dead in last week’s attacks in Paris.
Sunday’s Golden Globe Awards ceremony was watched by 19.3 million people in the US, down 8% on last year’s audience of 20.9 million.
The privately built Dragon capsule has docked with the International Space Station (ISS) carrying a much needed cargo of supplies.
An alleged fugitive accused in the murder of a policeman was killed in a ‘gunfight between his cohorts and law enforcers’ in Maheshkhali upazila on Tuesday evening. The deceased was Abdur Rashid, 35, a resident of Hoainak village in the…
BNP chief Khaleda Zia’s Adviser Reaz Rahman was shot in the leg in Dhaka and his car set ablaze by some unidentified people when he was on his way back from Khaleda’s Gulshan office. A former foreign minister Reaz Rahman…
Three members of a family were killed and seven others injured in the head-on collision between two launches in the Meghna River in Mohona area of Chandpur Sadar upazila early Tuesday. The deceased were identified as Sahana Begum, 60, and…
The Bangladesh Bank (BB) on Tuesday lifted the restriction on installing electronic banking booths including ATMs (automated teller machines). Issuing a circular, the central bank suggested to all banks that they would no longer require to seek BB’s permission to…
The Awami League-led 14-party alliance will constitute committees in every ward and localities across the country ‘against subversive acts’ to handover to the law enforcing agencies those who would be found involved in acts of terrorism in the name of…