The administration clamped a curfew in Rangamati district following rising tension over the opening of a medical college there. Deputy Commissioner Shamsul Arefin said the curfew was imposed at 7:30pm on Sunday. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina officially inaugurated 11 medical…
Panic gripped the apex court on Sunday after the bomb was discovered at a courtroom in the afternoon. Police have confirmed the recovery of a bomb from the High Court. Two more objects, resembling bombs, were found within an hour.…
The first phase of three-day Biswa Ijtema concluded with the ‘aheri munajat’ offered at the bank of river Turag in Tongi on Sunday morning. Hundreds of thousands of Muslims gathered at the Ijtema ground in Tongi of Gazipur, despite the…
A Dhaka court on Sunday granted interim bail to national cricketer Rubel Hossain in a rape case filed by his fiancé. Responding to a fresh bail plea filed by the detained accused, acting Metropolitan Session’s Judge KM Imrul Kayes granted…
Rights and environmental activists at a discussion in Dhaka on Sunday described the pervasive corruption and irregularities at the state-owned Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority (BIWTA) as the main obstacle to the protection of rivers and development of the shipping…
BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia yesterday called upon her party leaders and activists to go ahead with peaceful movement until the realisation of demand for an inclusive election under non-partisan government. This was communicated by BNP standing committee member Barrister Rafiqul…
Cultivation of maize continues in full swing in the northern region where a target of producing over 13.49 lakh tonne of the cereal crop has been fixed from over 1.90 lakh hectares land for this Rabi season.
Winter clothes were distributed among freedom fighters at Mehendiganj upazila health complex in the district yesterday.
Thousands hectares of char land lying on the river bed of the Brahmaputra and Teesta have been brought under different crops and vegetables cultivation during the current Robi season with an expectation of desired production.
Existing surface water resources especially the Baranai River flowing through the northern part of the city is being heavily polluted and contaminated with disposal of wastes and toxic chemicals, scientists and researchers here said.
Speakers at a post-rally training workshop have stressed for ensuring safer use of roads, building adequate awareness and professional skill of the drivers to reduce road accidents for saving thousands of lives annually.
The lifestyle and socioeconomic condition of the isolated people living in the remote and hardly reachable char areas on the Brahmaputra basin has been changing fast by virtue of solar power.
The ruling Awami League is scheduled to hold a rally at Suhrawardy Udyan on Monday to observe the Homecoming Day of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman from captivity in Pakistan. The ruling party is going to hold the rally desperate police…
The Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) Court of Dhaka on Sunday placed ETV Chairman Abdus Salam on a five-day remand in a sedition case filed for airing an alleged false, fabricated and instigating speech of BNP Senior Vice-Chairman Tarique Rahman on…
Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD), student wing of BNP will enforce hartal in 14 districts in Dhaka Division excluding the capital protesting the confinement of party chairperson Khaleda Zia and demanding the release of top opposition leaders including acting secretary general…
As movement to and from Khaleda’s Gulshan party office has virtually been stopped on Sunday putting up fresh truck barricades, Bnp’s joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi asked business leaders to press for inclusive polls to restore peace in the…
Speakers at a roundtable in Dhaka on Saturday called for concerted efforts to unite the people against threats to the country’s physical and environmental security posed by diversion of rivers that have treated and sustained Bangladesh for ages. This land…
Speakers at a day-long conference on environment in Dhaka on Saturday underlined the need for concerted efforts to ensure the implementation of laws for safeguarding the environment keeping in view the fact that those violating law become more powerful and…
Two policewomen were killed and at least 20 others injured as a truck crushed into a bus carrying them in Fakirapul intersection in the capital on Sunday morning. The deceased were identified as constables Manira,20, and Aklima,22. Police said a…
World leaders are gathering in Paris ahead of a march in the French capital to show unity after three days of terror that left 17 people dead. Some 40 leaders are to go to the rally, expected to dwarf Saturday…
Eminent film director and producer Chashi Nazrul Islam died at a city hospital on Sunday morning. An Ekushey Padak and National Film Award winner Chashi Nazrul Islam was 74. Shahadat Setu, assistant of the noted film maker, said Nazrul, who…
A 2-day Business Development Conference of Islami Bank Bangladesh Limited which began at a city hotel on Saturday is now is progress. Engr. Mustafa Anwar, acting chairman of the bank, was present as the chief guest in the inaugural ceremony…
Researchers at Northeastern University in Boston have discovered an unusual method for producing antibiotics from bacteria that live in dirt. According to the researchers’ report published in the journal Nature said the new powerful antibiotic-the Teixobactin as they named is…
Sudhirendar Sharma Let us start 2015 with a question about ‘question’, and an assurance that it will fit into the flavor of this page. Haven’t we been digging ‘questions’ where there have been ‘none’ from rather mundane happenings in life…
Two sieges in France have been brought to a bloody end, with three gunmen and four hostages killed. Two brothers who killed 12 in an attack on Charlie Hebdo magazine on Wednesday were shot dead as they fled a warehouse…
Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) yesterday reiterated that the information about the telephonic conversations between BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Amit Shah was cent percent correct. BNP chairperson’s press secretary Maruf Kamal Khan in statement issued…
Awami League joint general secretary Mahbub-ul-Alam Hanif on Saturday said a movement cannot be carried out by carrying out sniper attacks and strongly criticised the BNP for its ongoing countrywide transport blockade. “Sniper attacks only create panic in public minds……
It has been a week since BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has been confined to her office in Gulshan, Dhaka. Khaleda found herself stuck in the office after announcing an agitation plan to mark the first anniversary of the last general…
Shushasoner Jonno Nagorik (Sujan), a rights body, on Saturday urged Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia to engage in dialogue to beak the present political standoff over a fresh national election. “The initiative has to come first…
Voicing apprehension that the government might carry out ‘subversive’ acts over the 20-party’s ongoing non-stop blockade programme, BNP on Saturday asked its leaders and activists to remain alert about it. “This regime is carrying out acts of sabotage at different…