President of Bikalpa Dhara Bangladesh (BDB) AQM Badrudozza Chowdhury was barred from meeting besieged BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia on Sunday. The BDB chief came to Khaleda’s Gulshan office around 12 noon to meet the former Prime Minister. As his motorcade…
A new facility has opened in Reading, to safeguard the future of chocolate. It is a bigger and better clearing house for all the world’s new cocoa varieties, which must be quarantined before they can be grown. Demand for chocolate…
Renowned American country music singer-songwriter Little Jimmy Dickens has died at the age of 94. His spokeswoman Jessie Schmidt said Dickens died on Friday of cardiac arrest after suffering a stroke on Christmas Day. His novelty songs, including May the…
North Korea has described new sanctions imposed in response to a major cyber-attack against Sony Pictures as part of groundless and hostile US policy. The US placed sanctions on three North Korean organisations and 10 individuals, after the FBI blamed…
Allrounder Soumya Sarkar has been named in Bangladesh’s 15-member squad for the 2015 World Cup, which also includes fast bowler Taskin Ahmed and left-arm spinner Taijul Islam. Mashrafe Mortaza will lead the side while Shakib Al Hasan has been named…
Australia fast bowler Mitchell Johnson will miss the final Test against India, which starts in Sydney on Tuesday, because of a hamstring injury. But the left-armer is expected to be fit in time for the subsequent one-day tri-series against England…
Mahfuz Adnan, New York Correspondent International Bangla festival and book fair 2015 will be held from 22 to 24 May next in New York city. Rukeya Haider, the head of Bangla Service of voice of America has been selected as…
Muslims in Bangladesh as elsewhere in the world the holy Eid-e-Miladun Nabi (birth day of Hazrat Muhammad (sm) with due religious fervour. Sunni Muslims observe the birthday of Prophet Muhammed (sm) on the 12th day of the Islamic month of…
Police in Italy believe traffickers made some $3m (£1.9m; €2.5m) from 359 illegal migrants found abandoned on a cargo ship in the Mediterranean. The Ezadeen was towed into the Italian port of Corigliano Calabro after being found by coast guards…
Police on Saturday night confined BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia to her Gulshan political office, 36 hours before her party-led 20-party’s scheduled January-5 rally. “Madam Khaleda Zia is confined at her office by the members of law-enforcement agencies, including police, of…
Six people, including a DB officer, have been arrested on the charge of snatching gold worth Tk 3 crore from a jewellery businessman. Twenty-three of the looted 60 gold bars were recovered from their possession. The victim businessman and his…
Spiritual leader of the Catholics in Bangladesh Archbishop Paulinus Costa died of cardiac arrest on Saturday. He was 78. Paulinus Costa, who was Archbishop of the archdiocese of Dhaka from 2005 to October 22, 2011, breathed his last around 3…
Police on Saturday arrested two activists of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) in connection with a crude bomb attack on the vehicle of former Sylhet City Corporation mayor and city Awami League president Badar Uddin Ahmed Kamran at Pathantula here on…
Police in a drive arrested seven leaders and activists of Jamaat-e-Islami and its student wing Islami Chhatra Shibir while they were holding a ‘clandestine meeting’ in court area of the city on Friday.
Police arrested the city unit vice-president of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) from Khashdabir area in the city early Saturaday.
An alleged robber was injured in a gunfight between his cohorts and police in Palashpol area of the town early Saturday.
A faction of the Chittagong University unit of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) enforced an indefinite strike on the campus today (Saturday) to press for its six-point demand.
A youth was killed and three others were injured in a road accident in Kalabagan area on the Rangamati-Chittagong highway here on Friday.
A fire broke out at a puffed rice mill at Dhopadanga Bazar in Debhata upazila on Friday night.
Police arrested Jatiyatabadi Shramik Dal’s district unit president Sardar Liakat Ali from in front of his house in VIP Mor of the town on Friday night.
A young man allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself from the ceiling of his room in Sayedpur area of Majortila in the city on Friday morning.
Police on Saturday arrested two activists of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) in connection with a crude bomb attack on the vehicle of former Sylhet City Corporation mayor and city Awami League president Badar Uddin Ahmed Kamran at Pathantula here on…
Some 525 dwellers of 21 chars of Kurigram and Gaibandha districts got free different varieties of vegetable seed to make homestead gardening from a national NGO Friendship last few days.
Adopting time-befitting measures for combating desertification and land degradation process has become an urgent task in the Barind tract to boost agricultural production for ensuring food security amid adverse impacts of climate changes, speakers at a workshop here said today.
Successful implementation of the Chars Livelihoods Programme (CLP) has improved livelihoods of the extremely poor and landless people living in the hardly reachable char areas on the Brahmaputra basin.
The Awami League-led 14-party alliance has told the BNP to drop plans of hitting the streets on Jan 5. After a meeting on Saturday at the Awami League’s central office, Food Minister Qamrul Islam asked the BNP not to be…
The BNP-led 20-party allaince is likely to announce 48-hour to 72-hour non-stop hartal if they are obstructed from hold its planned rally for which it did not get permission till last night, according to a highly placed source. The hartal…
The ruling Awami League will organise public rallies at 16 venues including the Suhrawardy Udyan in the capital city January 5. This decision was taken at a joint meeting of Awami League (AL) held at the political office of party…
Senior Awami League leader Tofail Ahmed on Saturday ruled out the possibility of any midterm election and dialogue with BNP saying Bangladesh is marching ahead with development on all fronts. “I don’t see any possibility of dialogue…there’ll be dialogue only…
The BNP has vowed to hold its rally in Dhaka on January 5 even it is not given permission by the Dhaka Metropolitan Police. “We will hold our planned grand rally in the city on January 5 to mark the…