Spokesman of the Awami League-led 14-party alliance and Health and Family Welfare Minister Mohammad Nasim said on Tuesday that there would not be any dialogue with BNP chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia. “No dialogue with those killers, razakars and attackers of…
The BNP-led 20-party alliance will bring out mass processions across the country on Thursday amid its ongoing blockade and hartal programmes to press home it’s a set of demands including immediate national election under a neutral administration. In a statement,…
The BNP-led 20-party alliance yesterday accused the government of inviting undemocratic forces by stopping all the paths of democratic movement. “The government is looking for a solution to the political impasse through the barrels of the gun in exchange of…
The nation on Tuesday rejoiced the historic victory of Tigers in the Cricket World Cup against England. Innumerable processions were brought out in the capital, all division and district towns by enthusiastic people who chanted slogans Bangladesh, Bangladesh … People…
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Tuesday said the resurgence of unrest in recent months is taking a toll on the economy in Bangladesh and expects that the real GDP to grow by about 6 percent in the current fiscal…
A young man died from electrocution at Bhayna More in the district town on Tuesday morning.
Three French sports personalities are among 10 people killed in a helicopter crash in Argentina, the French presidential office confirmed.
Solar Impulse is back in the air on the second leg of its historic attempt to fly around the world.
Scottish virtuoso percussionist Dame Evelyn Glennie and US country singer Emmylou Harris have been named 2015 Laureates of the Polar Music Prize.
Ireland’s hopes of reaching the World Cup quarter-finals suffered a blow as India sealed top spot in Pool B with a fifth straight win in the tournament.
A young man died from electrocution at Bhayna More in the district town on Tuesday morning.
Five shops were gutted as a fire broke out at Katherpul Masjid Market in Jessore town early Tuesday.
Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) recovered a foreign-made pistol, two magazines and two rounds of bullet from Kagojpukur area here on Tuesday morning.
Three people were injured as miscreants hurled a crude bomb at a bus in Kabir Battala area under Daulatpur thana of the city on Monday night.
Three covered vans were torched by miscreants at Sayedpur on the Dhaka-Chittagong highway in Burichang upazila on Monday night.
A high school was set ablaze by miscreants in Raipur upazila on Monday night, the second day of the 72-hour hartal and the 63rd day of the transport blockade enforced by the BNP-led 20-party alliance.
A schoolboy was killed as a truck knocked down the bicycle he was travelling by near Balua Bazar on the Dhaka-Rangpur highway in Gobindaganj upazila on Tuesday morning.
Police recovered the body of an unidentified man from a paddy field in Mahish Bathan area of Kaliakair upazila on Monday afternoon.
A man was killed in a road accident at Mahishluti bazaar on Hatikomrul-Bonpara highway in Tarash upazial on Monday afternoon.
A court here on Tuesday sentenced four people to life term imprisonment for killing a young man in 2009.
Housewife Rasheda Begum was slaughtered last night by her husband for dowry at Char Kadira village under Kamalnagar upazila of the district.
Ten persons were injured in a clash between police and BNP-Jamaat activists this afternoon here.
Separate human chains were formed in the district town today demanding trial of the killers of the four freedom fighters.
Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB)-8 stationed at Faridpur arrested two drug peddlers along with huge yaba tablets from separate places of this town yesterday.
Speakers at a views-sharing meeting have stressed for successful cooperative movement in the community based organisations (CBOs) for empowerment of the rural women, their economic uplift and preventing social curses.
Speakers at a reflection workshop have stressed for making women’s legal rights a reality in Bangladesh through reaching legal aid services to the victims of domestic violence and repression.
By dint of its gradually increasing demand and lucrative market price, scores of growers have become happy over the maize farming both in rabi and kharip seasons in Rajshahi region, especially Barind tract and Chalan Beel areas.
By Prof Archie BrownUniversity of Oxford The tension in relations between Russia and the West is at a more dangerous level today than at any time since the first Reagan administration (1980-84). So it is worth recalling a period (largely…
By Nava Thakuria Guwahati: Assam Governor Padmanabha Balakrishna Acharya is stealing media headlines with his recent outburst against the poaching of one-horned rhinoceros in protected reserves which has invited appreciation from a journalist body of northeast India. Journalists’ Forum Assam…