Parliamentary standing committee on the Ministry of Home Affairs yesterday asked police authority to explain their inaction during attack on blogger Avijit and his wife Rafida Ahmed Bonna. The standing committee in a meeting held at Sangsad Bhaban with its…
BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia yesterday warned the government of serious consequences if it fails to return party joint secretary general Salahuddin Ahmed, who remains untraced since March 10. “My concern has also gone beyond limit as like as his family…
A housewife was strangulated to death allegedly by her husband over dowry-related feud at Rajghat Moalemtala village in Abhoynagar upazila of Jessore district on Saturday night.
An Awami League leader was injured as miscreants hurled crude bombs at the ruling party’s office on the KDA Avenue of the city on Saturday night, the 75th day of the non-stop nationwide blockade enforced by the BNP-led 20-party alliance.
Police recovered the bodies of a woman and her two children from Borobakhair village in Nabiganj upazila on Sunday morning.
At least 14 houses were gutted as a fire broke out at Ajputti village in Saltha upazila on Saturday afternoon.
Three people were injured as a group of miscreants attacked a house of minority Hindu people over a land-related dispute at Kalibari village in Ashashuni upazila on Saturday night.
Members of the Coast Guard seized different Indian smuggled goods worth about Tk 11 lakh from Rupsha Bridge area in the city on Saturday night.
Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) rescued 40 people, including women and children, from Gazipur border area in Sadar upazila on Sunday night while they were being trafficked to India.
Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) in a drive recovered 140 bottles of phensidyl and arrested one drug peddler from this town yesterday.
Most of the growers have become happy over expected yield of lentil as they cultivated high yielding varieties of the cereal crop in the region including the vast barind tract this year.
Speakers at a participatory discussion have unequivocally called for taking an effective and urgent step to protect the existing water resources in the region particularly in its vast tract of Barind area from furthermore degradation.
Even by Afghanistan’s standards of often-shifting alliances, a recent meeting between ethnic Hazara elders and local commanders of the Taliban insurgents who have persecuted them for years was extraordinary.
The Maharashtra State Commission for Child Rights (MSCCR) has asked police to file an FIR against Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan for using foul language in the presence of children after an IPL match at Wankhede Stadium in 2012.
Without better local management, world’s most iconic ecosystems are at risk of collapse under climate change, warn researchers.
Bangladesh has been selected for the Women in Parliaments Global Forum award, known as WIP award, for being a “pioneering country in reducing gender discrimination”.
State-owned BASIC Bank will operate as a scheduled bank from now on rather than a specialised one, says Bangladesh Bank.
A Dhaka court on Sunday summoned BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia, late Arafat Rahman Koko’s wife and his two minor daughters to appear to the court in the case filed for the default loan of Dandy Dying Limited on April 12.…
Water experts on Sunday urged the government to strengthen cooperation with neighbouring countries to address the future water demand as water scarcity is growing in the South Asia region. “It’s imperative to have a regional cooperation for river basin management,…
Danielle Nierenberg World Water Day is a day to celebrate one of the planet’s most precious resources, fresh water. But that resource is being rapidly depleted. “The world is thirsty because it is hungry,” reports the U.N. Food and Agriculture…
Members of the Coordination Committee of the special guerilla force of the Liberation War of 1971 that comprised members of NAP-Communist Party-Chhatra Union on Saturday voiced dissatisfaction over dropping their names from the latest freedom fighter list made by the…
Health and Family Welfare Minister and a presidium member of ruling Awami League Mohammad Nasim today called upon all political parties to take part in the ensuing city corporation polls. “The wind of election has now been blowing in the…
Six people were killed in a road accident in Bakey More area on the Mymensingh-Tangail Highway under Muktagacha upazila of the district this morning. The deceased were identified as Alal Uddin, 40, Samir Ali, 35, of Rampur village, Akbar Ali,…