Kazi Zafar Ahmed, chairman of the BNP-led 20-party’s component Jatiya Party (Zafar), on Monday night met BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia and discussed the current political situation and upcoming city polls. Kazi Zafar entered Khaleda’s residence around 6:30pm soon after she…
Students and teachers of Environmental Sciences, geological sciences and computer science and engineering department are continued their sit-in programme for the second consecutive day demanding classes in the newly constructed third floor of C.S.E building.
A tearful BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia on Monday visited her younger son Arafat Rahman Koko’s grave at Banani Graveyard and offered fateha. She also recited verses from the holy Quran beside the grave and offered a munajat seeking salvation of…
One person was electrocuted at Itahata area in Gazipur city corporation on Sunday morning .
Boro paddy farming in the project command areas of Barind Multipurpose Development Authority (BMDA) in the district has been achieved during the current season.
Speakers a views-sharing meeting have stressed for strengthening activities of the community policing, involving the common people, to ensure peace in the society, prevent repression and violence against women.
A younger brother has reportedly killed his brother and sister and injured four other family members at Kadirgonj area in Rajshahi city as sequel to a land-related previous enmity in early hours today.
Train communications of Dhaka with Chittagong and Sylhet were restored on Monday morning after three and half hours disruption following the derailment of a train at Nalchhata in Kaliganj upazila.
Two members of a family were killed and four others injured in a clash over a land-related dispute in Kadirganj area of the city yesterday morning.
The Speedy Trial Tribunal-4 of Dhaka yesterday (Monday) sentenced one person to death and four others to imprisonment for life in a case filed on the charge of killing Kabir Hossain of Sonargaon in Narayanganj. Judge ABM Nizamul Haque of…
Members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) arrested three alleged drug peddlers with 100 kilograms of hemp and 1,135 bottles of Indian Phensidyl syrup from South Kolatoli area in Sadar upazila on Sunday night.
Two women were killed as a hailstorm swept through the district early Monday.
An activists of Islami Chhatra Shibir was killed and another one injured with bullet in a clash with police in at Cinema Hall Road in Maijdee area of the district town on Monday morning.Identity of the deceased could not be…
Milk prices have soared in Rangpur due to its short supply in the local markets, causing sufferings to the common people.One kg of milk was being sold at Tk 45 in the district town in the recent past.
Police on Monday submitted the final report exempting cricketer Rubel Hossain from the charge of a case filed under the Women and Children Repression Prevention Act. Capital’s Tejgaon Victim Support Centre Inspector Halima Khatun submitted the report to the Chief…
Nor-wester disrupted power supply in Barisal for about four hours on Sunday afternoon till night.
Consumption of high-fat dairy products is associated with reduced risk for Type-2 diabetes, says a study.
Ever wondered why our skin does not tear under stress? There are four specific mechanisms in collagen — the main structural protein in skin tissue — that act synergistically to diminish the effects of stress, a research reveals.
The Kenyan air force has bombed two al Shabaab camps in Somalia, a defense force source said on Monday, in the first major military response to last week’s attack by the militant group on a Kenyan university.
As the High Court scrapped the last hope of BNP chairperson’s adviser Abdul Awal Mintoo to run the mayoral election for Dhaka North City Corporation yesterday, the prospect of Bikalpa Dhara Bangladesh leader Mahi B Chowdhury has become brighter to…
By George Henton In the latest attack on press freedoms in Thailand, Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha has repeated previous claims that he has the power to shut down any media outlets that fail to praise him and his government. “I…
The International Committee of the Red Cross is due to make two emergency aid flights into Yemen’s capital, Sanaa. The ICRC has been given permission to land planes carrying staff and medical supplies in Yemen, which it says is facing…
Jamaat-e-Islami on Monday called a two-day countrywide hartal from Tuesday morning protesting what it said the government conspiracy to kill party senior assistant secretary general Muhammad Kamaruzzaman and demanding his immediate release. Acting ameer of Jamaat Maqbul Ahmad announced the…
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Monday rejected death-row war crimes convict Kamaruzzaman’s review petition against its previous verdict in favour of his death penalty that was earlier awarded by the International Crimes Tribunal-2. A four-member bench of…