The Election Commission will soon take a decision on whether the army will be deployed during the upcoming city corporation elections. Chief Election Commissioner Kazi Rakibuddin Ahmed informed the mayor and councillor candidates about the commission’s position while exchanging views…
Ten more Bangladesh nationals returned home on Saturday evening from war-torn Yemen through Djibouti, raising the total number of returnees to 21. They arrived in a Fly Dubai flight that landed at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport around 6:45pm, said an…
BNP joint secretary general Mahbub Uddin Khokon on Saturday said they believe they would get back BNP leader Salahuddin Ahmed alive soon. “After a meeting with Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) commissioner we’ve become a bit optimistic that Salahuddin Ahmed is…
The death penalty of Jamaat leader Muhammad Kamaruzzaman was executed at the Dhaka Central Jail at 10-31 pm on Saturday night, different sources confirmed last night. The sources said as per norms the IG Prison Brig Gen Syed Iftekharuddin, additional…
The slow-burning intrigue of a day of test cricket needed precious little embellishment for Richie Benaud, the former Australia captain and doyen of cricket commentary.
South Korea has shared its experiences on development of intellectual property with Bangladesh government.
An Argentine judge ordered the arrest of pop star Justin Bieber if he sets foot in the country after the Canadian singer failed to face questions about an alleged assault at a Buenos Aires nightclub in 2013, his court secretary…
A Pakistani court freed on bail on Friday a man accused of plotting a 2008 militant assault on India’s financial capital that killed 166 people and seriously strained ties between the nuclear-armed neighbours, his lawyer said.
Speakers at a discussion here have said that father of the Homeopathy Treatment System (HTS) Dr Christian Friedrich Samuel Heinemann sacrificed his life in inventing and launching the HTS to serve the humanity.
Speakers at a prize-giving ceremony in Rajshahi city unequivocally called for creating optimum awareness among children about the destructive consequences of drug addiction so that they can fight against the social curse collectively.
All Preparations have been completed to welcome the Pahela Boishakh, the first day of Bangla New Year-1422, with much enthusiasm and traditional festivities as elsewhere in the country.
About six kilometers new electric line of Pally Biddut was inaugurated in three villages from Nutonhat to Kaliaganj and Suriapara under Boda upazila of the district on Thursday night.
The government has fixed a target of producing over 20.81 lakh bales of jute from over 1.93 lakh hectares of land during the current 2015-2016 seasons in the northern Bangladesh, officials sources said.
Substantial and sustainable uses of organic and compost fertilizer in the farming fields can help protecting the soil nutrients from further degradation.
Police in a drive arrested two members of a currency forger syndicate along with fake currency notes worth Tk 1.46 lakh from a residential hotel at Chairman Ghat in the town on Friday.
Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) in a drive arrested five alleged smugglers and seized Indian contrabands worth over Tk one crore from a train at Panchbibi Rail Station here early Saturday.
Two people were killed in separate road accidents in Sreepur upazila of the district on Friday night and Saturday morning.
At least 70 shops were gutted by a fire that broke out at a local market at Alexandar Bazar in Ramgati uapzila early Saturday.
A man committed suicide by hanging himself from the ceiling of his house at Bulunpur in Razpara area in the city on Friday.
A court here on Friday sent a drug peddler to jail for possessing drugs in Nakla upazila.
Two Bangladeshi nationals were shot to death and three others injured by members of Indian Border Security Force (BSF) on Daulatpur border here early Saturday.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday said BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia and her associates, before coming to people to woo their support, must give answer to deaths of scores of people in petrol bomb attacks. “Carrying out horrendous atrocities on…
Shamya Dasgupta, Wisden India Bangladesh had a more than satisfactory 2015 World Cup, knocking England out to make the quarter-finals, where they fought for a while before falling away in the face of the collective muscle of the Indians. Shakib…
The Inspector General of Prisons entered the Dhaka Central Jail along with other officials on Saturday evening in what appeared to be the start of formalities for execution of death row convict Jamaat Leader Mohammad Kamaruzzaman Bangladesh authorities are expected…
The Dhaka Central Jail authorities have called the family of death row convict Kamaruzzaman to see him on late Saturday afternoon indicating his death sentence might be executed by the same night. His son Hasan Iqbal said that they had…
