The BNP on Tuesday briefed the diplomats of 16 countries and the EU stationed in Dhaka about Monday’s attack on its chairperson Khaleda Zia’s motorcade in the city’s Karwanbazar area during her electioneering. A four-member delegation of BNP, led by…
Awami League-backed mayoral candidate for Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) Sayeed Khokon on Tuesday said aggrieved family members of the victims who were killed or injured in arson attacks during the BNP-sponsored hartals, blockade made the attack on BNP chairperson…
The High Court on Tuesday deferred the hearing on a bail petition of BNP leader Mirza Abbas until April 27 in a case filed by the Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) on charge of causing a loss of about Tk 15.52…
Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) recovered 1,200 bottles of Indian Phensidyl syrup from Mirganj Padma Char area in Bagha upazila early Tuesday.
Police recovered the hanging body of a young man at Katigram in Sadar upazila on Tuesday morning.
Police recovered body of a CNG-run auto rickshaw driver from a ditch of Araishato beel under sadar upazila here this morning.
A mobile court of Rangpur City Corporation (RCC) evicted twenty illegally erected roadside shops on the footpaths on Monday afternoon from different areas in the city.
Police arrested an alleged terrorist in possession of one pistol and two rounds of bullet from Bypass Road in Benapole municipality area early Tuesday.
Expansion of the industrial estate of Bangladesh Small and Cottage Industries Corporation (BSCIC) in Rajshahi would create employment opportunities for around 5,000 people.
At least seven people, including a bank manager and a robber, were killed and 24 others injured during a daring attempt of robbery in a branch of Bangladesh Commerce Bank Ltd at Kathgora, Ashulia on Tuesday.
A Chittagong court on Monday awarded double lifetime imprisonment to a man on two separate charges of abducting and raping a child at Satkania upazila of the district in 2012.
Speakers at an anti-corruption planning meeting have stressed for participation of the people from all walks in life in launching vigorous social movement for preventing corruption from the society.
Over 17, 000 families in 46 unions under six upazilas of the district were badly affected by the Saturday’s Nor’wester.
In the face of a growing demand from different quarters, the Election Commission on Tuesday decided to deploy army in three city corporations in Dhaka and Chittagong from April 26 to 29, aiming to peacefully hold the crucial polls on…
Young Lancashire batsman Liam Livingstone has smashed a world record 350 in just 138 balls during a one-day match.
When he heard angry screams and the hammering of hatchets on the door of his shack last week, Malawian Folias Sakai thought he was about to become the eighth person to be killed in anti-immigrant attacks that have swept South…
Omung Kumar’s 2014 directorial “Mary Kom”, which was selected for the Stockholm International Film Festival Junior (SIFFJ), has won the Best Film award and has been endowed with the Bronze Horse Award, the festival’s top honour.
A special tribunal of Dhaka yesterday (Tuesday) sentenced top terrorist Sanjidul Hasan Emon for 17 years in an arms case. Judge-in-Charge of Dhaka’s Special Tribunal-7, Masud Parvez pronounced the verdict on Tuesday in presence of the convict.
The Cabinet has cleared an agreement to export unused submarine cable bandwidth to India that will fetch Bangladesh $1.2 million every year.
A Dhaka court yesterday (Tuesday) deferred the deposition of witnesses in the case over the murder of blogger Ahmed Rajib Haider to May 11 as an accused moved to the High Court against the indictment order. Dhaka’s Fourth Additional Metropolitan…
The other day I came across a school-days idea expansion –“Chiro shukhi jon bhrom’a ki kokhon, bethito bedon bujhite pare, ki jatona bishe bujhibe sha kishe, dongshe ni jare kobhu ashibishe”. The in-depth message of this quote is – those…
Police has finally accepted a case lodged by BNP against over hundred unknown persons in connection with Monday’s attack on Khaleda Zia’s motorcade at Karwan Bazar while she was campaigning for party-backed mayoral aspirant Tabiht Awal for Dhaka North City…
New York Correspondent Rising against all kinds of cheap power and anti-cultural activities, mukthodhara is going to celebrate Bengali festival and three days long book fair on 22 may in New York. The book fair of New york is an…
China’s President Xi Jinping has signed agreements with Pakistan promising investment of $46bn (£30.7bn). The focus of spending is on building a China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) – a network of roads, railway and pipelines between the long-time allies.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday termed the attack on Khaleda Zia’s motorcade during her electioneering in the city a ‘drama’ and asked her to stop this and let people live peacefully. “She (Khaleda) has created anarchy just coming down…
Mostafa Kamal Majumder The recent 4-day visit of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banarjee to Dhaka at the invitation of the Prime Minister on the occasion of the21 February ‘Bhasha Dibas’ attracted much media attention in Bangladesh. This was because…
Financial Times has chosen Professor Muhammed Yunus as one six greatest Finance Pioneers of all time. In the March 31, 2015 issue in an article entitled “Business Pioneers in Finance” Professor Yunus has been placed alongside Warren Buffett, Amadeo Giannini,…