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…
Indian mission in Dhaka does not control its visa system “at all”, High Commissioner Pankaj Saran has said on the heels of allegation of difficulties in getting appointment dates for visa. “The entire system is being administered and controlled and…
By Harriet Salem Iranian President Hassan Rouhani warned Saudi Arabia and the US on Thursday that they would soon learn they were “making a mistake” by intervening against Houthi rebels in Yemen, amid a deepening war of words over the…
The allocation of symbols among the mayoral aspirants of Dhaka North City Corporation(DNCC) and Dhaka South City Corporation(DSCC) elections started on Friday morning. Among the major candidates, Awami League-blessed candidate Annisul Huq was given ‘Table Clock’ while BNP-sponsored candidate Tabith…
People may not recognise some types of discrimination unless they have high self-esteem, according to a study.
India has blocked foreign funding to the local branch of Greenpeace and restricted some activities, a government statement said on Thursday, with New Delhi accusing the environmental group of misusing funds.
In the continent of Westeros in the hit television series “Game of Thrones”, humankind is coming under threat from a zombie-like race from the north – but also from an ominous impending winter.
Twenty people were injured when a speedy passengers’ bus fell into a roadside ditch at the turning point of Shimulia Ghat on the Dhaka-Mawa Highway under Lohajang Thana here this afternoon.
Two persons, including a truck driver’s helper, were killed in separate incidents in the city’s Madarbari and Karnaphuli areas on Friday.
The Rajshahi Bagmara unit Awami League on Friday welcomed a Jamaat leader to its ranks with garlands. The new entrant to the AL was Maulana Nurul Islam, he secretary of Bagmara Upazila Jamaat. Addressing a press conference he told reporters…
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.
Chittagong city and district police in a series of drives detained 11 leaders and activists of BNP and Jammat on Thursday night.
Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) recovered an Indian bicycle,200 amples of sedative injection and 65 bottles of phensidyl in separate drives last night and early today.
over one hundred persons were injured in clashes between two rival groups of villagers at Ratanpur village under Habiganj sadar upazila of the district this morning and at noon.
Prof Dr Emajuddin Ahmed, convenor of Adarsha Dhaka Andolon, yesterday reiterated his demanded to deploy army in Dhaka and Chittagong during the ensuing three city corporation polls scheduled to be held on April 28.
President of the Jatiya Sanajtantrik Dal ASM Abdur Rob said on Friday that Awami Leaguers would never be able to become democrats just as Razakars cannot become Freedom Fighters. Addressing a discussion meeting on recent politics and the freeing Mahmudur…
US Secretary of State John Kerry and Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez have held talks, in the highest level meeting between the two countries in more than half a century. The two held closed-door discussions after arriving in Panama for…
By Arijeta Lajka Researchers have been studying the medical benefits of marijuana for years, but this month marks the first time the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), a research group funded by the US government, has acknowledged that cannabis…
Jason Burke in Delhi and Zaheena Rasheed in Malé Tens of thousands of immigrant workers employed on luxury resorts in theMaldives have been told they will be ordered to leave the island nation if they go ahead with a planned…
Meenakshi Ganguly Two new shooting incidents in India where suspects died under fire from the police shows once again the need for urgent reform. During a police operation this week to combat sandalwood smuggling in Andhra Pradesh state, 20 loggers…