Former BNP lawmaker Nasir Uddin Ahmed Pintu was to rest at Azimpur graveyard in the grave of his father after his third namaz-e-janaza at the Leather and Technology Institute in Hazaribagh after Asr prayers on Monday. Earlier his second namaz-e-janaza,…
Minister for Home Affairs Asaduzzaman Khan said on Monday there is no evidence that indicates the existence of Al- Qaeda in the country. “Members of the law-enforcement agencies are yet to get any concrete information regarding Al-Qaeda’s existence and its…
The Cabinet on Monday approved the draft of the ‘Nuclear Power Plant Bill, 2015’ subject to the vetting of the Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Ministry, aiming to construct the country’s first Nuclear Power Plant at Rooppur in Pabna. The…
The High Court on Monday asked the government to immediately take effective measures to stop within 24 hours the earth filling and dam construction works in the Gomti River in Muradnagar upazila, Comilla. An HC bench comprising Justice Kazi Reza-Ul…
Police in a drive arrested a man along with 57 pieces of Yaba tablet from Putkakhali area of sadar upazila on Sunday,The arrestee was identified as Ali Hossain, son of Amzad Hossain, a resident of the area.
Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB-14) in a drive arrested an alleged drug peddler along with heroin from Vatara Bazaar area under Sarishabari upazila of the district this morning.
Members of Bangladesh Coast Guard conducted 353 anti-jatka netting drives in the district in the last two months.During the period, the Coast Guard members seized jatka (hilsa fry less than 10 inches), mother hilsa, huge current nets, fishing nets, boats,…
A truck driver was killed and two helpers were injured in a road accident when a fish loaded truck collided with a stone loaded truck at Shaestaganj-Dewondi crossing on Dhaka-Sylet highway this morning.
Three motorcyclists were killed in a road accident on Dhaka-Mawa highway at Samashpur of Shrenagar upzila in the district today.The deceased were identified as Omar Faruk, 24, Sifat, 22, and Saimon, 23. They are resident of Kabutar Khola village of…
Detectives in a drive arrested a woman along with 15 grams heroin worth Tk1.5lakh from Bhimganj area of sadar upazila on Sunday.The arrestee was identified as Rina Akhter, wife of Asad Uddin, a resident of Chakpara village of the upazila.
Members of Border Guard Bangladesh arrested 17 Bangladeshi nationals from Sreepur border area of Debhata upazila on Sunday while they were being trafficked to India.
Police in a drive arrested three BNP and Shibir activists from different areas of Ullapara upazila on Sunday on charge of subversive activities.
Police recovered the body of a pregnant woman from Konabari Khalpara area of the city on Monday morning.The deceased could not be identified immediately.
The Buddhist community of Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) observed their greatest religious festival Buddha Purnima at different temples with festivity and religious fervor today.Celebrating the birth anniversary of Lord Gautam Buddha, different relious programmes were taken from Buddist temple and…
With ten more days to appear the Bangla month of Joistha, commonly known as ‘Modhumash’ (honey month), the juicy fruit litchi has started appearing in the local markets of the region including Rajshahi city in limited scale like the previous…
Time has come to building the nation as self-dependent through overcoming the existing dependence on foreign aid and all of us work together to this end, speakers at a discussion here said yesterday.They viewed there are enormous resources and potentialities…
A total of 232 violence-victim rehabilitated young women have been rebuilding shattered lives after falling prey to child marriage, dowry, abuse, violence, repression and trafficking at premature ages.These young females have been continuing new journey through income generation activities now…
Yesterday was the last day of the first test match between Bangladesh and Pakistan held in the Khulna Sheikh Abu Naser Stadium. After the resounding victory in both the One Day International Series and the sole T20 match, the whole…
Nepali police and local volunteers found the bodies of about 100 trekkers and villagers buried in an avalanche set off by last month’s devastating earthquake and were digging through snow and ice for signs of dozens more missing, officials said…
Globally, the film is a juggernaut, pulling in an estimated $627 million in 12 days of release. At that pace, “Avengers: Age of Ultron” should pass $1 billion, particularly after it opens in China on May 12.
The state minister for foreign affairs has stressed the application of scientific and modern methods in business management to increase profits.
Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) Jahangirnagar University (JU) unit on Monday protested the expulsion of Shuvro Konok, BCL president of BUET from the university. Protesting the expulsion of Shuvro, JU BCL brought out a procession from transport square of the university.…
The owner of the two-storied bamboo-made house that subsided into the Mirhajirbagh Jheel killing 12 dead and leaving many others injured hsa been arrested by the Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) – 3. Maniruzzaman Chowdhury (38) the said owner has been…
The Customs Intelligence has detained one Ripon Sardar while he was reported smuggling out 70,000 Saudi Riyals and departing by Malaysian Airlines flight MH113 for Kuala Lumpur at Shahjalal Airport on Sunday night. Ripon Sardar,42, who hails from Shariatpur, was…
More than 5,800 migrants have been rescued and 10 bodies recovered off the Libyan coast over the weekend, the Italian coastguard says. The survivors were picked up from wooden and rubber boats, in 17 separate operations by Italian and French…
Two gunmen have been shot dead after they opened fire outside a conference on cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad in a suburb of Dallas, US police say. A security guard was also injured. Police sealed off the Curtis Culwell Center…
Suspected rebels on Sunday ambushed and killed eight Indian paramilitary soldiers in the remote, troubled northeast, police said. Naga rebels armed with automatic weapons fired at two trucks carrying the soldiers in Nagaland state, in a region bordering Myanmar, police…
I am rather shocked to learn from the international press that a dozens of debt-laden poor farmers in the Indian State of Punjab have committed suicide in the past two months as they couldn’t grow their rice, wheat and potato…
Al Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) has claimed responsibility for the murder of an American atheist blogger inBangladesh over two months ago, according to SITE Intelligence Group. Avijit Roy was hacked to death by two assailants with machetes on…
World press freedom day has been observed at Rajshahi University in Bangladesh today by Rajshahi University Journalist Association (RUJA). On the occasion of the day, RUJA brought out a procession on campus in front of the RUJA office at 10:00am…