New Delhi: Moving forward with its grand plan of linking rivers across the country, India’s Centre on Monday announced that it will take up the task of connecting Manas-Sankosh-Teesta-Ganga in Assam, West Bengal and Bihar. The three states will soon…
BNP spokesman Asaduzzaman Ripon on Monday said that the government cannot demoralise the opposition leaders and activists by threatening to try their chairperson Khaleda Zia under a tribunal. “We want to tell the government that it’s pointless to threaten BNP.…
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court (SC) on Monday upheld the High Court (HC) order that granted bail to BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir in three violence cases for six weeks. A four-member bench of the…
Speaker Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury on Monday sent a letter to Chief Election Commissioner Kazi Rakibuddin Ahmad over the parliament membership dispute of former Awami League minister Abdul Latif Siddique, stripped of the Awami League primary membership. He had been…
A total of four people have so far been arrested in connection with the gruesome murder of teenage boy Sheikh Samiul Alam Rajon. The arrestees were identified as prime accused Muhit Alam, 26, his wife Lipi Begum, his brother Quamrul…
Sheikh Samiul Alam Rajon, the 13-year-old boy who was brutally tortured at Sundar Ali Market in Kumargaon area of the city on Wednesday, died of brain haemorrhage, said the autopsy report on Monday. Dr Farhana Islam of Sylhet MAG Osmani…
Police have been granted five days to grill Muhith Alam for suspected involvement in torturing 13-year-old Samiul Alam Rajan to death in Sylhet.The court of Sylhet’s Second Metropolitan Magistrate Farhana Yasmin granted the remand on Monday.
Police said the mob justice took place around 2am on Monday at Baherchar village in Barhajalia Union Parishad.The dead are Harun Bepari,23, Hanif Sarder, 25, and Miraj Molla, 22, from Khunna Gobindapur village in the same Upazila.
Rajshahi City BNP leader Mizanur Rahman Minu has been sent to prison after he surrendered in court to seek bail in a number of violence-related cases.
Workers of a readymade garment factory in Chittagong have demonstrated seeking payment of their outstanding salaries and allowances and locked up the factory manager for hours.
Eid-ul-Fitr arrives at the end of month-long fasting, that is, the holy month of Ramadan. The objective of Ramadan is to achieve piety and righteousness and learning to give. On this holy Eid let us forget and forgive our differences…
Branches of scheduled commercial banks dealing with readymade garment industry will remain open on July 15 to facilitate payment of salaries and festival bonus of the RMG employees.
The Ministry of Local Government, Rural Development and Cooperatives has suspended chairman of Muktagachha upazila Zakaria Harun. The suspension order signed by Lutfun Nahar, senior assistant secretary of the ministry, reached the upazila parishad on Sunday, said Upazila Nirbahi Officer…
Bangladesh bounced back smartly and leveled the three-match National Polymer ODI Cricket Series 1-1 beating South Africa by 7 wickets in the second match at Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium, Mirpur on Sunday. This was the second win of Bangladesh against…
The Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) Court of Dhaka again rejected a bail petition of Rakibul Islam Mukul, sacked news editor of private television channel GTV yesterday, in a case filed for torturing his wife. Magistrate Meher Nigar Shuchona of the…
Members of Detective Branch (DB) arrested two alleged drug peddlers along with 120 bottles of Indian Phensidyl syrup from Banuria village in Kaliganj upazila on Sunday morning.
A young man was killed in a clash between two groups of villagers over a land related dispute at Basudebpur village in Godagari upazila on Saturday.The deceased was identified as Jahangir Hossain, 35, son of Asuuddin a resident of the…
Members of Border Guard Bangladesh in a drive seized 139 bottles of Phenosidyl from Boroitoli Road area in Jakiganj upazila on Saturday afternoon.
A housewife succumbed to her burn injuries after she was set afire allegedly by her husband for dowry at Pashchim Laxmipur village in Sadar upazila on Saturday night.The deceased was identified as Salma Begum, wife of Khalil, a resident of…
A motorcyclist was crushed under a truck on Dhaka-Tangail highway in Konabari area on Joydebpur upazila on Saturday night. The deceased was identified as Moktar Hossain, 50, a trainer of Tongi Kishore Unnayan Kendra (KUK).
A couple was strangulated to death by unidentified miscreants in Shaol village in Singra upazila early Sunday.
Police recovered the body of a man, who was reportedly shot to death by Indian Border Security Force (BSF) members on Kushkhali border early Saturday, from a field at Badhilki village in Sadar upazila early Sunday.The deceased was identified as…
Police arrested a man in possession of 2.3 kg gold from a bus on Magura-Jessore highway in Shalikha upazila early Sunday.The arrestee was identified as Manindranath, 44, a resident of Petua village in Tala upazila of Satkhira district.
A housewife allegedly committed suicide by taking poison at Talshar village in Kotchandpur upazila on Saturday.
Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) in a drive seized 51kg silver worth Tk 25 lakh from Kakdanga border area of Koloroa upazila early Sunday.
A group of miscreants slaughtered a youth to death in Dhap area of the city in the small hours of today, police sources said.The deceased is transport worker Limon Mian, 22, son of Sultan Mian of Khalifapara area in the…
Euro zone leaders will fight to the finish to keep near-bankrupt Greece in the euro zone on Sunday after the European Union’s chairman canceled a planned summit of all 28 EU leaders that would have been needed in case of…
With those few words in French a tearful Iker Casillas brought to an end his farewell statement on Sunday to the Real Madrid fans he has served as first-team goalkeeper and captain for 16 seasons.
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is poised to become the first probe to visit distant Pluto, capping a reconnaissance of the solar system that began more than 50 years ago.
Fans hoping to get a glimpse of what HBO’s “Game of Thrones” has in store for its anticipated next season were left in dark at San Diego’s Comic-Con on Friday, as the cast kept tight-lipped on the fate of their…