Officials of Immigration police and department of Narcotics Control (DNC) jointly recovered 1800 grams of contraband drug Cocaine from Peruvian national at Hazrat Shahjalal International airport on Tuesday. The detained Peruvian citizen was identified as Jaime Bardales Gomez, 52. Sources…
Detective Branch (DB) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) arrested six suspected members of an alleged counterfeit money syndicate and seized forged currency notes worth about Tk 1.20 crore from the city’s Mirpur area on Monday night. The law enforcers also…
A senior BNP leader believes that the government would hold a fresh election in the country soon. “The government is at unease that indicates that there will be an election in the country very soon,” said BNP standing committee member…
The government has decided to introduce ‘fare automation system’ magnetic card or ‘rapid pass card (prepaid card)’ from October 1 for the first time at Paturia, Daulatdia and Kazirhat ferry terminals. Those vehicles cross the river using the ferries regularly…
The current El Nino weather phenomenon could be one of the strongest on record, according to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).
A new method of applying insecticide to netting has proved 100% effective against some strains of mosquito, an international study reports.
Hundreds of migrants have been protesting outside a major railway station in the Hungarian capital after police sealed off the terminal to stop them travelling through the EU.
The logo for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics Games has been scrapped after allegations that it was plagiarised.
Home-bound passengers wanting to travel to the southern part of the country on the occasion of upcoming Eid-ul-Azha have to collect launch tickets from launch counters beginning on September 15. The decision was taken at a meeting held at the…
Ethnic minority community members formed a human chain in the district town on Tuesday protesting the attack on two ethnic youths.
Two fishermen went missing as a trawler capsized in Saint Martin’s Island area of Teknaf upazila on Tuesday.
Dr. Iftekharuzzaman, Executive Director of Transparency International, Bangladesh (TIB) has been elected to the International Board of Directors of Transparency International (TI), the Berlin based global civil society coalition against corruption for a three-year period from September 2015. This is…
Mmebers of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) recovered the body of a minor boy, who was missing from August 25, from an abandoned septic tank in Alaipur area of the district on Tuesday morning.
Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) has filed two cases against 16 pirates who were killed in ‘gunfight’ with Rab in the Sundarban.
The flood situation in several districts continued to worsen on Tuesday due to incessant rainfall over the last couple of days as well as onrush of water from the upstream.
A satellite image confirms that the main temple in the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra has been destroyed, the United Nations says. There had been earlier reports of an explosion at the Temple of Bel in Palmyra, which is held…
A digital x-ray machine has been launched at the medical center of Rajshahi University (RU) aiming to providing modern and improved health service to the teachers, students and staff of the university, said press release. RU Vice Chancellor Professor Muhammad…
Three leaders of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST) unit of Bangladesh Chhatra League, student wing of the Awami League, were suspended on Monday on charge of assaulting seven teachers of the university in an attack on Sunday. They…
A digital x-ray machine has been launched at the medical center of Rajshahi University (RU) aiming to providing modern and improved health service to the teachers, students and staff of the university, said press release.
A court here on Monday asked the authorities concerned to produce three fugitives accused in the Rajon murder case before the court within seven days. The three fugitive accused are — Quamrul Islam, his brother Shamim Ahmed and Pavel. Judge…
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) is going to celebrate its 37th founding anniversary on Tuesday with minimum programmes as the party is passing through a troubling time with its leaders and workers facing innirable cases filed durinhg movements. Some BNP…
Indian National Human Rights Commission recommended payment of Rs 5 lakh to the family of Bangladeshi girl Felani Khatun who was shot dead by Indian Border Security Force (BSF) along the border here in 2011.
A Special Tribunal on Monday imprisoned two top officials of Chick Textiles for their share market scam of 1996. Judge Humayun Kabir of the Special Tribunal sentenced Chick Textiles Managing Director Md Maksud Rasul and its director Iftekar Mohammad to…
The Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) Court of Dhaka passed orders on Monday to pronounce its decision on November 2, whether the two charge sheets against BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia and 37 others in two cases will be taken into cognizance…
The Speedy Trial Tribunal-3 of Dhaka yesterday (Monday) recorded the deposition of three more prosecution witnesses in the case filed about the killing of blogger Ahmed Rajeeb Haider in Pallabi area of the capital. Judge Syeed Ahmed of tribunal recorded…