Dhaka–Detective Branch of Dhaka Metropolitan police arrested a suspected leader of banned Islamic outfit Jamaat-ul-Mujahidin Bangladesh (JMB), reportedly involved in Gupibagh six murder, from the city’s Shahid Faruq Road of Jatrabari on Thursday noon.
STAFF REPORTER A total of 1,223 aspirants have filed their nomination papers for mayoral posts while 9,798 for councillor posts and 2, 668 in reserved councillor posts to contest in 235 municipalities.
RU Correspondent A day-long seminar on “Role of youth on development of United Nation” with the initiative of United Nations Youth and Student Association of Bangladesh (UNYSAB) Rajshahi University unit held in two session at the dean’s complex of the…
RU Correspondent Residential students Syed Amir Ali Hall of Rajshahi University (RU) have been served unhygienic and substandard food for years because of enormous irregularities and lack of appropriate care and supervision of the authorities. Sources said dinning hall attendants…
RU Correspondent A two days long “Green Brain Competition-2015” will be held on the Rajshahi university of Engineering & Technology (RUET) campus on December 17 and 18, said a media release.
Comilla Victorians took the top slot in the 3rd Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) points table after the 2nd phase of the league with a six-wicket victory over Chittagong Vikings at Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium on Thursday.Replying to Ctg Vikings’ 136/5,…
The United States and China have reached agreement on guidelines for requesting assistance on cyber crime or other malicious cyber activities, the US Justice Department said on Wednesday.The agreement was reached in talks in Washington this week among officials including…
Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) in a drive arrested six members of an international human trafficking and fake currency syndicate, including a Pakistani national, along with huge fake currency notes from different parts of the city’s Mirpur and Uttara areas early…
“Star Wars” creator George Lucas, who was not involved in making the long-awaited new film, “The Force Awakens”, said he is as ambivalent about seeing the movie as a divorced father would be about attending his child’s wedding.Lucas, who sold…
After combing through 40,000 potential genes in three animal species, researchers have zeroed in on 30 genes which, if tweaked a bit, can get you eternal youth – without having to search for and drink that elusive elixir of life.One…
One of the first police officers to respond to deadly shootings at a social service centre in California has spoken of scenes of “unspeakable” carnage.Lt Mike Madden said he and officers who arrived later saw dead bodies and had to…
At home her son still calls her daddy, at work she dresses in a masculine style, but this Chinese person has a “little secret” — she was born male, but is not any more.She had long identified as a woman,…
Bangladesh ranked sixth in a new list of nations hardest hit by two decades of storms, floods and landslides that killed more than half a million people, climate analysts reported, warning of more frequent disasters if Earth’s overheating cannot be…
Dhaka – Despite its maximum efforts, BNP has not succeeded to ensure lone mayoral candidates in over 55 out of 200 municipalities as the party has got nearly 58 rebel aspirants in the December-30 election race. Apart from party rebels,…
At least eight people were injured in a clash between the activists of Islami Chhatra Shibir and Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) in the district town on Thursday night The clash took place after Shibir activists allegedly slashed the tendon and…
The High Court on Thursday directed the Gulshan thana police to arrest United Hospital staff (brother) Saiful Islam and produce him before the court on December 7 for ‘sexually harassing’ a female patient. It also issued a rule asking the…
By Jeffrey Moyo Shurugwi, Zimbabwe (IPS) – With the battle to combat HIV/AIDS intensifying in Zimbabwe, the Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission initiative (PMTCT) has increasingly become a success weapon in the war on transmission of the once dreaded…
By Reuters and VICE News Russian President Vladimir Putin said in a State of the Nation address that Turkey would regret “more than once” shooting down a Russian bomber jet near the Syrian-Turkish border last week, and declared retaliatory sanctions…
Paris, 3 December (Chee Yoke Ling and Hilary Chiew) – The Group of 77 and China made a detailed proposal on moving forward the negotiations for the Paris agreement at a stocktake session of the Contact Group of the Ad…
If the runway of a city’s airport is built over a dry river, there is that once-in-a-lifetime possibility of the river running over its banks and flooding the airport. On Tuesday, December 1, that’s exactly what happened when the otherwise…
Court Correspondent The Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) Court of Dhaka yesterday (Thursday) placed six suspects of new militant organisation, Al Mujaheed of Bangladesh, on a six-day remand each in a case filed with Motijheel Police Station under the Anti-Terrorism Act.
If the runway of a city’s airport is built over a dry river, there is that once-in-a-lifetime possibility of the river running over its banks and flooding the airport.
RU Correspondent Detective Branch (DB) of Rajshahi Metropolitan Police (RMP) unit have arrested Assistant Professor of Islamic History and Culture department of the Rajshahi University (RU) Dr. Amirul Islam from university concerned with area binodpur on Thursday at evening.
Court Correspondent The Special Judge Court-3 of Dhaka yesterday (Thursday) fixed December 10 for next Hearing in the Zia Orphanage Trust and Zia Charitable Trust graft cases filed against BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia and eight others.