Chittagong Correspondent Prime Minister has given final approval for constructing second Kalurghat railway bridge over river Karnaphuli in chittagong . In the cabinet meeting held on Thursday , this approval was given, Deputy Comissioner of Chittagong sources said. Conscious circles…
The BNP has alleged that the Election Commission has adopted the stance of a ‘disciple of the government as it did earlier’.
Announcing a number of places free of illegal parking, Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) Mayor Annisul Huq on Thursday sought people’s cooperation in building Dhaka city as a clean, green and safe one free from traffic jam.
State Minister for Women and Children Affairs Meher Afroze Chumki on Friday said the government is not going to lower the minimum age of marriage for girls from 18.
Some 150 new entrepreneurs will get down to business as they received entrepreneurship training provided by the International Labour Organisation (ILO) in collaboration with the Bangladesh Employers’ Federation (BEF).
Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) members recovered 65,000 contraband Yaba tablets from an orange-laden covered van in Feni early Friday.They also detained two suspected drug dealers — Md Shohel alias Sohagh, 28, and Md Saiful Islam Nizam, 27 — from the covered van.
Bangladesh has won the Child and Youth Finance International (CYFI) Country Award, 2015 from Asia and the Pacific region, leaving India and Fiji behind for massive financial inclusion activities,particularly in the area of school banking.
A suspected robber was killed and four others were injured in a lynch-mob attack at Beldangi in Sadar upazila early Friday.The identity of the deceased could not be known immediately.
The 135th birth anniversary of Maulana Abdul Hamid Khan Bhashani, a great national leader, will be observed on Saturday with due respect. Born in 1880 at village Dhanpara in Sirajganj, Bhashani dedicated his life to establishing the rights of the oppressed and…
A young man was burnt to death after he allegedly set fire on his own house in the city’s Tongi area on Friday afternoon over a family feud.The deceased was identified as Ajit Babu, 35.
Police arrested three robbers following a gunfight in Lalargaon area of Sadar upazila early Friday, leaving six people, including four cops, injured. The injured policemen are assistant sub-inspectors Sadeque and Jamal and two constables Borhan and Muslim of Jalalabad Police Station.
A court here on Friday sent forest officer Yusuf Alam, who was arrested from Bagerhat on Wednesday night for his alleged involvement in war crimes during the liberation war in 1971, to jail.Senior Judical Magistrate M Sirajul Islam Gazi ordered to…
A Bangladeshi national was tortured to death by members of Indian Border Security Force (BSF) in Jahurpur border area in Sadar upazila early Friday.The deceased was identified as Abdur Rahman Sentu, 33, son of Shish Mohammad, a resident of Binpara village in…
A local leader of Krishak League was killed and 14 leaders and activists of Awami League were injured when a bus hit them at Bekutia ferry ghat in Bhandaria upazila on Friday.The deceased was identified as Habib Munshi, 70, president…
Some 150 new entrepreneurs will get down to business after receiving entrepreneurship training by the International Labour Organisation (ILO) in collaboration with the Bangladesh Employers Federation (BEF).The group received certificates at a ceremony held at the BEF in the city…
Striding out of the White House in slow motion, sporting oversized sunglasses, Michelle Obama lays down a rap track aimed at raising the star power of math majors and engineering students.”If you wanna fly jets, you should go to college.…
Bangladesh’s tuberculosis control programme is facing new challenges with the shrinking of global funds to fight this infectious disease and rapid urbanisation, experts say.International reviewers have advised Bangladesh to reduce donor dependency for the tuberculosis control programme as global funding…
An inferno in one of Manila’s huge shanty towns has killed nine people, authorities said Friday, the third blaze to have struck the city’s slums in as many weeks.Residents grabbed clothes, furniture and appliances as they fled the burning Damayang…
A low-flying seagull was blamed for interfering with the speed gun on Friday when New Zealand’s Neil Wagner bowled a ball clocked at 160 kilometres (99.4 miles) per hour — one of the quickest on record.The surprise missile from Wagner,…
A leader of the Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) at Rajshahi University of Engineering and Technology (RUET) has gone missing.Family members of Saifuzzaman Sohag, a fourth year mechanical engineering students at RUET, was picked up from his house at Terokhadia Paschimparha…
A student of a private university was killed after being hit by a train near Banani rail crossing in Dhaka on Thursday night.The deceased is Ahmed Faisal, student of American International University of Bangladesh (AIUB) and resident of Mirpur area.Officer…
By Sugam Pokharel, CNN Dhaka (CNN) She’s known as “Happy” but when Mahfuza Akhter was found bruised and crying in the streets of Dhaka she was anything but. The 11-year-old former live-in maid of one of Bangladesh’s cricketing heroes is…
By Matt McGrath Environment correspondent, BBC News, Paris Negotiators at the Paris climate summit have been working through the night to try to reach a global agreement, with talks in their final day. There is a widespread expectation that the…
BNP on Tursday decided to form election monitoring cells at central and divisional levels to oversee the forthcoming municipalitiy polls scheduled for December 30. The decision was taken at a party standing committee meeting at BNP chairperson’s Gulshan office with…
By Reuters and VICE News North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-un made a rare appearance on Thursday to claim his country has successfully developed a hydrogen bomb — but outside experts were skeptical. Kim made the comments as he toured the…
Montreux (Switzerland) – “As a grassroots organization, we have extremely important role to play in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), as we can deliver them on the ground,” said Ben Gunneberg, CEO of PEFC International, as he opened the…
December 10– This Human Rights Day, AIPP joins the global yearlong campaign “Our Rights. Our Freedom. Always.” for the 50th anniversary of the two International Covenants on Human Rights: the International Covenant on Economic Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) and…
Paris – The Paris Climate Summit, happening from 30 November to 11 December, is due to conclude a new international agreement to limit global average temperature rise and avoid the most dangerous consequences of climate change. After almost two weeks…
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday urged the newly commissioned members of the Bangladesh Army to always stay vigilant to protect the country’s independence and sovereignty.