The High Court will hear Disaster Management minister Mofazzal Hossain Chowdhury Maya’s appeal against his sentencing for corruption on Monday. The Awami League MP had been slapped a 13-year prison term and fined Tk 50 million during the emergency rule…
Two tribal people, including a leader of Parbatya Chattagram Jana Sanghati Samity (PCJSS), were shot dead in an attack by miscreants at Lemuchari in Sadar upazila early Sunday. The deceased were identified as Supriya Chakma, a leader of the PCJSS…
Two motorcyclists, including an army man, were killed when a truck crushed into their vehicle at Badechandi on the Jamalpur-Mymensingh Highway in Sadar upazila on Saturday night. The deceased were identified as Shahinur Islam,25, son of Mobarak Hossain, and Shahin…
Repeating her earlier rigid stance on holding the national election under a caretaker government, BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia on Saturday night demanded immediate polls under any neutral administration, no matter in which name it will be called. “In the last…
The first cargo ships have passed through Egypt’s second Suez Canal, amid tight security, ahead of the new waterway’s official opening next month. Construction on the new lane, which runs alongside part of the existing canal, started less than a…
The BSF on Saturday apprehended a 65-year-old man for trying to smuggle US-made guns near the Bangladesh border in West Bengal’s Murshidabad district. “The weapons courier was identified as Mannan Seikh, a 65-year-old resident of Raninagar in Murshidabad. We have…
The Pir Shaheb of Charmonai Mufti Moulana Syed Muhammad Rezaul Karim said on Saturday expressed his grave concern that the government of India has announced its plan to implement the river interlinking project and said that Bangladesh would face serious…
The World Bank, acting as administrator for the Global Partnership on Output-Based Aid (GPOBA), has signed a US$15 million grant agreement with the Government of Bangladesh to increase access to clean energy in rural areas through output-based aid (OBA) subsidies.…
Facing a serious fund crisis, BNP has planned to force its senior leaders, including standing committee members, to clear their outstanding monthly subscriptions so that its organisational activities do not suffer any setback as the party is in its overhaul…
At least another 12 people were killed and 15 others injured in several road and railway accidents in five districts on Saturday. The districts are Gopalganj, Manikganj, Gazipur, Laxmipur and Kishoreganj. In Gopalganj, seven people, including three women, were killed…
Green activists at a programme Dhaka on Saturday demanded an integrated step to remove the perennial waterlogging problem from Dhaka city. They said the city dwellers suffer from acute waterlogging in the capital in every monsoon since the authorities give…
The ailing BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir will leave Dhaka for Singapore on Sunday for better treatment. He will leave Shahjalal International Airport tonight on a Singapore Airlines flight, according to sources. The BNP leader is likely…
Eight Bangladeshi nationals returned home from India on Friday after languishing in a jail there for one and a half years.Indian Petrapole Immigration Police handed them over to the Bangladeshi authorities through Benapole check post in the afternoon.
An activist of Jamaat-e-Islami was injured in a ‘gunfight’ with police at Ghonatala in Debhata upazila early Saturday.The victim was identified as Nurul Amin, 45, an activist of Debhata unit Jamaat-e-Islami and son of Akbar Ali Gazi of Garanbaria village.
Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) in a drive recovered a firearm, six rounds of bullet and two magazines from Singnagar bordering area in Shibganj upazila on Friday.
The unremitting heavy rainfall for last two consecutive days caused a serious disruption to civic life, port and businesses activities in the city.The incessant heavy shower forced Shah Amanat International Airport delay in operations of a few flights as its…
The government has undertaken a project to protect the Meghna and Gumti bridges straddling the Dhaka-Chittagong Highway. The Bangladesh army will implement the project cost of about Taka 41 crores.
Bangladesh Agricultural University (BAU), Mymensing will reopen on Sunday after an 18-day vacation on Ramadan, Shabe-Qatar and Eid-ul-Fitr. The academic activities, including classes and examinations of different faculties also resumed on Saturday. Earlier on July 24, varsity authorities opened the…
BNP on Saturday demanded guarantee from the government to carryout normal political activities in the country. “The people in the government are saying that the BNP would be able to carryout normal political activities. But we want a guarantee from…
The first Test between Bangladesh and South Africa at Chittagong ended in a draw after days four and five were washed out by rain. Bangladesh had lost the previous eight encounters against the world number one side, but were faring…
Sudhirendar Sharma Bollywood cinema has held a mirror on the society, reflecting its overt and covert anxieties, contestations and aspirations Bollywood cinema is a creative paradox. On a familiar plot, which consists of a love story, half a dozen songs,…
By Afro-Middle East Centre The agreement on Iran’s nuclear programme concluded this week seems to be an example of the benefits of concerted diplomacy. Once it is ratified by the US Congress and Iranian Supreme National Security Council, the agreement…
S, Gopikrishna Warrier Man had not walked on the moon when I was born. It took another five years for that “giant step for mankind.” I was born a long time ago; a rather long time. In the year I…
Chosen schools are more about celebrating Korean identity than supporting the Kim regime Emil Truskowski If you’ve followed the news during the past few months, you’ve probably heard about the Japanese association of North Koreans called Chongryon and its problems…
US President Barack Obama is to open a major business summit on the first full day of his landmark visit to Kenya. He has praised what he called the “dynamism” of Kenya’s business class and is expected to call for…
A regional leader of the outlawed Purba Banglar Communist Party (PBCP) was killed in a reported gunfight with police at Bhanga Bottoil in Mirpur upazila early Saturday. The deceased was identified as Palash Malitha, 28, regional leader of (ML-Lal Pataka),…
India and Pakistan exchanged gunfire and mortar bombs along their disputed frontier on Thursday, killing five civilians and injuring more than a dozen, Pakistan said, days after the leaders of the nuclear-armed rivals agreed to high-level talks.The escalating hostilities have…
FuturZwei, the Goethe-Institut Washington Washington, DC, July 24 – The social and environmental crises of our time cannot be resolved by relying solely on politicians, engineers or the market. Instead, each individual must explore what is possible. This attitude is…
Police in separate drives arrested two people, including a robber, along with firearms and ammunition from different parts of Jessore district on Thursday night.
At least 19 more people were killed and 51 others injured in a series of road accidents in eight districts, including the capital, on Friday as roads across the country turned vulnerable amid monsoon rains. The districts are Gazipur, Madaripur,…