The Pir Shaheb of Charmonai Mufti Moulana Syed Rezaul Karim on Thursday said that a free and fair election enlisting the participation of all parties is the only solution to the prevailing muddy political atmosphere and said political problem should…
Deputy Inspector General(DIG) of police of Chittagong range Shafiqul Islam has said the police force has “the capability to avenge one killing with two”. The DIG made the comment at a meeting titled “Resisting Sabotage and Law and Order Situation”…
Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) yesterday called upon all national, international human rights organisations, activists to visit the BNP chairperson’s Gulshan office to observe the situation and put present it before the world. “We call upon the UN human rights organisation…
Two suspected miscreants were killed in a ‘gunfight’ with members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) in the city’s Jatrabari area early Wednesday.
Ruling out declaration of a state of emergency in the country, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday expressed her firm determination to overcome the situation by taking support from the people. “One thing BNP forgets, while many people phone that…
Newly appointed ambassador of the United States to Bangladesh Marcia Stephens Bloom Bernicat presented her credentials to President Abdul Hamid at Bangabhaban today. Welcoming the ambassador, the President hoped that the existing relations between Bangladesh and the US would be…
Members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) arrested a young man in possession of 1,480 bottles of Indian Phensidyl syrup from a truck in Octroymore area in the district town on Tuesday night.
SSC examinees of some city schools, their guardians and teachers yesterday formed a human chain programme in front of BNP chairperson’s Gulshan office demanding the withdrawal of ongoing blockade and hartal programme to help them sit for examinations without any…
Strict enforcement of the amended Tobacco Control Act (TCA) has become an essence of the time to save the young generations as well as thousands of human lives annually in the country, speakers said here yesterday.
Speakers at a mass rally here have deplored killing of innocent people by hurling petrol bombs, anarchy, violence, destroying the academic life of the SSC examinees and national economy in the name of blockade and hartal.
Wide-ranging mass-awareness through using both print and electronic media has become an urgent need to prevent any outbreak of Nipah virus especially among the children.
Commercial farming of onion- seed is increasing in Rajshahi region including its high Barind tract, as demand for this spice is rising day by day.
A devastating fire gutted 31 shops at Bazaar of Agoiljhara upazila town in Barisal district on early Wednesday.
At least three BNP-led 20 party alliance leaders were arrested by police in Kishoreganj Sader and Pakundia on Tuesday .
One person was killed and 50 others including 10 police men were injured and 20 shops damaged following a clash between two rival groups at Bus Stand in Bajipur town over gambling money and supremacy on Tuesday afternoon.
MPs have voted in favour of the creation of babies with DNA from two women and one man, in a historic move.
More plays were staged by the UK’s most-subsidised theatre companies in 2014 compared with five years earlier, despite fears about funding cuts, BBC research suggests.
Pakistan left-arm fast bowler Junaid Khan has been ruled out of the World Cup because of a hamstring injury.
Jordan has executed two convicts, including a female jihadist, following the killing of one of its air force pilots by Islamic State (IS) militants.
Two young men were killed as a truck ran them over while trying to hurl petrol bombs at the vehicle at Begaritala in Manirampur upazila on Tuesday morning. The deceased were identified as Liton ,20, son of Atiar Rahman, a…
Food Minister Quamrul Islam on Tuesday said BNP senior vice chairman Tarique Rahman has been pulling the strings from abroad over the current violence as Khaleda Zia has lost control on her party leadership. “Khaleda has no longer any control…
The Bnp-led 20-party alliance on Tuesday demanded punishment of those who are involved in throwing petrol bomb on a bus in Chouddagram, comilla killing seven passsengers and injuring 17 others. In a statement issued to the press Bnp joint secretary…
Leaders and activists of Muktijoddha Projonma League yesterday tried to lay a siege around BNP chairperson’s Gulshan office where Khaleda Zia is staying since January 3. Police, however, obstructed them from going to the office of Khaleda Zia and later…
Bobbi Kristina Brown, daughter of late singer Whitney Houston, is “fighting for her life” after being found unconscious, her family says.
The technology behind GM crops is safe, according to scientific consensus, says the outgoing science adviser to the European Commission.
The US administration is considering whether to send arms to help the Ukraine government against pro-Russian rebels in the east, US media report.
BNP-led 20-party alliance on Tuesday further extended the ongoing 72-hour countrywide hartal for another 36-hour ending 6:00pm on Thursday in protest against carrying out homicide by joint forces without accepting its demand, resorting to killing, enforced disappearance, attacks and filling…
Seven passengers were killed and at least 16 others injured in a petrol bomb attack on a bus in Chauddagram in Comilla District at dead of night about 3-30 am on Tuesday. The incident took place at Miabazar Jagmohanpur area…
A Dhaka court has ordered five days in police custody for BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s adviser Mosaddek Ali Falu. The former MP was produced before the court of Dhaka’s Metropolitan Magistrate Hasibul Haque on Monday. Police pleaded with the court…
Pro-BNP Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) on Monday called a strike at Dhaka University for Wednesday and Thursday demanding that a congenial atmosphere for political coexistence on the campus be ensured. JCD President Rajib Ahsan and General Secretary Akramul Hasan announced…