A week long Rashimoni fair started on Saturday on the premises of Rashimoni memorial monument at Baheratoli village under Durgapur upazila of the district.
Year: 2015
Briquette gains popularity as lower cost alternative fuel
Briquette, a hard block made from coal dust, is gradually getting popularity among the city dwellers as an alternative fuel, for its relatively lower price, for household as well as commercial cooking.
Market for women opens in Gaibandha
A market for the women was opened at Kalirbazaar under Fulchhari upazila of the district recently to enhance the access of the women to the market.
Ctg businessmen to take to street against blockade, strike
Businessmen in port city Chittagong today announced to take to the street against all kinds of political violence including blockade and strike.
Japan outraged at IS ‘beheading’ of hostage Kenji Goto
Japan has reacted with anger and defiance to a video purporting to show the beheading of Japanese hostage Kenji Goto by an Islamic State militant.
‘Cold plasma’ kills off norovirus
Norovirus, the most common cause of gastroenteritis in the world, can be killed with “cold plasma,” researchers in Germany have reported.
Nikita Miller replaces Sunil Narine in West Indies’ World Cup squad
West Indies have called left-arm spinner Nikita Miller into their World Cup squad as a replacement for Sunil Narine, who withdrew earlier this week.
Whitney Houston’s daughter ‘found unresponsive’ in bath
The daughter of late American singer Whitney Houston has been found unresponsive in a bathtub in a home in Georgia, US police say.
Bnp-Jamaat to burn in people’s wrath: PM
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday day reiterated her call to BNP-Jammat to refrain from blasting bombs and burning people or else be burnt in the fire of the people’s wrath. “We are trying our best to restore peace in…
Rizvi on remand charged with vandalising, setting fire to vehicles
Bnp joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi who was arrested from a Baridhara house on Friday night has been placed on three-day remand in a case of arson and setting fire. The remand was granted by the Additional Chief Metropolitan…
Mosaddaq Ali Falu picked up
Mosaddaq Ali Falu, adviser to Bnp chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia and chairman of Ntv television channel was picked up from in front of Khaleda’s Gulshan office at about 8 pm on Sunday. Different news agencies creeded the news quoting the…
People suffer, who cares!
Undoubtedly, no one is in favour hartal or against fair election. Everyone is in favour of fair election except a mad. Now, the government and the opposition would like to win grounds by ignoring people’s loss and sufferings including children’s…
Non-stop hartal if tele, cable links to Gulshan office not restored: Bnp
Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) yesterday threatened to continue non-stop hartal and blockade programme, if all communication systems including internet, telephone and cable networks are not restored in BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia’s Gulshan office immediately. “The not-stop hartal and blockade programmes…
DU BCL activist injured in intra-party beating
An activist of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) was seriously injured as a leader of the organisation beat him up with hammer at Dhaka University (DU) on Saturday night. The injured was identified as Sohag Miah, a 3rd year student of…
Two Eagles gas balloon completes record Pacific crossing
Two pilots in a helium balloon have completed their crossing of the Pacific with a sea-landing off Mexico, setting new milestones on a six-day trip. American Troy Bradley and Russian Leonid Tiukhtyaev landed safely, their Two Eagles Balloon team said.…
Another death of political activist in Dhaka ‘gunfight’
A political activist was killed in a reported ‘gunfight’ in the Rupnagar Area of Mirpur on Saturday night. The young man has been identified as Emadullah (20) of Baniarpar in Jamalpur district.
Arrested Bnp leader Rizvi handed over the Detective Branch
Ruhul Kabir Rizvi who was arrested by the Rapid Action Battalion has been handed over the Detective Branch of Dhaka Metropolitan Police. The joint secretary general of the Bnp Rizvi had been issuing press release and making statements on the…
‘I am extremely shocked by cruelty, rights violation’ Khaleda
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia termed the disconnecting of power supply to her Gulshan office as ‘despicable cruelty’ and violation of human and citizen’s rights. The BNP chief made the remarks on Saturday afternoon while speaking to her party functionaries, who…
Khaleda Yasmeen, six women lawyers of Bnp arrested
BNP’s executive committee member Khaleda Yasmin and six women lawyers of the Jatoyatabadi Ainjibi Forum were arrested by police from in front of the BNP chairperson’s Gulshan office on Saturday evening as they came out after supplying candles as power…
Bnp leader destroying peace because country develops: Hasina
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said on Saturday that the Bnp-led 20-party combine has turned into a ‘poisonous abscess’ for the nation, she said and urged the people to forge unity being imbued with the spirit of the War of Liberation…
13 killed in devastating plastic factory fire in Mirpur, Dhaka
At least 13 people were killed and three others injured in a devastating fire that raged a plastic factory in the city’s Mirpur area on Saturday afternoon. The identities of the deceased could not be known yet, said Salimuzzaman, officer-in-charge…
Suge Knight is arrested in LA over fatal hit-and-run
Marion “Suge” Knight has been arrested on suspicion of murder in connection with a “fatal traffic incident”, the Los Angeles County Sheriff says.
IS chemical weapons expert killed, says US military
A chemical weapons expert with the Islamic State (IS) militant group in Iraq has been killed in a coalition airstrike, the US military has said.
Cosmic inflation: New study says BICEP detection was wrong
Scientists who claimed last year to have found a pattern in the sky left by the super-rapid expansion of space just fractions of a second after the Big Bang were mistaken.
11 Jamaat men held in Magura
Police arrested 11 activists of Jamaat-e-Islami from different parts of the district in 24 hours ending on Saturday morning on charge of violence in the name of the blockade.
30,000 Yaba tablets seized in Ctg
An anti-smuggling squad of Bangladesh Navy in a drive seized 30,000 pieces of Yaba tablet from a boat at the outer anchorage of Chittagong port early Saturday.
2 held with 44kg hemp in Kurigram
Detectives in a drive arrested two alleged drug peddlers along with 44 kilograms of hemp at Amertal of Kathalbari area in the district town early Saturday.
50,000 Yaba pills recovered
Police arrested a young man in possession of 50,000 pieces of Yaba tablet from SK Khal area of the Naf River in Teknaf upazila on Friday night.
30,000 slum families enjoying sanitation facilities in Rajshahi city
More than 30,000 poor and slum households are enjoying sanitation facilities by dint of commissioning of 11,000 hygienic latrines in the metropolis.
Concern over violation of tobacco control law
Regional members of Anti Tobacco Media Alliance (ATMA) have expressed their grave concern over gross violation of tobacco control law in Rajshahi region and urged the authorities concerned to take punitive measures to resist the violation.