The BNP-led 20-party alliance will enforce a 48-hour hartal in Dhaka and Khulna divisions from Wednesday morning side by side its ongoing countrywide blockade programme, protesting extrajudicial killing, enforced disappearance and arrest of its leaders. BNP joint secretary Ruhul Kabir…
The Delhi High Court on Tuesday unblocked the funds that were frozen by the Indian Ministry of Home Affairs in June last year. The environmental NGO Greenpeace hailed the decision as a victory for democracy and free speech, and recognition…
A Japanese worker has died at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant after falling into a water tank. He is the second person to have died at the plant that was devastated by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami. Waves from…
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has lowered its forecast for global economic growth for this year and next. The IMF now expects growth of 3.5pc this year, compared with the previous estimate of 3.8pc which it made in October. The…
Uindentified miscreants threw three crude bombs at the village house of Jasad MP Mainuddin Khan Badal at Sarwatoli village in Boalkhali upazila on early Tuesday. Witnesses said a group of unidentified miscreants hurled the crude bombs at the house of…
An activist of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD), student affiliate of the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (Bnp) was killed in a reported gunfight with the members of the Detective Branch (DB) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) in the city’s Khilgaon area…
Foreign currency deposited in foreign currency accounts of shipping lines and airlines against freight charges on FOB exports from licensed freight forwarders may be used for outward remittances on account of surplus earnings, a Bangladesh Bank circular said on Monday.…
Any outsourcing outside Bangladesh will require prior approval of Bangladesh Bank under Section 12 of the Bank Company Ain, 1991 regardless of the fact that the specified functions is conducted by or data is provided to an unrelated third party…
Leaders of a number of political parties that are charting the middle road in between the AL-led 14-party alliance and the Bnp-led 20-party alliance on Monday jointly took to the street voicing the demand for ensuring democratic and fundamental rights…
The Ameer of Islami Andolan Bangladesh and Pir Shaheb of Charmonai Mufti Syed Rezaul Karim on Monday put forward a 7-point proposal that stands for elections under a non-partisan government, proportional representation and checking of corruption with a view to…
An alleged blockade activist was injured as police shot him while fleeing after hurling a crude bomb at a bus in the city’s Shahbagh area on Monday evening. The victim was identified as Nur Mohammad, 35, son of Fakhar Islam.…
The High Court on Monday stayed for three months the operation of the gazette notification revoking the list of special guerilla force (SGF) recruited from NAP-Communist Party and Chhatra Union during the Liberation War in 1971. Passing the interim order,…
The BNP-led 20-party alliance has called a 48-hour hartal in Dhaka and Khulna divisions from Wednesday, protesting the killings, ‘enforced disappearances, abduction’ and arrest of its leaders by the government. BNP joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi said on Monday…
Environment and agriculture experts yesterday said adverse impact of global climate change may severely affect crop production in the country as agriculture sector is already struggling to cope with erratic behavior of weather pattern. Climate change impacts are visible in…
Terming the Jatiya Sangsad (JS) as the centre-point of all activities of the country, President Abdul Hamid today urged all to play a constructive and effective role in the JS for materialising the aspirations of the people. Addressing the inaugural…
Speakers at a daylong views-sharing meeting have stressed for ensuring quality education at all levels in building an ideal and enlightened society through producing knowledgeable citizens.
By virtue of gradually rising interest among the farmers and others concerned, acreage of wheat farming in bed-planting method has started gaining popularity in the region including its vast barind tract for the last couple of years.
Health experts at a views-sharing meeting have asked the freedom fighters for creating awareness in indentifying tuberculosis patients and bringing them under cost free treatment facilities to eradicate the curable disease.
The charred body of truck helper Sohag Biswas, 19 who was the victim of hurling a petrol bomb Sunday in Barisal district was brought here in the afternoon and was laid to rest in village Sankarpasha under Nagarkanda upazilla of…
Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested two Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) leader from Arpin Nagar Eidgah Maydan area of the town on Sunday night.
A school teacher was reportedly killed by unknown miscreants at Rudrabaria village in Dhunat upazila early Monday.
A court here on Monday further turned down the bail plea of suspended Habiganj municipality mayor Golam Kibria Gaus, now in custody, in the former finance minister Kibria murder case.
EU foreign ministers will meet on Monday to discuss the terror threat in Europe in the wake of recent attacks.
BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia on Monday said the ongoing countrywide blockade programme would continue until the next announcement is made. “The government has closed all the roads to protests…Being forced we called the peaceful blockade programme across the country. The…
The trade in bees used for honey or to pollinate crops could have a devastating impact on wild bees and other insects, say scientists.
Soul singer Alexander O’Neal has quit Channel 5’s Celebrity Big Brother – the third contestant to leave outside its usual elimination process.
South Africa batsman AB de Villiers hit a century off 31 balls to record the fastest ever one-day international ton.
A court here on Monday further turned down the bail plea of suspended Habiganj municipality mayor Golam Kibria Gaus, now in custody, in the former finance minister Kibria murder case. District and Sessions Judge Mahbubul Islam passed the order after…
An alleged criminal was killed in a ‘gunfight’ with law enforces at AGB Colony in Motijheel area of the city early Monday. The deceased could not be identified immediately. A special team of the Detective Branch (DB) of Dhaka Metropolitan…
The Detective Branch (DB) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Sunday night arrested four members of ISIS (Islamic State in Iraq and Syria) of Middle East-based terrorist outfit, from Khilkhet and Jatrabari areas in the capital, said a DMP message.