Two pro-BNP sctovists were killed – two in Natore and one each in Rajshahi and Chapainawabganj in clashes with Awami League activists and police on Monday Throughout the day, clashes, and detention of opposition activists continued across the country including…
Bnp chairperson Khaleda Zia on Monday called countrywide blockade protesting obstructions created to holding her party and alliance’s ‘democracy killing day’ rally and non-conceding of the demand for fresh elections under a non-partisan caretaker government to restore what she termed…
News Desk Commuters underwent immense hassles due to crisis of mass transport in the capital as well the rest of the country on Monday amid tension as the police restrictions and exchange of verbal threats between the leaders of the…
Former Chief Justice of Bangladesh Justice Mustafa Kamal died at his Gulshan residence in the city early Monday. He was 80. Family sources said Mustafa Kamal breathed his last around 3am. He left behind three daughters and a host of…
Two activists of pro-BNP Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) were shot dead and 15 others injured when a procesion brought out by them came under attack by Awami League workers at Tebaria in the district town, in the north-western region of…
Mehru and Cyrus Vesuvala Contrary to initial GCC media statements confirming the adoption of new model contract for domestic workers, sources say no new changes were discussed at the November 2014 meeting The media fanfare surrounding the meeting of GCC…
Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) rescued seven teenage girls while they were being trafficked to India through Putkhali border point in Jessore on Saturday.
There should be increased focus on proper enforcement of the existing traffic rules in the country as it can help reduce road accidents by 50 percent and improve road safety significantly, according to experts.
Members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) arrested two people, including an Indian national, along with contraband Indian goods from two buses at Shyamlagacchi on Benapole-Jessore road in Sharsha upazila of Jessore district on Saturday.
The holy Eid-e-Miladunnabi, marking the birth and demise of Prophet Hazrat Muhammad (pbuh), was observed in the country on Sunday with due reverence and religious fervour.
Gono Forum chief Dr. Kamal Hossain on Sunday underscored the need for a national dialogue to resolve the prevailing political crisis. He said 16 crore people of the country want peace, security of life and property. All people fear if…
Amid the growing political tension ahead of the BNP-led 20-party’s January-5 rally, members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) have been deployed in the city to help maintain the law and order.
Miscreants exploded four crude bombs in the city’s Hatirpool and Purana Paltan areas on Sunday, leaving one injured.
Members of the travelling public fell into immense sufferings as buses and launches on almost all inter-district routes were suddenly suspended ahead of BNP scheduled rally in capital Dhaka on Monday. The problem becamse acute for office-goers who went to…
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will address the nation at 7.15pm on Monday. PM’s Press Secretary AKM Shameem Chowdhury said, the Prime Minister will make the address marking completion one year of the general election held on January 5, 2014.
At least 11 vehicles were torched in different places of the capital, Gazipur and Mymensingh on Sunday ahead of the BNP-led 20-party alliance’s planned January-5 rally, leaving 18 people injured. Of the vehicles, seven were set ablaze in the capital…
Accusing Khaleda Zia of staging a confinement drama, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday said the BNP chief is not confined and she can go back home anytime if she wants to do so. “She (Khaleda) is not confined, she…
Besieged at her Gulshan political office, BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia on Sunday expressed her firm stance about taking to the street on Monday to mark the day as ‘Democracy Killing Day’. Leaders of different pro-BNP professional bodies, including teachers, journalists,…
President of Bikalpa Dhara Bangladesh (BDB) AQM Badrudozza Chowdhury was barred from meeting besieged BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia on Sunday. The BDB chief came to Khaleda’s Gulshan office around 12 noon to meet the former Prime Minister. As his motorcade…
A new facility has opened in Reading, to safeguard the future of chocolate. It is a bigger and better clearing house for all the world’s new cocoa varieties, which must be quarantined before they can be grown. Demand for chocolate…
Renowned American country music singer-songwriter Little Jimmy Dickens has died at the age of 94. His spokeswoman Jessie Schmidt said Dickens died on Friday of cardiac arrest after suffering a stroke on Christmas Day. His novelty songs, including May the…
North Korea has described new sanctions imposed in response to a major cyber-attack against Sony Pictures as part of groundless and hostile US policy. The US placed sanctions on three North Korean organisations and 10 individuals, after the FBI blamed…
Allrounder Soumya Sarkar has been named in Bangladesh’s 15-member squad for the 2015 World Cup, which also includes fast bowler Taskin Ahmed and left-arm spinner Taijul Islam. Mashrafe Mortaza will lead the side while Shakib Al Hasan has been named…
Australia fast bowler Mitchell Johnson will miss the final Test against India, which starts in Sydney on Tuesday, because of a hamstring injury. But the left-armer is expected to be fit in time for the subsequent one-day tri-series against England…
Mahfuz Adnan, New York Correspondent International Bangla festival and book fair 2015 will be held from 22 to 24 May next in New York city. Rukeya Haider, the head of Bangla Service of voice of America has been selected as…
Muslims in Bangladesh as elsewhere in the world the holy Eid-e-Miladun Nabi (birth day of Hazrat Muhammad (sm) with due religious fervour. Sunni Muslims observe the birthday of Prophet Muhammed (sm) on the 12th day of the Islamic month of…
Police in Italy believe traffickers made some $3m (£1.9m; €2.5m) from 359 illegal migrants found abandoned on a cargo ship in the Mediterranean. The Ezadeen was towed into the Italian port of Corigliano Calabro after being found by coast guards…
Police on Saturday night confined BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia to her Gulshan political office, 36 hours before her party-led 20-party’s scheduled January-5 rally. “Madam Khaleda Zia is confined at her office by the members of law-enforcement agencies, including police, of…
Six people, including a DB officer, have been arrested on the charge of snatching gold worth Tk 3 crore from a jewellery businessman. Twenty-three of the looted 60 gold bars were recovered from their possession. The victim businessman and his…
Spiritual leader of the Catholics in Bangladesh Archbishop Paulinus Costa died of cardiac arrest on Saturday. He was 78. Paulinus Costa, who was Archbishop of the archdiocese of Dhaka from 2005 to October 22, 2011, breathed his last around 3…