Interpol has identified only 5,800 foreign fighters of the roughly 25,000 believed to have joined jihadist groups in conflict zones like Syria and Iraq, the head of the global police body said Wednesday.He was speaking at an anti-terrorism conference in…
Bangladesh Under 19 team will leave Dhaka for Kolkata, India this afternoon to play in a Youth Tri-Nation competition.India and Afghanistan are the two other countries participating in the Tri-Nation competition alongside Bangladesh.The competition will begin on Friday (November 20)…
Having more than 300 Facebook friends may increase a teenager’s levels of cortisol, the stress hormone, says a new study.”While other important external factors are also responsible, we estimated that the isolated effect of Facebook on cortisol was around eight…
Astronomers have taken the first images of a planet still in formation, a discovery expected to shed light on how giant planets manage to beef up early in their lives, research published on Wednesday showed.Astronomers used a telescope in Arizona…
Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Authority (BTRC) has suspended the operation of social networking platform Facebook, Messenger, Viber and WhatsApp in Bangladesh for security reason.
Jamaat-e-Islami called a countrywide dawn-to-dusk hartal for Thursday protesting the Supreme Court (SC) verdict that upheld the death penalty of war criminal Jamaat-e-Islami leader Ali Ahsan Muhammad Mojaheed.
STAFF REPORTER The government has finally taken punitive measures against 95 hajj and umrah agencies out total 104 accused agencies including the agencies of HAAB and ATAB leaders for their involvement in human trafficking in the guise of sending people…
STAFF REPORTER The government has decided for building a ship building and re-cycling zone in Barguna, shipping minister Shajahan Khan said yesterday.
Chittagong Bureau: A court in Chittagong convicted four persons with death sentence for alleged involvement in killing of a child Yasin Arafat Abir .
Chittagong Correspondent Chittagong Bureau: A court in Chittagong convicted five accused with life imprisonment including Rahima Dacoit of Banskhali for alleged abduction of five years old child in Chittagong .
STAFF REPORTER BNP, one of whose standing committee member death sentence was confirmed by the Appellate Division of Supreme Court yesterday, has remained silent on it.
RU Correspondent The Rajshahi University Cultural Alliance (RUCA) protested the life threat to Prominent Writer and Former Professor of Philosophy department of the University, Hasan Azzizul Haque from an unknown number. They raised their voice regarding this matter in a…
Court Correspondent The Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) Court of Dhaka yesterday (Wednesday) placed three accused in the blogger Niloy murder case on a five-day remand each to them about the incident.
Court Correspondent A Dhaka court yesterday (Wednesday) sent two police officer of city’s Pallabi Police Station in a murder case in connection with death of Jony of Pallabi area.
A court here on Tuesday sentenced a man to death for killing his wife in the city in 2009.The convict was identified as Jalal Uddin, a resident of Char Khirati village in Kapasia upazila.
Police arrested the district Islami Okya Jote president Maulana Abdul Momen Sherjahan on various charges from Sholakia Bazar area in the district town on Tuesday night.The arrestee, Maulana Abdul Momen Sherjahan, also general secretary of the district unit of Hefajat-e-Islam,…
A joint force arrested 40 people, including 10 activists of BNP and Jamaat-Shibir, from different areas of the district on various charges in a drive from Tuesday night to Wednesday morning.A team comprising members of police, Rapid Action Battalion and…
A gang of armed robbers looted valuables waylaying 15 trucks and CNG-run auto-rickshaws at Barni on the Sylhet-Companiganj road on Tuesday night.Witnesses said the robber gang, split into three groups, carried out the robbery in the Sylhet-bound vehicles around 8pm…
A couple was killed and four others were injured in a head-on collision between a microbus and CNG-run auto-rickshaw at Lalmai Bazar in Sadar upazila on Wednesday morning.The deceased were identified as Ali Azam, 70, a resident of Karpati village…
Mayor of Rangpur City Corporation (RCC) Alhaj Sarfuddin Ahmed Jhantu has put emphasis on improving hygienic sanitation facilities for the common people of the city to promote safe hygienic practices.He was speaking at the inauguration of construction of a public…
Nick Rowley After the November 13 attacks on Paris, the global community might now be more determined to deliver a successful climate change conference, both for France and as a potent demonstration of the enduring effectiveness of the international diplomatic…
The full verdicts of the Supreme Court rejecting the review petitions of Ali Ahsan Muhammad Mojaheed and Salauddin Quader Chowdhury were read out to the two war crimes convicts at Dhaka Central Jail on Thursday night.
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court yesterday fixed Wednesday (today) for delivering its order on the review petition filed by death-row convict Jamaat leader Ali Ahsan Muhammad seeking reconsideration of his death penalty for wartime offences.
New Delhi – Incessant rains continued to disrupt normal life in Chennai and across Tamil Nadu on Monday, with the death toll rising to 95. Many areas in Chennai have been inundated, road traffic has been severely hit and schools…
An Italian citizen sustained bullet injuries in an attack by unknown miscreants at Mirzapur BRTC bus stand in Dinajpur town on Wednesday morning. The injured, Piyara Samio,50, is a physician of Kasba Missionary Hospital in Dinajpur.
Dhaka – Bangladesh and India on Tuesday agreed to share information on terrorists and insurgents through mutual understanding to eliminate terrorism and insurgency in the two neighbouring countries. “We both sides are on the same stance that we can eradicate…
Bangladesh conceded a 4-0 defeat against a powerful Australia in their joint World Cup-Asian Cup qualifiers on Tuesday.The hosts went into the break with 4-0 arrears and successfully managed to contain the Australians from making the difference bigger in the…
An Italian citizen has been injured in gunfire by miscreants near BRTC bus stand at Mirzapore in Dinajpur town today, Wednesday.The victim, Pierro Pechon, 50, was shot around 8:00am and has been admitted to Dinajpur Medical College Hospital. He is…
Dhaka has agreed to ensure bank guarantee on each consignment of transit cargo going from mainland India to its north-eastern states through Bangladesh.The decision was taken at the shipping-secretary-level talks in New Delhi on Tuesday.“As a gesture of goodwill and…
After having a sumptuous feast of “Outredgeous” red romaine lettuce grown in space, astronauts on the International Space Station (ISS) are set to witness flowers blooming on the orbiting laboratory after the New Year. NASA astronaut Kjell Lindgren has activated…