The ailing media mogul Sumner Redstone said he wants his former companion out of his life, repeatedly using expletives to describe her in videotaped testimony presented in court Friday. The 92-year-old billionaire, who is the controlling shareholder of Viacom and…
Entertainment Desk Arifin Shuvoo and Nusrat Imrose Tisha starrer Ostitto was released countrywide on Friday . In the film, the two popular actors have appeared as a pair on screen for the first time. Directed by Anonno Mamun, Ostitto is…
Feni – Four people were shot in a clash between the supporters of two member candidates over taking control of a polling centre in Shuvopur union of Chhagolnaiya upazila on Saturday morning.
London — Sadiq Khan became London’s first Muslim mayor Saturday, as voters rejected attempts to taint him with links to extremism and handed a decisive victory to the bus driver’s son from south London.
Dhaka – Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan on Friday said the government will follow all legal procedures for executing the verdict against Matiur Rahman Nizami sentences to death for war crimes, unb news agency reeported.
Dhaka – Parshuram Upazila Nirbahi Officer (UNO) HM Rakib Haider was assaulted allegedly by a local Awami League leader and his men for not showing respect to him, unb news agency reported.
Reiterating her firm vow not to give any room to terrorism and militancy on the soil of Bangladesh, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday said no one would be allowed to play with the fate of the country in the…
Eleven Bangladeshi nationals returned home from India on Thursday after languishing in a jail there for two years.
Family members of death-row war criminal Matiur Rahman Nizami met him at Kashimpur Central Jail part-2 in Gazipur on Friday.
Taking the moral responsibility for Bangladesh Bank’s reserve heist, Rizal Commercial Banking Corp (RCBC) President and CEO Lorenzo Tan has resigned giving the board a free hand in directing the course of the bank’s future.
A couple was killed by a lightning strike at Sikirchar in Chhengarchar municipality of Matlab Uttar upazila here on Friday evening.
The Election Commission has reminded the Home Ministry of the legal provisions regarding its recent notification issued to reinstated Harun-Ur Rashid as Superintendent of Police (SP) of Gazipur district.
Three officers and three employees of the election offices here reportedly received death threat from Purba Banglar Communist Party on Friday. The threat was issued in separate calls over the mobile phones of the victims.
BNP on Friday questioned whether Law Minister Anisul Huq has committed a contempt of court by calling illegal a High Court verdict that declared illegal the 16th amendment to the constitution.
Staff Reporter Law Minister Anisul Huq yesterday left a programme at Dhaka Reporters Unity (DRU) as he saw the programme was sponsored by Saifur’s coaching centre.
Health authorities say they’ve identified the first case in Spain of the birth defect microcephaly in the fetus of a pregnant woman infected with the Zika virus. The health department for the northeastern region of Catalonia said the woman traveled…
Bangladesh is ‘actively considering’ to ratify the Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA) to allow an easy flow of goods and lowering the costs of doing business across borders. “In order to become middle income country by 2021, Bangladesh has to ensure…
The National Board of Revenue (NBR) has prepared a list of 50 highest taxpayers in its each tax zone and deeply monitor whether they properly paid taxes or not. “We have already started the process,” a senior NBR official told…
Terming historical the High Court verdict that declared the 16th constitutional amendment illegal BNP on Friday said it has strengthened people’s confidence in the judiciary . Dhaka, UNB news agency reported.
Family members of death-row war criminal Matiur Rahman Nizami met him at Kashimpur Central Jail part-2 in Gazipur on Friday. Jail sources said six members of Nizami’s family-his wife Samsunnahar Nizami, two sons– Barrister Najib Momen and Khadiza Mohsina, daughter-in-laws…
Md. Zarjees Hossain, a final year student of Social Work Department and Shaheed Surawardi Hall, Rajshahi University (RU) died to his injuries after fighting for life for nine days long at Rajshahi Medical Collage Hospital (RMCH) on Thursday morning. He…
A committee was formed for Bangladesh Agricultural University (BAU) greater Dhaka association for two years in a general meeting. Prof Dr Fazlul Auwal Mollah selected as president and Prof Dr Mohammed Al-Mamun selected as a general secretary. Prof Dr Nurul…
Danielle Nierenberg Raising livestock provides livelihoods for an estimated one billion people, according to the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). Many small farmers in developing countries own livestock, including cattle, goats, horses, sheep, pigs, rabbits, chickens, donkeys, ducks, geese,…
Dhaka – The Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) organised a mobile court which fined five sweetmeat shops of Tk 6 lakh on charge of making low quality sweetmeat in Keranigonj,on the outskirts of the capital, on Thursday. Sources at the Rab-10…
Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami has called a dawn to dusk countrywide hartal for Sunday protesting the Supreme Court verdict that upheld death penalty awarded to the party’s chief Motiur Rahman Nizami for his 1971 war crimes. Jamaat acting ameer Makbul Ahmad and…
Dhaka – The High Court on Thursday declared the 16th amendment establishing Parliament’s power to remove the Supreme Court judges illegal and contradictory to the national Constitution. Noting that parliament members cannot go against the party decision as per the…
STAFF REPORTER Investigation in most of the cases relating to the violence centering Hefazat-e-Islam rally at the city’s Shapla Chhatra has not yet been completed even after three years of the incident.
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court yesterday dismissed a review petition paving the way for the execution of Jamaat chief Motiur Rahman Nizami for crimes against humanity committed during the War of Liberation in 1971.
STAFF REPORTER Sushashoner Jonno Nagorik (Shujan) yesterday said the use of arms publicly in the Union Parishad (UP) polls along with violence and irregularities is ominous for democracy.
Customs preventive team at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport seized 2700 cartoons contraband cigarette from Cargi Village on Thursday.