Jhenidah -Muggers snatched cash Tk10.08 lakh and a cheque for Tk four lakh shooting a man in front of Pubali Bank Payra Chattar branch in the district town on Sunday morning.Afzal Hasan Hafizur Rahman, officer-in-charge of Sadar Police Station, said a…
Bagerha -In the wake of escalating crackdowns by the law enforcement agencies, infamous forest robber gang “Master Bahini” based in the Sundarbans formally surrendered to Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) early Sunday,UNB News Agency Reported.
Dhaka – Rejecting Israeli politician Mendi N Safadi’s claim that they had a meeting in Washington, Prime Minister’s son Sajeeb Wazed Joy has said they met nowhere. In a Facebook post, Joy has written: “I have never met Safadi, either…
The year is 2020. A group of warehouse workers are locking up for the weekend. As the lights go off, a swarm of buzzing drones fly into the darkness. Over the coming days, they will zoom up and down the…
Sylhet Correspondent A 5day training programme on Rural journalists on Democracy and Human Rights issues for local journalists who want to build their career in journalism began in the city on Saturday. News Network , a media think tank, arranged…
Health Desk Too Much Red Meat May Lead to Kidney Cancer Thus, we’ve gone ahead and pieced together all of the eye-catching cancer-related headlines that we’ve published over the past few months in order to provide you with a comprehensive…
Nearly half of sunscreen products in the United States do not live up to the SPF claim on their bottles, according to a new study. Researchers at Consumer Reports independently evaluated the Sun Protection Factor value of 65 sunscreen…
A worker takes measurements of the stone rings inside Bruniquel Cave. Once illuminated by the flickering fires of prehistoric builders, an array of mysterious stone circles hid in darkness for millennia, tucked into the recesses of a cave in France.…
Entertainment Desk Kareena Kapoor Khan has agreed to play the lead role in Shashanka Ghosh’s Veera Di Shaadi, which will also be Rhea Kapoor’s directorial debut. The film is an adaptation of the Hollywood flick The Sisterhood Of The Travelling…
The ground beneath us is alive, very alive. A single gram of soil (about a fifth of a teaspoon) can contain thousands of species of bacteria, and millions of individual cells. It might also be packed with fungi, microscopic worms,…
More storms are expected during the coming Atlantic hurricane season which should be “near-normal,” after three years of unusually low storm activity, US government scientists said Friday. The Atlantic could see 10 to 16 tropical storms, of which four to…
Workers at the Cincinnati Zoo in the US state of Ohio shot and killed a gorilla on Saturday after a three-year-old boy fell into its enclosure, officials said. The boy crawled through a barrier into the enclosure and fell into…
Rangpur Correspondent Experts at a discussion here have put importance on ensuring safe motherhood, healthy pregnancy period and safe delivery for healthier babies to further reduce maternal and neonatal mortality rates. The observations came at a post-rally discussion arranged at…
Culture Desk Veteran musician Shahnaz Rahmatullah has been honoured with the life time achievement award at the Symphony-Channel i Music Awards 2016. Apart from her the award was given to a number of talented musicians from both the golden old…
Entertainment Desk Leonardo DiCaprio took a private jet twice to pick up an environmental award in New York – before flying back to a glitzy gala in France. The actor and environmentalist, 41, was spotted this week in Cannes Festival. But…
The leader of a Pakistani Islamic council has proposed a bill that allows husbands to “lightly beat” their wives as a form of discipline, says a CNN report. In the 75-page proposal, Mohammad Khan Sheerani suggests a light beating is…
Cape Canveral (AP/UNB) — NASA successfully inflated a new experimental room at the International Space Station on Saturday, producing the world’s first pump-it-up compartment for astronauts. The operation took much longer than expected, stretching over three days in all. But…
Dhaka – Five female members Ansar, auxilary police force of Bangladesh, were killed as a boat sank in the Ghorautra river in Bazar Ghat area of Mithamoin upazila of Kishoreganj, 80 kilometres northeast of Dhaka early Sunday, Unb news agency…
Iraqi government forces have made gains in their offensive to drive Islamic State militants from Falluja – one the country’s two major cities in IS hands.The nearby town of Karma, the first line of IS defence, is now in the…
Secret phone recordings between Brazil’s planning minister and theformer president of Transperto have revealed that the minister suggested a “change” in the government to “stop the bleeding” caused by an investigation into Petrobras. The March conversation between Planning Minister Romero…
Dhaka – Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan on Saturday said the government has taken various measures to face risks of possible disasters, especially earthquake. “The government has taken various initiatives to train up members of Fire Service and Civil Defence aiming…
Dhaka – Green activists here on Saturday demanded immediate cancellation of the plots allocated for tanners as they failed to relocate their factories from Hazaribagh to Savar within the stipulated time, Unb news agency reported. They also demanded penalising the…
Dhaka – Hitting headlines two years back for getting married at the age of 67, Railways Minister M Mazibul Hoque has been in news again as he has been blessed with a baby girl on Saturday, Unb news agency reported.…
Dhaka – Voicing frustration over “unabated vote rigging and capture of poling stations” in the fifth phase of Union Parishad polls, BNP senior leader Nazrul Islam Khan on Saturday said the Election Commission (EC) pretends to be asleep, Unb news…
Dhaka – Several spells of rain in the morning and evening walloped the city life again on Saturday just like the last couple of days as many roads and lanes remained flooded with knee-deep water for several hours, causing immense…
Dhaka-U.S.-led coalition airstrikes and Turkish artillery fire against the Islamic State group in Syria have killed 104 militants, the Turkish military said Saturday.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday directed the officials concerned to send more necessary materials and goods to Sri Lanka to help the island nation to the face the crisis caused by recent floods. The directives came following a meeting…
Dhaka – Twelve people, including three in Jamalpur, were killed and over 60 others injured as the 5th phase of Union Parishad election was marred by violence and irregularities on Saturday, unb news agency reported. A presiding officer of a polling…
Bangladesh Textile-Garments Workers Federation on Thursday urged the government for budget allocation to bring the readymade garment (RMG) workers under rationing. At a roundtable discussion on budget for workers at Jatiya Press Club, the Federation also raised the demand to…
Bangladesh has put emphasis on mobilizing foreign financing either from multilateral development agencies or from private sources for successful implementation of the ambitious development programmes of the country.