Dhaka – Bangladesh national cricket team’s limited-over captain Mashrafe Bin Mortaza on Saturday said he wants to focus on coming up with good performances instead of advancement in the ranking in the series Afghanistan and England.“We will show our best…
State Minister for ICT Zunaid Ahmed Palak today laid emphasis on enhancing export of software and IT products to reach the target of US$5 billion by 2021.”The ICT export may cross $1b by 2018 if the present trend of export…
Housing and Public Works Minister Engineer Mosharraf Hossain today said the government will take massive initiatives for enhancing the beauty of Ramna Park planting saplings of rare varieties of trees and developing modern facilities for visitors.”We have taken recommendations from…
British Minister for Asia and the Pacific Alok Sharma has appreciated Bangladesh for the way the present government is dealing with terrorism and violent extremism in the country.The appreciation came when Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali had a bilateral meeting…
Two people were killed and 20 others injured in a clash between two groups of Awami League over establishing supremacy at Machhpara village in Sadar upazila on Saturday morning.The deceased were identified as Iman Ali and Shahabuddin.
Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Commissioner Asaduzzaman Miah on Saturday said police have not found any connection of Piyar Ahmed Akash, a Bangladeshi businessman deported by Malaysia, with militancy, including the Gulshan café attack.Akash was wanted in two arms cases, the…
Fisheries and Livestock Minister Muhammed Sayedul Hoque has been relived from the advisory council of district Awami League for violating party discipline.The decision to relieve Sayedul, also the MP of Brahmanbaria-1 constituency, was taken at a meeting of the working…
-By Raquib Siddiqi Tourism in Bangladesh is having a rudderless existence. The government has failed not only to build a workable tourism infrastructure but also to provide proper guidance to private sector which in recent years has come up in…
IU Correspondent The admission tests for Bachelor of Education (B.Ed) and Masters of Education (M.Ed) courses under the Institute of Islamic Education and Research (IIER) of the Islamic University (IU) were held here on Friday. The tests under 2016-17 academic…
There’s something going on beneath the surface of Jupiter’s icy moon Europa. But what? NASA teased a “surprising” announcement for Monday, based on Hubble Space Telescope images of the celestial body, which many experts believe could contain a subsurface ocean,…
Entertainment Desk A 15-day solo Exhibition of Scrap Metal Sculpture by Arham ul Huq Chowdhury titled ‘HARD EMOTIONS’ began on Friday at La Galerie, Alliance FranOaise de Dhaka. Alliance FranOaise de Dhaka and ARTcon are jointly organizing the exhibition, Founder…
Entertainment Desk Shahed lands a Tollywood role Bangladeshi actor Shahed Sharif Khan lands a role in a Tollywood film titled Senapati. The small screen star sets to feature in a Tollywood venture for the first time, which is directed by…
Mobile phone tower company edotco Bangladesh today successfully installed the first rooftop-based carbon fibre tower in Bangladesh in Technical Mor in the capital. The deployment was possible by the continuous research and development of edotco, in exploring the usage of…
The UN atomic agency predicted Friday continued growth in nuclear power in the coming 15 years but trimmed its projections because of low fossil fuel prices and competition from renewables. “Nuclear energy, in the long run, will continue to play…
Economy Desk State Minister for ICT Zunaid Ahmed Palak today laid emphasis on enhancing export of software and IT products to reach the target of US$5 billion by 2021. “The ICT export may cross $1b by 2018 if the present…
Flammable chemicals might have caused the fire at Tongi’s Tampaco Foils factory, as Titas Gas investigators suspect. A committee of the state-run gas distributor to investigate the deadly fire submitted its report on Thursday.
Four people have been shot dead at a shopping centre in Burlington, Washington state, police say. The Cascade Mall and nearby shops have been sealed off and a search is under way. It is not known if more than one…
Dhaka– Five people, including a woman, were killed as a covered van hit a bus at Borotakia in Mirsarai upazila of Chittagong on Saturday morning. Identities of the deceased could not be known immediately.
Sudhirendar Sharma Cooking and math may have begun as simple and useful crafts but these have evolved into complex and pleasurable arts today. Could there be any similarity between mathematics and cookery? Neither do cooks deal in numbers nor do…
BNP on Friday claimed that terrorists have got a free hand to carry out brutal activities as there is ‘no rule of law’ in the country.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday ruled out the possibility of any mid-term election in the country, questioning the necessity of such polls.
Dhaka – Members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) rescued six kidnapped fishermen following a gunfight with forest robbers in the Sundarbans under Shyamnagar upazila of Satkhira district on Friday, UNB news agency reported. The Rab force also recovered four firearms…
Vienna (BSS/AFP) – The UN atomic agency predicted Friday continued growth in nuclear power in the coming 15 years but trimmed its projections because of low fossil fuel prices and competition from renewables. “Nuclear energy, in the long run, will…
Dhaka – The prices of vegetables slightly fell in the kitchen markets of the capital over the week due to increase supply after one week of Eid-ul-Azah. But other daily essentials remain stable like previous week. The price of Hilsha…
The authorities are yet to recover a baby girl a day after she was stolen from Dhaka Medical College and Hospital.Three-month old Khadiza, her mother and elder sister were with her father Bahadur Dhali, who underwent surgery to remove a…
More than half of the rivers in Asia, Africa and Latin America have become more dangerous due to steep rises in organic and pathogen pollution over the last 20 years.According to a recent UN study, more than 300 million people…
Egypt’s state news agency says the total number of bodies pulled from the Mediterranean waters off the Egyptian coast has climbed to 148, three days after a boat carrying hundreds of migrants capsized.MENA quotes Wahdan el-Sayyed, the spokesman of the…
Bangladesh and Russia signed an agreement on visa-free visit for persons holding diplomatic and official (service) passports.At a meeting held on Thursday evening at the UN Headquarters, Bangladesh Foreign Minister A H Mahmood Ali and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey V.…
An attack on a United Nations aid convoy and on a Red Crescent warehouse in Aleppo should be investigated as possible war crimes. The apparent airstrikes on September 19, 2016, hit the convoy and building for over three hours with…
Dhaka – Siddikur Rahman stays in the race of the US$ 1,300,000 Asia-Pacific Diamond Cup placing jointly with 12 others at the 59th after the 2nd round at Ibaraki Country Club, West Course, in Japan on Friday.The two times Asian…