An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.7 has shaken Tanzania in East Africa.
Year: 2016
Long tailback in journeys making life miserable
Dhaka-Huge tailbacks on different highways and ferry ghats and bus operators’ schedule collapse, for the third consecutive day on Saturday, made the trips of the Eid holidaymakers, including children, woefully miserable.
Security beefed up throughout power sector for Eid
Dhaka: All entities in the power sector have been asked to take extra measures to ensure foolproof security at power generation plants and power supply establishments across the country during the Eid-ul-Azha period. This directive came from an emergency meeting…
Factory owner to face legal action: Minister
Gazipur: Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan on Saturday said legal action will be taken against the owner of the Gazipur packaging factory in connection with the boiler blast. “Many people have been killed and injured in the dreadful fire incident. We…
26 killed in Gazipur boiler blast
Gazipur: A fatal boiler blast and subsequent fire at a packaging factory in Tongi BSCIC industrial area here left 26 people dead and over 50 others injured on Saturday morning. Deputy director of Fire Service and Civil Defence Badiuzzaman said…
Suspected militant killed in police drive in city
Dhaka: One suspected militant was killed and eight people, including five policemen and three female militants, were injured in an encounter during a drive at a ‘den of militants’ in the city’s Azimpur area on Saturday. UNB News Agency Reported.
Bangladesh Championship League (BCL) Football kicks off Oct 10
Dhaka – Bangladesh Championship League Football, the 2nd tier league, will kick-off on October 10.The decision was taken at a Bangladesh Football Federation (BFF) executive committee meeting held on Saturday at BFF office with its president Kazi Mohammad Salahuddin in…
Maxwell sets T20 series win for Australia vs. Sri Lanka
Dhaka – Glenn Maxwell smashed four sixes and seven boundaries to score 66 off 29 balls to set up a close four-wicket win over Sri Lanka in the second Twenty20 international and a 2-0 series win on Friday.Sri Lanka won…
Taskin, Sunny returning from actions tests in Australia
Dhaka – Bangladesh pacer Taskin Ahmed and left-arm spinner Arafat Sunny are expected to arrive at Shahjalal International Airport here from Australia on Sunday night, following tests on their bowling actions after allegations of chucking.Both took the test at an…
Chess Olympiad : BD Women’s win, Men’s loss in 7th round
Dhaka – Bangladesh women chess team secured 3-1 points victory over Jordan in the 7th round of the 42nd World Chess Olympiad at Baku, Azerbaijan on Friday.With this win, Bangladesh women team collected 8 match points and 16 games points…
Women ODI: Bangladesh, Ireland face another washout, Ld
Dhaka – The second One Day International (ODI) of the three-match series between Bangladesh and Ireland women cricket teams was washed out due to rain at Instonians Cricket Club, Shaw’s Bridge Lower Ground, Belfast on Friday.With 2nd successive washout, the…
After odd win, Djokovic to face Wawrinka in US Open final
Dhaka – For quite a while, Novak Djokovic’s opponent in the U.S. Open semifinals, Gael Monfils, looked as if he didn’t want to win – or even be there at all.That premeditated “great strategy” of hoping to lull the No.…
Road crashes kill 15 in four dists
Dhaka – Fifteen people were killed and 22 others injured in separate road accidents in Gazipur, Tangail, Cox’s Bazar and Barguna districts on Saturday.In Gazipur, five people were killed and seven others injured in two separate road accidents on the…
5 killed in Tangail bus-truck collision
Dhaka – Five people, including two women and a child, were killed and fifteen others injured in a collision between a bus and a truck on Tangail-Dhaka highway in Kandiar area of Sadar upazila in Tangail on Saturday noon.Three of…
Youth hacked dead in Keraniganj
Dhaka – A young man was hacked to death by some unidentified miscreants at Mandail in Keraniganj upazila in Keraniganj on Saturday morning.The deceased was identified as Rubel, 24, son of Rabiullah, a resident of Najarganj village in the upazila,UNB…
2 ‘Ansarullah men’ held in Gazipur
Dhaka- Members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) arrested two suspected members of banned militant outfit Ansarullah Bangla Team from Chowrasta area in Gazipur district early Saturday.Among the arrestees was Rashedul Islam alias Swapan,24, chief coordinator of Gazipur district ABT,UNB News…
N Korean belligerence worries Dhaka
Bangladesh has called upon the Government of North Korea to exercise restraint and refrain from any further action which may contribute to the escalation of the already heightened security situation in the region and find ways to de-escalate tension.Bangladesh has…
Protecting indigenous livestock breeds
Danielle Nierenberg According to the U.N. Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO), close to 17 percent of the world’s livestock breeds face extinction. Many of these livestock breeds are indigenous, adapted to local conditions with long agricultural and pastoral traditions. Africa…
Bangladesh on track to enter world’s top 30 economies: US
Dhaka – With two decades of six percent growth per year, Bangladesh is on track to become a top-30 economies by 2030 despite ‘serious’ security challenges, says the United States.
Let SAARC survive, Bangladesh nurture its brainchild
Mohammad Zainal Abedin, writes from NY National and international print and electronic media apprehend whether the incoming Islamabad Summit of the SARRC (South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation) will be held as scheduled (November 9-10) or postponed or cancelled. Such…
Gazipur RMG boiler blast kills 26 people, injures 47
Gazipur – A boiler explosion at a readymade garment factory near Tongi BSCIC Railway Station in Gazipur, about 25 kilometres north of capital Dhaka killed 26 persons on Friday night and Saturday morning. The death of 16 injured on Saturday raised the death…
Jamaican music legend Prince Buster dead at 78
Fort Lauderdale— Ska pioneer and Jamaican music legend Prince Buster has died at 78, several years after suffering a stroke, his wife Mola Ali said Friday. Born Cecil Bustamante Campbell in Kingston, Jamaica in 1938, he became one of the…
‘Bangladesh on track to become a top 30 economy’
New Delhi – With two decades of six per cent growth per year, Bangladesh is on track to become a top-30 economies by 2030 despite ‘serious’ security challenges, says the United States. “Bangladesh, while facing serious security challenges, has gone…
Hearty Eid Greetings to war-torn Syrian children!
Muslims around the world are celebrating Eid-ul-Adha with joy and festivity. It is a great occasion for the children. They celebrate Eid by wearing new clothes and visiting friends and relatives’ houses. But due to war, Syrian Children are in…
India reiterates its support to BD war crimes trial
India has reiterated its support to the ongoing trial of war criminals in Bangladesh, saying the process has a wide popular support here.
Those for removing Zia’s grave livie in fools’ paradise: Fakhrul
BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Friday warned that the government will have to pay a heavy price if it tries to relocate Ziaur Rahman’s grave from parliament area in the capital.
RU teacher found dead at residence
A female teacher of Rajshahi University’s Journalism department, Akter Jahan Jolly, was found dead at her university residence on the campus on Friday afternoon.
Father of national female footballer assaulted
Father of national U-16 female football team’s goalkeeper Taslima was allegedly physically assaulted by a teacher of her school in Kalsindur village in Dhobaura upazila of the district on Wednesday night.
Mosque imam found dead in Sylhet
Dhaka-Police recovered the hanging body of an imam from his room at Dakkhin Mobarakpur (Andarkona) Jam-e Mosque in Osmaninagar upazila on Thursday.
More than a million Muslims head to Makkah
Millions of Muslims from around the world have started arriving in the Saudi Arabian city of Mecca ahead of the annual Hajj pilgrimage, a central pillar of the Islamic faith that re-enacts the actions of the Prophet Muhammad from more…