Savar – Robbers looted valuables including cash and gold ornaments from a house at Tenguri in Ashulia in Savar upazila on the outskirts of the capital early Thursday.Mohsinul Kadir, officer-in-charge of Ashulia Police Station, said 10-12 robbers swooped on the…
Barguna – In separate incidents, seven fishermen were abducted by forest robbers from the Bay in Patharghata upazila early Wednesday.Golam Mostafa Chowdhury, president of Barguna District Fisheries Trawler Owners Association, said a group of fishermen went to Narikelbaria and Dudhmukhi…
Dhaka – Four people including a woman were found dead separately in Jessore, Rajshahi and Bogra districts on Wednesday.In Bogra, the throat-slit body of a private car driver, Ripon Ahmed,35, son of Abdus Sattar of Namuza Sonapur area of the…
Mymensingh – Police in a drive arrested three people along with huge VoIP equipment, SIM cards from Sankipara Nayan Moni Market area in the district town on Wednesday night.Tipped off, a team of police raided at the house of one…
Dhaka – Ain O Salish Kendra (ASK), a legal aid and human rights organisation, Thursday published a report over the violation of human rights of the country. The report said at least seventy nine people were killed in police custody…
Dhaka – BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia on Thursday alleged that Bangladesh Rifles (BDR), now BGB, has been turned into a cat from a tiger. “As BDR has been wakened, Myanmar border guards (Nasaka) showed their audacity in intruding inside the…
Dhaka – The United Kingdom has urged Bangladesh, as a vibrant, modern and rapidly growing democracy, to protect and promote freedom of expression as one of its core values and rights of all citizens, Unb news agency reported. Addressing a…
Dhaka – Bangladesh Parliament on Thursday passed the country’s biggest ever national budget of Tk 340505 crore for 2016-2017 fiscal aiming at attaining a higher growth. Finance Minister Abul Maal Abdul Muhith on June 2 placed the proposed national budget,…
Washington, D.C.—- A collaborative international assessment of hundreds of peer-reviewed scientific papers published since 2005 finds significant, albeit indirect, evidence that access to voluntary family planning can contribute to an environmentally sustainable world (fpesa.net).
Margaret Kimberley This week the world has to be thankful for hubris and political miscalculation. These two factors have temporarily thrown a wrench into the imperialist project. No one in the British or American establishment foresaw the “Brexit” vote that…
Washington — The State Department is putting al-Qaida’s branch in the Indian subcontinent on its list of foreign terrorist groups. Thursday’s action bans Americans from engaging in transactions with the group or its leader, Asim Umar, and freezes any assets…
Voicing deep concern over a death threat to the chief priest of Dharmarajika Buddhist Monastery in the city, BNP on Thursday alleged that the lives of minority people are now more at stake than ever before under the rule of…
The American Embassy, including consular section and the American Center, will remain closed on Sunday and Monday in observance of Shab-e-Qadr and U.S. Independence Day respectively. The Embassy will also remain closed on Wednesday and Thursday to celebrate Eid-ul-Fitr. Shab-e-Qadr…
The government on Thursday signed two financing agreements totalling to $200 million with the World Bank, aiming to improve health services and the living condition of urban poor in selected municipality areas. Economic Relations Division (ERD) Additional Secretary Kazi Shofiqul…
IRENA-led toolkit for renewable energy deployment moves to mobilise finance, reduce costs and chart renewable potentials Beijing – Energy Ministers and other senior officials recognised recent progress to scale up renewable energy and examined opportunities for even greater action today…
M Jewel Rana, Additional District and Session’s Judge of Dhaka, has been suspended for misconduct. The Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Ministry issued a notification on Thursday in this regard. As per the notification, there is an allegation against Judge…
Dhaka – A court of Dhaka on Thursday deferred the submission of probe report for the 19th time to August 1 in a case filed against BNP Chief Begum Khaleda Zia on the charge of hurting religious sentiments of people.
The government on Thursday removed Vice Chancellor of Islamic University (IU) Prof Abdul Hakim Sarker without citing any reason. In a circular issued by the Education Ministry said President Abdul Hamid, who is also the Chancellor of the university, relieved…
Dhaka – The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Bangladesh Public-Private Partnership Authority today signed a transaction advisory services agreement that will pave the way for a public-private partnership project (PPP) to prepare and develop a major access road to…
Managing director of state-owned Agrani Bank Syed Abdul Hamid has been removed from his post for granting huge loans violating rules. A letter, singed by Bangladesh Bank Governor Fazle Kabir, containing removal order of the central bank, was sent to…
Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Commissioner Md Asaduzzaman Mia on Thursday said special security measures have been taken in the capital ahead of the 9-day Eid holidays in public offices beginning from Friday. “We have taken special security for the city…
Jumatul Wida, the last Juma prayer during the holy month of Ramjan, will be observed across the country on Friday with due solemnity and religious fervour. Thousands of Muslim devotees will attend the Juma prayers at different mosques, seeking divine…
It takes over 15 hours to travel the 350 kilometres from Hossainpur, Kishoreganj to Khulna city. To Rahima Khatun (39), the journey seemed to last forever as she fidgeted in anticipation; was this really happening? Would she finally get to…
Sheikh HasinaPrime minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday accused the BNP-Jamaat clique again of carrying out the recent secret killings in the country and said the government will surely take actions against those responsible for the murders, no matter who they…
Dhaka-Academic activities of Rajshahi University (RU) are being hampered for scarcity of adequate number of classrooms, teacher’s chambers, seminar rooms and laboratory rooms.
Dhaka-Student leaders of Dhaka University Central Students’ Union (DUCSU) of ‘90 and All-Party Students Unity have demanded the release of eminent personalities including senior journalist Shafik Rehman, Amardesh editor Mahmudur Rahman and Nagorik Oikya leader Mahmudur Rahman Manna before the…
Dhaka-A Dhaka court on Wednesday, once again, deferred the date for submission of probe report in the Sagar-Runi murder case to August 18. The Rapid Action Battalion failed to submit the report on Wednesday, like many other previous dates.
Dhaka – GM Mollah Abdullah Al Rakib and GM Enamul Hossain Razib shared the lead in the Saif Power-tec International Rating Chess Tournament after the 6th round games at National Sports Council Auditorium and Bangladesh Chess Federation hall-room on Wednesday.Both…
Dhaka – A brilliant hat-trick by national coloured forward Rasel Mahmud Jimmi enabled Dhaka Mohammedan SC to beat title aspirant Usha KC by 5-3 goals in the Green Delta Premier Division Hockey League at Moulana Bhashani National Stadium here on…
Khagrachhari – A couple was found dead near a lake at Paipa in Matiranga upazila here on Wednesday.Local people spotted the bodies of Enamul Haq, 45 and his wife Parvin Akther, 35, in the area in the morning and informed…