Dhaka – The High Court Division of the Supreme Court on Sunday stayed the trial proceedings of two arson cases filed against BNP Chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia with Darus Salam Police Station in the city for six months.
Month: April 2017
President rejects clemency for Mufti Hannan
Militant leader Mufti Mohammad Abdul Hannan will have to walk the gallows over the 2004 grenade attack on the then UK envoy as the president has rejected his clemency plea.The Harkat-ul-Jihadi al Islami (HuJI) leader’s accomplices Sharif Shahedul Alam alias…
Proclamation of Independence Day Monday
Bangladesh is set to recall April 10 as part of revisiting the history as on this day in 1971 the nation saw installation of its first sovereign government with the adoption of the Declaration of Independence. The provisional government was…
Hasina offers munajat at Khwaja Moinuddin Chisty mazar
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, now in India on a four-day official visit, offered ziarat at the dargah (shrine) of Khwaja Moinuddin Chisti (RA) in Ajmer Sharif here this morning. Sheikh Hasina along with a few members of her delegation arrived…
Bangladesh asks for interim teesta deal
Bangladesh on Saturday requested New Delhi for inking an “interim agreement” on Teesta waters as agreed upon by both the governments in January 2011, said a joint agreement issued after Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s talks with counterpart Narendra Modi in…
School banking to create savings habit among students: Nuruzzaman
State Minister for Social Welfare Nuruzzaman Ahmed, MP, has said the present government has launched the school banking system to create savings habit among the youngsters since their student life.“Side by side with devoting to studies and acquiring knowledge, the…
Ranveer Singh opens up about Padmavati
Padmavati has been in the news lately for all the wrong reasons. The Sanjay Leela Bhansali opus has been under a cloud ever since its sets were vandalised and SLB assaulted in Rajasthan sometimes back. Then, fire broke out on…
Shafin releases an acoustic version of the national anthem
Entertainment Desk Shafin Ahmed, the Miles frontman recently released an acoustic version of the national anthem. Shafin posted the video on Facebook recently with a caption: “Even after 46 years of achieving independence, listening to the National Anthem still gives…
Ankita has moved on from Sushant
Ankita Lokhande and Sushant Singh Rajput were the much in love couple people swore by. Post break-up, while there were reports of Sushant seeing Kriti Sanon, Ankita has been taking it slow. She did reportedly want reconciliation initially but now…
Polluted London sets its sights on cars
Gone are the days of London’s “pea souper” smogs, but like many European cities, the British capital is once again being choked by pollution—and has road traffic firmly in its sights. In 1952, the Great Smog suffocated London for five…
Rajshahi economy based on education, ICT, health sectors: Liton
Rajshahi’s economic foundation is being built and enriched based on education, information and communication technology (ICT) and healthcare services, says AHM Khairuzzaman Liton. He mentioned there are two public universities, two private universities, a public medical college and three private…
The Statue of Liberty was originally a Muslim woman
By Erin Blakemore The United States has debated immigration since the country’s founding, and the Statue of Liberty—a potent symbol for immigrants—is often invoked as an argument for why we should usher in those who seek safety and opportunity with…
BNP accuses PM of ‘selling’ Bangladesh for power
Dhaka – BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has complained that Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is ‘selling’ Bangladesh to India to translate her ‘dream of staying in power for life’ into reality.
Neymar sees red as Barcelona fall to surprise Malaga defeat
Barcelona’s Neymar was sent off as they suffered a surprise 2-0 defeat at Malaga on Saturday that scuppered their hopes of going top of La Liga.Former Barcelona striker Sandro Ramirez opened the scoring with a breakaway goal in the 32nd…
DC United turn tables on New York City FC
WASHINGTON, (BSS/AFP) – Luciano Acosta scored his second goal of the Major League Soccer season as DC United avenged their worst defeat since 2015 with a 2-1 victory over New York City FC on Saturday.Lloyd Sam added his first goal…
Kasatkina, Ostapenko to meet for Charleston title
MIAMI,(BSS/AFP) – Daria Kasatkina and Jelena Ostapenko will both be battling for a first WTA title when they meet in the final at Charleston on Sunday.Latvia’s Ostapenko out-lasted 11th-seeded Croatian veteran Mirjana Lucic-Baroni 6-3, 5-7, 6-4, while Russia’s Kasatkina rallied…
Money migrants send home impact one-in-7 people
Perugia, 8 April – While migration issues draw political fire in Europe and beyond, the greater development benefit of the approximate half trillion US dollars that migrants send home each year to poor families and nations can’t be underestimated, according…
Dhaka, Delhi joint statement sets new vision for future
Bangladesh and India have issued a joint statement laying down the vision of the two leaders – Sheikh Hasina and Narendra Modi –for the benefit of the region. The two Prime Ministers expressed “firm commitment” to set an example of…
Excelsior Scholarship in NY budget to reduce student debt
New York – First-in-the-Nation Program Makes NYS Public Universities Tuition-Free for Families Making Up to $125,000 Per Year, Alleviating Crushing Burden of Student Debt and Placing More New Yorkers on Path to Financial Security.
JU Socialist Students Front protests Tuition fees hike bid
Savar, Dhaka – Denouncing govt’s bid to hike tuition fees, Samajtantrik Chhatra Front, Jahangirnagar University (JU) unit, brought out a procession here on the campus yesterday (Saturday).
Int’l confe on Nano-electrochemistry begins at RU
Rajshahi – A two-day long international conference styled ‘Material Science and Nano-electrochemistry’ began at Rajshahi University (RU) on Friday.
Teesta issue will find an early solution: Modi
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi today acknowledged the Teesta issue to have drawn “greatest attention” in regard to bilateral relations and expressed his “firm belief” that it would find an early solution. “I firmly believe that it is only my…
Dhaka Delhi for zero tolerance on terrorism
Bangladesh and India today reinforced their pledge “zero tolerance” policy against terrorism and extremism alongside reiterating their strong commitment to make borders peaceful and free from criminal activities as Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina held talks with her counterpart Nardendra Modi…
Dhaka Delhi sign 22 deals on diverse areas of cooperation
Dhaka and New Delhi have signed 22 instruments covering diverse areas of bilateral cooperations including economic, defense cooperation, power, peaceful use of nuclear energy, outer space, information technology and mass media. The deals were signed following the official bilateral talks…
Developing nations seek funding tech to battle climate change
The negative fallout from climate change has not only severely impacted on the world’s developing nations but also eroded development gains undermining and delaying the achievement of the 17goals under the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Climate-Summit-Social-Media“We are already taking…
Indonesian man faced caning for gay sex
Two men in Indonesia’s conservative Aceh province each face up to 100 strokes of the cane after neighbours reported them to sharia police for having gay sex. Marzuki, the sharia police’s chief investigator, said on Saturday that residents in the…
Folk medicine, traditional medicine in Bangladesh
Heritage, folk medicine and traditional medical practices are closely related to each other. Preservation of heritage is about making sense of our past and developing a sense of identity. Traditional medicine (TM), a form of intangible cultural heritage (ICH), constitutes…
Three killed in Mymensingh road accident
Dhaka -At least three people were killed and two others injured in a truck-pickup van collision at Sokholla Morolbari on Mymensingh-Sherpur road under Phulpur upazila of the district in the early hours of today.
Road crash kills two in Sylhet
SYLHET,- Two people were killed in a road accident in Nipoban area on Sylhet-Tamabil road here this afternoon.The identities of the deceased could not be known immediately.
Cycling: Boonen aiming for Paris-Roubaix swansong
COMPIEGNE, France, (BSS/AFP) – The curtain will come down on the career of one of cycling’s greats at the end of Sunday’s 257km long ‘Hell of the North’ one-day classic. Tom Boonen will ride Paris-Roubaix for the 14th time, aiming…