Staff Reporter Dhaka,Mar 5-The attacker on the popular author, Academic, Professor Muhammed Zafar Iqbal arrested the day when the incident happened but till now the law enforcement agencies could not tell how many of the attackers were involved with the…
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STAFF REPORTER Dhaka,Mar 5 -The Hajj Agencies Association of Bangladesh (HAAB) Today announced the Hajj packages keeping minimum cost at Tk 332,868 per pilgrim those who wanted to perform Hajj this year.
STAFF REPORTER Dhaka,Mar 5- Some 1,010 Qawmi madrasa graduates Monday join government service for the first time as the Qawmi madrasa certificates got the government recognition.
A former adviser of Caretaker Government M Hafizuddin Khan has compared the present political situation of Bangladesh with English writer Gorge Orwell’s novel Animal Farm saying that here nobody have the right to differ with the government.He made the remark…
Dhaka – A college girl allegedly committed suicide by taking poison over a family feud in Borakotha village of Uzirpur upazila in Barisal on Monday morning.
Dhaka – Police recovered the body of a farmer from the playground of a school in Lebutola union of sadar upazila here in Jessore on early Monday.
Dhaka -Police recovered the body of a housewife from a house at Fakirhat Panthishah Mazar area in Sitakunda upazila in Chittagong on Monday noon.
Dhaka – A court here on Monday sentenced seven people to life term imprisonment for killing a minor girl after rape in 2010.
Dhaka – A school boy was killed after falling off the roof of a moving bus on Jessore-Khulna Highway at Basundia here on Monday.
Durban,(AP/UNB) – Australia needed less than 20 minutes of the final day to take the one more wicket it needed to finish off a 118-run win in the series-opening test against South Africa.
Dhaka – The 8th round matches of the 12-team Dhaka Premier Division Cricket League will begin at three separate venues in Dhaka and its adjoining areas on Tuesday.
Dhaka – Scholastica Uttara maintained all-run in the boys’ section of the Bubble Gum Under-14 School Handball Tournament beating Scholastica Mirpur by 7-3 goals at Shaheed Captain M Mansur Ali Handball Stadium here on Monday.
Dhaka – In commemoration of the 70th anniversary of Sri Lanka’s independence, the seven-match Nidahas Trophy will kick off at the R Premadasa Stadium in Colombo on Tuesday.
Dhaka – Dipali Juba Sangha defeated Government Printing Pres S&RC by 3-0 goals in the Saif Power Battery 3rd Division Football League at Birshreshtha Shaheed Sepoy Mohammad Mostafa Kamal Stadium in Kamalapur on Monday.
President Xi is expected to be granted broad new powers by China’s National People’s Congress, which kicked off its annual session today. For more than two decades Chinese presidents have been limited to two five-year terms, said CBS News correspondent…
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday visited the Combined Military Hospital (CMH) here to see Dr Zafar Iqbal who was injured in a knife attack on the campus of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST) in Sylhet.She went to…
Kuwait has imposed a ban on recruiting Bangladeshis to work in the northern Arabian Gulf state.Kuwait’s Interior Minister Shaikh Khalid Al Jarrah has ordered the ban and asked the interior ministry to apply it, reports Gulf News on Monday quoting…
After a three-day interval, Myanmar Army again took position along Tambru border in Naikkhonchhari upazila of Bandarban district on Monday, creating panic among the Rohingyas who have taken shelter on no man’s land.
“A flat tax is for a flat earth”: This was my answer to Grzegorz Kolodko, Poland’s Minister of Finance and First Deputy Premier for the Economy (1994-97 and 2002-03), when in the mid-1990s he asked me – his adviser sponsored…
Will the period of postings be shortened from 24 months to 12 (with a potential 6-month extension) as proposed last week by the negotiators on behalf of the European Parliament, the Council and Commission? The current talks between European Parliament…
Education Engineering Department (EED) has implemented 981 schemes under 14 major development projects at a cost of around Taka 361.31 crore in Rajshahi and Chapainawabganj districts during last nine years.
South Africa says it has finally traced the source of a listeria outbreak that has killed 180 people in the past year – said to make it the worst in history.
A group art exhibition ShohorNama inaugurated at the Daily Star-Bengal Arts Precinct on March 3. The venue features works by Tayeba Begum Lipi, Najmun Nahar Keya and Shimul Saha and Kao Jun-Honn (Taiwan) while Salauddin Ahmed’s work is being displayed…
Sam Rockwell on Sunday won the Oscar for best supporting actor for “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri,” with one of the night’s top films picking up the first award.
Culture Desk Elocutionists of Udichi Dhaka Mahanagar Sangsad enthralled the audience reciting poems depicting irregularities, abnormalities and anomalies in the society, human rights and others at a event which was held at Music and Dance Hall of Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy…
Los Angeles, Mar 5 (AP/UNB) —McDormand’s portrayal of a mother seeking justice for her murdered daughter in “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” has won the best actress Academy Award.
Los Angeles, Mar 5 (AP/UNB) — The Cold War fantasy film “The Shape of Water” is the winner of the best picture Academy Award. Director Guillermo del Toro’s film has been considered one of the front-runners for the evening’s top…
By Sanam Naraghi-Anderlini Washington DC, Mar (IPS) – In 1909, the Socialist Party of America, in support of female garment workers protesting working conditions, designated March 8 as a day to honor women. By 1917, women in Russia were protesting…
The 4th People’s Health Assembly marking the 40th anniversary of Alma Ata Declaration on Primary Health Care will be held in November at Savar, near Dhaka.