বাংলাদেশের টেকনাফে কথিত বন্দুকযুদ্ধে সেখানকার পৌর কাউন্সিলর ও স্থানীয় যুবলীগের সাবেক সভাপতি মো. একরামুল হকের নিহত হওয়ার ঘটনা নিয়ে রেকর্ডকরা অডিও প্রকাশ হওয়ার পর ঘটনা নিয়ে সামাজিক নেটওয়ার্কে ব্যাপক ক্ষোভের সৃষ্টি হয়েছে। খবর বিবিসি বাংলার। দেশটির কিছু সংবাদমাধ্যমেও তা প্রকাশ…
বাংলাদেশে যাবজ্জীবন সাজাপ্রাপ্ত তোফায়েল আহমেদ জোসেফ রাষ্ট্রপতির ক্ষমায় মুক্তি পাওয়ার পর তা নিয়ে সামাজিক নেটওয়ার্কসহ বিভিন্ন মহলে প্রশ্ন উঠ তে শুরু করেছে। স্বরাষ্ট্রমন্ত্রী আসাদুজ্জামান খান বলেছেন, রাষ্ট্রপতি তাঁর সাংবিধানিক ক্ষমতা বা এখতিয়ারবলে ক্ষমা করেছেন।খবর দিয়েছে বিবিসি বাংলা।
অমিতাভ ভট্টশালী বিবিসি বাংলা, কলকাতা ভারতের ওড়িশা রাজ্যের এক বাসিন্দা বন্ধুর সঙ্গে জুয়া খেলতে নেমেছিলেন স্ত্রীকে বাজি রেখে। সেই জুয়া খেলতে গিয়ে হেরে যান তিনি। আর খেলার শর্ত হিসাবে স্ত্রীকে তুলে দেন জয়ী ব্যক্তির হাতে। সেই ব্যক্তি পরাজিতর স্ত্রীকে ধর্ষণও…
Unrealized Potential: The High Cost of Gender Inequality in Earnings is the first in a series of reports that aim to measure the global economic costs of gender inequality. This first report measures these losses in lifetime earnings.
Dhaka – A housewife was killed as a bus ran over her at Ghorapata in KaliganjSadarupazila jn Satkhira on Friday afternoon.
Dhaka- Detectivesarrested two alleged fake currency traders along with counterfeit notes worth around Tk 83,000 from Badalgachhiupazila on Thursday night.
Henrietta H. Fore, Natalia Kanem, and Mabel van Oranje New York – The human costs of child marriage are well known; around the world, child brides are, on average, less educated, poorer, and more prone to sexual violence than women…
Dhaka – Police in a drive arrested five alleged robbers from Joynabari area early Fridayon charges of robberyin running buses on Dhaka-Aricha highway.
Kumi Naidoo Johannesburg – Governments around the world are engaged in a series of talks that could fundamentally alter how the movement of people across borders is managed. One dialogue is focused on the protection of refugees; the other on…
Dhaka, June 1 – Seven port users’ organizations – Benapole customs clearing and forwarding agents association, import and exporters association, truck owners association, transport owners association, truck workers union, C&F agent staff association and Benapole port workers union- at a…
Dhaka- Biman Bangladesh Airlines has become the title sponsor of the upcoming Bangladesh-Afghanistan T20 cricket series scheduled to take place in Dehradun, India from June to 3-7.
Dhaka, June 1 – Chief Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain has assigned the Appellate Division Justice Hasan Foez Siddique as the chamber judge of the Appellate Division for hearing and disposing of urgent cases during the ongoing annual vacation. Besides that,…
Dhaka- Bangladesh Grandmaster Ziaur Rahman finished 18th in the 11th KIIT International Chess Festivalat Bhubaneswar in India’s Odisha on Friday.
Dhaka – The International Cricket Council’s ODI team rankings has expanded to 16 teams after the governing body confirmed Friday the additions of four teams–Scotland, Netherlands, Nepal and the United Arab Emirates.
DHAKA – A mild heat wave is sweeping over the regions of Khulna, Satkhira, Jashore, Dhaka and Kishoreganj, and it may abate in 24 hours as of 9 am tomorrow.
WASHINGTON,(BSS/AFP) – US President Donald Trump was to receive a letter from his North Korean counterpart Kim Jong Un on Friday, a much-anticipated moment as preparations for a historic nuclear summit gain pace.
Members of Bangladesh Coast Guard on Friday rescued 18 abducted fishermen, including a woman, from Nalian area of the Sundarbans under Koyra upazila of Khulna.
Bangladesh Railway authorities started selling advance train tickets on Friday on the occasion of Eid-ul-Fitr.
A mobile court on Friday fined six meat traders Tk 1.40 lakh for selling stale meat at Shantinagar kitchen market in the city.
Sweden Ambassador in Dhaka Charlotta Schlyter and Counsellor, Head of Development Cooperation, Swedish Embassy in Bangkok Anne-Charlotte Malm visited Deluti Union Parishad of Paikgacha Upazila in Khulna District on Friday to see the initiative of Gender Responsive Climate Change Adaptation.
Today, a US federal court heard arguments in a lawsuit against Greenpeace that raises serious concerns about freedom of expression.
BNP senior leader Moudud Ahmed on Friday criticised Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s remark that India will ever remember Bangladesh for what it gave to neighbouring country and termed it insulting for the nation.
Dubai carrier Emirates has announced plans to reintroduce its summer discount scheme for boarding pass holders from the end of this week. The carrier said the ‘my Emirates pass’ promotion would allow travellers to take advantage of discounts across Dubai…
Saudi Arabia’s General Directorate of Passports has warned Umrah pilgrims to abide by their visa terms or face a fine of SAR50,000 ($13,332) and six months in prison before deportation. Visa regulation means those travelling for Umrah cannot leave the…
Since the populist Five Star Movement and the right-wing League captured a combined parliamentary majority in Italy’s March 4th election, Italian politics has been at an impasse, with the two parties struggling to form a government. But now, with President…
Ghasphul, a mass media organisation on Thursday organised a discussion meeting at the Jatiya Press Club to bring into focus the contribution of painter Syed Lutful Huq to fine arts literature.
by Haritha John, S. Gopikrishna Warrier • Perambra, a village in Kozhikode district of Kerala has been in the news after illness and death were reported due to Nipah virus infection. • Even while the spread of the infection has…
Dhaka – Two people were crushed to death under the wheels of a train in separate incidents in Kalihati upazila early Friday.
Dhaka, May 31 – BNP senior leader Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain on Thursday alleged that the government has kept their chairperson Khaleda Zia in jail by regulating the judiciary to hold another ‘farcical election’.
Dhaka – Another two suspected drug peddlers were killed in a purported gunfight with members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) at Karamja village in Paba upazila on Thursday night.