Dhaka, June 23 – Exercise of integrity is not done properly due to lack of political willingness which creates obstacles to prevent corruption, the establishment of good governance and accountability. Despite hiking allowances and salaries of the public servants—but corruption…
Dhaka – Bangladesh Olympic Association (BOA) arranged Olympic Day Run’ 2019 in the capital and as well as 64 district headquarters of the country on Sunday as part of global program of the founding anniversary of International Olympic Committee (IOC).…
Dhaka -To Keep their semi-final dream alive in a tough situation in the ongoing ICC Cricket World Cup, Bangladesh badly needs a win against Afghanistan on Monday at the Rose Bowl in Southampton. To stay in the last four battle,…
Dhaka – Bangladeshi Grand Master Ziaur Rahman (rating 2461) beat his upper ranked Indian Grand Master Abhijeet Gupta (rating 2606) in the 8th round match of the Goa International Open Grandmasters Chess Tournament held in Goa on Sunday. GM Zia…
Dhaka, Jun 23 (UNB) – Apple has joined a growing chorus of firms urging the Trump administration to drop a plan for more US tariffs on Chinese goods, reports the BBC. The US has said it may impose duties on…
Syria, June 23 (Xinhua/UNB) — After the war in the Syrian northern city of Aleppo broke out, Zakaraia Qarkoush, carrying his pottery craft, escaped to the central city of Homs. Ahead of the war, there were 13 pottery factories in…
Dhaka, June 23 (UNB) – Leaders of different anti-tobacco organisations on Sunday urged the government to impose specific tax on tobacco products and withdraw all the facilities given to tobacco companies in the national budget considering public health. They came…
Riyadh, Jun 23 (AP/UNB) — Saudi Arabia’s state airline Saudia says it is rerouting flight paths to some Asian destinations in order to avoid Iranian airspace amid heightened tensions in the Persian Gulf. The statement Saturday evening follows the U.S.…
Dhaka, June 23 (UNB) – Information Minister Hasan Mahmud on Sunday said the programmes aired by Bangladesh Television (BTV) will also be seen in India soon. Addressing a press conference at the secretariat, Hasan Mahmud said an agreement was signed…
Life & Style Desk Summer’s about hot sticky afternoons and humid evenings that will have you desperate for a shower every 10 minutes! Not to mention greasy hair and oily skin. Here’s quick ways to stay fresh, keep the hair…
Hypertension otherwise called high blood pressure, is a medicinal condition in which the blood pressure in the arteries is persistently raised. Hypertension is a major problem in our society. It does not act directly as a killer disease but gradually…
Rock legend Elton John is to be awarded France’s highest civilian honour this week as he passes through Paris as part of his farewell tour, the French presidency said. The Legion d’Honneur award will be presented to the 72-year-old megastar…
Culture Desk Shahiduzzaman Selim has been elected as the president and Ahsan Habib Nasim has been reelected as the general secretary in the elections for Obhinoy Shilpi Sangha. The election for the apex body of TV drama actors of the…
Culture Desk Mostofa Sarwar Farooki’s unreleased film Shonibar Bikel and Bangladesh’s first anthology film Iti, Tomari Dhaka will take part in the on-going Leeds International Film Festival (LIFF) in the UK. The festival started at London on June 20 and…
Dhaka, June 23 — The BNP on Saturday night expelled a dozen demonstrating leaders of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal’s (JCD) recently dissolved committee for breaching party discipline. A press release, signed by BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, said the…
Dhaka, Jun 23 (UNB)- Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday said that Awami League was formed on this in 1949 to bring back the independence of Bangladesh which was lost in Amrakanon on June 23, 1757 through the defeat of…
Washington, Jun 23 (AP/UNB) — The Trump administration on Saturday unveiled a $50 billion Palestinian investment and infrastructure proposal intended to be the economic engine to power its much-anticipated but still unreleased “deal of the century” Middle East peace plan.…
Bangkok, Jun 23 (AP/UNB) — Southeast Asian leaders have pressed their call for self-restraint in the disputed South China Sea after a new incident and renewed their alarm over the U.S.-China trade war with one warning it may spiral out…
Cox’s Bazar, June 23 (UNB) – Two people, including a Rohingya man accused of human trafficking, were killed in a reported gunfight with police at Katabunia in Teknaf upazila on early Sunday. The deceased were identified as Md Rubel Hossain,…
Los Angeles, June 22 (AP/UNB) — A look at the status of the major figures in the life and death of Michael Jackson after 10 years, starting with the King of Pop himself: MICHAEL JACKSON: Jackson, who would be 60…
Dhaka, Jun 23 – Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday said that Awami League was formed on this in 1949 to bring back the independence of Bangladesh which was lost in Amrakanon on June 23, 1757, through the defeat of…
Sihanoukville, Jun 23 (AP/UNB) — Cambodian rescuers combing through the rubble of a collapsed seven-story building recovered the bodies of 17 construction workers and pulled out 24 injured, as authorities questioned four Chinese who were involved with the project. Construction…
Washington, Jun 23 (AP/UNB) — Officials say U.S. military cyber forces earlier this week launched a retaliatory cyber strike against Iranian computer systems amid escalating tensions between the two countries. Three U.S. officials tell The Associated Press that the operation…
Dhaka, June 22 – The Rohingya issue is likely to come up when Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina meets the Chinese President during her official visit in July, Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen said on Saturday. “Myanmar has great respect for…
Dhaka, June 22 – In separate incidents, police have recovered the hanging bodies of two people in Shahjadpur and Dhanmondi areas in the city. The deceased were identified as Pranta Pirich, 24, son of Ranjit Pirich, and Mohiuddin Jahangir, 55.…
Littleton, Jun 22 (AP/UNB) — A flock of ducklings is safe in suburban Denver after a firefighter used a recording of duck calls to coax some of them from a storm drain. A video from South Metro Fire Rescue shows…
Dhaka, June 22 – Bangladesh received some US$ 15 billion remittance in the first 11 months of the outgoing fiscal year of 2018-19, according to statistics placed by Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal in Parliament on Saturday. “The amount of…
Dhaka, Jun 22 – Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal on Saturday placed in Parliament the list of 300 top loan defaulters of the country involving Tk 50,942 crore (Tk 509bn). The Finance Minister made the disclosure while responding to a…
Dhaka, Jun 22 – Taking a swipe at BNP’s Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, ruling Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader asked the party to take to the streets if it can. “BNP has been talking about movements. If it has…
‘PM’s remarks in JS on pillow scam ‘untrue’, says Fakhrul Dhaka, June 22 – BNP on Saturday decided to announce action programmes at different divisions by a month in a bid to intensify its movement for having its chairperson Khaleda…