US Ambassador to Bangladesh Earl Miller, accompanied by USAID Mission Director Derrick Brown, has visited the Sundarbans to support the growing partnership between the United States and Bangladesh. Ahead of World Wetlands Day that falls on February 2, his visit…
Rajshahi Zone of Islami Bank Bangladesh Limited organized Clients’ Get-together at Parjatan Motel, Rajshahi on 26 January 2020. Mohammed Monirul Moula, Additional Managing Director of the Bank addressed the program as chief guest. Md. Omar Faruk Khan, Deputy Managing Director…
Sydney (AP/UNB) — Former Premier League stars Didier Drogba, Dwight Yorke and Park Ji-Sung are among an initial group of international footballers confirmed for an exhibition match in Sydney in May to aid in the country’s recovery from devastating wildfires.…
Dhaka – Bangladesh’s celebrated archer Ruman Shana has been promoted to the post of Lance Naik of Bangladesh Ansar & VDP. Director General of Ansar & VDP Major General Kazi Sharif Kaikobad adorned badges to Shana, recognising his achievements in…
Dhaka -Reigning Champions Titas Club will play Power Development Board (PDB) in the final of Bangabandhu Popular Life Insurance Premier Division Volleyball League on Wednesday. The match will kick-off at 3:30pm at the Shaheed Nur Hossain National Volleyball Stadium here.…
Dhaka — Bangladeshi southpaw opening batsmen Imrul Kayes and Shadman Islam are uncertain about playing in the first Test of the two-match series against Pakistan starting on February 7 in Rawalpindi. Imrul is yet to recover from the hamstring injury…
Dhaka- Shariatpur District beat Dhaka District by 1-0 goal in a Padma Zone match of Bangabandhu National Football Championship at the Kamalpur Stadium here on Tuesday. In the day’s anther Padma Zone match, hosts Cumilla defeated Munshiganj by 3-0 goals…
Ricky Martin’s wide smile began to fade as the Puerto Rican superstar talked about his next album.
A court in Gazipur on Tuesday placed four people on a three-day remand each over the alleged gang-rape of a teenage girl at a birthday party at Nayanpur of Sreepur upazila.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday reiterated her firm stance to use Bangladesh’s fossil fuel for its own economic development and the wellbeing of people.
BNP’s mayoral candidate for the upcoming Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) polls Engineer Ishraque Hossain on Tuesday announced his manifesto promising to work for building Dhaka as a ‘world class metropolis’.
A court here on Tuesday sentenced Destiny Group’s managing director Rafiqul Amin to three years’ jail in a case filed for failing to submit his wealth statement to the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC).
Health Minister Zahid Maleque on Tuesday said there is nothing to worry about coronavirus as no such patient has been detected in Bangladesh yet.
Sony’s “Bad Boys for Life” stayed atop the North American box office at the weekend, while war film “1917” held at second as it continued racking up awards, industry watcher Exhibitor Relations said today
Culture Desk Over the last couple of years, popular variety show ‘Ityadi’ has been under the camera at different historic places. The latest episode of the show was shot recently in the historically significant northern most corner of the country—…
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Five members of a family, including a child, were burned to death and two others suffered burn injuries in a fire at a house on Central Road in the district town on Tuesday.
Two people were killed and 15 others injured as a bus plunged into a road side ditch on Chattogram-Kaptai road at Pahartoli in Rangunia upazila on Tuesday.
Various cold-related diseases affected 4244 people across the country in the last 24 hours, the government said on Tuesday.
By Samira Sadeque UN, Jan 23 2020 (IPS) – More than 70 percent of the global population is currently living in parts of the world where income inequality has grown, according to a World Social Report 2020 launched by United…
By Thalif Deen UN, Jan 27 2020 (IPS) – Donald Trump, the vociferously unpredictable US president, has long chastised China for seeking “unfair” advantage over trade and tariffs, violating intellectual property rights and “manipulating” the country’s currency to its advantage.…
Dhaka, Jan 27 – Housing and Public Works Minister SM Rezaul Karim on Monday said Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha (Rajuk) has taken up a project for ‘urban redevelopment’, aiming to resolve the existing civic problems of Old Dhaka.
Rajshahi, Jan 27 – The students of the Population Science and Human Resource department of Rajshahi University formed a human chain demanding the Subject Code at the university campus on Monday.
Dhaka, Jan 27 – Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) KM Nurul Huda yesterday said the Dhaka City Corporation polls cannot be made questionable by a few isolated incidents.
Dhaka, Jan 27 – Two members of a family died of sudden fever in a village of Lauhajong Upazila in Munshiganj district. The death incidents of a woman and her nephew create panic among the local people.
Dhaka Jan 27 – BNP mayoral candidate for Dhaka North City Corporation election Tabith Awal on Monday announced his poll manifesto giving emphasis to turn the capital city of Dhaka into an intelligent city by controlling the mosquito menace, curbing…