Egyptian authorities on Thursday significantly raised the death toll from clashes the previous day between police and supporters of the ousted Islamist president, saying more than 500 people died and laying bare the extent of the violence that swept much…
The nation is observing the 38th death anniversary of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on Thursday by paying homage to the Independence War hero.
Police have arrested Tangail’s Madhupur Municipality Mayor and BNP leader Shahidul Islam, better known as Sarkar Shahid. Shahid is the second elected mayor affiliated to the BNP arrested in the last few months. Another such mayor faces charges of war…
BNP chief Khaleda Zia’s grandchildren have wished her on her ‘birthday’ on Thursday.
In the wake of opposition BNP’s threat to wage a tough movement to realise its demand, Awami League general secretary Syed Ashraful Islam on Thursday said no movement could bring any amicable solution.
Police arrested four local leaders of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami from the city’s Gopibagh area on Wednesday night.
The hope for holding the election to bifurcated Dhaka City Corporations any time soon fade as the polls process lost way in fresh bureaucratic tangles. The elections to the two city corporations — Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) and Dhaka…
Bangladesh Railway (BR) on Thursday launched two Diesel Electric Multiple Unit (Demu) trains on Parbatipur-Lalmonirhat and Parbatipur-Thakurgaon routes on experimental basis.
A 30-km tailback was created on Dhaka-Chittagong Highway on Thursday following a road accident in Daudkandi upazila, causing sufferings to thousands of people.
All ranks of the Border Security Force (BSF) deployed in India’s eastern frontier would be assigned with a special task from Independence Day — to learn Bangla in its spoken and written forms.
Unidentified miscreants vandalised five idols at a Hindu temple in Madaripur’s Shibchar Upazila on Thursday morning.
Thirty two members of the US Congress and forty prominent personalities from around the globe in two separate open letters to the Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina appealed not to implement the recommendations of the government-appointed Commission on restructuring the Grameen…
The government will build a separate railway bridge alongside the existing Jamuna Multipurpose Bridge to facilitate railway connectivity and the project will be implemented on a public private partnership (PPP) basis.
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A two day district level refresher and user security training on web portal digitised service for the government officials concluded at the local circuit house here on Wednesday.
Two Bangladeshi nationals who were sentenced to eight months’ imprisonment for intruding into India were released from Dumdum jail in Calcutta on Wednesday.
Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) members in a drive seized 212 kg Hilsa fish worth Tk 2.12 lakh from Alipur area in Sadar upazila of the district on Thursday morning.
At least 50 people were injured in a clash between two rival groups of the ruling Awami League (AL) over establishing dominance in bordering area of Sonatandi and Ballovdi villages in Saltha upazila of the district on Wednesday.
Three people, including a Jubo League (JL) activist, were killed and another injured as two motorcycles rammed into each other on the Chatkhil-Sonaimuri road in Chatkhil upazila early Thursday.
An eve-teaser received an year’s of imprisonment by a mobile court for harassing a housewife in Palokury village of Gunaher union under Dupchanchia upazila of Bogra district on Tuesday.
Members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) recovered 12 crude bombs from Shaheed Zia Degree College compound in the town on Wednesday night.
Indian Border Security Force (BSF) has handed over bodies of the two Bangladeshis who were beaten to death by a mob at Chichingpara in the state of Meghalaya of India on Tuesday.
Police arrested a local leader of Jamaat-e-Islami and an activist of the party from Baghri village in Rajapur upazila of the district on Wednesday.
Local unit of Islami Chhatra Shibir, student body of Jamaat-e-Islami, on Thursday called a half-day hartal in the district for Sunday protesting the death of Khalilur Rahman, 88-ward unit president of the capital.
Pirates kidnapped 15 fishermen along with one trawler from Talia Char area in the Meghna river under Hatia upazila of Noakhali district early Thursday.
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By Anthony Gregory
By Arab News
Wimbledon champion Marion Bartoli is retiring from tennis just 40 days after winning her only Grand Slam title.
It was revealed on Tuesday that nine individuals have been charged with corruption offences – seven with match-fixing or spot-fixing and two with failure to report illegal approaches – stemming from the second season of the Twenty20 league.