Annual sports and prize distribution function of the Chapainawabganj district police were held on May 23 at police lines field.Members of police, their family members, employees and the students of Police Lines Primary School took part in the competitions of…
An elderly woman was killed in thunderbolt at Motilalpur village under Moheshpur upazila in Jhenidah on Friday afternoon The deceased was identified as Rokeya Khatun, 50 wife of Bahar Ali of Motilalpur under Moheshpur upazila of the district.
The newly set up weather office in Ramgati upazila is yet to start functioning though five years have already gone by since after completion of the building. Because of the delay in its opening, the people of the district are…
The agitated readymade garment workers went on strike demanding salary increase on Saturday morning and the authorities of garments shut their factories.
At least 47 Bangladeshi nationals including women and children retuned after serving two years in prison in India for dwelling illegally on Friday night.
Opposition BNP on Saturday threatened to go on self-imprisonment if the government does not reinstate the caretaker government system to oversee the next general election.
A suspected mugger was killed in police firing in the city’s Agargaon area on Saturday night.
BNP Standing Committee Member Gayeshwar Chandra Roy has urged the government again to sit for a dialogue to decide the framework on the election-time government.
Hartal supporters unleash violence in the capital on Saturday evening ahead of Sunday’s hartal called by opposition BNP-led 18-party alliance.
Finance Minster AMA Muhith on Saturday said the threat of US to stop GSP facilities (generalized system of preference) is “illegal, illogical and injustice”.
Bangladesh Bank governor Dr Atiur Rahman on Saturday said the growth of country’s economy remained in the same position in the last two decades.
The telecom regulator is working on two sets of guidelines to ensure better mobile phone services and spare the subscribers of ‘unwanted’ calls and SMS.
Bangladesh needs to consider the European Union (EU) threat to withdraw its duty-free, quota-free (DFQT) access to the EU market seriously and act promptly as the EU might take serious decisions dealing a big blow to the RMG sector in…
Prof Abu Nasser Muhammad Abduz Zaher, Representative of Ibn Sina Trust, has been re-elected Chairman of Islami Bank Bangladesh Limited.
A delegation of International Business Forum of Bangladesh (IBFB) will be visiting the USA from May 30 for two weeks and hold talks with US officials and chamber leaders on bilateral issues, including GSP facility.
Dr.Sudhirendar Sharma
Rakhine state officials say limit on children will help ease tensions with Buddhists, whose population is growing at slower rate Muslims in a province of Burma have been ordered not to have more than two children in an attempt by…
Alexandra Burke has signed a huge management deal in the US. The ‘Bad Boys’ hitmaker – who shot to fame after winning the UK version on ‘The X Factor’ in 2008 – has reportedly signed with Kevin Liles, who helped…
Roma will have to shut down part of their stadium for one game next season after the club’s supporters repeated racist chants about Mario Balotelli.
The 114th birth anniversary of National Poet Kazi Nazrul Islam will be celebrated on Saturday in a befitting manner.
BNP-led 18-Party alliance has called for a nationwide general shutdown from 6am to 6pm on Sunday demanding reinstatement of a caretaker government provision, release of their party leaders and to protest ban on rallies. Shamsuzzaman Dudu, Advisor to BNP Chairperson…
Pointing at BNP senior vice chairman Tarique Rahman, minister without portfolio Suranjit Sengupta on Friday said doing politics being a fugitive in a country goes against its constitution and democratic norms, and advised Tarique to do so after facing the…
BNP standing committee member Barrister Rafiqul Islam Miah has said that former home minister Nasim’s statement aaginst Tarrique Rahman was false, fabricated and baseless.
Biman Bangladesh Airlines has delayed one of its flights to Hong Kong after one of its wings caught fire during take off at Shahjalal International Airport.
Detective police nabbed seven people from the capital’s Mohammadpur and Mirpur areas with firearms and bullets in raids from Thursday night until Friday morning.
Two men have been arrested on suspicion of endangerment of an aircraft after an incident on a plane flying from Pakistan to Britain, officials said, rattling the U.K. just days after a British soldier was killed on a London street…
Chittagong’s railway communication with Dhaka and Sylhet resumed on Friday afternoon four hours after ‘Mahanagar Probhati’ had derailed in Brahmanbaria.
On April 24, an eight-story commercial building in Bangladesh, home to a number of clothing factories, collapsed. A stunning 1,127 people were killed, along with over 2,500 people injured in what is being considered the deadliest garment factory accident in…
Dhaka Chamber of Commerce and Industry (DCCI) has urged opposition BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia to withdraw Sunday’s hartal for the sake of country’s economy.
The three-day Second US-Bangladesh Partnership Dialogue will begin in Dhaka on Sunday to bolster bilateral and regional cooperation between the two countries.