A local leader of Brickfield Owners’ Association has built a brick kiln on an arable land, also within half a kilometre from seven educational institutions at Puratan Thakurgaon village under Thakurgaon Sadar upazila, defying law and ignoring protest from the…
Mostafa Kamal Majumder
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has urged the political and religious leaders in Bangladesh to engage in constructive dialogue and help defuse tensions.
The BNP-led 18-party alliance is going to enforce countrywide daylong shutdowns on Wednesday and Thursday protesting the killing of unarmed Alems (Islamic scholars) in a crackdown on Hefajat-e-Islami’s sit-in at Shapla Chattar early Monday.
The death toll in the disastrous Rana Plaza collapse reached 735 with the recovery of 45 more bodies on Tuesday.
A Dhaka court on Tuesday placed Hefajat-e-Islam secretary general Junaid Babunagri on a nine-day remand in a case filed over May 5 city violence.
After nearly three years of suspension, the government has finally decided to provide new gas connections to household consumers soon.
More than 300,000 babies die within 24 hours of being born in India each year from infections and other preventable causes, a report said Tuesday.
The results of the Secondary School Certificate (SSC) and its equivalent examinations, held in February this year, will be published on Thursday.
Sixteen cases have so far been filed in connection with the May 5 city violence unleashed by Hefajat-e-Islam activists.
Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad on Tuesday demanded judicial inquiry into the incidents that took place on May 5-6 that left many Hefajat-e-Islam men dead, and described the overnight attacks as unprecedented.
Hefajat-e Islam Bangladesh on Tuesday called a countrywide daylong shutdown for Sunday protesting the crackdown on its leaders and activists at Shapla Chattar in the city early Monday.
Foreign exchange reserves of Bangladesh reached 15.06 billion US dollars breaking all the previous record.
Trade bodies of the country’s apparel sector on Tuesday urged the political parties concerned to withdraw their May 8-9 hartal for the sake of the readymade garment industry and the economy as a whole.
The general point-to-point inflation rate in April increased slightly as it notched 8.37 percent posting a rise of 0.66 percent from that of March this year as per the base year 2005-06.
The death toll rose to 705 in Savar Rana Plaza collapse with the recovery of 15 more bodies the debris till 01:50pm Tuesday on the 14th day of the incident.
DHAKA: Miscreants torched a staff bus in capital’s Tejgaon Colony Bazar area on Tuesday afternoon ahead of two days hartal called by 18-party alliance.
CHITTAGONG: Unidentified miscreants torched five bogies of an express train running on Chittagong-Dhaka route at Chittagong Railway station early Tuesday.
THAKURGAON: Indian Border Security Force (BSF) held a Bangladeshi cattle trader from Mondumala Border area under Baliadangi upazila of the district early Tuesday.
DHAKA: A Dhaka court on Tuesday placed 40 leaders and activists of Hefajat-e-Islam on 2-day remand for police interrogation in cases filed over Sunday’s violence.
Nearly one month after his arrest, BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir was freed from jail on bail on Monday.
Thirty-two more bodies were pulled out of the ruins of Rana Plaza on Monday, taking the death from the disastrous building collapse to 666.
US Ambassador to Bangladesh Dan Mozena on Monday reiterated his call for the political leaders to reach out to each other to engage in dialogue to resolve the ongoing crisis.
Police detained Hefajat-e-Islam secretary general Junaid Babunagri from Dhakeshwari Temple area in Lalbagh on Monday night.
The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Monday appreciated Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s special support to scientific research and development of science and technology.
The Election Commission (EC) on Monday declared Awami League candidate Abdul Malek MP unopposed in the by-election to Naogaon-5 constituency.
Terming the predawn crackdown by law enforcers on Hefajat-e-Islam activists at Motijheel Shapla Chattar, the main business district of capital Dhaka, a planned genocide, opposition BNP Monday claimed that over a thousand people were killed while hundreds of bodies concealed…
Bharti Airtel Holdings (Singapore) Pte Ltd, a fully-owned subsidiary of Bharti Airtel Ltd, will pick up the remaining 30 percent stake in Warid Group’s telecom operations in Bangladesh.
Dubai: Shakib Al Hasan has been fined 75 percent of his match fee after pleading guilty to a Level 2 breach of the ICC Code of Conduct during Zimbabwe’s victory in the second One-day International (ODI) at Bulawayo Sunday.
Tania Khatun (22), a housewife of village Ghosgati under Mollahat Upazila in the district was allegedly beaten to death on Saturday by her husband as she failed to realize dowry from her parents.