In a televised address to the nation in the evening marking four years of the Awami League-led coalition government, she asked people to be vigilant about their Constitutional rights and asked the opposition to reject the path of confrontation. “The…
DHAKA: The record lowest 3° Celsius temperature has been recorded in Syedpur of Nilphamari on Thursday.
DHAKA: Five members of a family were seriously burned following a gas explosion in city’s Rampura area early Thursday.
DHAKA: The Pakistani military said Indian troops shot and killed a Pakistani soldier on Thursday, the third deadly cross-border incident reported in five days in the disputed Kashmir region.
Indian Border Security Force (BSF) injured a Bangladeshi national by firing and abducted another along Kironganj frontier under Shibganj upazila on Wednesday evening.
DHAKA: People from all walks of life Thursday paid their last tributes to veteran journalist and politician Nirmal Sen at the premises of Jatiya Press Club (JPC) and Central Shaheed Minar in city.
DHAKA: Additional Secretary of Foreign Ministry M Shahidul Haque was made Acting Secretary of the ministry.
DHAKA: With myriad devotees from home and abroad thronging the bank of Turag, the first-phase of Biswa Ijtema, billed second-largest Muslim congregation after the holy Hajj, will begin Friday with religious sermons delivered by Islamic scholars.
DHAKA: The final results of the 32nd Bangladesh Civil Service (BCS) examination were published on Thursday qualifying candidates for various government cadre and non-cadre services.
Nobel Laureate Prof Muhammad Yunus and his team at the Grameen Shakti hosted a unique celebration in Dhaka on Wednesday evening to mark the setting of a milestone by installing one-million solar systems on 30 November last.
BD Designs Private Ltd, an Indian company, will invest $ 8.919 million to set up a garments industry in Karnaphuli Export Processing Zone, a press release said. This fully foreign owned company has annual production capacity of 3.4 million pcs.…
Staff Reporter The coldest winter in decades intensified further on Thursday with low pressure over Siberian region pushing chilly winds towards Bangladesh forcing the mercury to dip bellower level. The bone-chilling weather for the last three consecutive days has almost…
Barcelona and Argentina star Lionel Messi admits that he would gladly swap his Ballon d’Or awards for a World Cup title with his country.
Sonakshi Sinha, who shot to fame as the deglam village belle in Dabangg, has been trying ever since to shed her desi avatar and how.
Tucked away in the sleepy village of Bechealeh, Lebanon, 16 olive trees have witnessed 6000 years of political unrest, plagues, diseases, varying climatic conditions and changing civilizations. In fact these “trees of Noah” are considered by locals to be a…
Business Report NovoAir, a new private airline, has started its journey to three domestic routes on Wednesday with a vision of ‘Excellence in Aviation Services’ under the motto of ‘Art of Aviation’.
Court Correspondent DHAKA – A woman on Wednesday claiming herself as a judge of the Supreme Court asked a Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) Court Magistrate of Dhaka to release an accused. The CMM Court managed to know of the conspiracy…
John Roach Melting glaciers in Antarctica and Greenland may push up global sea levels more than 3 feet by the end of this century, according to a scientific poll of experts that brings a degree of clarity to a murky…
Barcelona president Sandro Rosell has warned Arsenal to forget about signing striker David Villa during the January transfer window.
Actress Naomi Watts loves changing her hair to suit her film character because she gets to be experimental, though she admits she can’t stop dying her hair.
Jan 9: China will overtake the United States economically within six years, an official research institute predicts, and go on to become the world’s most important country in three decades more, state media said Wednesday. The findings came from the…
Jan 9: “It’s usual that the leftist parties will observe hartal as they don’t know how the state is run,” he told reporters at his Secretariat office.
Jan 9:A man was killed and two others injured in a gunfight of two groups at Jalpara area of Chengi union under Panchhari upazila of the district on Wednesday. The deceased was identified as Kalo Prio Chakma, 38, an activist…
Jan 9: The Communist Party of Bangladesh (CPB) and the Bangladesher Shamajtantrik Dal (BSD) will enforce the general strike from 6am to 12pm across the country on that day. CPB chief Mujahidul Islam Selim made the announcement on Wednesday in…
Jan 9: The government purchase body Wednesday approved the tender proposals for three power plant projects, including one with Barapukuria 250-MW power plant. The other proposals include 300-400-MW power plant in Ghorashal and 300-MW in Shahji Bazar. The approval to…
Bangladesh has, like neighbouring India, recorded the lowest temperature in over four decades amidst a raging cold wave.
The investigative team of the national antigraft agency seized the documents almost a month after it sued seven persons on charges of the conspiracy for appointing a Canadian company, SNC Lavalin, as the consultant for the country’s largest-ever infrastructure development…
Jan 9: The Bangladeshi authorities must refrain from harassing and prosecuting newspaper editor Mahmudur Rahman, Amnesty International (AI) said Tuesday. Mahmudur Rahman has been threatened with prosecution for publishing a Skype conversation between the then chairman of the Bangladeshi court,…
Jan 9: Citing on different programmes taken by her government for development of the country’s education sector, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said they are giving highest priority on education. “Her government gave highest allocation in the sector. Universal Education Policy…
Jan 8: January 8 data shows that the youth unemployment rate for November was 23.7% in the European Union, up from 23.4% in October 2012. The youth unemployment rate in the eurozone is now 24.4%, up from 23.9% the previous…