Dhaka – АSE Group of Companies (a subsidiary of ROSATOM State Nuclear Energy Corporation) and Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission will hold a conference on procurements for Rooppur NPP. The purpose of the event is to ensure transparency in work with…
Dhaka – BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia on Wednesday termed Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s recent India visit as totally failed in terms of “only giving away and not getting anything” as many agreements and memorandum of understandings (MoUs) were signed on…
London – US first lady Melania Trump has accepted an apology and damages from the publisher of the Daily Mail newspaper for reporting rumors about her time as a model, the two parties in the lawsuit said Wednesday. Trump sued…
Dhaka – Harkat-ul-Jihad (Huji) chief Mufti Abdul Hannan and his associates — Delwar Alias Ripon and Sharif Shahedul Alam alias Bipul — were hanged on Wednesday night over the grenade attack on ex-British envoy Anwar Choudhury in Sylhet in 2004.…
Dhaka, April 12 – Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday declared recognition of certificates of Dawrae Hadith under Qawmi Madrasa Education Boards as equivalent to Masters Degree in Islamic Studies and Arabic.
Dhaka, Apr 11 – Oil-like substance smelling like diesel has been seeping into a pond at Baniapara village at Khansama upazila of Bangladesh’s northernmost district of Dinajpur. Local people call it unprecedented.
Dortmund, Apr 12 (AP/UNB) – Three explosions went off near the team bus of Borussia Dortmund, one of Germany’s top soccer clubs, as it set off for a Champions League quarterfinal match on Tuesday evening. One of Dortmund’s players was…
Refuse operators live in fear of accidentally killing a rough sleeper The UK homeless crisis means that refuse collectors are now living with the fear that they could accidentally kill a person sleeping in a commercial wheeled bin as they…
A news item titled “Mayor Mir Nasir can kill people while laughing – said Mohiuddin veteran leader of Awami Leaguue, ex Mayor of Chittagong City Corporation who was elected Mayor for more than one term” shocked me along with many…
Dhaka, Apr 11 – Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday said there is nothing obligatory to purchase arms from any particular country as per the memorandum of understanding (MoU) signed on defence cooperation between Bangladesh and India. “It’s not binding…
Dhaka – The High Court Division of the Supreme Court yesterday (Tuesday) upheld the death penalties awarded to four convicts in the case lodged in connection with the killing of 13-year-old Sheikh Md Samiul Alam Rajon of in Sylhet.
Dhaka – The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld a High Court order that allowed one-year bail to Barrister AKM Fakhrul Islam, convicted in the case lodged against him in connection with the leakage of the draft…
Rajshahi – A Workshop on IELTS and Scholarship opportunities organised by Suhrawardy Hall English Speaking Forum (SHESF), an English speaking forum of the hall held at Rajshahi University (RU) on Tuesday.
A man’s refusal to give up his seat on an overbooked United Airlines flight led to a disturbing scene Sunday that has travelers up in arms over airline policies.
Dhaka – Film actress Apu Biswas on Monday claimed that she is married to actor Shakib Khan. During an exclusive interview with a private television channel Monday afternoon, she also claimed that they have an eight-month-old baby boy.
Dhaka, Apr 11 – Four shops were gutted in a fire at a market in Thakurgaon district town on Monday evening.
Savar, Dhaka Apr 11 – Police in an overnight drive arrested five people from Birulia and Ashulia areas early Tuesday in connection with the murder of a City University student.
Dhaka, Apr 11 – A court in Khulna on Tuesday convicted two people and sentenced them to life term imprisonment for possessing illegal drugs.
Dhaka, Apr 11 – Veteran journalist Hussain-uz-Zaman, former Managing Director and Chief Editor of Bangladesh Sangbad Sanstha (BSS), passed away at city’s Anwar Khan Modern Hospital early Tuesday due to respiratory and cardiovascular complications. He was 83.
Pyongyang, Apr 11 (AP/UNB) – North Korea is vowing tough counteraction to any military moves that might follow the U.S. move to send the USS Carl Vinson aircraft carrier and its battle group to waters off the Korean Peninsula.
Dhaka, Apr 11 – Police arrested 85 more people, including six activists of Jamaat-e-Islami and Islami Chhatra Shibir, in a special drive from different parts of Jhenidah district on Tuesday.
New Delhi, Apr 10 – Indian President Pranab Mukherjee has said India deeply appreciates Bangladeshi Prime Minister’s role in giving a new direction to the India-Bangladesh relationship and making it what it is today — a strong, vibrant and exemplary…
Nava Thakuria Unfazed by China’s relentless opposition, Tibetan spiritual leader, his Holinessthe 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, finally set foot on the soil of Arunachal Pradesh last week. The Nobel peace laureate, who was in Guwahati on April 1 where…
By Claudia Ciobanu Warsaw, Apr 8 (IPS) – Ameer Alkhawlany moved to Poland in September 2014 to pursue a Master’s in biology at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland’s second largest city. Two years later, the Polish state awarded him…
by Shane Cragun & Kate Sweetman We suggest the only constant going forward is change. We’re talking massive, disruptive, and tumultuous change. It is beginning to look like radical change will be THE absolute going forward in the 21st century.
Anas Uddin Ovi Savar, Dhaka – Winning a total of 20 medals including 12 gold medals, Jahangirnagar University (JU) became ‘runner up’ in 5 th Bangladesh University Games’17, held at BUET and DU premises. A press release from the university’s…
Dhaka – Awami League presidium member and Health minister Mohammad Nasim on Monday criticised the BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia for saying that the Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has sold the country to India by signing anti-state pacts during her four-day…
Dhaka – The High Court on Monday directed the government not to provide the due funds of employees of US energy giant Chevron Bangladesh to the company, as they apprehend that the company might leave the country without paying their…
Dhaka – In a bid to assess the mental health of death row convict Oishee Rahman, two High Court judges heard her statement in the chamber on Monday.
Dhaka – The owners and workers of tannery factories on Monday threatened the authority concerned to give electricity, water and gas connections within 15 days to the newly constructed Savar tannery estate as per court order otherwise they will launch…