Dhaka – Handwritten passports are being given a good bye globally from Wednesday. Such handbooks carrying information on personal details of people would not be accepted globally from now onwards. Over 2.50 lakh expatriate Bangladesh nationals are however yet to…
Paris – A total 147 heads of state and government so far will attend a climate summit due to start in Paris next week, the French government said Tuesday. The November 30-December 11 conference is tasked with signing the first-ever…
Dhaka- The country’s first ever banking fair began at the Bangla Academy premises in the capital city on Tuesday. Bangladesh Bank is organising the five-day “Bangladesh Banking Fair 2015” with the theme, “To Build a Banking Nation”, a press release…
Dhaha – Bangladesh-India Nazrul Conference 2015 will begin in the country on Wednesday. The conference will be held in Dhaka, Chittagong and Feni from November 25 to December 3, said a press release of Nazrul Academy on Tuesday.
The finance ministry has told the central bank to take action against all financial institutions with links to the Jamaat-e-Islami, pro-government online news agency bdnews24.com reported on Tuesday. The report says, the ministry’s Bank and Financial Institutions Division issued a…
Dhaka- The country’s first ever banking fair began at the Bangla Academy premises in the capital city on Tuesday.
Dhaka- Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today put emphasis on reopening roads through the frontier with India that remained closed since the 1965 India-Pakistan war to bolster Dhaka-Delhi connectivity.
The UN human rights body on Tuesday renewed its call to the government of Bangladesh to immediately institute a moratorium on the death penalty and ‘abolish’ this ‘inhuman practice’ altogether.
The High Court on Tuesday asked the authorities concerned to ensure adequate gas pressure in the household gas connections in the capital.
JU Correspondent. An activist of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) of Jahangirnagar University (JU) unit were beaten up by Bangladesh Chhatra League men on Tuesday.
London School of Marketing announces the success of its local access point in Dhaka, taking education to a whole new level.
Court Correspondent The High Court Division of the Supreme Court yesterday (Tuesday) granted three months’ bail to BNP Acting Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir in three sabotage cases filed with Paltan Police Station of the city.
Turkey shot down a Russian warplane near the Syrian border on Tuesday, saying the jet had repeatedly violated its air space, in one of the most serious publicly acknowledged clashes between a NATO member country and Russia for half a…
At least 10 people were injured in a clash between two groups of Swechchhasebak League, the volunteer wing of ruling Awami League, in the city on Monday noon.Witnesses said the district and city units of Swechchhasebak League brought out a…
Joint force’s teams in separate drives from Monday night to early Tuesday arrested 30 people, including 24 Jamaat-Shibir activists, from six upazilas of the district on various charges.Enamul Haque, officer-in-charge of Satkhira Detective Branch (DB) of police, said the joint…
A fire broke out at a carbon factory at Narendrapur in Sadar upazila of Jessore district on Monday night.Ruhul Quddus, acting assistant director of Jessore Fire Service and Civil Defence, said the fire erupted in the factory of Khulna Carbon…
A fire broke out at a carbon factory at Narendrapur in Sadar upazila of Jessore district on Monday night.Ruhul Quddus, acting assistant director of Jessore Fire Service and Civil Defence, said the fire erupted in the factory of Khulna Carbon…
A physically challenged young man was tortured inhumanly at the local bus terminal in the district town early Monday over a theft charge.He sustained severe burn injuries as the torturers scalded him with burning polythene bags.
A young man was strangulated to death by unidentified miscreants at Munibpur village in Sadar upazila on Tuesday morning.Identity of the deceased was could not be known immediately.
Members of Rapid of Action Battalion (RAB) arrested an alleged drug trader with 885 Yaba tablets from Baneshwar Bazar area under Puthiya Upazila of the district last night, RAB sources here said yesterday.The arrested person was identified as Babu Hossain,…
Washington – The United States issued a worldwide travel alert for Americans amid concerns that terror groups and individuals plan more attacks after the Paris massacres. The State Department warned that groups like ISIS, al-Qaeda and Boko Haram “continue to…
Dhaka – The High Court (HC) on Tuesday granted three months’ bail to BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir in three arson cases filed with Paltan police station. An HC bench comprising Justice M Rezaul Haque and Justice…
Comilla – Five people including three women were killed and another injured in a head-on collision between a truck and a CNG-run auto-rickshaw on Comilla-Noakhali regional highway at Fatehpur in Laksam upazila headquarters on Tuesday morning. The deceased were identified…
Danielle Nierenberg This week, Food Tank is grateful for the farmers, researchers, and activists who are working tirelessly to improve the food system every day. According to the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), getting food onto Americans’ plates accounts for…
Police in Illinois are warning the public about an extremely potent drug that is gaining popularity in the state, saying it can “cause users to disconnect from reality” and might even lead to “hallucinations and other types of psychosis.” The…
By Atoosa Moinzadeh A dozen protesters — some carrying weapons — lined up outside a mosque in Irving, Texas on Saturday to call for an end to “the Islamization of America.” David Wright, a member of a group called the…
BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia on Monday said the opposition is deprived of all constitutional political rights as there is no sign of democracy in the country. Khaleda came up with this in a statement made in the evening.
Dhaka -Prime Minister and Leader of the House Sheikh Hasina said Monday Bangladesh is gradually getting rid of a long time stigma and advancing economically with execution of the verdicts against war criminals. “I think execution of the verdicts of…
Bangladesh will not accept any ‘negative reaction’ from any country in the world on war crimes trial, said State Minister for Foreign Affairs M Shahriar Alam on Monday.