By Reuters and VICE News Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi on Wednesday pardoned 100 prisoners, including three Al Jazeera television journalists, according to security sources. Canadian Mohamed Fahmy, Egyptian Baher Mohamed, and Australian Peter Greste were sentenced to three years…
By Sydney Lupkin This story is part of a partnership between MedPage Today and VICE News. Worldwide outrage has followed the recent dizzying increase in the price of Daraprim, a drug that treats potentially fatal parasitic infections, by its new…
Bangladesh Bank disposed of some 495 complaints, out of a total of 496 received from bank customers in August this year.
Three senior officials have been promoted to the rank of secretary. The Public Administration Ministry issued separate gazette notifications in this regard on Wednesday. As per the first notification, acting secretary of the Statistics and Informatics Division Begum Kaniz Fatema…
The cattle markets in the capital ahead of the Eid-ul-Azha are still in favour of the traders as there has been lower inflow of sacrificial animals so far due to inclement weather and late supply from the neighbouring India.
STAFF REPORTER BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia is expected to exchange her Eid greetings with people in a London hotel on Thursday, according to a source in the UK.
Court Correspondent A Dhaka court on Wednesday deferred the hearing in the case filed against Bakhtiar Alam Rony, son of Awami League MP Pinu Khan to November 11, as the prosecution did not produce the accused to the court on…
An electrician was killed by a lightning strike at Deula Madhyapara village in Baghmara upazila of the district on Tuesday afternoon.The deceased was identified as Birendranath Sarker, 48.
Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) recovered 504 bottles of Indian phensidyl syrup from a sugarcane field at Khoyerhuda village under Jibannagar upazila of the district on Monday night.
Chandpur District administration recently distributed more than 948.720 tonnes of rice among 70,226 VGF card holders of the district on the occasion of Eid-ul-Azha under Vulnerable Group Feeding (VGF).
A young man was stabbed to death allegedly by his friends at Talore Bazar in Dupchanchia upazila of the district onTuesday evening.The deceased was identified as Muktar Hossain, 35, son of late Sona Miah, a resident of Talore Bazar.
An alleged robber was injured in a ‘gunfight’ between his cohorts and police at Chalkidanga village in Manirampur upazila of Jessore district early Wednesday.The injured was identified as Akbar Ali, son of Abdus Sattar, a resident of Pardia area of…
Chittagong City Corporation (CCC) mayor AJM Nasir Uddin today declared that the CCC authority would name a city road after the name of late Awami League (AL) leader Kazi Enamul Hoque Danu and would erect a memorial at Chawkbazar intersection…
A mobile court of Chittagong District Administration today fined six pharmacies Tk 60 thousand for selling doctors’ sample medicines and unapproved Indian medicines.Deputy Revenue Collector and Executive Magistrate of Chittagong District Administration Mohammad Ruhul Amin led the mobile court at…
The authority of Chittagong University (CU) today opened the newly-constructed Gymnasium and the newly-launched “Physical Education and Sports Science” department here.CU Vice-Chancellor (VC) Prof Dr Iftekhar Uddin Chowdhury formally inaugurated the gymnasium as well as the new department at a…
The 262-crore Kapotakkha River dredging project is now nearing completion, raising hope among the people living in its vicinity that there will be a better life for them soon.Once implemented fully, it will lead to creation of more arable land and…
All export and import activities through Sonamasjid land port will remain closed for five days from yesterday on the occasion of Eid-ul-Azha.
A minor boy drowned in a well at Baulia village in Sadar upazila of Jessore district on Wednesday morning.The deceased was identified as one year and three months old Siam, son of Shahidul Islam of the village.
Four people were killed as a truck crashed into a CNG-run auto-rickshaw at Hasnabad on the Sylhet-Chhatak highway in Chhatak upazila of Sunamganj district on Wednesday morning. Identity of the deceased could not be known immediately
Four people were killed and another was injured when a truck and an auto-rickshaw collided on the Sylhet-Chhatak road near Hasnabad at about 8 am on Wednesday. According to reports the goods laden Sylhet-bound truck crashed on the Cng autorickshaw…
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina left here for New York on Wednesday morning on an eight-day official visit to the United States to attend the 70th United Nations General Assembly (Unga). A VVIP flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines carrying the Prime…
by Dr. Wakar Uddin, Director General, Arakan Rohingya Union There is no sign ofthe GovernmentofMyanmar/Burma backingdown fromits hostile policies against the Rohingya and other Muslim community in Myanmar. Series of recent actions by the Government of Myanmar against Rohingya and…
Twenty-five fishermen were kidnapped by forest robbers from Kakrakhali canal of the Sundarbans under Shyamnagar upazila on Monday. Seven of the victims were identified as Rafiqul, 38, Mazid, 28, Sannasi, 38, Kawsar, 55, Khokon, 25, Amirul, 28, and Farid, 35.…
The BNP on Monday alleged the government is controlling the media through a ‘covert media policy’. “The government is trying to establish its authoritarian rule in the country. They’re putting direct and indirect pressure on the mass media. Even social…
The Pir Shabeb of Charmonai Mufti Syed Muhammad Rezaul Karim on Tuesday urged the government to restrain its party activists and extortionists and help the people to observe the holy eid peacefully. In a statement issued to the press Mufti…
Bangladesh economic growth is expected to go up slightly in the current fiscal year, due to strong domestic demand backed by better exports and remittances, says Asian Development Bank (ADB) yesterday. The bank in its latest outlook update for Asian…
The medical admission seekers warned the government that they would block the important roads of the capital and elsewhere in the country on September 27 if their demands are not met before the time. They said they have submitted a…