The Cabinet on Monday gave the final approval to the draft of the Bangladesh Petrolium Corporation Act, 2015 proposed by the Ministry of Energy Power and Mineral Resources. Mosharraf Hossain said the BPC was running under the Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation…
The Cabinet on Monday ratified the ‘Motor Vehicles Agreement for the Regulation of Passenger, Personal, and Cargo Vehicular Traffic with Bangladesh, Bhutan, India and Nepal’ (BBIN), aiming to boost road connectivity in the region. The ratification came from the regular…
A Dhaka court yesterday (Monday) placed two suspected members of banned Islamist outfit Hizb-ut-Tahrir Bangladesh on a two-day remand each for interrogation. The two accused, Altamas Ahammed Babu and Syed Jane Alam were arrested from Dakhinkhan area of the city…
A court Dhaka on Monday framed charges against 30 accused including Juba Dal President Syed Moazzem Hossain Alal and BNP’s Educational Affairs Secretary Khairul Kabair Khokon in a case filed with Motijheel Police of the city on the charge of…
A Dhaka court on Monday placed Shaukat Mahmud, BNP Chairperson’s Adviser and also the President of Bangladesh Federal Union of Journalists (BFUJ), on one-day fresh remand in each of four cases lodged for creating violence. Magistrate Shahriar Mahmud Adnan of…
A minor boy was killed by a lightning strike at Lasmanpur Goalbari village in Sadar upazila on Sunday.The deceased was identified as Ahalu Miah, 12, son of Akkel Miah, a resident of the village.
Police recovered the body of an unidentified man from Kuri Beel at Sadipur village in Osmaninagar upazila on Sunday.Locals spotted the body of the deceased, aged around 45, floating on the beel in the afternoon and informed police.
Police arrested a local leader of Jamaat-e-Islami from a madrasah in Choigharia area of Sadar upazila on Sunday on charges of murder and subversive activities.The arrestee was identified as Maulana Mosharaf Hossain, ameer of Ghona union unit Jamaat and super…
Speakers at a discussion meeting said the transgender are at high risk of getting infected with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) as they are ignorant of it.Speakers said they should be informed about the highly contagious disease Acquired Immune Deficiency…
Tracy Morgan, a star of comedy series “30 Rock” and cast member of “Saturday Night Live”, married his long-time fiancee on Sunday, 14 months after suffering life-threatening injuries in a deadly car wreck, People magazine reported on its web site.Morgan,…
Man-made climate change is expected to have a “significant effect” on the wildlife of the planet. And, if fossil evidence is anything to go by, it could seriously alter the course of evolution.The hunting habits of the wolf – ancestor…
A Dhaka court has remanded BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s adviser Shawkat Mahmud in police custody for four days in four cases.Police moved the Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrates Court on Monday seeking 80 days to interrogate Mahmud in eight cases.
Jamaica’s Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce rallied to claim an unprecedented third world championship 100 metres title in 10.76 seconds at the Bird’s Nest stadium on Monday.With her long, dyed green braids flowing behind her, the diminutive 28-year-old was not quickest out of…
An explosion rocked a warehouse at a US military base in Sagamihara, near the Japanese capital of Tokyo on Monday, but US forces said the building was not for storing hazardous materials and that there were no indications of injuries.Japanese…
Oil prices fell more than 4 percent to fresh 6-1/2-year lows on Monday after Chinese stock markets suffered their biggest one-day drop since the global financial crisis, intensifying worries over the outlook for global oil demand.Inaction by the Chinese government following an…
The High Court on Monday banned for six months the screening of ‘Rana Plaza’, a film made on the rescue of victim Reshma alive from the ruins of Rana Plaza building after 17 days of its collapse, saying that the…
BNP on Monday demanded the resignation of president of Bangladesh Samajtantrik Dal and Information Minister Hasanul Haq Inu if he fails to make clear before the nation his role in killing Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. “We would like to tell…
The BNP on Sunday alleged that a vested quarter is trying to mislead Sheikh Hasina only to widen the difference with BNP sand underpin the politics of division and said that the Prime Minister’s observation over involvement of its chief…
Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Secretary General Iyad Ameen Madani on Sunday sharply criticized Myanmar politician Aung San Suu Kyi for her silence over Rohingya issues though she was awarded the Nobel Prize in peace. “She (Suu Kyi) has not…
Islamic State militants have destroyed Palmyra’s ancient temple of Baalshamin, Syrian officials and activists say. Syria’s head of antiquities was quoted as saying the temple was blown up on Sunday. The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that it…
The Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) on Sunday submitted the charge sheet of the case filed against two people for violating a Garo woman in a microbus in the city in May. Ajmila Nasrin, RAB-1 ASP and also the Investigation Officer…
Slain Hazaribagh Thana Chhatra League President Arzu’s brother Md Masud Rana lodged a case against four people including three members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) in connection with the death of his younger brother Arzu in a gunfight.
‘Icche’, a voluntary social organisation of Rajshahi University (RU) formed its new executive committee for 2015-16 session nominating Poragh Mushtak as president and Md.Sahjahan Ali as a general secretary. The new committee was announced at a programme at the university…
Attorney General (AG) Mahbubey Alam yesterday said that the government would file a review petition with the Supreme Court seeking death for war crimes convicted and Jamaat leader Delwar Hossain Sayedee. “We will file a review petition with the Supreme…
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court yesterday upheld the High Court order that rejected a writ petition filed by former Posts, Telecommunications and ICT Minister Abdul Latif Siddique challenging the legality of the Election Commission (EC) hearing on his…
The High Court yesterday rejected two petitions filed by BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia seeking lower court’s records and the final report of Barapukuria coalmine graft case. After concluding hearing on the petitions, the HC bench comprising Justice Md Nuruzzaman and…
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court yesterday stayed till August 23 the trial proceedings of a land related graft case filed against BNP standing committee member Barrister Moudud Ahmed. A four-member bench of the Appellate Division headed by Chief…
The need for greater awareness and mass mobilisation to create pressure on the government for preventing the transfer of Brahmaputra water to India’s south through the river interlinking project was emphasised at a largely attended opinion exchange meeting in Dhaka…
Five persons, including a housewife, were electrocuted amid inclement weather at different places in Rangpur, Lalmonirhat and Thakurgaon districts on Saturday afternoon, police and local sources said.In Rangpur, Fatema Begum, 46, wife of Atiar Rahman of village Khordobagbar Gomostapara under…
Police in a drive arrested a young man along with 32 grams of heroin from a bus on the Magura-Jessore road in Arpara area of Shalikha upazila Saturday evening.The arrestee was identified as Faruk Ahmed, 32, son of Akbar Ali,…