The Barind Multipurpose Development Authority (BMDA) has realised around Taka 150.21 crore as irrigation charge in the last 2014-15 fiscal, less by Taka 28.22 crore over the previous 2013-14 fiscal.Recovery of less irrigation charge indicates that the farmers got more…
Work has resumed at the Benapole Land Port after an unusually long Eid vacation.Trading between India and Bangladesh started on Monday morning, but was low key as all the officials and workers of the Customs, port authority, C&F, and the…
SS Rajamouli’s magnum opus “Baahubali” has become the first south Indian film to enter the Rs 300 crore club in just nine days, confirms a trade analyst.It has surpassed the previous record held by superstar Rajinikanth’s “Enthiran”, which had collected…
Hackers claim to have personal details of more than 37 million cheating spouses on dating website Ashley Madison and have threatened to release nude photos and sexual fantasies of the site’s clients unless it is shut down, blog KrebsOnSecurity reported.…
Novak Djokovic displayed the true depth of his steely core to end Roger Federer’s hopes of a record eighth Wimbledon title with a 7-6(1), 6-7(10), 6-4, 6-3 victory on Sunday.The world number one overcame losing a stomach-churning second set tiebreak…
The United States and Cuba quietly ushered in a new era of post-Cold War relations on Monday, formally restoring diplomatic ties severed more than five decades ago and re-establishing embassies in each other’s capitals.Just past the stroke of midnight, the…
A schoolgirl was raped allegedly by a young man at Rajnagar Bakabarshi in Keshabpur upazila on Monday night. Mahtab Uddin, officer-in-charge of Keshabpur Police Station, said one Kaizar Islam, 25, son of Rafiqul Islam of Nepakathi picked up the girl,…
A man allegedly hacked his two children to death and injured his wife at Gainaghata in Chakaria upazila early Tuesday. The deceased was identified as Jamal Uddin, 6, and Tanjina,4, son and daughter of Abul Kashem, 45, a Rohingya and…
Five people, including two of a family, were killed and another was injured as a CNG-run auto-rickshaw crashed into a bus at Mulibari level-crossing on the western side of Bangabandhu Bridge approach road in Sadar upazila on Monday night.
The Brics group of emerging economies on Tuesday launched its New Development Bank (NDB) in Shanghai. The bank is backed by Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa – collectively known as Brics countries. The NDB will lend money to…
Joint letter by 24 scientific, medical and engineering bodies say mitigation will also bring economic and health benefits An unprecedented coalition of the UK’s most eminent scientific, medical and engineering bodies says immediate action must be taken by governments to…
Dr Latha Anantha One of history’s worst dam bursts took place in Gujarat in 1979 when the four-kilometer long Machhu Dam II on the Machhu River collapsed. This led to a deluge in the industrial city of Morbi located five…
Dr. Adil bin Ali Ash-Shaddy Arabic calligraphy: Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah Some non-Muslim westerners wonder what Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) offered to humanity. This question is raised particularly after incidents of defamation targeting the…
By Arvind Padmanabhan Kodungallur (Kerala) : One will find nothing unusual about this place of worship for Muslims as one drives past this town in central Kerala, just 30 km north of Kochi. But it’s when you go in and…
Rock Ronald Rozario and Stephan Uttom For Abdur Razzak cows conjured up images of fortune. He knew that acting on such thoughts would be dangerous and even cost him his life. Illiterate and impoverished, this Muslim villager found no other…
Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal, the youth front of the BNP, yesterday announced a two-day agitation programme across the country protesting the arrest of its president Razib Ahsan. As part of the programme, the JCD will stage demonstrations and bring out processions…
Md. Alauddin Gazi, Assistant Vice President and Manager of Torki branch of Islami Bank Bangladesh Limited died on July 19, 2015 Sunday at a hospital in Barisal (Inna Lillahe Wa Inna Ilaihe Rajeon). He was 57. He left his wife,…
After stunning South Africa in a three-match ODI series for their fourth successive win at home, Bangladesh will now take on the Proteas in the first of two-Test series, starting Tuesday. Chittagong: Bangladesh will look to carry their recent success…
Addressing his congregation on the Eid al-Fitr holiday celebrating the end of Ramadan, Imam Mohamed Abdul-Azeez implored worshipers to combat Muslim extremism in the aftermath of a shooting rampage that killed five servicemen in Tennessee.
World football’s troubled governing body FIFA will vote for a new president, to replace Sepp Blatter, at a special congress to be held on Feb. 26 in Zurich, the organisation said on Monday.
Marvel’s “Ant-Man” landed with a solid $58 million at the weekend box office, while “Trainwreck’s” Amy Schumer put her own raunchy spin on romantic comedies to the tune of a $30.2 million debut.
Greeks queued outside banks on Monday as they reopened three weeks after closing to stop the system collapsing under a flood of withdrawals, the first cautious sign of a return to normal after a deal to start talks on a…
A massive fire gutted around 600 shanties in the city’s Madhya Badda area on Monday, leaving some 2,000 people homeless. Fire service officials said the fire broke out at one of the shanties behind ‘Bhai Bhai Boarding’ at Kha-198 Madhya…
An explosion has killed at least 27 people and wounded many more in the Turkish town of Suruc near the Syrian border, the interior ministry says. The blast occurred in the garden of a cultural centre. Hundreds of youth workers…
Police recovered the body of a man from a pond near Ullapara Railway Station in Ullapara upazila on Sunday. The deceased was identified as Shafique, 37, son of Samaj Ali of Nayangati village in Sadar upazila of the district.
Police arrested a BNP leader in Borhanuddin upazila on Sunday night in a case filed in connection torching a bus. The arrestee was identified as Sarwar Uddin Khan, joint secretary of the upazila unit of BNP.
Agartala: The Border Security Force (BSF) and Border Guards Bangladesh (BGB) on Saturday exchanged sweets on the occasion of Eid, an official said. “BSF officials gave sweet boxes to their BGB counterparts at all sectors of India-Bangladesh borders. BGB officials…
Russian Atomic Energy Corporation Rosatom hosted a workshop on its thermal capabilities, ‘Modern Russian Technologies for Thermal Power Engineering in Africa’ during POWER-GEN Africa conference and exhibition held in Cape Town from July 15-17, 2015. The workshop discussed prospects of…
A local court has placed Ruhul Amin on a seven-day remand in the case filed in connection with the brutal killing of Sheikh Samiul Alam Rajon in Kumargaon area of the city on July 8. Judge Anwarul Haque of the…
An alleged member of banned Islamic outfit Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) was shot to death by unidentified miscreants at Mamudpur village in Saghata upazila on Sunday night. The deceased was identified as Fazle Rabbi, son of Sadikas Ali, a resident…