The indefinite transport strike, enforced by the Bus Owners and Sramik Oikya Parishad of the south-western region, entered its fifth day on Saturday.Bus services between the capital and 10 southeastern districts of Khulna division have remained suspended due to the…
Miscreants attacked two houses and a business establishment of a local leader of Shwechchhasebak Dal in Baluchar area of the city on Friday night.
Environment, public heath in hazardous straits Unauthorised lead factories are springing up in different parts of the city keeping both the environment and public health in a perilous state.Without following any rules and regulations, at least 35 such factories have…
Hasina Ahmed, wife of BNP leader Salahuddin Ahmed, on Friday moved a bail application before the first class judicial magistrate in Shillong of Meghalya state of India for his release, Indian media reported. BNP assistant office secretary Abdul Latif Jony,…
Police in an overnight drive arrested 109 people, among them 31 BNP-Jamaat men, including accused in different types of cases, from various places of Lohagara and Sitakundu upazilas on Saturday.
The authorities of Jahangirnagar University (JU) have expelled five students also activists of university unit of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) for life over sexually harassing a female student on the day of Pahela Baishakh this year. Abu Bakar Siddique, JU…
Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) recovered 2000 bottles of Indian phensidyl from Munshipur Muchirbattala under Damurhuda upazila of the district today.
A 10-day-long programme in observance of national poet Kazi Nazrul Islam’s 116th birth anniversary was chalked out at Karpashdanga village under Damurhuda upazila of the district. The programme began from May 16.The programme jointly organised by Chuadanga district administration, upazila…
About 300 bighas owned by an equal number of farmers have been brought under BARI mung bean-6 farming during the current season in the district.The variety has been farmed at farmers’ level under direct supervision of RDRS Bangladesh, a nongovernment…
A marginal farmer of Naogaon district has built his own fortune by farming papaya, a tropical sweet fruit and vegetable, on his land.Saidur Rahman, 50, once a small trader of papaya, now turned into a rich man by farming the…
Environment-friendly “sex pheromone trap” for killing harmful insects is gaining popularity among the vegetable farmers in the region including its vast Barind tract, thanks to the awareness and motivational programme of the Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE).The environment-friendly method serves…
In a real life shoot-out, a Bollywood security contractor was shot and critically injured inside the Film City in Goregaon East in Mumbai on Friday, barely a few metres away from a set where megastar Amitabh Bachchan was shooting.Additional Police…
A convoy of Shia militia fighters and Iraqi army forces set out from a base near the western provincial capital of Ramadi on Saturday, heading towards areas controlled by Islamic State militants, an eyewitness and a local official said.
Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho would not choose to leave the club he has just steered to another Premier League title but he is prepared to manage another English team, the Portuguese coach has told the BBC.Mourinho, 52, said in an…
Voting has started to elect the Board of Directors of Bangladesh’s apex business platform FBCCI for the 2015-17 term.The voting started at Motijheel’s Federation Bhaban at 9am on Saturday and will end at 5pm.
The Islamic State (IS) group says it was behind a suicide bombing on a Shia mosque in Saudi Arabia that killed at least 21 people. The attack in Saudi Arabia’s Eastern Province is the first to be claimed by the…
The UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon in a message for the International Day for Biological Diversity, 22 May, called for global action for biodiversity loss. The UN secretary general said, the variety of life on Earth is essential for the welfare…
A Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) mobile court here on Thursday night sentenced a owner of poultry feed factory of Khilgaon to one-year simple jail and fined of Tk 2 lakh, in default three months more in jail. Acting on a…
BNP vice-chairman Shamsher Mubin Chowdhury was freed from Kashimpur jail here on bail on Friday. Shamsher Mubin walked out of the jail around 1:30pm, said Mohammad Nasir, jailer of the Kashimpur jail. Family members were present at the jail gate…
A Dhaka court on Thursday framed charges afresh against eight accused in the case filed about the murder of blogger Ahmed Rajeeb Haider. The court also fixed May 27 to record the depositions of the witnesses. Judge Syeed Ahmed of…
The Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) Court of Dhaka on Thursday granted bail to railway engineer Jahangir Alam, after his surrendered to the court in the case filed in connection with the death of four-year-old Jihad. Magistrate Ashoke Kumara Dutt of…
Students of Jahangirnagar University (JU) Geological Sciences and Computer Sciences Engineering departments brought out a torch procession on Friday evening demanding allotment of the second floor of a new science building to hold their classes.
A Indigenous female salesgirl was who was kidnapped from Vatara area in the city was gang raped on a speeding micro bus on Thursday night. The Garo girl was working as a salesperson at a shop in Jumuna Future Park,…
Treatment of ailing BNP leader Salahuddin Ahmed began yesterday at the North Eastern Indira Gandhi Regional Institute of Health and Medical Sciences (NEIGRIHMS), said party assistant office secretary Abdul Latif Jony. Talking to journalists he said if may take another…
BNP standing committee member Lt Gen (Retd) Mahbubur Rahman yesterday said, the present Parliament stands on shifting sands. He made this remark while talking to reporters after a discussion meeting of Zia Shishu Kishore Mela Kendriya Sangsad held at Jatiya…
A suicide bomber blew himself up at a Shia mosque in eastern Saudi Arabia during Friday prayers, residents said, and up to 30 people were reported to have been killed or wounded.No one immediately claimed responsibility for the bombing, the…
Scores of Myanmar’s minority Rohingya Muslims are paying off people smugglers and returning to the squalid camps they used to live in after being held for months on overcrowded ships that were to take them to Thailand but did not…
Hollywood stars Steve Martin and Tina Fey, comedians Chris Rock and Jerry Seinfeld and a host of US presidents joined the band Foo Fighters on Wednesday to bid farewell to David Letterman as the veteran “Late Show” host signed off…
A Telenor Group research has revealed that senior citizens of Asia are not fully receiving benefits of mobile phone and internet.Data collected from its four Asian markets, including Bangladesh, also suggested that the senior segment in some of these markets…
Transitioning from fossil fuels to electric-powered technology is widely believed to be the best way to lower carbon emissions.But is that the real solution? Certainly not, especially in India and China, warns a new study.”Knowing where the electricity comes from…