Speakers at a human chain at the National Press Club in Dhaka on Wednesday demanded immediate release of Nagorik Oikya convener Mahmudur Rahman Manna. The human chain organised by the Bangladesh New Generation Party (BNGP) was attended by leaders of…
Some 500 magistrates along with the army and the regular law enforcement agencies will be kept deployed for four days from April 26 to 29 in the three cities in Dhaka and Chittagong to punish violation of election code of…
Awami League-backed mayoral candidate for Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) Annisul Huq on Wednesday urged BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia to abide by the electoral laws saying that the use of motorcade during electioneering a violation of election code of conduct.…
Bangladesh for the first time whitewashed former world champions Pakistan 3-0 in the three-match ODI series beating them by eight wickets in the 3rd and last match at the Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium in Mirpur on Wednesday. The Bengal Tigers,…
Convenor of pro-BNP group of intellectuals, Adarsha Dhaka Andolon, Prof Dr Emajuddin Ahmed on Wednesday said that the ruling Awami League would have been happier if Khaleda Zia decided not to contest the city polls of April 28. Addressing a…
An official of Mirpur Model Police Station in the capital yesterday (Wednesday) submitted the charge sheet to the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) Court of Dhaka in the case filed against 42 leaders and activists of BNP-led 20-Party Alliance for vandalism,…
BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia’s motorcade came under attack for fourth consecutive day at Banglamotor by pro-Awami League activists leaving at least two persons including her adviser MA Quayum injured. The other was a staff member of her security force. Witnesses…
The historic May Day, commemorating the first triumph of the world’s working class in their epical struggles was observed here today as elsewhere across world with a pledge to establish the rights of the workers.
In the wake of implementation of a project, many villagers including the high Barind tract are getting safe drinking water for the last couple of years.
A total of 266 residential houses in village Bondhgaon under Atoari upazila in Panchagarh have been switched on with electricity supply facilities fulfilling long-cherished demand of the villagers.
Rail communications of Sylhet with Dhaka and Chittagong remained suspended for three and a half hours from early Wednesday as trees, uprooted by nor’wester, fell onto a rail line at Lawachhara in Kamalganj upazila.
Three people were killed and two others injured as a truck fell into a ditch at Dalimpur Sonahajra in Nawabganj upazila on Wednesday morning.
Saudi Arabia announced on Tuesday it was ending a month-long campaign of air strikes against the Houthi rebels who seized large areas of Yemen and said it would back a political solution to bring peace to its war-ravaged neighbor.
Over 200 readymade garment factories have shut down in the last one year, leaving more than 150,000 workers jobless as a fallout of the Rana Plaza collapse.
Robert J. Burrowes As the world continues to engage in various commemorations in relation to World War I, Australia approaches the centenary anniversary of a defining event in the nation’s history: ANZAC Day. On 25 April 1915, and for many…
A sequel to musical comedy classic “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” has hit the London stage some 30 years after it was first penned.
Thai customs officials have seized four tonnes of ivory worth $6 million, authorities said on Monday, in what the department called the largest bust of its kind in Thailand’s history.
Bangladesh’s prominent fashion designer Bibi Russell is visiting India’s Rajasthan state as a ‘state guest’.
Two awareness seminars on Horizon 2020, the biggest EU Research and Innovation programme with nearly €80 billion of funding available over 7 years (2014 to 2020) were held in Chittagong and Dhaka on 21-22 April respectively. The two seminars were…
By Raymond Pagnucco and Jonathan Gad This past February, Peng Jiasheng came home — but he didn’t come alone. The former leader of the Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (MNDAA) brought with him fighters who’d fled with him six years…
Danielle Nierenberg April 22nd is the 45th anniversary of Earth Day—an important opportunity to highlight solutions to some of the world’s most pressing environmental and social challenges. On a planet in which hunger and food waste coexist, where crops feed…
By Vaishnavi Chandrashekhar On many mornings, especially in winter, a pall of smoke hangs over the villages of Palwal district in Haryana, a landscape of tractors, brick kilns and new colleges. It’s the haze of thousands of hearth fires burning…
By Jessica Cheam and Jean Chua Singapore’s first Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew’s legacy in helping the country achieve water sustainability is embodied in one of the water industry’s most treasured awards, the Lee Kuan Yew Water Prize. Four decades…
The BNP on Tuesday briefed the diplomats of 16 countries and the EU stationed in Dhaka about Monday’s attack on its chairperson Khaleda Zia’s motorcade in the city’s Karwanbazar area during her electioneering. A four-member delegation of BNP, led by…
Awami League-backed mayoral candidate for Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) Sayeed Khokon on Tuesday said aggrieved family members of the victims who were killed or injured in arson attacks during the BNP-sponsored hartals, blockade made the attack on BNP chairperson…
The High Court on Tuesday deferred the hearing on a bail petition of BNP leader Mirza Abbas until April 27 in a case filed by the Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) on charge of causing a loss of about Tk 15.52…
Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) recovered 1,200 bottles of Indian Phensidyl syrup from Mirganj Padma Char area in Bagha upazila early Tuesday.
Police recovered the hanging body of a young man at Katigram in Sadar upazila on Tuesday morning.
Police recovered body of a CNG-run auto rickshaw driver from a ditch of Araishato beel under sadar upazila here this morning.
A mobile court of Rangpur City Corporation (RCC) evicted twenty illegally erected roadside shops on the footpaths on Monday afternoon from different areas in the city.