About 40 fishing trawlers sank in the Meghna River and over 150 thatched houses were damaged as a nor’wester lashed different unions of Kamalnagar upazila on Thursday afternoon. The fishing trawlers capsized in Ludhua, Patabania, Katoria, Matabbarnagar and Matihar areas…
BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia applied for a machine readable passport (MRP) to Agargaon passport office on Thursday. Khaleda, who had long been using red passport for holding the portfolios of the prime minister thrice and leader of the opposition in…
A boy was killed in a road accident in Shibtala area of the district town on Wednesday.
An activist of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami was stabbed to death by some unidentified miscreants at Thutiapukur in Palashbari upazila early Thursday.
Some 500 digital telephone lines of Bangladesh Telecommunications Company Limited (BTCL) in Benapole remain out of order for the last two years due to digging of drains and construction of footpaths along a two kilometre area of the municipality.
Twelve bodies were retrieved from the Meghna River after a launch capsized in Gazaria upazila on Thursday amid bad weather. Three of the deceased were identified as Mamal Hossain, 50, of Naria upazila of Shariatpur district, Tumpa Begum, 30, and…
A middle-aged man was killed as a recklessly driven truck crashed into a bicycle he was riding at Swarupnagar village in the district town on Thursday morning.
A man was beaten to death in a clash between two groups of villagers at Koiardhari village in Chauddagram upazila on Wednesday night.
The High Court on Thursday asked the government to take adequate steps to ensure a secure environment for the witnesses to the sensational Narayanganj seven murders so that they can give their depositions without any fear. An HC bench comprising…
Members of Indian Border Security Force (BSF) picked up a Bangladeshi young man from Islampur border area in Patgram upazila early Thursday.
A group of plainclothes men allegedly tried to abduct the director of ‘Ain o Salish Kendra’ (ASK) from the capital on Thursday, the rights group said. ASK made the claim within 24 hours of its demand to ban plainclothes operations…
The public hearing on the sensational seven murders here has been extended by another working day as the probe body wants to hold another session of hearing. The seven-member probe body, formed following a High Court order, was expected to…
Diplomats of the European countries in Dhaka on Thursday urged the government to remove the institutional obstacles to greater and quicker European Union (EU) investments in Bangladesh. They mentioned power, infrastructure, IT and services sectors where investment process needs to…
Speakers at a workshop on Wednesday stressed for producing pesticides-free mangoes to avoid health hazards.
A super bumper production of maize is likely in northern Bangladesh during this current season as its harvest continues in full swing with excellent yield rate everywhere, official sources and farmers said.
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Kazi Zafar Ahmed, Chairman of Jatiya Party (Zafar) was taken to intensive care unit (ICU) of United Hospital Thursday afternoon following deterioration of his health, according to hospital and family sources. He was admitted to the hospital on May 11…
Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) does not want quarrel but good relations with India, said BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Thursday. “We do not want any quarrel with India. We want to maintain good relations between he…
A Dhaka court Thursday recorded the evidence of former military dictator HM Ershad in the case filed in connection with radar purchase in 1992. Ershad who is the Special Envoy to the Prime Minister and also the Jatiya Party Chief…
It is reported that once Bangabandhu had said about the some people – All people get mines of gold but I find all thieves. This reported exclamation came when relief blankets were distributed among the people soon after liberation and…
An activist of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami was stabbed to death by some unidentified miscreants at Thutiapukur in Palashbari upazila early Thursday. The deceased was identified as Rustom Ali, a resident of the village. Gopal Chandra, officer-in-charge of Palashbari Police Station, said…
New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) has asked Bangladesh authorities to establish an independent body to ‘investigate evidence’ that Rab has been responsible for extrajudicial executions, disappearances, torture, and other serious abuses over many years. Human Rights Watch on Wednesday…
Alleging that Rab has been given the ‘license to kill’, senior jurist of the country Barrister Amirul Islam on Wednesday demanded that this elite force be disbanded immediately. “Rab has been given the license to kill, set up torture cells…
Absolute power of the executive organ of Bangladesh creates scope for abuse and prompts to take executive decisions on partisan basis, according to a study of the Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB). The study reveals that the Prime Minister being the…
The Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) on Wednesday interrogated five people, including three policemen, in a gold smuggling case. ACC investigation officer and deputy director Jatan Kumar Roy quizzed them on remand from 11 am to 5 pm at the ACC…
ZH Sikder Women’s Medical College and Hospital has sacked a doctor and a staff for confining and beating a journalist. They are Dr Mohammad Safiul Azam and his telephone operator Abu Sufian.
Hotel Regency Resort Limited lodged a case on Wednesday morning with the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) Court of Dhaka against 16 of its general shareholders including shareholder Shah Ashraf Islam for vandalism and looting while the court directed Khilkhet Police…
A Dhaka court on Wednesday deferred the hearing in the case filed against sacked teacher Parimal Joydhar of Viqarunnisa Noon School and College for molesting a girl student of the institute deferred to June 26. Judge-in-Charge of Dhaka’s Women and…
A grenade accidently went off during a training session on Wednesday, leaving nine army personnel injured at Dinajpur Cantonment. The explosion at the firing range took place at 2pm, Inter-Services Public Relations Directorate’s (ISPR) and local sources confirmed.