Women activist Shirin Huq and Gonoshasthya Kendra founder Zafarullah Chowdhury on Wednesday called all citizens to come down to streets and stage candle light protests against abductions and murders. In a message sent through email they said, “The bodies of…
The club’s defensive approach has been criticised following a 0-0 draw with Champions League opponents Atletico Madrid and a 2-0 win at Liverpool.
Terming the present government as a slave and illegal, BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia on Wednesday called upon the people to renew the movement to save the country. “This government is subservient and illegal. Nobody listens to a slave. So, movement…
Ukraine’s acting President Olexander Turchynov has admitted his forces are “helpless” to quell unrest driven by pro-Russian activists in the eastern regions of Donetsk and Luhansk.
Solar power plant is becoming popular in six upazilas of the district as it gives uninterrupted power supply with low cost.
A minor girl was killed in a road acident in Makundrampur Choumuhani area under Kaliganj upazila here on Tuesday.
Hundreds of bidi workers organised protest procession, human chain and rally here on Tuesday demanding substitute employments for them to earn livelihoods instead of working in bidi factories amid harmful environment.
Jute farmers of the district are showing keen interest to cultivate jute during the current season.
Prospects of agro-processing enterprises is bright in the Rajshahi region as it produces surplus crops especially food-grains, fruits and vegetables, business leaders, bankers, agronomists and researchers reveal.
The 76th birth anniversary of eminent journalist Syed Mahmud is being celebrated today. Born on 1 May in a respectable Muslim Family in Jessore, he joined the profession of journalism in 1956 as the Jessore Staff Correspondent of the Daily…
Hotel Ruposhi Bangla will be closed from September for more than a year for renovations. After the renovations are over it will once again be known as Hotel Interncontinental. After it is ready, InterContinental, the luxury hotel brand, will return…
Governments across the world have been urged to acknowledge migrant people’s role in development and ensure their human rights. Migration experts at a two-day meeting that ended in Dhaka on Tuesday also called upon countries to ensure that migrants regardless…
A German delegation has questioned the acceptability of Bangladesh’s national election held on Jan 5 this year and asked for interim polls, says BNP Vice-chairman Shamser Mobin Chowdhury. He said the parliamentary delegation, led by Dagmar G Woehrl, revealed the…
Jatiya Party MP from Narayanganj-5 constituency Nasim Osman died at a hospital in India early Wednesday. He was 65. Sources said Nasim had been admitted to a hospital in India’s Deradun with acidity problems on April 27. He breathed his…
Bangladesh Railway has formed a 4-member inquiry committee on Wednesday, headed by its divisional transport officer, to ascertain the reason behind the Tuesday night’s train accident in the city, which left four people killed. The three other members of the…
The visiting German Parliamentary Delegation led by Member of Parliament Dagmar Woehrl, Chair of the Committee on Economic Cooperation and Development, met Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus on Monday in Dhaka. Ms Woehrl is Chair of the Committee since 2009.
The government is taking Tk 10 billion from Islami Bank Bangladesh Limited for the Padma bridge project. And Planning Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal sees no problem with taking money from an institution that is operating as a legitimate bank. The…
Anisur Rahman, an engineer of Biman Bangladesh Airlines held with 106 kilograms of gold from Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport on Sunday, has said several others were involved but the customs officials are not taking against them. Customs officials on Saturday…
The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Ministry on Tuesday recommended appointing an adequate number of judges to reduce the backlog of cases. The committee made the recommendations at its second meeting held at the Sangsad Bhaban…
Telecom company Airtel Bangladesh Ltd has recently signed an agreement with Bank Asia Ltd to provide its mobile banking services within Airtel network. The signing ceremony took place at Airtel’s corporate office in the capital’s Banani.
Two alleged forest robbers were killed in a gunfight between their cohorts and Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) members in Pashur Channel area in the Sundarbans under Mongla upazila on Tuesday. The deceased were identified as Dhalu, 28, chief of notorious…
Banglalink, one of the country’s largest mobile telecom operators, commercially launched 3G services in Tangail on Tuesday. The launch featured balloons, caravans, horse carts, paddle vans, and popular Banglalink jingles promoting the 3G brand, attracting mass attention in the district…
Speakers at a discussion on Tuesday urged the government for allocating more money for scaling up the disaster resilience of the coastal regions. Speaking at the inauguration of a photo exhibition and a discussion meeting at the Jatiya Press Club,…
The High Court on Tuesday directed the authorities concerned to form a medical board for the health check-up of detained BNP senior leader Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain. The court also asked the Vice Chancellor of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU)…
The High Court on Sunday granted six months’ bail to BNP leader Amanullah Aman in a case filed in connection with the killing of an Islami Chhatra Shibir man in the capital last year. An HC bench comprising Justice Naima…
BNP vice chairman Abdullah Al Noman on Tuesday warned that the government’s ‘growing repressive acts’ cannot suppress their movement as it will only hasten the Awami League regime’s fall. “It’s not possible to suppress a movement with arms and repressive…
A local Jubo League (JL) leader was killed and five people, including women, were injured in an attack by robbers at Hilalpur village in Sadar upazila early Tuesday. The deceased was identified as Nazrul Islam, 36, science and technology affairs…
German ambassador in Dhaka Albrecht Conze’s concerns about the Bangladesh-India joint Rampal power plant are not directed at a coal-fired project but the environmental risk it poses to the Sundarbans, the world’s largest mangrove forest. The ambassador said on Tuesday…
President of the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) Khandker Mahbub Hossain on Tuesday prayed for dismissing the plea of the chief prosecutor before the International Crimes Tribunal-1 seeking to draw contempt-of-court proceedings against him over the remarks he made on…
Law enforcers in Cox’s Bazar have launched a drive to nab the ‘Yaba syndicate’ peddling the contraband drug. The list of such traders has been prepared by intelligence organisations, Department of Narcotic Control (DNC), Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB), RAB and…