The first meeting of the joint working group (JWG) for cooperation in textiles sector between Bangladesh and India will be held here on Thursday, said an official. Bangladesh and India signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on cooperation in textiles…
A BNP leader has alleged that the country has only seen ‘partial trial’ over the killings during the 2009 BDR mutiny. “The masterminds of the mutiny are still at large. Their godfathers are not yet nabbed. It appears that the…
The BNP-backed candidate has been elected chairman in the Pirganj Upazila Parishad elections in Rangpur, a parliamentary constituency from where Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was elected in the Jan 5 elections. The balloting, in the first phase of the local…
BNP-backed candidate Nur Mohammad Mondal has taken a lead in the battle of ballots in the polls in Pirganj upazila held on Monday as shown in the latest results. According to the latest results, Nur bagged 52,203 votes in 63…
The panel backed by pro-Awami League and -left-leaning parties swept the Rajshahi University Teachers’ Association (Ruta) polls held on Monday. The Yellow Panel of the progressive teachers bagged all the posts of Ruta 15-member executive committee. Teacher of Geology and…
Jagannath University Teachers’ Association (JnUTA) has announced to continue their agitation programme on the university campus until the recovery of its Tibet Hall occupied by an Awami League leader. JnUTA President Sarkar Akkas Ali and university Proctor Ashok Kumar Saha…
The five-nation Asia Cup Cricket begins here tomorrow (Tuesday) with defending champions Pakistan taking on Sri Lanka in the opening match at Khan Shaheb Osman Ali Stadium in Fatullah. The 50 over-a-side day-night will start at 2 pm. The other…
Students of Government Titumir College went on the rampage at BRAC University in Dhaka’s Mohakhali on Monday, damaging at least two vehicles. BRAC University students took to the street protesting the attack, halting traffic on one of Dhaka’s busiest streets…
The Cabinet has approved felling of 500 Sal trees, valued for timber, to develop the road from Joydebpur to Mauna, Cabinet Secretary Musharraf Hossain Bhuiyan has said. “The approval was given to implement the Joydebpur-Mymensingh road development project before time,”…
A Rajshashi court has sent 36 BNP activists to prison — among them the city’s mayor Mosaddek Hossain Bulbul and the party’s Joint Secretary General Mizanur Rahman Minu. They were charged in two cases over the killing of a policeman…
Twenty-eight leaders and activists of the fundamentalist Jamaat-e Islami’s student wing Islami Chhatra Shibir have been arrested in separate drives lasting from Sunday night to Monday afternoon in the port city of Chittagong. Police said those arrested include Kotwali thana…
Activists of Dhaka University’s Shahidullah Hall unit of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) locked a restaurant for two hours in the city’s Chankherpool area for delay in serving a BCL man. Witnesses said BCL activist Shahriar went to ‘Aftab Hotel and…
Two illegal shipyards built by destroying coastal forests at Sitakunda upazila in Chittagong district were evicted by the Authorities on Monday. The two shipyards — SK Steel and SK Ship Breaker — were built illegally on lands under coastal forests…
A three-day workshop on ‘Improving food security governance in South and South East Asia through strengthened participation of organisations of marginalised farmers’ regional project was launched here from Sunday.
The BNP is concerned over snatching of three convicted Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) militants from a police prison van at Trishal in Mymensingh. Standing Committee member Rafiqul Islam Miah, speaking at a discussion at the National Press Club on Sunday,…
Three journalists from al-Jazeera’s English news channel go on trial in Egypt on Thursday, in a case which campaigners say is part of a sweeping crackdown on freedom of speech, reports the BBC’s Orla Guerin in Cairo.
The Appellate Division has cancelled an anticipatory bail that BNP leader Khandker Mosharraf Hossain had secured from the High Court in a money laundering case. The case is pursued by Bangladesh’s national anti-graft watchdog Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC).
Kimora Lee Simmons won’t be blue any longer. The model-turned-mogul stepped out for the first time since she secretly wed her banker boyfriend, Tim Leissner, and was spotted wearing a stunning sapphire bauble on her ring finger as she exited…
Former Health Minister Dr AFM Ruhal Haque on Monday apologised to all Awami League leaders and activists and physicians for submitting his affidavit to the Election Commission with wrong wealth information before the 10th general election. “I carelessly and unexpectedly…
The Lego Movie is still towering over its rivals on the North American box office chart, after spending a third week at number one.
A court here on Monday placed two of the snatchers of the three convicted members of the banned militant outfit Jama’at-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) on a 20-day remand in two cases. Senior Judicial Magistrate Sonia Akhter passed the order when Sakhipur…
A Chinese general says the country’s thick smog is its best defence against US laser weapons, it’s been reported.
Egypt’s interim Prime Minister Hazem Beblawi has unexpectedly announced the resignation of his government.
Ukraine has issued a warrant for the arrest of ousted President Viktor Yanukovych, the interim interior minister has announced.
The death of the JMB convict in an ‘encounter’ is meant to suppress the truth behind the snatching of three convicts from police, claims the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP). The government had completely failed to provide adequate security to the…
A schoolboy was killed and two others were injured in a road accident in Sidhipasa-Bilkul area under Abhaynagar Upazila of the district on Sunday evening.
Speakers at a views-sharing meeting here have stressed for ensuring socio-political and voting rights of the persons with disabilities for ensuring their overall development and equal human rights.
Awami League leader Dr Hasan Mahmud on Monday alleged that BNP-Jamaat alliance along with an international militant group was involved in the snatching of three convicted members of the banned militant outfit Jama’at-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB). “BNP, Jamaat, JMB and al-Qaeda…
BNP joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi on Monday doubted that the government might have staged a ‘mysterious drama’ over the militant issue ahead of the upazila elections. “The incident of militant snatching seems very mysterious just before the upazila…
An eight-day “Sultan Mela” to mark the 89th birth anniversary of celebrated artist SM Sultan will begin at Sultan Mancha of Narail Government Victoria College Tuesday.