Bangladesh has touched a milestone completing online birth registration of 10 crore (100 million) people on Sunday, according to a message received from the Birth and Death Registration Project of the Local Government Division. So far more than 16 crore…
Benapole – The ruling Awami League has expelled its three local leaders for contesting the upazila polls in Sharsha, Jhikargachha and Bagharpara of Jessore district going against the party decision and also seven other leaders for supporting them. Party sources…
India’s Supreme Court has put on hold the release of three of the seven people convicted of involvement in the murder of former PM Rajiv Gandhi. The chief minister of Tamil Nadu state, where the plotters are held, ordered the…
Hundreds of North and South Korean relatives are seeing each other for the first time in decades, at a reunion for families separated by the Korean War. More than 100 mostly elderly South Koreans arrived in the North on Thursday…
Four persons were killed when a bus and a microbus were involved in a head-on collision at Narsingdi’s Belabo Upazila. The accident, which left 10 others injured, occurred around 1.30am past midnight on Thursday on the Dhaka-Sylhet highway, said Belabo…
Dhaka – Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday formally handed over the prestigious Ekushey Padak to fifteen eminent citizens at a ceremony at Osmani Memorial Auditorium in the capital. These distinguished persons have been selected for the Ekushey Padak 2014…
New Worldwatch Institute study examines the number of women active in national legislatures Washington DC—In late 2013, women accounted for slightly more than 21 percent of the representatives in the lower or popular chambers of national legislatures worldwide, according to…
Agricultural experts at a programme have called for boosting agriculture for achieving food security and reducing malnutrition through increased environmentally sustainable agriculture production in the country’s southern region. Addressing a seminar organised by BRAC at its Mohakhali head office on…
Dhaka residents will enjoy Wi-Fi on busy roads during the ICC Twenty20 World Cup. The wireless Internet will be available from March on a three kilometre stretch of road from Jahangir Gate to Banani. Advertising agency ‘Vinyl World’ is behind…
A court of Dhaka on Wednesday granted conditional bail to singer Arefin Rumey in a case filed for repression allegations over dowry filed by his first wife Ananya. Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal-5 of Dhaka granted the remand on…
Islami Bank Bangladesh Limited (IBBL) has launched its next generation VISA Debit Card. Bangladesh Bank Executive Director Dasgupta Asim Kumar inaugurated the card as the chief guest at a programme at a city hotel with IBBL Managing Director and CEO…
The country’s foreign currency reserve hit a record high US$ 19-billion mark on Wednesday. The forex reserve now stands at US$ 19048.09 million which is enough to meet import expenditures of the next six months, according to a central bank…
Jamuna Group Chairman Nurul Islam Babul sued Basundha Group Chairman Ahmed Akbar Sobhan and five others demanding a compensation of Tk 20 billion for publishing fake, false and defaming news items in the Daily Kalerkantha and the Bangladesh Pratidin. Judge…
Dhaka – In separate incidents, two people, including a teenage girl, have been murdered in the city’s Mirpur and Uttara areas. One of the deceased was identified as Rafiqul Islam, 44, a private company employee while the identity of the…
Customs officials have detained a cleaner with 40 gold bars worth Tk 20 million at the Shahjalal International Airport. ‘Jainal’, 45, a cleaner of the airport was arrested around 12 noon on Wednesday, said Quamrul Hassan, assistant commissioner of Customs…
The 35th sitting of the Saarc Foreign Ministers will be held in Male, the capital of the Maldives, on Thursday with a focus on regional connectivity and enhancing trade ties among the Saarc countries. State Minister for Foreign Affairs Shahriar…
The third round of the Bangladesh-US security dialogue will be held on Apr 16 in Dhaka, the foreign ministry has said. The US confirmed the date when Bangladesh’s foreign secretary M Shahidul Haque met senior state department officials including Assistant…
Journalist David Bergman has been accused of being in contempt of the International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) for making making ‘adverse comments’ about the court on his blog. The ICT-2 chaired by Justice Obaidul Hasan has scheduled a hearing for Thursday.…
Accusing the government of trying to manipulate the upazila polls, BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Wednesday said no fair election is possible under the current regime. “Today’s upazila elections have once again proved that elections won’t…
Police fired two rounds of blank gunshots to prevent proxy voting at a polling centre at Abhoynagar Upazila of Jessore district during the Upazila Parishad elections on Wednesday. The incident took place at Rajghat Jafarpur Girls’ Secondary School polling centre…
Preparations have been made for women to participate in the third municipal elections next year.
BNP vice chairmen Sadeque Hossain Khoka and Major (Retd) Hafiz Uddin Ahmed have been released from prisons on Wednesday. Sadeque Hossain Khoka, who is also former Dhaka city mayor, was released from Dhaka Central Jail in the afternoon as he…
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The BNP backed candidates lead in the first phase of upazila elections held on Wednesday with a slight margin. Candidates loyal to the 19-Party alliance that it leads have won the race for chairman in 43 of the 95 Upazila…
Police in the Ukrainian capital Kiev have launched a fresh attack on anti-government protesters as the death toll in renewed clashes has climbed to 26.
Chief Election Commissioner Kazi Rakibuddin Ahmad on Wednesday said the first phase elections in 97 upazila parishads of the country were held in a free and peaceful manner except a few minor incidents. “We’ve completed (the first phase) elections taking…
The ruling Awami League said elections in 97 upazila parishads in the first phase were held peacefully amid high turnout of enthusiastic voters on Wednesday. PM’s adviser HT Imam presented the party’s preliminary assessment at a press briefing at Awami…
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BNP on Wednesday called daylong hartals for Thursday in eight upazilas under six districts to protest what the party said upazila polls fraud. The upazilas are Sadar in Meherpur, Sadar and Shailakupa in Jhenidah, Sonatola in Bogra, Bakerganj and Gouranadi…
Stray incidents like clashes, attacks and breach of electoral code of conduct and arrests were reported from various Upazilas of seven districts in Bangladesh during Wednesday’s first phase of polling. Magura: At least 13 people were injured in two separate…