Bangladesh national cricketer Shahadat Hossain has been suspended from all forms of the game as police probe allegations that he and his wife beat their 11-year-old maid. Police are still searching for the 29-year-old paceman who went into hiding last…
The death of 107 pilgrims and injury of about 300 others in a crane collapse on Haram Sharif in Makkah on Friday has come as a great shock to the leaders in Bangladesh, and anxiety to the people who have…
SM Akram, chief adviser of Nagorik Oikya on Saturday reiterated the demand for release of the convener of Nagorik Oikya, Mahmudur Rahman Manna, and protested the imposition of vat on education. Addressing a human chain organised by the Nagorik Juba…
At least 12 bloggers have packed their bags and fled abroad in recent weeks. Others are preparing to follow suit and leave the Muslim-majority country. They are all ardent advocates of atheist standpoints in their blogs. Despite the fact that…
Newly appointed Australian Test vice-captain David Warner has been ruled out of next month’s tour of Bangladesh due to a fractured thumb, Cricket Australia said Friday. Warner suffered the injury when he got in a tangle trying to play a…
The Forest Department has recovered four maunds (about 160 kgs) of turtle of different species from the Sankhari Bazar area in the capital early Friday.
The Supreme Court on Thursday ordered to maintain status quo on the Appellate Division’s order on screening of Rana Plaza movie till September 14. The chamber court imposed the restriction just a day of releasing the movie at the screens…
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has given permission to 5,000 more pilgrims in addition to its fixed quota for Bangladesh to perform hajj this time, according to sources of Bangladesh Embassy in Riyadh. The permission came two days after Bangladesh’s…
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A Dhaka court on Monday fixed October 19 to hear on framing charge against BNP Acting Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and 36 other party men in a case filed for arson attack and burning people to death on…
Customs Intelligence officials seized huge illegal Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) equipment worth Tk 10 crore at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport on Monday. Briefing reporters at the Customs Intelligence and Investigation Directorate (CIID) office, its Director General Mainul Khan said…
Bangladesh National Cricket Team player Shahadat Hossain and his wife Nitto Shahadat have been sued in court over torturing their housemaid early Monday. A journalist named Mojammel Hossain filed the case with Mirpur Model Police Station under the Women and…
Six people, including a pregnant woman, have been killed after a car veered off the road during a car rally in north-western Spain. Police said that 16 people had been injured, some critically, after the accident at the A Coruna…
Members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) arrested seven members of an organised kidnapping gang from Shahjalal International Airport area in the city on Friday night.
The per capita external debt burden in the country stood at Tk 13, 160 on June 30 last, State Minister for Finance and Planning MA Mannan has said. MA Mannan disclosed the information in Parliament on behalf of Finance Minister…
A Dhaka court has framed charges against 13 people including Tazreen Fashions Managing Director (MD) in two cases filed over the devastating fire at the factory that killed 112 workers and injured over 200 others in 2012. The factory was…
Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus is in India for a seven day visit from 31 August to 7 September. He was invited to deliver a special lecture at the Rajiv Gandhi National Institution of Youth Development (RGNIYD) in Sriperumbudur, 40…
The government has decided to introduce ‘fare automation system’ magnetic card or ‘rapid pass card (prepaid card)’ from October 1 for the first time at Paturia, Daulatdia and Kazirhat ferry terminals. Those vehicles cross the river using the ferries regularly…
Manoj Misra Nature has over the millennia truly linked a number of streams and rivers to form river basins in different parts of the world. ‘True’ link means a confluence of two or more rivers governed by terrestrial geography where…
The 107th Social Business Design Lab organized by Yunus Centre took place today on 29th August 2015 at the Grameen Bank Auditorium. Around 150 participants and observers, from national and international organisations with diverse background attended the programme, including a…
Better counting methodology has revealed more realistic results for the remaining tiger population in Bangladesh’s Sundarbans. And the numbers are far from good: Only around 100 of the big cats still stalk the forests. The numbers of tigers that populate…
As the 57th Magsaysay Awards season commenced on August 27 to September 2, events and activities of all the awardees will be on livestream, podcast and twitter to give the virtual audience the chance to watch the events in their…
The government has increased power prices by 2.97 percent and gas prices by 26.29 percent. Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission Chairman AR Khan announced the hikes at a press conference at the commission’s office at Karwan Bazar on Thursday. The new…
China has offered to establish a Dhaka-Cox’s Bazar-Myanmar-Kunming road link, aiming to boost connectivity among the three countries. The offer came when a Chinese delegation, led by its Commerce Minister Gao Hucheng, met Finance Minister AMA Muhith at his secretariat…
Grameen Bank has been ranked 12th position on Fortune’s Change the World List which is the recognition for creating new economic opportunities for those in poverty and bringing unbanked peopled under financial service. Fortune announced its inaugural Change the World…
The Cabinet on Monday gave the final approval to the draft of the Bangladesh Petrolium Corporation Act, 2015 proposed by the Ministry of Energy Power and Mineral Resources. Mosharraf Hossain said the BPC was running under the Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation…
The BNP on Sunday alleged that a vested quarter is trying to mislead Sheikh Hasina only to widen the difference with BNP sand underpin the politics of division and said that the Prime Minister’s observation over involvement of its chief…
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court yesterday stayed till August 23 the trial proceedings of a land related graft case filed against BNP standing committee member Barrister Moudud Ahmed. A four-member bench of the Appellate Division headed by Chief…
Students of Mathematics department of Rajshahi University (RU) blocked the Dhaka-Rajshahi highway in front of the university main entrance after three students were beaten up by an auto-rickshaw drivers. The agitated students continued their blockade for one hour from 11.00am…
Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) president Khandaker Mahbub Hossain yesterday claimed that lawyers are not involved in financing militancy outfit. “I believe that no lawyers are involved in financing militancy outfit. But, legal action will be taken against three Supreme…