The ‘Operation Maximus’ launched by members of Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) at a suspected militant den at Borohat in municipality area was postponed on Friday evening as darkness fell. Briefing reporters near the militant hideout around 7pm, chief of…
Dhaka, Mar 31 – Sounds of gunshots were heard as the Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) and Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) launched an operation at the suspected militant den at Borohat in Sadar upazila of Moulvibazar on Friday.
Dhaka, Mar 31 – General Bipin Rawat, Chief of Staff of Indian Army, arrived in Dhaka on Friday on a three-day visit. The Indian Army chief, accompanied by his spouse Madhulika Rawat and a four-member delegation, arrived by a special…
Dhaka, Mar 31 – The head of the intelligence wing of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab), Lt Col Abul Kalam Azad, who was injured during the raid on a ‘militant den’ in Sylhet, died at the Combined Military Hospital (CMH), Dhaka…
Comilla, Mar 30 – BNP’s mayoral candidate Monirul Haque Sakku won the Comilla City Corporation polls for the second straight term on Thursday defeating his rival Awami League’s Anjuman Sultana Sima with a margin of 11,085 votes.
Dhaka – Limbs of at least 7-8 bodies were found scattered as the operation ‘Hitback’, carried out by Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit, at Nasirpur den in Moulvibazar Sadar upazila ended inside on Thursday. Police suspected that all…
Geneva, March 30 –The IEC (International Electrotechnical Commission) is stepping up efforts to bring electrical energy to the 1,3 billion people who have no access to electricity, via a disruptive technology – low voltage direct current (LVDC). The IEC is…
Dhaka, Mar 30 – The joint forces’ raid on two ‘militant dens’ at Nasirpur village in Sadar upazila and at Barhat in municipality area in the district of Moulvibazar, was suspended on Thursday morning due to heavy rain.
Dhaka, Mar 30 – The bodies of seven more people, who had gone missing after a trawler capsized in the Panguchi River in Morrelganj upazila of Bagerhat on Tuesday morning, were recovered from the river on Thursday, raising the death…
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday urged the country’s people to stand against terrorism, militancy and drug addiction. While speaking at a mammoth rally at Faridpur Govt Rajendra College ground, she also urged all, including guardians, teachers, imams, professions, law…
Joint forces have launched an operation at one of the two suspected militant dens police cordoned off here early Wednesday. The joint team comprising members of Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT), Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit, Rapid Action…
Barely 14 hours after law enforcers cordoned off two suspected militant dens in Moulvibazar, police encircled a building at South Bagmara of Sadar Dakkhin upazila on Wednesday afternoon suspecting it to be a militant den. Based on intelligence information, a…
Kathmandu, Mar (AP/UNB) — Mountaineering expedition organizers in Nepal say they are sending huge trash bags with climbers on Mount Everest during the Spring season to collect trash that then can be lifted by helicopters back to the base camp.
Dhaka, Mar 29 – Nearly eight hours after Bangladesh Army officially called off its operation at ‘Atia Mahal’ in Dakkhin Surma upazila of Sylhet on Tuesday night, police cordoned off two houses at Fatehpur village and Barohat in Sadar upazila…
Sylhet, Mar 28 – Bangladesh Army called off the ‘Operation Twilight’ at ‘Atia Mahal’ in Dakkhin Surma upazila on Tuesday night, 83 hours after its Para Commandos launched the raid on the militant den on Saturday morning. Army’s Military Intelligence…
Dhaka, Mar 28 – Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday regretted that Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was not given time to rebuild war-ravaged Bangladesh although he gave its people independence and a state.
‘Broaden NHRC mandate allowing it to probe all alleged HR violations’ Dhaka, Mar 28 – The UN Human Rights Committee has urged Bangladesh to make sure that counterterrorism measures are not used to restrict freedom of expression and opinion of…
Dhaka – Fiver bodies have been recovered early Tuesday as a passenger trawler carrying about 100 persons capsized in river Panguchi in Bagherhat district on the southwestern part of Bangladesh.
A powerful cyclone carrying winds of up to 263km/h (163 mph) has made landfall in Queensland, Australia. Cyclone Debbie, a category four storm, has left at least 45,000 homes without power and damaged buildings, although it is too early to…
The Cabinet on Monday approved in principle the draft of the ‘Road Transport Bill, 2017’ with provisions of harsher punishments, including 6 months’ jail or Tk 50,000 fine or both for driving any vehicle without having any driving licence. The…
Army Para Commandos found the bodies of four militants, including that of a female one, at militant den Atia Mahal at Shibbari of Dakkhin Surma upazila on Monday. Brig Gen Fakhrul Ahsan, spokesperson of the operation, ‘Twilight,’ came up with…
Washington, March 26 – The Empire State Building and United Nations headquarters in New York joined other iconic buildings and monuments around the world plunging into darkness for sixty minutes on Saturday to mark Earth Hour and draw attention to…
Sylhet, Mar 26 – Sound of big explosions and sporadic gunshots was heard from militant den Atia Mahal at Shibbari in Dakkhin Surma upazila from Sunday morning to afternoon amid joint forces’ operation that began on Saturday afternoon.
Dhaka, Mar 26 – The nation celebrated the 47th Independence and National Day on Sunday with a fresh vow to root out militancy from the country and build a happy prosperous ‘Sonar Bangla’ free from poverty.
Sylhet, Mar 25 – Two policemen and an activist of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) were killed and 16 people injured in a bomb blast in front of Gotatikor Madrasah adjacent to militant den Atia Mahal in Dakkhin Surma upazila on…
Dhaka, Mar 25 –Bangladesh crushed Sri Lanka by 90 runs in the 1st ODI to take 1-0 series lead in the three-match series started at Rangiri Dambulla International Stadium on Saturday. The first ODI win of this year came in…
The nation will celebrate the great Independence and National Day on Sunday taking a fresh vow to advance the country’s development and democracy building a happy prosperous ‘Sonar Bangla’ free from poverty. President Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina…
Sylhet, Mar 25 – Army commandos rescued 69 members of 28 families trapped in the ‘den of militants’ in a building at Shibbari in Dakkhin Surma upazila on Saturday.
Sylhet, Mar 25 – oint forces started their operation at a ‘den of militants’ at Shibbari in Dakkhin Surma upazila on Saturday morning. Additional Deputy Police Commissioner (Media) Jedan Al Musa said the law enforcers had asked the militants to…
By Stephen Leahy Uxbridge, Canada, Mar 24 (IPS) – The Carbon Law says human carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions must be reduced by half each decade starting in 2020. By following this “law” humanity can achieve net-zero CO2 emissions by mid-century…