Category: Nation

The Guyana Cricket Board have shortlisted a squad of 16 to face Bangladesh in a U-19 50 over contest at the Georgetown Cricket Club ground Bourda on October 5.

The Barind Multipurpose Development Authority (BMDA) has implemented an uplift project aims at improving the socio-economic condition of people living in the vast Barind tract through boosting agricultural production.

Expatriates Welfare and Overseas Employment Minister Engineer Khondoker Mosharraf Hossain said here on Wednesday that the renovated Sheikh Jamal Stadium, formerly Faridpur stadium, will be upgraded to international standard so that international matches of all major games can be arranged.

The Election Commission started the distribution of National Identity (NID) cards in three districts — Dhaka, Gazipur and Manikganj — among the fresh voters on Wednesday.  

Members of Indian Border Security Force (BSF) pushed in 19 Bangladeshi nationals through Bakchar frontier in Sadar upazila early Wednesday.  

Bangladesh Nationalist Party, Feni District Branch arranged a Doa and Milad Mahfil   on the occasion of the 1st death anniversary of Major (Retd.) Sayeed Iskander, former President of Feni District BNP and ex-MP of Feni-1 held at the Takia Mosque…

A three-day basic training workshop for child journalists on child rights began here at the hall room of Civil Surgeon Office in the city from Monday.

Two more drivers who sustained severe burn injuries when pickets torched their vehicles in Comilla and Gazipur during the countrywide 48-hour hartal enforced by Jamaat on Wednesday died at a city hospital on Monday.  

Speakers at an advocacy meeting here on Sunday put maximum emphasis on united efforts of all concerned in turning the public places and transports in Rangpur City Corporation (RCC) area into smoking free.

The nation can never repay the debt it owes to the Freedom Fighters (FFs), the best sons and daughters of the soil, but it must show due honour to them for upholding real spirit of the War of Liberation.

Bagerhat – Members of Bangladesh Coast Guard rescued a kidnapped fisherman from Morakaga Khal (canal) area of the Sundarbans under Koira upazila on early Sunday following a five-hour long gunfight with the forest robbers.

Speakers in a function on Wednesday stressed the need for strengthening the community policing activities to free the society from all sorts of crimes.

Bangladesh has welcomed the agreement on the framework for Elimination of Syrian Chemical Weapons reached between the United States and the Russian Federation on September 14 in Geneva.  

Two labourers went missing as a boat capsized in the Jamuna River near Moti Shaheb Ghat in the town on Monday.

A father at last handed over his drug addict son to police at Jagadishpur village in Sadar upazila of the district on Monday.

Dhaka -The cabinet Monday approved a draft law barring convicted war criminals from contesting national elections, a media report said.

Ruling Awami League MP Golam Maula Rony has been released from the Kashimpur jail, 53 days after he was incarcerated for allegedly assaulting journalists.

Speakers at separate fish fry release ceremonies here on Sunday afternoon stressed for increasing fish production to accelerate socio-economic uplifts in rural areas, side by side meeting nutritional demand of the common people.

Civil Surgeon of Jamalpur General Hospital Dr. Mohammad Hafizur Rahman Sunday said more modern equipment would be required to be purchased to improve health services in Jamalpur General Hospital.

Police recovered 12 crude bombs from two separate places in Sadar upazila of the district on Friday.

Incensed at the death of a female patient for alleged wrong operation, her relatives vandalised a private clinic in Magura town on Friday.

Tk. 1,20,000 was distributed among 60 poor meritorious students of eight educational institutions of Chapainawabganj Sadar and Shibganj upazilas as stipend on Thursday.

A two-day training course on “Transfer of Agriculture Technology’ was held at Jibannagar Upazila Sadar Pilot High School auditorium on Thursday.

Valuables of two rice mills worth about TK 15 lakhs were burnt in a fire at Choul Potti area under the city’s Pahartali thana on Thursday morning.

Sub-divisional officer (SDO) of Malabar Sub-division of Jalpaiguri district in India Jyotirmoy Tanti on Friday visited RCCI School and College established by  Rangpur Chamber of Commerce and Industry (RCCI).

A mobile court here on Wednesday sentenced a local leader of Jubo League (JL) to six months’ imprisonment after he was arrested with Yaba tablets at Bilashpur in the city.

The trial of alleged war criminal Jamaat-e-Islami ameer Motiur Rahman Nizami again slowed down on Wednesday due to the absence of the prosecution witness for deposition.  

Jatiya Party President H M Ershad left Dhaka for Seoul on Wednesday on a five-day visit to attend the International Conference of Asian Political Parties (ICAPP).

A freedom fighter prosecution witness on Wednesday corroborated another PW’s evidence narrating how accused Mobarak Hossain, a 1971 Razakar Commander, had been involved in the ‘crimes against humanity’ during the Liberation War.