Category: Nation

A total of 273 people died of tuberculosis in four upazilas of the district in the last 10 years as the disease is still prevalent here.

The 26 Border Guard Bangladesh Battalion has seized smuggled goods worth Tk102 crore in the last seven months in Jessore.

Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) seized 120 bottles of Indian Phensidyl syrup and seven bottles of liquor from Narayanjot area on Tentulia border early Thursday.

A local journalist was injured as activists of Jamaat-e-Islami and its student front Islami Chhatra Shibir launched an attack on him at Maniknagar village in Kolaroa upazila on Tuesday.

People of the plain land indigenous communities are still victims of discrimination with their various demands, including constitutional recognition, lying unmet for long.Although the International Day of World’s Indigenous People was observed on August 9, the people of the indigenous…

Speakers at a function here stressed the need for ensuring free flow of information by all government and non government organisations concerned for expediting development and ensuring good governance.

The government through the Ministry of Social Welfare distributed Taka 2,39,04,000 among 996 freedom fighters (FFs) as allowance in the district during the last 2012-2013 fiscal year, official sources said.

DHAKA: Eminent journalist Nazim Uddin Mostan passed away at his residence at Mirpur in city on Sunday afternoon.He was 67.

A group of Bangladeshi scientists, led by Dr Maqsudul Alam, has sequenced the genome of a local variety of jute alongside already unveiled genome for ‘Tosha’ jute.

An Indian smuggler was killed and two members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) were injured in a clash between BGB members and smugglers along Hatkhola-Uchna border in Panchbibi upazila early Sunday.

Within a space of a fortnight another gang dacoity was committed in 50 fishing trawlers in the Bay of Bengal on the night of Thursday, according to a report received here.

Thousands of people returning to the capital after celebrating Eid-ul-Fitr were left to suffer in a three-km tailback at Mawa Ferry Ghat due to heavy pressure of vehicles.  

Thousands of passengers suffered as a 60-km tailback was created on Dhaka-Bogra highway on Friday following a road accident. Police said two goods-laden Dhaka-bound trucks drove into the road divider on the western side of Bangabandhu Jamuna Bridge at around…

Political instability and post-Eid 48-hour countrywide shutdown called by Jamaat-e-Islami for August 13-14 have taken a heavy toll on tourism in the holy town as tourists, both from home and abroad, either cancelled or rescheduled their planned trips to the…

The government through the Ministry of Social Welfare distributed Taka 18,52,59,600 among 51,461 elderly people as old age allowance in the district during the last 2012-2013 fiscal year, official sources said.

A 30-km tailback was created on Dhaka-Chittagong Highway on Thursday following a road accident in Daudkandi upazila, causing sufferings to thousands of people. 

Indian Border Security Force (BSF) has handed over bodies of the two Bangladeshis who were beaten to death by a mob at Chichingpara in the state of Meghalaya of India on Tuesday.

The International Crimes Tribunal-1 on Wednesday formally closed summing–up arguments from both sides in the trial of the 1971 war crimes including genocide, allegedly perpetrated by detained BNP MP Salauddin Quader Chowdhury and kept the verdict pending for any day.

The injured police official of Lakhai Thana of the district died at a hospital in the capital on Wednesday.

Hajj flights to carry Bangladeshi pilgrims to Saudi Arabia will begin on September 7.

Members of Bangladesh Navy rescued 16 fishermen from a sunken fishing boat in the Karnaphuli River under the district on Monday night.

DHAKA: Information Minister Hasanul Haq Inu on Monday  said Odhikar used to work for Jamaat-Hefazat as a bough, wearing a non-partisan musk. The information minister came up with the observation while addressing a press conference organised by the Information Ministry…

DHAKA: Association of Online Journalists (AOJ), a platform of online newsmen, has been formed to boost online news quality and increase facilities of the online journalists.

A three-tier security arrangement has been made for Rajshahi City and its adjacent areas for peaceful celebration of the Eid-ul-Fitr, the largest religious festival of the Muslims.

Rice distribution among the poor and distressed in favour of VGF (vulnerable group feeding) card for ensuing Eid-Ul- Fitr has been started in the district since August 5.

Two absconding officials of Dhaka Bank Barisal Branch sued for misappropriating Tk 64 million of clients.

Muggers took away a truck loaded with 265 sacks of wheat from Ariabazar area in Shajahanpur upazila early Tuesday, after beating up its driver and helper.

Police seized a large consignment of cumin smuggled from India from the Dhaka-Khulna Highway in Wapda area in Sripur upazila of the district early Tuesday.

Two men were killed and a person was injured in an attack at Fenchuganj upazilla in Sylhet which was allegedly led by an upazila leader’s son on Saturday night at around 10.30pm. The incident took place at the Natural Gas…