Dhaka: The International Day for Disaster Reduction will be observed in the country as elsewhere across the world on Thursday. The theme of this year day is: ‘Live To Tell’. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will inaugurate the day’s main programme…
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Dhaka: The International Day for Disaster Reduction will be observed in the country as elsewhere across the world on Thursday. The theme of this year day is: ‘Live To Tell’. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will inaugurate the day’s main programme…
Dhaka: The maritime ports of Chittagong, Cox’s Bazar, Mongla and Payra have been asked to hoist local cautionary signal No 3 as deep convection is continuing over the North Bay and adjoining coastal areas. Squally weather may affect the maritime…
Dhaka – High officials of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) and Indian Border Security Force (BSF) at a courtesy meeting today expressed commitment to stop border killing as well as trafficking of drugs and narcotics substances.The commitment came at the Sector…
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, now in the USA, is clearing urgent files from there through email so that official activities do not get stalled for her absence in the country.
Dhaka – A Bangladeshi young man was gunned down allegedly by members of Indian Border Security Force (BSF) at Thatkoraibari border point in Raumari upazila of Kurigram district early Sunday.The deceased was identified as Baharul,35, son of Boktarkari, a…
Sylhet – Transport owners and workers went on an indefinite strike in the district on Thursday morning to protest vandalism after a ‘Hanif Paribahan’ bus killed two people.Sarak Paribahan Malik Shramik Okya Parishad called the strike inIndefinite transport strike underway…
Dhaka – A Bangladeshi young man was shot to death by members of Indian Border Security Force (BSF) in Dahagram-Angorpota bordering area of Patgram upazila in Lalmonirhat district early Tuesday.The deceased was identified as Hazrat Ali,35, son of Amir Hossain,…
Dhaka: The Eid-ul-Azha, the second largest religious festival of Muslims, was celebrated with the spirit of sacrifice and festivity in the capital city and elsewhere across the country amid erratic rains. The eid celebrations began with morning prayers mostly in…
Satkhira: A member of Indian Border Security Force (BSF) was arrested at Kenragachhi border point in Kalaroa upazila on Wednesday night as he chased off a group of local cattle traders entering the Bangladesh territory. UNB News Agency Reported.
Dhaka: All kinds of trucks, covered vans and lorries, except the vehicles carrying perishable goods, medicines, fuel oil and ready-made garment, will not be allowed to ply on the highways across the country three before Eid-ul Azha and three days…
Dhaka -A member of Indian Border Security Force (BSF) was arrested at Kenragachhi border point in Kalaroa upazila in Satkhira on Wednesday night as he chased off a group of local cattle traders entering the Bangladesh territory.The arrested BSF member…
Dhaka: BNP standing committee member ASM Hannan Shah was on life support at the Combined Military Hospital (CMH) in the capital on Monday morning following his admission there. The senior BNP leader was taken to the CMH around 9.30am after…
Gazipur: Shafik Rehman, former editor of Bangla daily Jaijaidin, was released from Kashimpur jail on bail on Tuesday. He walked out of the part-2 of Kashimpur Central Jail around 12:50pm after his bail order reached the jail authorities, said jail…
Dhaka – Members of Border Security Force of India (BSF) picked up a Bangladeshi national from Chargaon bordering village in Tahirpur upazila in Sunamganj on Monday.The arrestee was identified as Nayon Miah, 60, son of Meher Ali, a resident of the…
Dhaka: The National Committee to Protect Oil-Gas, Natural Resources and Power-Port on Monday vowed to wage a tough movement after Eid against setting up of Rampal power plant near the Sundarbans. A united movement has to be launched to resist…
Dhaka: Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami will enforce an eight-hour countrywide hartal on Monday protesting what it called the ‘planned killing’ of its leader Mir Quasem Ali for war crimes. The shutdown will begin at 6 am and end at 2 pm. UNB…
Dhaka: The body of Nazma Khanam, a Bangladeshi-American who was stabbed to death by a miscreant in Jamaica, Queens is expected to reach here on Sunday morning. A flight carrying the body left the John F. Kennedy International Airport, New…
Dhaka: Maritime ports of Chittagong, Cox’s Bazar, Mongla and Payra have been advised to hoist local cautionary signal no. 3 as deep convection is continuing over the North Bay under the influence of trough of low. UNB News Agency Reported.
Dhaka – All the three militants, including Tamim Chowdhury, who were killed during a special police raid on a den of ‘New JMB’ in Narayanganj, died from bullet wounds.Dr Sohel Mahmud, assistant professor of Forensic Department of Dhaka Medical College…
Dhaka – PRAN Drinking Water arranged a walkathon on Friday on Purbachal Express Highway in the city to serve pure drink water among the country’s flood-affected people.Brand ambassador of PRAN Drinking Water and captain of the National Cricket team Mashrafe…
Kushtia: Floods triggered by the rise in water level of the Padma River after India opened the floodgates of the Farakka Barrage to ease Bihar flood situation left some 60,000 people in 30 villages of Daulatpur upazila marooned. According to…
Dhaka -At least 10 people, including nine students and a police officer, were injured in a clash between students and police at Mirerbazar in the city on Tuesday morning.Locals said students of Harbaid High School brought out a procession in…
Dhaka – A Tk 500 crore defamation case was filed here against Comilla Awami League MP Subid Ali Bhuiyan on Monday for calling Ziaur Rahman Bangladesh’s first president.Jilani Sarker, an activist of Jubo League, hailing from Daudkandi in Comilla district…
Dhaka: The admission tests for medical and dental colleges for the 2016-17 academic session will be held on October 7 and November 4 respectively as the government has decided not to take combined exams for the MBBS and BDS course…
Dhaka: The results of the Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) and its equivalent examinations of 2016 will simultaneously be published on Thursday. Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid along with the chairmen of all the education boards will hand over the copies…
Dhaka – Indian High Commissioner in Dhaka Harsh Vardhan Shringla on Tuesday thanked the government, environment and forests ministry and the locals for all the supports and help extended in the best possible way to look after the Indian wild…
Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan on Saturday said militants are killing people to spoil the country’s long communal harmony.“Bangladesh is a country of communal harmony. All the people of Bangladesh have been maintaining a fraternal relation for centuries. Militants are killing…
Members of Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit of Dhaka Metropolitan Police claimed that they foiled a suicide attack attempt by arresting five suicide squad members of new militant outfit New JMB from the city’s Mirpur area on Thursday…
Dhaka – BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia on Friday evening offered fateha at the grave of her younger son Arafat Rahman Koko at Banani Graveyard, marking his 47th birthday.The BNP chief together with party leaders and activists also offered a munajat…
Dhaka – Members of Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit of Dhaka Metropolitan Police claimed that they foiled a suicide attack attempt by arresting five suicide squad members of the banned militant outfit Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) from the…