Maritime ports in Chittagong, Cox’s Bazar, Mongla and Payra have been advised to hoist warning signal no. two as the deep depression over the southeast bay and adjoining area moved slightly northwestward and intensified further into a cyclonic storm ‘Vardah’…
Islami Bank Bangladesh Limited provided 25 thousand pieces blankets to the Prime Minister’s Relief and Welfare Fund for the cold-affected people.
Dhaka – Islami Bank Bangladesh Limited has won Bank of the Year Award 2016 conferred by The Banker and Financial Times Group, London. Mohammad Abdul Mannan, Managing Director and CEO of the bank received the award from Brian Caplen, Editor…
Dhaka – The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Thursday asked journalist Shafik Rehman to move the lower court for extending his bail in a case filed over an alleged plot to abduct and kill Prime Minister’s son Sajeeb…
Dhaka- Muggers snatched away Tk 22 lakh and injured two employees of a garments factory from the city’s Banasree on Thursday. The injured are Sayedul, 38, and Tito, 36, two employees of Rana Enterprise, a garments factory in Banasree under…
Dhaka – The nation will observe Begum Rokeya Day on Friday, marking the 136th birth and 84th death anniversary of the pioneer of awakening women’s rights in the subcontinent. Women and Children Affairs Ministry and various other socio-cultural and political…
Sangsad Bhaban – The much-talked about ‘Child Marriage Restraint Bill, 2016′ was placed in Parliament on Thursday keeping girls’ minimum age for marriage at 18 with a provision for the marriage of underage girls in special cases. State Minister for…
Sangsad Bhaban – Mentioning that the Election Commission will be constituted as per the decision of the President following dialogue with political parties, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina told Parliament on Thursday that her party will accept his decision. UNB news…
Dhaka – Police recovered the hanging bodies of a couple from their house at Ibrahimpur Pal Para in Nabinagar upazila in Brahmanbaria on Thursday morning.The deceased were identified as Mithon alias Mintu, 22, and his wife Beauty Rani Pal, 19.
Dhaka – The body of a construction worker was recovered at Koraitola in Chowgacha upazila in Jessore on Thursday noon.The deceased was identified as Hossain Ali, 50, of South Koyerpara village,UNB news agency reported.
Dhaka – Members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) in a drive arrested five suspected members of Harkat-ul-Jihad (Huji) Bangladesh from a reported ‘militant training camp’ in port city Chittagong’s Colonel Haat area on Thursday. The arrestees were identified as Nazim…
Dhaka – Four suspected robbers were killed in separate gunfights with law enforcers in Faripdur district and Keraniganj upazila of Dhaka district early Thursday. In Keraniganj, two suspected robbers were killed in a gunfight with police at Agrakhola area under…
An Egyptian woman, believed to be the world’s heaviest woman at 500kg (1,102lb), will soon be flown to India for weight reduction surgery. Eman Ahmed Abd El Aty, 36, will be flown on a chartered plane to Mumbai where bariatric…
Dhaka-Some 2000 people are homeless after Dhaka’s biggest slum caught fire on Sunday, 4 December. In less than two hours, 495 households were destroyed.
Dhaka – Keeping an option for allowing export, state-owned Petrobangla signed an initial deal on Wednesday with Posco Daewoo International Corporation to award the deep sea gas block DS-12 in the Bay of Bengal for gas exploration. The final deal…
Dhaka – Water Resources Minister Barrister Anisul Islam Mahmud on Wednesday stressed the need for stabilising the country’s major rivers to reduce riverbank erosion aiming to protect people’s land and belongings from its wraths. “Riverbank erosion creates a lot of…
A plane belonging to Pakistan’s national carrier crashed on Wednesday with 48 people on board, apparently killing all of them, police and an airline spokesman said.According to senior police officer Khurram Rasheed, the plane crashed in a village near the…
Dhaka – Forensic specialists at Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) on Wednesday said no injury mark was found on the body of Mahbubul Hoque Shakil, Prime Minster Sheikh Hasina’s special assistant, who was found dead at a city restaurant on…
Dhaka -A college girl was killed in a road accident at Karnigram village on the Moulvibazar-Sylhet road under Rajnagar upazila in Sylhet this noon.The deceased was identified as Eti Rani Dev, 17, a student of Rajnagar Degree College and daughter…
Meureudu – A strong earthquake rocked Indonesia’s Aceh province early Wednesday, killing nearly 100 people and sparking a frantic rescue effort in the rubble of dozens of collapsed and damaged buildings. Maj. Gen. Tatang Sulaiman, chief of the army in…
Dhaka – Two people were killed and 40 others injured in a head-on collision between a bus and a truck at Bhatbaur on Dhaka-Aricha highway in Sadar upazila in Manikganj on Tuesday night.One of the deceased was identified as Mufti…
Dhaka – A man was killed and three people injured as a speeding truck hit a rickshaw van at Kharikhali on Dhaka-Khulna highway in Sadar upazila in Jhenidah on Tuesday evening.The deceased was identified as Abdur Razzaq, 45, a resident…
Indonesia (AP/UNB) — A strong undersea earthquake rocked Indonesia’s province of Aceh early Wednesday, causing several deaths and buildings to collapse in a district near the epicenter. The U.S. Geological Survey said the shallow 6.4-magnitude earthquake that struck at 5:03…
Dhaka – Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s special assistant Mahbubul Hoque Shakil passed away at a Japanese restaurant in the ctiy’s Gulshan area on Tuesday. He was 47. Shakil, former vice-president of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL), breathed his last at Samdado…
Five people died and five others fell sick reportedly after eating puffer (patka) fish at Uttarmail village in Jaintapur upazila on Tuesday.The deceased were identified as Abdur Rahim, 60, his two sons Solaiman Hossain, 25, and Lokman Hossain, 20, and…
Dhaka – Two students were killed and another was injured as a trolley hit their motorbike near Jatrapur Bazaar on the Bagerhat-Rupsa road in Sadar upazila this morning.The deceased were Tanna Jamadder, 19, a college student and son of Khairul…
Dhaka – BNP on Tuesday submitted its chairperson Khaleda Zia’s 13-point proposal on constituting a stronger Election Commission (EC) to Bangabhaban for President Abdul Hamid’s consideration. A two-member BNP delegation, comprising party vice-chairman Ruhul Alam Chowdhury and its senior joint…
Dhaka – A couple was killed as a passengers bus crushed them in Fakirkandi area on the Dhaka-Khulna Highway under Sadar upazila of the town this noon.The deceased were identified as Khalid Sheikh, 30, and his wife Suraiya Begum, 18.…
Dhaka – The High Court on Tuesday delivered a split verdict on the writ petition challenging the legality of parliament membership of Nizam Uddin Hazari of Feni-2 constituency. Senior Justice Md Emdadul Huq passed an order declaring the Feni-2 constituency…
Meherpur – Three suspected robbers were killed in a gunfight with police at Motmura village in Gangni upazila early Tuesday. The deceased could not be identified immediately.