Dhaka – President Abdul Hamid will hold dialogue with all registered political parties to reconstitute the Election Commission (EC).
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Holey Artisan attack report submission deferred
A Dhaka court on Monday deferred submission of the investigation report in connection with the terror attack on the Holey Artisan Bakery on July 1.
Medical equipment suppliers to strike for three days
Dhaka- Medical Equipment suppliers will observe three days’ strike starting from Tuesday demanding a stop to harassment by the Drug Administration. Bangladesh Medical Association Instruments and Hospital Equipment Dealers and Manufacturers Association announced the programme at a press conference at…
Explain if delay in disposing of women repression cases
Dhaka – The High Court on Monday asked the authorities concerned to submit reports to the Supreme Court and the government with explanations if any case filed under the Women and Children Repression Prevention Act-2000 is not disposed of within…
Aug 21 grenade attack under ISI patronage: IO
Dhaka – Five militant outfits carried out the grisly August 21 grenade attack on an Awami League rally in the city in 2004 under the patronage of Pakistani intelligence agency Inter-Services Intelligence, special police super of Criminal Investigation Department Abdul…
PM’s faulty flight: NSI director co-opted to probe committee
Dhaka – Director of National Security Intelligence (NSI) Brigadier General Ziaul Ahsan has been co-opted at the probe committee formed by Biman Bangladesh Airlines and the Aviation and Tourism Ministry, to investigate the technical glitch in a flight carrying Prime…
HIV ‘game-changer’ will now be given to UK patients
By James Gallagher A drug that dramatically reduces the risk of being infected with HIV will now be given to patients by the NHS in England. The health service lost a court battle in the summer after arguing responsibility for…
Bullet-ridden bodies of 3 youths found in Dinajpur of northern BD
Dinajpur – Police recovered bullet-injured bodies of three young men from Baran Shah Dighi in Ghoraghat upazila on Monday morning.
Alleged ‘grug peddler’ held with heroine, pipe gun in Jessore
Benapole – Police arrested an alleged drug peddler along with one kg heroine from Uposohor Park of Jessore district town on Sunday night.
Alleged ‘robber’ killed in Dhamrai ‘gunfight’
Dhaka – An alleged robber was killed in a reported gunfight with police at Jhaubada village in Dhamrai upazila of Savar in Dhaka district early Monday.
500 shanties burned in Dhaka city slum fire
Dhaka – Around 500 shanties in Karail Slum in the capital were completely destroyed in a devastating fire that broke out this afternoon. Deputy assistant director of fire brigade Masudur Rahman Akhanda said the fire might have originated from an…
Bangladeshi filmmaker gets Best Director title at SGIFF
Dhaka – Young Bangladeshi filmmaker Abdullah Mohammad Saad has won the Best Director title at the 27th edition of the Singapore International Film Festival (SGIFF). Saad’s debut feature film “Live From Dhaka” has also clinched an award under the best…
Govt is committed to implement the Ctg Hill Tracts peace
Dhaka-Prime Minister’s International Affairs Adviser Dr Gowher Rizvi yesterday said the government is committed to fully implement the CHT (Chittagong Hill Tracts) peace accord.
Two students killed in Gazipur road accident
Dhaka – Two students were killed as a bus hit their rickshaw at Sutrapur-Hijoltala under Kaliakoir upazila of the district this afternoon.The identities of the deceased could not be known immediatly.
PM has role in constituting EC, says Fakhrul
Dhaka – BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Saturday night said the Prime Minister has a role in constituting a neutral Election Commission (EC), and hoped that good sense will prevail upon on the government to take proper…
California fire: Dozens feared dead in club night blaze
Dozens of people are feared dead after a fire broke out during a rave at a converted warehouse in Oakland, California. Authorities have confirmed nine deaths but say they are preparing for the death toll to rise as high as…
Govt moves to ‘introduce unified university admission test’
Dhaka -The government has taken an initiative to introduce a unified test system for admission to all universities, aiming to reduce the hassles of admission seekers and their guardians. President Abdul Hamid, also the chancellor of all universities, will hold…
BNP to win NCC polls, says Gayeshwar
Dhaka – BNP senior leader Gayeshwar Chandra Roy on Saturday urged their party leaders and activists to work together in Narayanganj City Corporation (NCC) election as the ‘sheaf of paddy’ has “cent percent possibility” to win the polls. UNB news…
Dhaka City’s Shyambazar kitchen market catches fire
Dhaka – A fire broke out at Shyambazar kitchen market in the old part of the capital on Saturday evening. Sources at the Fire Service Control Room said the fire broke out at a shop in the market around 6:10…
No special aircraft for VVIPs, says PM
Dhaka – Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday ruled out the possibility of procuring any special aircraft for her safer journeys saying there is no scope in Bangladesh to go for such luxury at this moment. “Any scope of showing…
Gossiping -‘adda’- part of campus life at BAU
From Md. Musfiqur Rahman Sifat: BAU, Mymensingh – Gossiping, called ‘adda’ in Bangla, is a popular form of spending leisure time in the university with friends. Students believe adda gives campus life rhythm. After passing 14 years of school and…
6m solar home system plan faces setback
Dhaka – The country’s solar home system (SHS), which is acclaimed as the world’s most successful single largest programme, is now in limbo due to a sharp fall in its installation rate. According to the industry insiders, the monthly installation…
4 hurt in sugar mill boiler blast in BD’s Joypurhat
Dhaka – Four staff, including an engineer, of Joypurhat Sugar Mills Limited received burn injuries in a boiler explosion at the mill here on Friday afternoon. The injured are Shahjahan Kibria, 38, deputy assistant engineer, two firemen Nazmul Hossain, 34,…
Border Guard Bangladesh seize Tk 919-cr contraband items
Dhaka – Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) seized various contraband items, including Yaba tablets, heroin and foreign wine, worth over Tk 919.45 crore in the last 11 months. UNB news agency reported
27 tourists rescued as launch catches fire in the Sundarbans
The authorities have rescued 27 tourists after a fire broke out on a ferry they were travelling by at Chandpai Range in the Sundarbans.The vessel, Pelican-1, caught fire in Harbaria around 6:30pm on Friday, Divisional Forest Officer (East) Md Saidul…
Not time to comment on glitch in PM’s flight: Quader
Dhaka – Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader on Friday said it will be known after investigation whether the incident of technical glitch in the flight carrying Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was an accident or negligence or conspiracy. UNB news…
Comilla Victorians beat Khulna Titans by 5 wkts
Dhaka – West Indies top-order batsman Marlon Samuels’s unbeaten half century of 69 helped Comilla Victorians to achieve a five-wicket victory against Khulna Titans in their 11th tussle of the 4th Bangladesh Premier League T20 at Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium…
Israeli minister calls Abbas ‘No 1 foe’
Israeli Energy minister Yuval Steinitz said Palestinian National Authority President Mahmoud Abbas represents the top ideological threat to the Jewish state after Abbas vowed to withdraw recognition of Israel if it keeps refusing to reciprocate. Speaking at a Fatah party…
Stand against bill on child marriage, HRW urges BD MPs
Dhaka – The Human Rights Watch (HRW) has called upon the members of Bangladesh’s parliament to stand against a new bill which’ puts girls at high risk of child marriage.’ Senior researcher of HRW’s Women Rights Division Heather Barr in…
15 feared dead in explosives factory fire in India
New Delhi (AP/UNB) — Police say a fire has engulfed a factory manufacturing explosives in southern India and 15 workers are feared dead and another three injured.