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.
The All Assam Students’ Union (Aasu) is going to burn copies of the bill of the proposed India-Bangladesh land swap deal across the state on Monday – the day when it is likely to be tabled in Parliament.
A man was stabbed to death by unknown miscreants at Char Parbati in Companiganj upazila on Saturday.
Bogra – Five people were killed and 30 others injured as a bus and a truck collided at Banani in Shahjahanpur upazila on Sunday afternoon. The identities of the deceased could not be known yet. Police and witnesses said the…
CHITTAGONG – A female engineer was killed after miscreants threw stones into a running train at Bhatiyari area under Sitakunda upazila of the district on Saturday night.
NOAKHALI: At least 18 shops were gutted in a devastating fire at Bhuyan Hat bazaar under Kabirhat Upazila of the district early Sunday.
DHAKA: A youth was found dead and law enforcers recovered the body from Mohanagar Project of Hatirjheel of the city on Saturday.
B’BARIA: Over 100 people including two police constables were injured in hours-long clash over trifling matter in Gokorno Bazar of district municipality area Saturday.
The Japanese port city of Nagasaki observed the 68th anniversary of the dropping of the second and last atomic bomb ever used in warfare by pushing the Japanese government to increase its efforts to promote the elimination on nuclear weapons.…
QUETTA — Gunmen shot to death six people and wounded 15 in an attack on a former provincial minister outside a mosque in southwest Pakistan on Friday, police said.
MANILA — The Philippine military says it killed three communist rebels in a clash in a province north of the capital, bringing the number of guerrillas who have died in combat in the past month to 23.
The Eid-ul-Fitr prayers did not start well in Gazipur as two groups of devotees fought over who would lead the congregation, police say.
Seven-year-old ‘Nahid’ will not return home to celebrate Eid-ul-Fitr with his family.
KHULNA: A father and his son were slaughtered to death by miscreants at Khalishpur upazila in the district on Thursday.
Five people, including a woman, died and four others fell sick after taking rectified spirit in Shibganj upazila on Thursday.
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.
GAZIPUR: Three suspected robbers were lynched at Palashpur village of Durgapur union under Kapasia upazila of Gazipur district on early Wednesday.
CHITTAGONG: Four children, including two schoolboys, drowned in three different areas of Fatikchari Municipality of the district on Wednesday.
Three people were killed after falling off two running trains in the capital and Natore district on Wednesday. In Dhaka, two men were killed after they fell down from the roof of a moving train at Ganderia rail station in…
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.
Day-time express passenger carrier and river cruising vessel Bay Cruise-1 plying on Dhaka-Barisal-Dhaka route was rescued 20 hours after stranded on shoal near Barisal river port with Eid passengers.
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.
A madrasa student allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself at his house in the city’s Sheikhpara area on Monday.
A case was filed against 180 people on charge of torching and looting around 50 houses of indigenous community families in Matiranga upazila.
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…
Holy Lailatul Qadr, the night of divine blessings and benediction, has been observed across the country on Monday night with due solemnity and religious fervour.
DHAKA – Anti-Corruption Commission on Monday caught red-handed a junior officer of Insurance Development and Regularity Authority (IDRA) while receiving Tk 1.5 lakh as bribe.