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62 killed in Kurigram frontier alone There is nothing new in the brutal killing of Felani Khatun by Indian border guards. Such violence along the Bangladesh-India border is routine and arbitrary.

Members of Indian Border Security Force (BSF) took away 34 cattle from Bangladesh territory in Tentulia upazila on Sunday.

Members of Indian Border Security Force (BSF) picked up a Bangladeshi citizen from Benipur border in Jibannagar upazila early Tuesday.

62 killed in Kurigram frontier alone .There is nothing new in the brutal killing of Felani Khatun by Indian border guards.

Sushashoner Jonno Procharavizan (SUPRO), a civil society network, on Sunday demanded the government allocate 6 percent of GDP to the education sector to improve the quality of education.  

A grand rally of garment workers will be held at city’s Suhrawardy Udyan on September 21 demanding fair wages for them and revival of the Generalised System of Preferences (GSP).  

DHAKA: The Asia Foundation Bangladesh observed International Literacy Day 2013 by organising a book donation event and children’s book fair on Saturday at the Rayer Bazar Playground, Sadek Khan Road, Rayer Bazar, featuring 15 exhibitors from local children’s book publishing…

A Bangladeshi young man was injured as Indian Border Security Force (BSF) opened fire on him on Molani border in Haripur upazila of the district on Friday night.

Armed muggers shot an official of private mobile phone operator, Banglalink, to death and snatched Tk 2.5 lakh from him at Tongi here on Thursday.  

A youth who was under custody of Shahjahanpur thana police died at Dhaka Medical College Hospital on Thursday morning.  

Bangladesh Army, which led the rescue operations at the site of Rana Plaza collapse in Savar, has said 261 people have remained untraced.

Corporal Tajerul Islam Taj, 35, was found unconscious under Khilkhet flyover on Thursday night, Dhaka Metropolitan Police Deputy Commissioner (media) Masudur Rahman told journalists.

The written tests for admission to first year honours courses of Dhaka University for the session 2013-2014 will begin on November 1 instead of October 11 as the university authorities changed the schedule on Thursday evening.

The scarcity of land for setting up new substations is impeding a move of Dhaka Electric Supply Company Ltd (Desco) to improve the power supply system in the city two posh areas — Gulshan and Banani.

WorldFish through USAID funded Cereal Systems Initiative for South Asia in Bangladesh (CSISA-BD) project distributed improved Tilapia (From 60 Families of 14 generation) germplasm to the hatcheries as an initiative taken by the WorldFish for improving production of quality fish…

Agartala: The India-Bangladesh joint border conference began here Thursday to settle various disputes along the border shared by the two neighbours, officials here said.

BNP Chairperson and leader of the opposition Khaleda Zia on Wednesday expressed profound shock at the death former Chief Justice Kemaluddin Hossain.  

Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) on Monday arrested an officer of Sonali Bank along with his wife on charge of misappropriating Taka 3.11 crore from Sadarpur branch of the bank here.

Marginal people of Uttar-Paschim union under Baniachang upazila of the district would now be able to educate their children as the Education Engineering Department built a school at a cost of Taka 1.40 crore.

The five-hundred years old historical ‘Manasa Temple ‘, popularly known as ‘Bijoy Gupter Manasa Mandir’, opened at Goila in Agoiljhara of Barisal after completing reconstruction and renovation on Friday.

Two Bangladeshi nationals who were sentenced to eight months’ imprisonment for intruding into India were released from Dumdum jail in Calcutta on Wednesday.

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.

A case was filed against 180 people on charge of torching and looting around 50 houses of indigenous community families in Matiranga upazila.

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.

A fierce battle took place between the 2 rival groups of jungle pirates at Charputia under Chandpai forest range in the Eastern Division of Sundarban forest in order to establish supremacy over each other in the forest, according to a…

A Bangladeshi boy, who was picked up by Indian Border Security Force (BSF) personnel from Medenipur border in Jibannagar upazila on Friday morning, was released three hours later.

At least 40 people were injured in a clash between two rival groups at Paikraj village in Goainghat upazila on Tuesday.

leader of Juba League, youth wing of ruling Awami League, was shot dead by miscreants in Gulshan area of the capital early Today.