MINA: Witnesses to a stampede that left more than 700 people dead at the Haj in Saudi Arabia on Thursday blamed Saudi authorities and said they were afraid to continue the rituals. The worst tragedy in 25 years at the...
Kashimpur Jail is serving three special meals to its over 700 death-row inmates on the Eid day (Friday). Eid-ul-Azha is being celebrated across Bangladesh on Friday. As breakfast, the condemned convicts got rice pudding with puffed rice. There was plain...
RANGPUR, Sept 25: HN Ashiqur Rahman, a Member of Parliament (MP) from the Rangpur-5 constituency, received injuries due to electrocution while speaking after an Eid congregation at Faridpur in Mithapukur upazila of Rangpur on Friday morning. Locals said Ashiqur Rahman...
NEW YORK, Sept 25: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has expressed the hope that the Teesta River water-sharing agreement would be signed with Bangladesh. Modi came up with the view at a delegation-level unscheduled meeting with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina...
Son of Gobindaganj Awami League leader has been murdered. The dead is Ashiqur Rahman, son of Gobindaganj municipality mayor and the local unit Awami League leader Ataur Rahman. Policce said, locals spotted his body stuffed in a sack behind a...
Police have arrested 90 people, including a local Islami Chhatra Shibir leader, from different upazilas of Chittagong on the eve of Eid. During the drive, the law enforcers arrested the Shibir leader from Satkania upazila on charge of planning subversive...
Two more bodies of Bangladeshi Mina Hajj stampede victims were identified on Friday. They are Md Golam Mostafa of Brahmanbaria district and Md Kurmat Ali of Dinajpur district. With identification of the two bodies, the death toll of the country’s...
The death toll from a deadly stampede during Hajj pilgrimage rituals outside the holy city of Mecca has soared to some 2,000, Head of Iran’s Hajj and Pilgrimage Organisation Sa’eed Ohadi says, citing Saudi sources, according to the Iranian PRESS...
Bangladesh Railway (BR) will issue advance return tickets for September 29 and 30 from tomorrow (Saturday) at important rail stations including those in Rajshahi, Khulna, Rangpur, Dinajpur and Lalmonirhat. A railway source told the BSS that each passenger would be...
NEW YORK, Sept 25: Expressing her firm resolve to implement the sustainable development goals (SDGs), Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said Bangladesh is progressing fast and would continue to move ahead in the coming days and none would be able...
Fifa President Sepp Blatter is currently being questioned by representatives of the Swiss attorney general, the BBC understands. In a statement, the attorney general's office said it had opened "criminal proceedings" against Mr Blatter. It said he was being investigated...
Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) and India’s Border Security Force (BSF) exchanged Eid greetings in Hili border in Dinajpur district on Friday morning. BGB Hili check-post camp’s company commander Nayek Subedar Abdul Jabbar and BSF’s Hili camp commander inspector...
KARACHI: Pakistan Cricket Board chairman Shaharyar Khan has threatened to boycott India in ICC and Asian Cricket Council events, if the BCCI officially refuses to play the proposed series against Pakistan in December, according to a report. In a hard-hitting...
Volkswagen will name Matthias Mueller, the head of its Porsche sports car brand, as its chief executive as it tries to recover from a scandal over its rigging of US vehicle emissions tests, a source close to the matter said...
Pope Francis has urged a huge gathering of world leaders at the United Nations in New York to respect humanity's "right to the environment". He welcomed the deal between Iran and world powers on its nuclear deal, calling it "proof...
A Bangladeshi female pilgrim has been missing since Thursday’s tragic stampede in Mina outside Mecca in Saudi Arabia. The missing Bangladeshi woman was identified as Noor Jahan. Her Haji number is 0363253. Noor Jahan’s passport number is AG 2056052. According...
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has said that the Awami League government has turned Bangladesh into a ‘prison’ and filed cases against ‘every’ BNP leaders and activists. There are no basic rights, human rights, rule of law, democracy in the country...
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has said that the Awami League government has turned Bangladesh into a ‘prison’ and filed cases against ‘every’ BNP leaders and activists. There are no basic rights, human rights, rule of law, democracy in the country...
Mina: While Saudi Arabia on Friday suggested pilgrims failing to follow crowd control rules bore some blame for the stampede that claimed more than 700 lives, a report has blamed a convoy of the son of the Saudi King Salman...
The government for the first time designated 538 spots across Dhaka city for slaughtering of sacrificial animals during the Holy Eid-ul-Azha, but the initiative has failed to get much response from the people. Animals were slaughtered in streets, by-lanes, in...
The United Nations has officially adopted a new set of global goals to combat poverty, inequality and climate change over the next 15 years in the most comprehensive international effort ever to tackle the world's ills. Pope Francis and leaders...
British Prime Minister, David Cameron, has greeted Muslims across the world on the occasion of holy Eid-ul-Azha."So as families and friends come together this Eid, let us celebrate those achievements, and let us reflect on those who are suffering during...
Stockists in Chittagong are facing trouble in meeting their target of collecting 475,000 cattle hides during Eid-ul-Azha as seasonal traders have allegedly inflated the rate. The seasonal traders were charging no less than Tk 70-80 per square ft of hide...
Captain of Bangladesh one-day team Mashrafe Bin Mortaza has offered Eid prayer at Narail and his deputy Shakib Al Hasan at Magura. Bangladesh’s leading fast bowler celebrated Eid with his parents and relatives at Narail on Friday. He joined the...
Ten countries, including Bangladesh, have claimed that their citizens were among the 719 pilgrims killed in Thursday’s Haj stampede in Mina, with Iran reporting 131 deaths. Morocco had reported 87 dead, according to Moroccan media. Saudi authorities have yet to...
Hundreds switch trade, turn seasonal ‘butchers’ to crowd Dhaka on Eid-ul-Azha. ‘Babul’ sells tea near Nayabazar Police Box. Even though the 40-year-old earns quite well at his regular spot, on the Eid-ul-Azha he is nowhere to be seen. He was...
BNP acting Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Friday greeted the nation on the occasion of Eid-ul-Azha. He extended the greetings through the journalists after attending Eid prayers in his home district Thakurgaon. The BNP leader hoped that the...
Couple killed in wall collapse in Mymensingh An elderly couple was killed when a wall collapsed on them at Purbo Gubrakura in Haluaghat upazila of the district early this morning. The victims were Monindra Mankin, 90, and his wife Romila...
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