Two policemen were injured in a clash with the local leaders and activists of Islami Chhatra Shibir in Dorgah Gate in Sylhet city on Tuesday afternoon. Police also arrested two Shibir activists during the clash. Witnesses said some Shibir men...
Singer Lucky Akhand has been detected with lung cancer. He was admitted to the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Medical University (BSMMU) Hospital in Dhaka on September 1, said its director Abdul Majid Bhuiyan. Bhuiyan said, Akhand has been once given...
Bangladesh Cricket Board has made Mominul Haque captain of Bangladesh A team that will visit India next week. BCB released a media statement on Tuesday, announcing a 15-man squad for the tour. The selectors went for a strong squad picking1four...
Bangladesh have ended their ICRC Twenty20 Cricket Tournament for people with disabilities with a thumping victory against India in their last match. The hosts beat their neighbours by seven wickets at BKSP ground No. 3 on Tuesday. England beat Afghanistan...
Lightning has killed 22 people, mostly farm laborers working in fields, across the southeastern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, officials said Monday. The fatalities occurred Sunday evening when thunderstorms and rain lashed eight districts in Andhra Pradesh, said N Chandrababu...
A court in Chittagong on Monday placed four suspected militants on a three-day remand each in a case filed with Hathazari Police Station under the Anti-Terrorism Act 2009. Senior Judicial Magistrate Mosaddek Minhaj passed the order when members of Rapid...
The latest news as countries across Europe cope with the arrival of thousands of migrants and refugees. The German government says it will spend 6 billion euros ($6.6 billion) next year to support the hundreds of thousands of migrants coming...
A new mobile software, ‘Blood Hero’, was launched on Monday to search the blood donors on emergency across the country. Creative IT, a Bangladeshi technology organisation, developed the mobile application to connect blood donors throughout the country on charity. Creative...
Hasan Mahmud, chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Ministry of Environment and Forest, has urged the South Asian civil society to develop mass awareness on regional cooperation on common issues to support the moves on the political front. He...
The High Court (HC) on Monday rejected a writ petition challenging the legality of Islam as state religion of Bangladesh. A layer filed the petition last month challenging the inclusion of Islam as the state religion in the Constitution. The...
The death toll from a wooden boat that capsized last week with Indonesian migrant workers off Malaysia's west coast has risen to 61, an official said Monday. Another 20 Indonesians have been rescued. Rescuers have retrieved the bodies of 37...
Ramil Burden, Vice President (Developing Countries Asia and External Affairs Africa) of GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) and Laurie Lee, CEO of CARE International, UK arrive in Dhaka on Tuesday to see development projects and launch a new project. They will reach in...
European shares bounced back on Monday after sharp declines in the previous session, with mining and commodities trading firm Glencore leading the market higher after announcing plans to cut its debt. The pan-European FTSEurofirst 300 index was up 1.1 per...
Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) personnel arrested an alleged drug peddler along with 204 pieces of Yaba tablets from Bhelamari village in Madarganj upazila of Jamalpur on Sunday. The arrestee was identified as Minhaj Uddin, 30, son of late Gafur Mandol...
Police arrested three activists of Islami Chhatra Shibir, the student wing of Jamaat-e-Islami, while they were holding a ‘clandestine meeting’ in Nagua area of Kishoreganj district town on Sunday. The arrestees were identified as Masum Ahmed, 21, Mostakim, 18, and...
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Stocks edged marginally higher on Monday with turnover increased slightly as optimistic investors took position on large-cap stocks amid optimism. The market opened higher in the morning and the positive momentum sustained throughout the session. The benchmark index of the...
Two old men reportedly died from snake bites in different incidents in Poba and Charghat upazila of Rajshahi district on Sunday. The deceased were identified as snake charmer Munjed Ali, 70, son Aroj Ullah, a resident of Holidagashi Moddapara village...
Rapid Action battalion (Rab) personnel in a drive arrested a young man along with 10 kg hemp from Malikanda area in Dohar upazila of Dhaka district on Sunday night. The arrested was identified as Rubel Hossain, 20, son of late...
A minor girl drowned in a pond at Satbaria village in Sujanagar upazila of Pabna district on Sunday evening. The deceased was identified as Dipa, 6, daughter of Satbaria union parishad chairman bul Hossain. Abul Hossain said Dipa slipped into...
Police recovered the body of a young man from Jessore General Hospital in Jessore district town on Sunday night. The deceased was identified as Rakib Raihan, son of Firoz Mollah, a resident of Ramnagar village in Abhoynagar upazila. Police said...
The Cabinet on Monday approved the new pay scale for public servants fixing the basic salary of the Grade 1 officials at Tk 78,000 while that of Grade 20 employees at Tk 8,250. The approval was given at the regular...
Police in a drive arrested 13 leaders and activists of Jamaat-e-Islami and its student wing Islami Chhatra Shibir, including two former Jamaat MPs, from the city’s Mirpur area on Monday. The arrested ex-MPs are Mia Golam Parwar of Khulna-5 constituency...
The distribution of temporary travel-cum-identity passes to those opting to retain their Indian nationality in the erstwhile Indian enclaves in Bangladesh began in Panchagarh district on Monday. Indian High Commissioner in Dhaka Pankaj Saran inaugurated the first camp for distributing...
The High Court (HC) on Monday rejected outright a petition challenging the constitutional acknowledgement of Islam as the state religion despite the "secular" state policy. "The court summarily rejected the petition" Deputy Attorney General Khorshedul Alam told a news agency....
The Appellate Division on Monday scrapped a High Court order that had acquitted former communications minister and ex-BNP leader Barrister Nazmul Huda of graft charges filed by the Anti Corruption Commission (ACC). A four-member Appellate Division bench of the Supreme...
Hosts Bangladesh suffered 2nd consecutive defeat in the ICRC T20 International Cricket Tournament for Physically Disabled after conceding a three wicket defeat against Afghanistan at BKSP ground-3 in Savar on Monday. Bangladesh made a good start beating England by 14...
Chittagong Police in a raid on Monday arrested a drug peddler with 2,000 yaba tablets from Prembazar area under Banskhali upazila of the district. The arrested was identified as Nurul Alam, 35, of Baharchara village under Taqnaf upazila of Cox's...
A court in Sirajganj on Monday sentenced 14 persons to suffer life term imprisonment for killing a farmer at Putia village under Ullapara upazila of the district in 2012. Additional district and session Judge Dr Iman Ali pronounced the verdict....
Claiming that the party’s six activists are missing, BNP on Monday alleged that law enforcers have again started carrying out incidents of killing and enforced disappearance. Addressing a press briefing, BNP spokesman Asaduzzaman demanded a judicial inquiry into the missing...
A leading association of the share-brokers has teamed up with Bangladesh’s apex chamber body to ensure more stability in the stock market by encouraging entrepreneurs to source their fund from the capital market. Leaders of DSE Brokers Association of Bangladesh...
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