A five-day international exhibition of branded clothing and fashion products begins on Wednesday at Emmanuell's Banquet Hall at Gulshan-1 in Dhaka city. Over 45 companies from home and abroad will take part in the exhibition, titled '5th Bangladesh Fashion Carnival...
Police in a drive arrested two people, including a woman, along with 2,100 pieces of Yaba tablet from a bus on the Dhaka-Chittagong highway near Daudkandi toll Plaza in Daudkandi upazila of Comilla district on Saturday. The arrestees were identified...
Police arrested two people for their suspected link to Jubo League leader Rafiqul Islam murder from Baroipara area in Kaliakoir upazila of Gazipur on Friday night. The arrestees were identified as Sohel of Chandra area and Mohammad Hossain of Baroipara...
A motorcyclist was killed when a bus knocked down his vehicle in Tongi Bazar area of Gazipur district on Saturday. The deceased was identified as Shafiqul Islam, 28, hailing from Sarishabari upazila in Jamalpur district. Ataur Rahman, sub-inspector of Tongi...
Growing concerns about a slowdown in China shook markets around the world on Friday, driving the US stock market to its biggest drop in nearly four years. The Standard & Poor's 500 index dropped 64.84 points, or 3.2 per cent,...
The Railway Police on Saturday arrested three persons and recovered 32 gold bars weighing five kilograms and 1500 Yaba tablets from their possessions at Kamalapur Railway Station in the city. The arrestees were identified as Rahul, 28, Loton, 21, and...
A Dhaka court on Saturday sent BNP chairperson’s adviser and journalists' union leader Shawkat Mahmud to jail on the expiry of his three-day remand in an arson case filed with the city’s Ramna Police Station. Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Md Waez...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday said the government has a plan to create a Trust Fund for Community Clinics across the country to give those a permanent shape and ensure smooth medicare services for people. "We would like to...
Rainfall activity may decrease almost many places across the country for next 72 hrs, said a Met office press release Saturday. In a weather bulletin, the office also said light to moderate rain or thundershowers accompanied by temporary gusty wind...
The Flood Forecasting and Warning Centre (FFWC) on Saturday forecasts deterioration in flood situation as major rivers are swelling across the country. The FFWC found water levels at 54 points across the country have risen in the past 24 hours...
Iran on Saturday unveiled a short-range solid fuel ballistic missile, an upgraded version that the government says can more accurately pinpoint targets. The surface-to-surface Fateh-313, or Conqueror, was unveiled at a ceremony marking Defense Industry Day and attended by President...
Italy's coastguard says a major operation is under way to rescue up to 3,000 migrants off the coast of Libya. The coastguard received SOS calls from 18 vessels - four boats and 14 rubber dinghies, Italy's state news agency Ansa...
North and South Korea are holding top-level talks amid growing tension, the South's Unification Ministry told Yonhap news agency. Senior aides to the two countries' leaders met at the Panmunjom truce village on the border, reports said. North Korea had...
A minor boy was brutally tortured to death at Ghopal in Sadar upazila on Thursday afternoon. The deceased was identified as M Akmal Hossain, 11, son of M Ekhlas Miah, a resident of Paharpur village in Doarabazar upazila of Sunamganj...
Seven people have died after a Hawker Hunter jet crashed into several vehicles during Shoreham Airshow. South East Coast Ambulance Service said the victims all died at the scene, with a further person being taken to hospital in critical condition....
"Transformers" star Megan Fox Friday filed for divorce from actor Brian Austin Green after five years of marriage, a Los Angeles court spokeswoman said. The filing in Los Angeles Superior Court cited irreconcilable differences as the reason for the divorce. ...
A minor girl drowned in a pit filled with rainwater near her house on the Kathalbagan-Kalabagan Road in Kathalbagan area of Dhaka city on Friday. The deceased was identified as Meem Akter, 7, daughter of Ismail Hossain, a tea seller...
Two students of Scholars’ Home School & College were stabbed alleged by two other students of the same institution in Baluchar area of Sylhet city on Thursday night. The victims were identified as Jahan, 14, son of Emadur Rahman, and...
Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) personnel in a drive recovered 17 petrol bombs, 15 crude bombs and three firearms from Dharmapur village in Madhabpur upazila of Habiganj district on Friday. Tipped off, a team of BGB conducted a drive and recovered...
A Bangladesh national was shot to death by miscreants near Johannesburg for declining to pay extortion on Wednesday, a few hours after an expatriate Bangladeshi businessman had been gunned down by assailants for the same reason in the outskirts of...
Although 11 years have elapsed since the incident, trial of the August 21 grenade attack on an Awami League rally in Dhaka is still to be completed. Meanwhile, the prosecution hopes to complete the trial by this year. “The trial...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has hailed Ranil Wickremesinghe on his re-election as the Sri Lankan Prime Minister and wished to work with him in further strengthening bilateral ties. In a congratulatory message on Friday the Bangladesh PM extended her warm...
A man, killed in what detectives claimed a shootout between his associates and the law enforcers in Gazipur Sadar upazila early Friday, was an accused in Badda multiple murders case. Police said Saidur Rahman, 35, was a criminal in Dhaka’s...
A clash between two groups of the ruling party supporters at a programme in Gazipur’s Kaliakoir Upazila has left an Awami Juba League leader dead. The memorial event on Friday was organised to commemorate the National Mourning Day and the...
President of Awami Olema League Moulana Ilyas Hossain-Bin-Helali was stabbed by a miscreant at the South Gate of Baitul Mukarram National Mosque in Dhaka on Friday afternoon. Paltan police and witnesses said, a group of miscreants, equipped with a sharp...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has criticised the USA and Canada for giving shelter to some killers of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and his family members. She said the government tried the killers of Bangabandhu and his family members who were...
A minor girl has been raped after she came to Dhaka from Mymensingh ‘with a friend’. The girl, about 13 years, was rescued from a slum near Tejgaon Railway tracks on Friday morning, said Tejgaon Police Station’s OC Md Majharul...
Two Bangladeshi expatriates were killed in a road accident in Saudi Arabia on Friday morning (Saudi time). The deceased were identified as Khorshed Alam, 30, hailing from Kamalapur village in Chandpur Sadar upazila, and Abdul Malek Hawladar, 40, hailing from...
A suspected leaders of an outlawed party was killed in what the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) claimed a ‘gunfight’ with his associates Tangail Sadar Upazila on Friday. RAB-12 official identified the deceased as Mojibur Rahman Sheke, 40, a regional commander...
Sultana Yesmin | 2015-08-21 00:00:00
Bangladesh and India, two close neighbours in South Asia, lack seamless multimodal connectivity despite having potential of land and waterway networks through sharing of common borders and rivers. Apart from the politically contentious issues between the two countries like water...
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