Government forces have fired tear gas and bullets at anti-India protesters who broke from a funeral procession of a suspected insurgent killed in the Indian portion of Kashmir. Senior police officer Nitesh Kumar says at least two people suffered serious...
France has launched air, land and sea searches on and around the island of Reunion in the hope of finding more debris which could be linked to MH370. Malaysia has said a wing section found on the French Indian Ocean...
There is an increased risk of a future major earthquake in an area that straddles the west of Nepal and India, scientists warn. New data has revealed that the devastating quake that hit Nepal in April did not release all...
Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested an alleged drug-trader with 2,000 Yaba tablets from Ranibazar area under Boalia Police Station in Rajshahi city early Friday morning. The arrested identified is Rakibul Islam, 38, of the same area. RAB sources...
President Abdul Hamid left Dhaka for Vietnam Friday with a stopover in Thailand on a six-day state visit at the invitation of his Vietnamese counterpart Truong Tan Sang. "A flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines carrying the President and his wife...
Detective Branch (DB) of the Chittagong Metropolitan Police (CMP) arrested Hefajat-e-Islam Nayeb-e-Ameer Mufti Izharul Islam Chowdhury from city's Lalkhan Bazar area of Chittagong Friday. Mufti Izharul, also a factional president of Islami Oikko Jote, was arrested from Jamiatul Ulum Al...
Police in a drive rescued 18 people, including five minor children and seven women, from a truck on Bagerhat-Pirojpur highway near Doratana bridge of the district town on Friday morning while they were being trafficked to India. Police also arrested...
Police detained 10 leaders and activists of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) from in front of the Jatiya Press Club in the city on Friday. Witnesses said a team of Shahbagh Police Station picked up the JCD men around 9:30am when...
The government is going to construct a green city at Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant at Ishwardi for accommodation of project scientists and officials. An official familiar to the process told BSS that the township, on 31.58 acres of land acquired...
As the country experienced 65 percent more rain than normal in July, Met Office forecasted that August is also likely to witness more rainfall than usual. "Less rainfall weather is prevailing in the country and this trend is likely to...
KHULNA: Beauty Begum, mother of Rakib killing prime accused Sharif and also an accused herself, reportedly made confessional statement before a court here on Friday. Metropolitan Magistrate Aysha Akhter recorded the statement of Beauty Begum under section 164 of the...
MUNSHIGANJ: Four people were killed and 26 others injured in three road accidents in Sreenagar and Louhajang upazilas on Friday. In Sreenagar, a bus plunged into a pond at Shologhar on Dhaka-Mawa highway at noon, killing two people and injuring...
SYLHET: The third session of the SAFF U-16 Championship kicks off Sunday at Sylhet Stadium in Sylhet. Defending champions India will take on Sri Lanka in the meet opener at 5pm. Hosts Bangladesh will start their South Asian Football Federation...
The BNP has demanded an investigation into the accusations of forcibly occupying lands against LGRD Minister Khandker Mosharraf Hossain. BNP’s acting spokesperson Asaduzzaman Ripon on Friday said, “Bangladesh Hindu-Buddhist-Christian Unity Council (BHBCUC) has accused the LGRD minister, father-in-law of the...
KHULNA: Police arrested two youths along with 69 bones of tiger at Natun Bazar Launch Terminal in the city on Friday morning. The arrestees were identified as Enayet Hossain, 22, son of Akram Sardar, hailing from Gilabari village in Koyra...
Sirajganj Municipality Mayor and BNP leader M Mokaddes Ali has been suspended from his office for being accused in a case of sabotage. The LGRD ministry’s order to this effect, signed by Deputy Secretary Md Khalilur Rahman, was faxed to...
The refugee crisis on three Greek islands near Turkey is "total chaos", the UN refugee agency UNHCR says. Accommodation, water and sanitation are all inadequate for the many asylum seekers on Kos, Chios and Lesbos, the UNHCR says, calling it...
The US economy added 215,000 jobs in July, while the unemployment rate held at a seven-year-low of 5.3pc. The Bureau of Labour Statistics said job gains came in retail trade, health care, professional and technical services, and financial activities. The...
President Barack Obama is defending his criticism of Republicans opposed to his Iran nuclear deal. The president links them to hard-liners in Tehran who chant "Death to America." Obama says what the two groups have in common is that they're...
International health officials are scrambling, without much success, to find meningitis C vaccines as an outbreak of the child-killing disease threatens to balloon into an epidemic. The first large-scale outbreak of the C strain in decades has this year killed...
Asjadul Kibria | 2015-08-07 00:00:00
When Bangladesh is eagerly looking forward to higher inflow of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), the statement of Indian envoy in the country is encouraging. In a meeting with the Foreign Investors Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) last week, Indian...
Shihab Sarkar | 2015-08-07 00:00:00
A lot of inquisitive people are eager to learn about the secrets of how creative ideas are born. Most of us presume that it is the inspiring moments in solitude which help spark ideas and thoughts. It's true, though partly....
S. M. Rayhanul Islam | 2015-08-07 00:00:00
Late Professor Dr. Muzaffer Ahmad, one of the leading economists in Bangladesh, had a great contribution to the country's economic and educational development. As a pioneer of different civil society organisations and a researcher in the area of development debates,...
Sayed Kamaluddin | 2015-08-07 00:00:00
The latest question that is being widely talked about is whether Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will attend the commemorative parade in Beijing to mark the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II on September 03 next. China...
The government, reportedly, is contemplating to propose to India about inclusion of cattle trade in the border haats (market places). While the idea no doubt sounds innovative as well as highly purpose-serving for Bangladesh, there are factors that are not...
Nilratan Halder | 2015-08-07 00:00:00
Violence breeds violence. It is no exception in case of violence against children. In this country, the trend of violence has been typical. Immediately after the first case of acid throwing had been reported, a spate of the crime took...
Nabil Azam Dewan | 2015-08-07 00:00:00
Across the country, the hangover from the festivity of Eid ul Fitr has been replaced by intense public misery. Over the last few weeks, many people have been killed in vehicular accidents. Most of these accidents occurred on the roads...
The non-stop rain during the past weeks created additional sufferings for the Dhaka city dwellers and water-logged, broken and muddy roads have become nightmares for the regular commuters. Poorly repaired roads are getting back its previous dilapidated state. I really...
We need to create awareness about autism as the number of autistic children is increasing in our country. The parents and relatives of autistic children live with a feeling of grief and despair. When someone comes to know that his/her...
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