In order to update the country’s voter list, the Election Commission has begun the three-phase data collection on Saturday morning covering 189 upazilas or thanas in the first phase. Enumerators will collect data of Bangladeshi citizens born on or before...
After serving for different jail-terms, eight Bangladeshi women and children have returned from India. Petrapole Immigration Police of India handed over the victims to Benapole Check Post Immigration Police in Jessore on Friday afternoon. The Indian immigration police handed them...
Incessant rain is causing delay to resume the first Test between Bangladesh and South Africa on the Day 5 at Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium in Chittagong on Saturday. South Africa were 61 for no loss when drizzle and bad light...
Police have punished three officials for negligence in handling Sylhet boy Samiul Alam Rajan murder. Jalalabad Police Station's Inspector (investigation) Alamgir Hossain has been closed while sub-Inspectors Zakir Hossain and Aminul Islam have been suspended. Sylhet Metropolitan Police (SMP) Deputy...
A Jamaat man was injured in a 'shootout' between a group of Jamaat-e-Islami activists and police at Debhata in Satkhira district on Saturday. The deceased was identified as Nurul Amin, 45, an activist of Debhata upazila unit of Jamaat and...
An outlawed party leader was killed in a ‘gunfight’ with police in Bhanga Bottoil under Mirpur upazila in Kushtia district on Saturday. The deceased was identified as Palash Malitha, 28, regional leader of the Purba Banglar Communist Party (PBCP, ML-Lal...
Road accidents investigation reports are useless, says the road transport and bridges minister. Obaidul Quader said the enquiry reports on road traffic accidents are useless because the investigation committees do not carry out their responsibilities sincerely. He was replying to...
The first Test between Bangladesh and South Africa ended in a draw on Saturday because incessant rain in Chittagong. South Africa were 61 for no loss when drizzle and bad light forced the BCB authorities, umpires and officials of the...
An indigenous woman was stabbed and injured by some miscreants at Tulabil village in Manikchari upazila of Khagrachari district on Friday night. The victim was identified as Paini Marma, 45, wife of late Mongsajai Mamra of the village. Quoting local...
Police arrested two people in possession of seven Molotov cocktails and one revolver from Baurbhag area in Sadar upazila of Moulvibazar district on Saturday. The arrestees were identified as Kanchan Miah, 55, a resident of Sadhuhati village, and Nuru Miah,...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday expressed deep shock at the death of Sheikh Aliuzzaman Rasu Mia, president of the Tungipara unit of Awami League (AL) in Gopalganj district. In a condolence message, the Prime Minister said that Awami League...
Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) personnel have arrested 7 people along with 12 pounds of venom from a house at Raut village in Kanaighat upazila in Sylhet district. The arrestees were identified as Sifatur Rahman, 56, Nazrul Alam Nannu, 50, Abu...
At least seven people, including three women, were killed and four others injured in a head-on collision between a bus and a microbus at Bhatiapara intersection on the Dhaka-Khulna highway in Kashiani upazila of Gopalganj district on Saturday. Identities of...
The Detective Branch (DB) of Police arrested Ayaj Ali, 45, a suspected killer of Sheikh Samiul Alam Rajon, a 13-year-old boy who was brutally killed by a section of miscreants in Sylhet early this month. "Ayaj Ali was arrested as...
The regular classes and examinations of Jahangirnagar University (JU) will resume on Sunday after a 61-day vacation of Summer, Ramadan and Eid-ul-Fitr. The students of the university already have started to return their dormitories after enjoying the long holiday, according...
Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) personnel recovered a firearm, 6 rounds of bullet and 2 magazines at Singnagar border in Shibganj upazila of Chapainawabganj district on Friday night. BGB-9 Battalion Director Lieutenant Colonel Abu Jafar Sheikh Mohamamd Bazlul Haque said a...
Earthquake measuring 5.1 on the Richter scale jolted Pakistan on Saturday morning, forcing people to rush out of their homes in panic. The epicentre of the earthquake was just 15 kilometers northeast of Islamabad in the Margalla hills at a...
Two children drowned in a waterbody in Gopail area of Mohonpur upazila of Rajshahi district on Saturday. The deceased were identified as Khadiza Khatun, 8, daughter of Anwrul Islam and Mominul Islam, 5, son of Nayeb Sarder, of the area....
A college student who was stabbed on Thursday, died at Sher-e-Bangla Medical College Hospital on Saturday. The deceased was identified as Ujjal Kharati, 18, son of Uttam Kumar Kharati, resident of Kabai-Lakhipasa village under Bakerganj upazila of Barisal district. Local...
Shihab Sarkar | 2015-07-24 00:00:00
Outwardly, most of the people in Bangladesh were taken aback seeing the incessant rain spoil their Eid-ul-Fitr festivities. However, a lot of people took the disruption stoically. After all, the shower was designed by Mother Nature, who plans everything that...
The reported marketing of counterfeit and low-quality medicines in the country's rural areas is indeed a matter of serious health concern. Whatever good international rating in rural healthcare Bangladesh has achieved is, as a report in this paper in its...
Nilratan Halder | 2015-07-24 00:00:00
Dhaka, an urban sprawl, is no less known for its shanties than its skyscrapers, rickshaws and intractable traffic congestion. In February 2013, then local government and rural development minister disclosed in parliament that the number of slum population was 3.5...
Farid Hasan Ahmed | 2015-07-24 00:00:00
Floods are a regular phenomenon in South Asia, the most populous region in the world. The south-western summer monsoons occur from June through September. Nepal, Bangladesh and certain regions of India and Pakistan frequently experience heavy floods during this season....
The number of movie-goers is on the rise, which a good piece of news for people and movie-makers alike. The middle class that constituted the bulk of movie-goers in the sixties and seventies of the last century, declined later and...
Crime and cruelty are increasing in our society as we often see the offenders getting away with their criminal acts and nothing is happening to them. Rather the crooked criminals are left at large and they continue committing the same...
Abdul Bayes | 2015-07-24 00:00:00
The advent of microfinance, particularly in Bangladesh, is mainly attributed to the existence of an imperfect credit market in rural areas, swept by informal sources of credit like money-lenders. Moneylenders not only charge exorbitant rates of interest to the borrowers...
Mohammad Amjad Hossain | 2015-07-24 00:00:00
Twenty years ago on July 11, Bosnian Serb forces swept into eastern Srebrenica of Bosnia-Herzegovina enclave which the United Nations had declared as 'safe haven' for ethnic Muslim community. They executed 8,000 or more ethnic minority Muslims, including boys, dumped...
Yasir Wardad Wheat production hit a 1.35 million tonnes in fiscal year 2014-15 (FY'15), the highest in 12 years, thanks to favourable weather condition and profitable price of the second staple which encouraged many farmers to cultivate the crop. The...
RANGAMATI, July 23 (BSS): Over 100 farmers living at four hamlets, locally known as Mushroom Palli on the outskirts of Rangamati town, are cultivating mushroom commercially as it has proved to be profitable for them. "I am cultivating mushroom commercially...
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