A fire erupted at one of the most modern shipping malls in Dhaka – Karnaphuli Garden City – on Saturday morning. However, no casualty was reported from the fire in the multi-storey shopping-mall-cum-residential complex, situated in the city’s Shantinagar area....
The death toll in a stampede for Jakat clothes in Mymensingh reached 27 after an injured person died at Mymensingh Medical College Hospital (MMCH) on Friday evening. Over 60 others were injured in the stampede at Nurani Jarda Factory near...
Three Bangladeshis have been killed in a road accident in Saudi Arabian capital Riyadh on their way back to Bangladesh after performing Umrah in Makkah. The deceased have been identified as Nizam Uddin, 40, hailed from Kanaighat upazila of Sylhet...
At least 48 people, including ameer of Rangpur’s Kawnia opazila unit of Jamaat-e-Islami were arrested in Rangpur and northern district of Joypurhat on Thursday and Friday. Kawnia police station Officer-in-Charge Rezaul Karim said arrested Jamaat leader Abdus Salam was undergoing...
A joint India-Bangladesh team of mountaineers have scaled the 7,135 metres high Mt Nun in Punjab Himalaya under Jammu and Kashmir. A press release said, the Mountaineering Association of Krishnanagar (MAK), based in India’s West Bengal state, and Dhaka-based adventure...
The hot green chilli is not only scalding the buyers’ tongue but also burning a hole in their budget as prices have almost doubled in a week. One kilogram of green chilli was being sold at Tk120 to Tk150 in...
A UN-brockered ceasefire came into effect in war-ravaged Yemen just before midnight on Friday as relief agencies scrambled to rush desperately needed relief supplies to millions threatened of famine amid doubts over the ceasefire success. The United Nations on Thursday...
Greek parliament has backed a government package of economic reforms aimed at ending the cash-strapped European country’s debt crisis and securing a new bailout. After a late-night debate, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras won overwhelming cross-party support but saw some of...
A fire at Karnaphuli Garden City in Dhaka’s Shantinagar area has been doused. It was not clear how the fire erupted and spread across the third floor of the 19-storey high-rise on Saturday morning. Fire Service control room official Monirul...
Internet connectivity in India’s northeast will get a boost with union Communications and IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad all set to lay the foundation stone for the much-awaited international gateway for internet in Agartala today (Saturday). Manik Sarkar, Chief Minister...
Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Corporation (BIWTC) will start a 14-day special steamer services on Thursday (July 14) in Dhaka with 7 vessels to deal with the rush of passengers ahead of Holy Eid-ul-Fitr. The Eid special service of BIWTC vessels...
The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) will soon launch a new initiative to help developing countries strengthen their tax systems, an IMF statement, received in Dhaka, said on Saturday. Referring to an analysis, the statement said many...
Indian border guards have shot two Bangladesh nationals when they were allegedly smuggling cattle along Larhaighat border in Jhenidah district. Moheshpur Police Station OC Shahidul Islam Shahin said some Bangladeshis crossed the border to bring Indian cattle on Friday night....
People living on the slopes of the hills and beside hills have been ordered to take shelter in safer places quickly as there is a risk of hill slide due to incessant rains. The government has ordered in a press...
A three-member committee has been formed to investigate the incident of stampede during distribution of jakat clothes in Mymensingh. Sources at the police headquarters (HQs) said the probe body has been given five days to submit its findings. Kamrul Hasan,...
The international financial institutions have announced a plan to extend more than $400 billion in financing over the next three years to help mobilise the resources needed to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), says an IMF statement. It said...
Police have suspended a sub-inspector (SI) responsible for law and order in the area of Mymensingh where a stampede killed 27 on Friday. Sub-Inspector Saidul Islam, in-charge of Mymensingh Kotwali Police Camp-2, was suspended for dereliction of duty, Mymensingh SP...
Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Commissioner Asaduzzaman Mia on Saturday said DMP permission will be required from now on if any individual or organisation wants to distribute Zakat through any event in Dhaka city. The DMP Commissioner said this while taking...
A Mymensingh court on Saturday sent eight people, including Zakat donor Nurani Talukder, to jail in a case filed in connection with the deaths of 27 poor people in a stampede while collecting Zakat clothes in the district town on...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday hosted an iftar party for her family members and relatives at her official residence Ganobhaban. The Prime Minister went round different tables set for the guests, exchanged pleasantries with them and enquired about their...
Finance Minister AMA Muhith has said Bangladesh has graduated to the lower-middle income nation from a low-income country much before the deadline government had set. Bangladesh had been progressing, he told reporters in Sylhet on Saturday, after inspecting the construction...
Hafiz Saeed, the leader of the Islamic State group in the Afghanistan and Pakistan region, has been killed in a drone strike, the Afghan intelligence agency says. Saeed was killed in the strike in Achin in Afghanistan's eastern Nangarhar province...
Eurozone finance chiefs have warned of tough negotiations ahead as they meet to decide whether Greece's new reform proposals merit a third debt bailout. Germany's Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said the talks would be "extremely difficult". Eurogroup chief Jeroen Dijsselbloem...
Serena Williams claimed a sixth Wimbledon title and fourth successive grand slam crown by suppressing the spirited attacking instincts of 20th-seeded Spaniard Garbine Muguruza to win Saturday's final 6-4 6-4. American Williams reinforced her stranglehold on the women's game by...
Syed Ashraful Islam says he will continue to work for his party even after his removal from the politically crucial LGRD and cooperatives ministry. Stating that his father gave his life for Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Syed Ashraful reaffirmed his...
BNP demanded Saturday an international probe under the UN’s supervision into the subversive acts carried out during the blockade and hartal enforced by the BNP-led 20-party alliance in the first three months of this year to identify the real perpetrators....
CHITTAGONG, July 9 (BSS): A Chittagong court granted on Thursday a fresh five-day remand to Golam Mostafa Sohel, manager of Khanjahan Ali enterprise, of Khatunganj for his alleged involvement in bringing cocaine with imported sunflower oil through Chittagong port. The...
The High Court on Thursday granted bail to BNP leaders MK Anwar, Tariqul Islam, Abdul Awal Mintoo and Amanullah Aman in a number of cases, reports UNB. Meanwhile, the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court upheld the High Court bail...
The Appellate Division (AD) of the Supreme Court (SC) on Thursday set August 26 to hold election to Bangladesh Bar Council, reports BSS. The court also directed to publish the voter list by July 30. A four-member AD panel headed...
BRAHMANBARIA, July 9 (UNB): A young girl was gang -raped by four men at Sonarbadi in Akhaura upazila of the district on Wednesday evening. Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) arrested a CNG-run auto rickshaw driver named Robin, 20, son...
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