A sexagenarian man was stabbed to death allegedly by his neighbour over a trifling matter at Jurain Boubazar in the Kadamtali area in the city on Thursday, reports UNB. The deceased was identified as Joynal, 60, a resident of the...
Our Correspondent | 2015-07-03 00:00:00
CHITTAGONG, July 2: Chittagong Customs House (CCH) has earned Tk 272.4401 billion (Tk 27,244.01 crore) in the just concluded fiscal year (FY), 2014-15, against the target of Tk 269.3378 billion. The country's biggest revenue earning house has crossed the target...
Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus, who is also Chancellor of Glasgow Caledonian University (GCU), handed over Honorary Degree to Dr Kerry Kennedy for global human rights work on the occasion of the GCU's Commencement Ceremony on Wednesday in Glasgow Scotland,...
CHITTAGONG, July 2 (UNB): A court here placed on Thursday three people, arrested from the capital on June 30 in connection with the seizure of liquid cocaine at Chittagong Port, on a 10-day remand each. Those who were remanded are...
NILPHAMARI, July 2 (UNB): The Teesta water was still flowing 20cm above its danger level in the district as of Thursday afternoon due to the onrush of water from the upstream. The gushing water damaged six roads and three embankments...
CHITTAGONG, July 2 (BSS): Chittagong Metropolitan Police in a drive arrested two men, including a fake journalist, with 590 pieces of contraband Yaba tablets from the Karnaphuli Bridge area in the port city today. They were identified as Abdus Sabur...
The US Embassy in Dhaka, including the Consular Section and the American Center with the Archer K Blood American Center Library and the Education USA Student Advising Center, will remain closed on July 5 (Sunday) marking the US Independence Day,...
US Professor meets DU VC Executive Director of the Institute for International Business and Professor of the Indiana University, USA, Dr Bruce L Jaffee called on the University of Dhaka (DU) Vice Chancellor Professor Dr AAMS Arefin Siddique at the...
Light to moderate rain or thundershowers accompanied by temporary gusty wind is likely to occur at most places over Khulna, Barisal and Chittagong divisions and at a few places over Rangpur, Rajshahi, Dhaka and Sylhet divisions with moderately heavy to...
Two wild elephants were found dead at the foot of a hill in Kaptai Sadar upazila in Rangamati district. Divisional forest officer of Parbataya Chattagram (South) forest department M Salah Uddin said locals found the corpses of the two elephants...
Unknown miscreants in separate incidents killed a sand trader and a woman in different places of Savar upazila at some times between Wednesday night and early Thursday. Officer-in-charge (OC) of Savar Model Police Station Qamruzzaman Mia said, local people found...
Police arrested 16 female leaders and activists of Jamaat-e-Islami from Puratan Satkhira area of Satkhira town on Thursday while they were allegedly planning to carry out subversive activities. Tipped off, a team of Sadar Police Station launched a drive at...
A devastating fire gutted 50 dwelling houses in Fatullah area in the outskirts of Narayanganj city early Friday. Police, locals and hospital sources said the fire burned one person while four others received injuries as they tried to douse the...
A minor boy drowned in a pond at Uttar Dhamapur village in Sreepur union under Sundarganj Upazila of Gaibandha on Thursday afternoon. The deceased was identified as Sajib, 2, son of Saiful Islam, resident of the village. Police and locals...
Bangladesh and India will start exchanging border enclaves from midnight of July 31. With the date to begin the much-awaited exchange of enclaves by the two neighbouring countries only 28 days away, a meeting for finalising a joint survey of...
A shallow 6.4-magnitude earthquake struck China’s far western region of Xinjiang on Friday, the US Geological Survey said, with at least three people killed according to Chinese officials. The epicentre of the quake was in Pishan county, 164 kilometres (102...
At least three persons were killed and two others injured in a road accident on Dhaka Tangail Bangabandhu Bridge highway in Tangail Sadar upazila on Friday. The deceased could not be identified. The accident took place in Kostapara area of...
The General Security Forces Court or GSFC of India's Border Security Force has upheld a previous court of inquiry verdict absolving its trooper Amiya Ghose of murder charges. Ghose was accused of murdering Bangladeshi girl Felani Khatun. The BSF has...
A British family of 12 with Bangladesh roots, including a baby and two grandparents, are believed to have gone to Syria after they were reported missing, say British police. The family, from Luton in Bedfordshire, central England, have not been...
At least 150 people are reported to have been killed in a series of attacks by suspected militants in Nigeria’s north-eastern Borno state, predominantly inhabitated by Christians. Eyewitnesses say the gunmen stormed the village of Kukawa near Lake Chad on...
A new opinion poll on Greece's bailout referendum pointed to a closely balanced result in the vote that could decide the country's future in Europe. The poll, conducted by the ALCO polling institute and published in the Ethnos newspaper on...
The water of Teesta River was still flowing 20 centimetres (cm) above its danger level in Nilphamari district as of Thursday afternoon due to the onrush of water from the upstream. The gushing water damaged six roads and three embankments...
Police have arrested two men on charges of attempting to rape a pregnant woman on a moving microbus, just over a month after the gang-rape of a Garo girl in a similar way. Dhaka Metropolitan Police’s Deputy Commissioner Bidhan Tripura...
Cricket South Africa, the game’s governing body in South Africa, has expressed regrets to the Bangladesh Cricket Board over using a drone camera at a practice session by the Proteas in Dhaka. BBC says the visiting South African national cricket...
South Africa's allrounder Jean-Paul Duminy is convinced his side need to be at their best to beat Bangladesh on their turf. Bangladesh and South Africa will lock horns in the first of the two T20Is at the Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket...
Mumbai movie star-turned politician Hema Malini was injured in a fatal road accident in Rajasthan on Thursday night that also left a minor killed. The accident involved a Mercedes-Benz car owned by Hema Malini and a Maruti Alto. The mishap...
Members of Rapid Action Battalion-3 arrested six fake Detective Branch (DB) personnel from Dakshin Khan Area in the city Thursday. They also seized a pair of handcuff, three identity cards of police, a camera used for blackmailing people, Tk22,000 and...
China has offered its assistance for its expansion and modernisation works of Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA) after the government decided to construct a third terminal in the airport. China Airport Construction Group Corporation (CACC), a 100 percent state-owned corporation...
A Dhaka court on Friday placed 12 suspected militants on a three-day remand each in a case filed with Darus Salam Police Station under the Anti-Terrorism Act. Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Molla Saiful Islam passed the order when the investigation officer...
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