Bangladesh Shikkhak Samity demanded Saturday that the government include all the private secondary schools and higher secondary colleges in the monthly pay order (MPO) scheme by June next, reports UNB. It also demanded forming an independent service commission to recruit...
A workers' council of Bangladesh Nationalist Front (BNF) was held at the District Council auditorium in Chittagong Friday. BNP president SM Abul Kalam Azad, MP, was present as the chief guest while its Chittagong unit member secretary Osman Ali Musa...
A workers council of Bangladesh Islami Front (BIF) of Bakolia thana unit was held at Kalamia Bazar in Chittagong Saturday. BIF joint convener SUM Abdus Samad was present as the chief guest while Shafiul Alam Shafi presided over the meeting....
Moazzam Hossain Alal, who leads the BNP’s youth front, was arrested on Saturday night for what the police said ‘plotting sabotage’ ahead of the 20-party alliance’s nationwide hartal (shutdown) on Monday. Mohammadpur Police Station’s OC Azizul Haq confirmed the arrest...
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi arrived in Dhaka on Saturday night to give further boost to the bilateral relations. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina visited China in June this year, when Beijing’s leadership promised to support Bangladesh in massive infrastructure projects....
World record holder Shakib al Hasan and fast bowler Rubel Hossain guided Legends of Rupganj to a 76-run win over renowned sports outfit Abahani Ltd in the first match of the 2nd round of Dhaka Premier League’s Super Sixes cricket...
The capital was covered under a blanket of thick fog from Saturday night to Sunday morning. A mild cold wave is sweeping different districts of Rangpur, Dhaka and Rajshahi divisions from Thursday night, paralysing normal life and causing sufferings to...
The law-enforcers had picked up ‘Jihad’s father Nasir Uddin moments after an announcement that there was no sign of anybody down an abandoned pipe. Nasir claimed he was ‘threatened in the name of ‘Rab’ to tell the ‘truth’. Nasir was...
Budget carrier AirAsia confirmed on Sunday that its flight QZ 8501 from the Indonesian city of Surabaya to Singapore had lost contact with air traffic control. The French-made Airbus 320-200 aero plane had 155 passengers and crew on board, officials...
China expects follow-up actions on the agreed important issues with Bangladesh and mapping out commemorative activities to be held next year, said Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying. She said China also wants to extend bilateral cooperation in economy and...
Ferry services on the Shimulia-Kawrakandi route in the Padma River resumed after 9 hours’ disruption caused by dense fog on Sunday morning. Safayet Hossain, manager of Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Corporation (BIWTC) at Shimulia Ghat (terminal) in Munshiganj, said they...
Awami League leader Mahbub-ul-Alam Hanif has said that time has come to think whether BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia will be allowed to hold any rally in the future if she does not apologise on behalf of the party’s senior vice...
Police in overnight drives have arrested 10 local leaders and activists of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) from different Upazilas in Jessore district. The drive started on Saturday night and continued till early Sunday. Enamul Haque, officer-in-charge of Jessore Kotwali Police...
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The Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and the Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) saw downward trend in early hours of trading on Sunday, the opening session of the week. DSEX, the prime index of the DSE, went down by 25.73 points or...
A half-day hartal, enforced by the BNP-led 20-party alliance protesting police swoop on its procession, passed peacefully in Gaibandha district today (Sunday). Anisuzzaman Khan Babu, convener of the district unit of the 20-party alliance, announced the shutdown programme from a...
Jihad, the child trapped in a pipe, kept responding for six hours since the launch of the rescue operation by Fire Service and Civil Defence men on Friday afternoon, witnesses said. The four-year-old boy had spoken several times and even...
Four people have died while at least 14 others injured in separate road accidents in Naogaon and Sirajganj districts. A bus tumbled into a ditch killing 2 in Naogaon while two others died in separate accidents in Sirajganj on Saturday....
Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) personnel in separate drives seized a large consignment of contraband drugs in Charghat Upazila in Rajshahi district on Saturday afternoon. Additional director Kamrul Hasan, acting commanding officer of BGB Battalion-37, said a BGB patrol team conducted...
Zookeepers wearing gorilla suits have helped rear an endangered abandoned baby gorilla in Ohio so she can join an adult group. The 16 human surrogates have spent 3 months feeding, nurturing and gently introducing the baby, Kamina, to adult female...
The tragedy of child Jihad has driven his father, Nasiruddin Fakir, to file a case against the proprietor of a construction company and an engineer of Bangladesh Railway (BR). The child had fallen into a 600 feet deep water pipe...
With the completion of the autopsy on Jihad’s body on Sunday morning, the autopsy conductors at Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) came up with the observation that the four-year-old boy died from drowning. The autopsy was completed by a three-member...
BNP Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi Ahmed has said that the ruling party will not be allowed to hold public rallies in any place of the country. ‘Awami League will not be allowed to hold rallies in any place...
Another court in the city has issued an arrest warrant against BNP Senior Vice Chairman Tarique Rahman on charge of giving defamatory and seditious speech staying in London. The case was filed by Abdul Aziz, assistant general secretary of Dhaka...
There was no Bangladeshi citizen on board the missing Air Asia flight carrying 155 people from Indonesia, which lost contact with air traffic control today. Flight QZ 8501, an Airbus 320-200, lost contact with the Jakarta air traffic control tower...
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Stocks went down for the third running sessions today (Sunday) with turnover dipping below Tk 2.0-billion-mark again as investors remained reluctant to make fresh investments ahead of year closing. The market opened with a negative note and the downward trend...
The United States has expressed concern at disappearance from the radar screen of an AirAsia flight in South East Asia and also said that it is monitoring the situation. Washington’s concern came after an Airbus A320-200 of AirAsia with 162...
Bangladesh and China reviewed the entire gamut of their bilateral relations at a Foreign Minister-level meeting in Dhaka on Sunday. Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali led the 19-member Bangladesh side while his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi the 13-member China team...
A boy died from suffocation after a piece of meat got stuck in his throat in Jhumjhumpur village in Jessore district on Saturday night. The deceased was identified as Al Amin, 12, son of Kalam Molla, a resident of the...
Habiganj Municipal Mayor Golam Kibria Gaus, charged with the murder of former finance minister Shah AMS Kibria, has surrendered to a Habiganj court and has been sent to jail. Gaus, the BNP’s Habiganj district unit general secretary, surrendered to the...
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