The damage done to the Sundarbans due to an oil-tanker crash in Shela River in Bagerhat’s Mongla Upazila may go up to Tk 5 billion, says a report of a panel formed by a political party to investigate the disaster....
A joint meeting of Awami League and its youth wing Jubo League will be held on Saturday to discuss preparations to make the ruling party’s programmes scheduled for January 5 and 10 a success. The meeting will begin at 4:30pm...
Customs Intelligence officials arrested a man along with 3.75 kilograms (kg) of gold from Hazrat Shahjalal (R) International Airport in Dhaka on Friday night. The arrested was identified as Masum Hossain, 31. Customs officials informed that Masum landed at the...
Ferry services in the Paturia-Daulatdia river route have resumed after a 7-hour suspension due to dense fog which blanketed the important waterways from Manikganj’s Paturia to Daulatdia under Goalanda Upazila of Rajbari. The crossings had been halted around 10pm on...
Police arrested a local leader of Jatiyatabadi Swechchhasebak Dal in Sylhet city on Friday evening. The arrested is Rasel Ahmed, 27, convenor of Sylhet city Ward No. 8 unit Swechchhasebak Dal, volunteer wing of BNP, and son of Tutu Miah,...
Operations of several international and domestic flights, which were scheduled to land or take off, faced an unusual delay at Hazrat Shah Amanat (R) International Airport on Saturday for foggy weather. Airport Manager Wing Commandar Nur-e-Alam told this corespondent that...
After an overnight nerve-racking drive failed to trace a minor boy purportedly fell in a deep tubewell, rescuers started a fresh operation on Saturday morning to lift a minor out of the well dead or alive. Zahid is believed to...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina paid rich tributes to Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman by placing a wreath at his mazar in Tungipara in Gopalganj district on Saturday. After placing the wreath, the Prime Minister stood in solemn silence for some time...
Child Jihad was rescued on Saturday afternoon, 23 hours after he slipped into an abandoned 600-foot deep pipe of a tubewell in the city’s Shahjahanpur Railway Colony. After an overnight nerve-racking drive by rescuers failed to even trace the minor...
Police in separate drives arrested a local leader and three activists of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) from Mirjaganj and Baufal Upazilas of Patuakhali district on Saturday. Of the arrestees, one was identified as Sahabuddin Nannu, president of Mirjaganj Upazila unit...
A woman was slaughtered and her body was dumped in a room of her house at Katakhali village in Patuakhali Sadar Upazila at some times between Friday night and early Saturday. The deceased was identified as Beauty Begum, 45, a...
A man, purportedly a robber, was shot dead in a ‘gun battle’ between robbers and Rab personnel at Sutakhali area in Dacope Upazila in Khulna district on Friday night. The dead is Abul Kashem, allegedly a member of a robbers’...
Police have arrested three people in Gazipur on charge of ‘planning sabotage’ ahead of the first anniversary of the January 5 national elections. Police claimed they were involved in plan to carry out subversive activities. The arrestees are Turag Thana...
A cargo ship, carrying 12,000 metric tonnes (MT) of rice, has set sails for Sri Lanka. Bangladesh Shipping Corporation’s (BSC) cargo ship ‘MV Banglar Kakoli’ left Chittagong Port on Saturday afternoon for Colombo sea port with the rice. This is...
Passengers have disembarked safely from a launch that ran aground into a paddy field on the river bank on the Dhaka-Barisal route. The passenger-packed rivercraft, carrying 2,000 people, had apparently ‘losing its way’. Some passengers of Dhaka-bound launch ‘Dipraj’ got...
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) backed by its partners has called a nationwide hartal (shutdown) for Monday protesting against denial of permission for its Gazipur rally and demanding the release of its leaders including Gayeshwar Chandra Roy. Party’s acting Secretary...
Local people pulled out a 4-year-old boy from an abandoned deep tubewell minutes after rescuers called off their 23-hour long unyielding search. Rescue operations by Bangladesh Fire Service and Civil Defence personnel started on Friday afternoon after ‘Jihad’ had fallen...
Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi has arrived in Dhaka in his maiden visit to Bangladesh to give further boost to bilateral ties. Sino-Bangla bonhomie has touched a new height this year following Beijing’s unusual backing to the much-talked-about Jan 5...
The residents of Phulbari on Saturday staged demonstration in protest against the renewed activities of Asia Energy, now renamed as Global Coal Management (GCM). They also demanded the shutting of Asia Energy’s office in Phulbari and also withdrawal of the...
The country recorded this season’s coldest day in Ishwardi of Pabna on Saturday as mercury dropped to 7.2 degrees Celsius.An official at the Dhaka Met Office said Ishwardi recorded the country’s lowest temperature of 7.2 degree Celsius this season on...
The country recorded this season’s coldest day in Ishwardi of Pabna on Saturday as mercury dropped to 7.2 degrees Celsius. An official at the Dhaka Met Office said Ishwardi recorded the country’s lowest temperature of 7.2 degree Celsius this season...
Issuing a stern warning, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday said those who are making disparaging remarks about Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman will not be spared. The Prime Minister said this while holding separate meetings with...
China's trade will grow 3.5 per cent in 2014, implying the country will fall short of a current 7.5 per cent official growth target, according to a report on the Ministry of Commerce's website that was subsequently revised to remove...
Visiting Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi will meet BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia on Sunday night. The meeting will be held at Khaleda’s Gulshan residence around 8pm, her media wing member Sayrul Kabir Khan told UNB on Saturday.
The rate of growth in gross domestic product (GDP) may fall short of the target due mainly to the economic factors - sluggish investment, infrastructural underdevelopments, unsatisfactory collection of revenue vis-à-vis target, low-performance in external sector, and non-economic factors -...
The people of Rangamati's Naniyachar are living in fear a week after their homes were set on fire. On Dec 16, a some 200 slum-dwelling Bengali settlers set ablaze the homes of the tribal hills people living in Chhuridasparha, Nabin...
Health and Family Welfare Minister Mohammad Nasim on Saturday said the government would upgrade diploma medical doctor service into second class. "I will discuss with the Prime Minister about your service status for improving diploma medical service into second class,"...
Health and Family Welfare Minister Mohammad Nasim on Saturday said the government would upgrade diploma medical doctor service into second class. "I will discuss with the Prime Minister about your service status for improving diploma medical service into second class,"...
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