Kidnappers have cut the body of a minor boy into 6 pieces and dumped those in an irrigation conduit in Mohanpur Upazila in Rajshahi district. Mohanpur Police OC Abdul Hamid said the body was found in a field in Dyeing...
Some miscreants shot and injured two young men in Dhaka’s Shajadpur area early Friday. Hospital sources said unidentified armed miscreants opened fire on Ramjan Ali, 30, and Alamgir Mohiuddin, 20, around 2:00am, leaving them critically injured. Ramjan Ali is a...
Asian markets were mixed on Friday as key markets remained closed for the Christmas holidays. Tokyo slipped 0.17 per cent, while Shanghai edged up 0.18 per cent, Shenzhen added 0.04 per cent and Seoul was up 0.24 per cent in...
The Local administration has imposed Section 144 in Gazipur following mounting tension over the BNP and the Bangladesh Chhatra League announcing simultaneous rallies at the same venue. The district Police Superintendent Harunur Rashid said an indefinite ban was imposed on...
Despite the ruling party’s total control in Gazipur city, BNP acting Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Friday said they will surely hold the rally foiling all the obstacles to it, triggering an apprehension of political violence. ‘The rally...
The director general (DG) level formal border talks between Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) and Indian Border Security Force (BSF) began at Peelkhana BGB headquarters in the city on Friday. BGB’s DG Maj Gen Aziz Ahmed is leading a 23-member Bangladesh...
BNP leader Gayeshwar Chandra Roy was detained by Detective Branch (DB) of police on Friday morning and shown arrested in connection with a case filed over Bakshibazar clash. Though initially police could not ascertain to the cause of his detention,...
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has condemned the arrests of party’s standing committee member Gayeshwar Chandra Roy and other leaders and workers of the opposirtion party. In a statement issued hours after Gayeshwar’s arrest, Khaleda Zia demanded his release from the...
The Khulna University (KU) authorities have taken up an initiative to set up a crop clinic at the varsity for the benefit of the farmers of the south-western coastal region. The clinic having a website will disseminate information on proper...
Another members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) gave confessional statement before a Narayanganj court over the sensational 7-murder. Former army personnel of the Naraynaganj-based Rab-11 Asaduzzaman gave the statement separately in two cases before the court of Senior Judicial Magistrates...
The Bangladesh Consulate General in New York has discussed the role of migrants. The theme of the discussion was on ‘safe migration’. Bangladesh has a particular interest in safe migration as millions of Bangladeshis work abroad and their remittances are...
A Dhaka court on Friday placed detained BNP leader Gayeshwar Chandra Roy and three other leaders of the party on a three-day remand in a case filed for obstructing on duty police and assaulting Awami League MP Chhabi Biswas in...
The BNP has criticised a decision to ban its prescheduled public rally in Gazipur. ‘It’s part of a government ploy to thwart the 20-party alliance's public meeting there,’ BNP acting Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said on Friday. Gazipur...
The BNP has called an emergency meeting of its policymakers on Friday evening to chalk out an action plan. The meeting will be held at BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s political office in Gulshan in the city on Friday evening, party’s...
Fire-fighters are trying to rescue a four-year old boy four hours after he fell into a several hundred feet deep hole at capital Dhaka's Khilgaon. The hole that is 14 inches in diameter is adjacent to a playground at the...
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, now in Kathmandu, arrives in the city Saturday evening on a three-day visit which is considered a step towards further boosting the bilateral ties between the two countries. The Chinese Foreign Minister is coming at...
Women rights activists are angry over the pouring of human stool on a woman at a village arbitration led by Awami League MP Shawkat Hachanur Rahman Rimon at Patharghata in Barguna. They said that they would move the court against...
BANDA ACEH: Survivors of Asia’s 2004 tsunami and relatives of its 226,000 victims cried and prayed as they gathered along Indian Ocean shorelines on Friday for memorials to mark the 10th anniversary of a disaster that still leaves an indelible...
The BNP has called a daylong shutdown for Saturday in Gazipur protesting against local administration's ban on gatherings at party chief Khaleda Zia's proposed rally venue. BNP's Gazipur unit chief AKM Fazlul Haq made the announcement Friday after a meeting...
The BNP investigations have faulted the government for the oil spill in Sundarbans, home to endangered Royal Bengal Tigers and rare Irrawaddy and Ganges dolphins. Its panel of experts has made several recommendations to tackle the spill's long-term effect. An...
Shivering cold coupled with dense fog paralysed life across the country as temperature sharply fell in most places Friday. Mild cold wave is sweeping over the regions of Pabna, Jessore and Kushtia and it may continue, a weather bulletin of...
Three BNP activists have been arretsed from Altab Ali Park in East London for their alleged involvement in an attack on a UK chapter Juba Mohila Awami League rally on Tuesday. However, the identities of the arrestees could not be...
Bangladesh Navy personnel have seized 90,000 Yaba tablets from a trawler (large boat) in the Outer Anchorage of Chittagong Port. The seizure took place during a regular patrol near the Sangu gas field in the sea around 1:00am on Thursday,...
A central leader of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) has threatened to ‘beat up senior BNP leaders’. A status on the Facebook profile of BCL leader Siddiqui Nazmul Alam posted on Wednesday reads that the response to the attack on ruling...
Customs Intelligence officials seized a big amount foreign currencies from an apartment in the city’s Naya Paltan on Thursday. Tipped off, a team of Customs Intelligence Department, aided by Detective Branch (DB) of police personnel, raided a residence-cum shop in...
Commerce Minister Tofail Ahmed on Thursday alleged BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia is trying to turn Bangladesh into a ‘failed state’ like Pakistan. Tofail was addressing BTV’s Golden Jubilee programme at Bangla School Ground in the town, according to a news...
BNP senior leader Gayeshwar Chandra Roy on Thursday warned that they will hold rallies across the country on Saturday if their scheduled one in Gazipur on the day is blocked by ruling party activists, according to a news agency.
Police took control over Bhawal College ground on Thursday, amid growing tension over Bangladesh Chhatra League’s stance not to allow BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia to attend a rally called by the 20-party alliance on the venue on Saturday. With only...
A Bangladeshi farmer was shot dead by the members of Indian Border Security Force (BSF) along Medinipur frontier in Jibonnagar upazila of Chuadanga on Thursday. The deceased was identified as Moshiur Rahman Moshi, 35, son of Abdur Rashid, resident of...
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