A court in Netrakona has convicted three people and sentenced them to life term rigorous imprisonment for killing a man in 2005. The convicts were identified as Abdur Rashid, 42, son of Kadar Ali alias Kalar Bap, Alhaj Uddin alias...
Time has come to stop all sorts of tobacco promotion related advertisements, publicity and patronisation to protect the future generation from bad effect of smoking and other tobacco products, speakers told a discussion held in Rajshahi city on Friday afternoon....
Bangladesh has urged the international community to work in unison to find a legitimate and sustainable solution to the Palestinian crisis and thus eliminate one of the longstanding and serious threats to international peace and stability. Prime Minister Shikeh Hasina...
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia is on the way to Comilla on Saturday to address her party-led 20-party alliance’s public rally in Comilla Town Hall ground. The BNP Chairperson left her Gulshan residence around 10:30am for Comilla Circuit House, her media...
Mystery shrouded the death of a housewife in Sribordi Upazila in Sherpur district. Locals spotted the body of Jesmin Begum, 20, hanging in a bedroom at the residence of her husband Sujan Miah at Uttar Kharia village on Friday and...
Gunmen set off three bombs and opened fire on worshippers at the main mosque in north Nigeria’s biggest city Kano on Friday, killing at least 81 people, local administration and hospital sources said. Police, other government officials and witnesses said,...
A housewife was tortured and her two legs were broken allegedly by her husband over dowry in Bhaina Rajapur village in Jessore Sadar Upazila on Friday night. The victim was identified as Laboni Akter, 23, wife of Ejajul Haque of...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday inaugurated an extension project of Bibiyana gas-field and construction of Bibiyan-Dhanuya gas pipeline. She reached at the country’s largest gas-field in Habiganj district at 12noon. During her visit she also inaugurated an extension road...
The government is not following anyone’s ‘theory’ and only working to ensure the rights of the people, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said. At the meeting of Awami League (AL)’s Central Working Committee, Hasina, also the President of the ruling...
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has reached Comilla to attend a rally to press for a quick interim election and to protest against the government’s ‘misrule’. The rally organised by the BNP-led 20-party alliance will be held in the Town Hall...
Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) personnel recovered 10,000 pieces of Yaba in Hila Customs Ghat under Teknaf Upazila in Cox’s Bazar district on Saturday morning. Tipped off, a BGB team conducted a drive in the area and seized a boat along...
Parbatya Chattagram Jana Sanghati Samity (PCJSS) has threatened to start non-cooperation movement from May 1 next year if the government fails to implement the CHT Peace Accord within April 30. Jyotirindro Bodhipriya Larma, alias Santu Larma, President of Parbatya Chattagram...
Some miscreants stabbed a security guard to death and dumped his body in Old Bus Stand area in Thakurgaon Sadar Upazila on Saturday. The victim was identified as Akbar Ali, 55, a security guard at Old Bus Stand Bazar and...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina says there is a good side to BNP not being in the 10th Jatiya Sangsad (Parliament). ‘It is good in one way. Parliament does not have to hear slangs. It’s sober now. People have gained back...
Claiming that the January 5 election was a farce, BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia on Saturday said the government should step down immediately following HT Imam’s remarks. She said the country is now under one person’s grip. ‘Now the country is...
President Abdul Hamid will visit India on December 18 at the invitation of his Indian counterpart Pranab Mukherjee. “The President will leave for New Delhi on December 18 on a four-day tour at the invitation of Indian President Pranab Mukherjee,”...
Barrister Nazmul Huda on Saturday floated his latest political party - this time it is called the Bangladesh Manabadhikar Party (BMP) , according to a news agency.
Local Government, Rural Development & Cooperatives Minister Syed Ashraful Islam on Saturday said there is no force that can topple the Awami League (AL) government from power, not even one second before the stipulated time. Ashraf, also the Awami League...
Calling upon all the political parties in Bangladesh to hold political programmes responsibly and peacefully, visiting US Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs Nisha Desai Biswal on Saturday said the United States advocates for a strong...
CAIRO: An Egyptian court has dismissed criminal charges against former president Hosni Mubarak in connection with the killing of protesters in the 2011 uprising that ended his nearly three-decade reign. Mubarak, 86, was also acquitted of corruption charges that he...
TAIPEI:Taiwan’s premier resigned Saturday after the ruling Kuomintang (KMT) party suffered a landslide defeat at the island’s biggest ever local elections. Jiang Yi-huah announced that he had stepped down at a brief press conference, saying that he took “political responsibility”...
Pope Francis prayed silently alongside a senior Islamic cleric in Istanbul's Blue Mosque Saturday, in a gesture of inter-religious harmony in a country bordering the conflicts in Syria and Iraq. Francis took off his shoes as he entered the huge...
LONDON: There could be between 10,000 and 13,000 victims of slavery in the UK, higher than previous figures, analysis for the Home Office suggests. Modern slavery victims are said to include women forced into prostitution, "imprisoned" domestic staff and workers...
Ongoing demonstrations by Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) activists demanding the withdrawal of expulsion order against three of their leaders have forced the authorities to declare an early winter vacation at Hajee Mohammad Danesh Science and Technology University (HSTU). The resident...
At least 15 people have been killed and 14 others injured during an attack in the far western Chinese region of Xinjiang, state media has reported. It said that the violence started when a group of "terrorists" attacked civilians in...
Members of Bangladesh Navy detected the sunken trawler, ‘FV Bandhan’, under the sea, 28 nautical miles west off Saint Martin's Island on Saturday, a day after it capsized leaving one man dead and 26 people missing. Commander of Navy Detective...
Former Jessore MP Shakhawat Hossain has been arrested on war crimes charges. He was detained from Dhaka's Uttarkhan Saturday evening, DMP Uttara division Deputy Commissioner Iqbal Hossain confirmed bdnews24.com. Uttarkhan police OC Yunus Ali said he had been arrested after...
Information Minister Hasanul Haq Inu left Dhaka on Saturday for Tehran to attend the 10th Islamic Conference of Information Ministers (ICIM) beginning on Monday, according to a news agency.
A total of five students of the Department of Soil, Water & Environment of Dhaka University (DU) have been awarded "SWED-DU Trust Gold Medal" while 18 students of the same department have received scholarships for their outstanding academic results in...
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Renowned journalist and columnist Zaglul Ahmed Chowdhury, passed away Saturday night at a city hospital following a road accident. His son told the FE quoting the attending doctor that he was declared dead at 8:30 pm while undergoing treatment in...
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