Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) personnel seized 1 kilograms (kg) of gold bars and gold-made ornaments and a large amount of foreign currency at Hazrat Shahjalal (R) International Airport in Dhaka on Monday night. Five people were also arrested in this...
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has paid homage to the freedom fighters (FFs) who laid down their lives for the country during the War of Liberation in 1971 by placing wreaths at the National Mausoleum in Savar on Tuesday. Khaleda along...
The Department of Environment (DoE) has fined Chittagong City Corporation (CCC) Tk 0.5 million for cutting hill illegally at Lalkhan Bazar in the port city. Following a hearing held at the DoE headquarters in Dhaka, the DoE slapped the fine...
A local leader of Jatiyatabadi Jubo Dal, youth wing of the BNP, was killed as a clash broke out at his residence over forming Jubo Dal Convening Committee at Ibrahimpur at Kafrul in the city’s Mirpur on Monday evening. The...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has greeted the families of martyred and war wounded freedom fighters (FF) with flowers, sweets and fruits marking the Victory Day. PM’s Assistant Personal Secretary Saifuzzaman Shikhar and Deputy Press Secretary Ashraful Alam Khokan carried the...
A farmer was stabbed to death and his wife injured by their rivals at Bishnupur village in Baraigram Upazila in Natore district on Tuesday. The dead is Abdur Razzak, 50, while the injured is Anjuara of the village. Police said...
President M Abdul Hamid took the salute from the armed forces at the National Parade Grounds on the 43rd anniversary of Bangladesh’s victory over Pakistan on Tuesday. A contingent of freedom fighters, armed forces, security forces and various ministries of...
A Class-I student was killed and his father injured as a truck crashed into a motorbike on Jessore-Benapole Highway in Jhikargachha Upazila in Jessore district on Monday. The deceased was identified as Nur Hamim, 7. The injured is Sirajul Islam....
Militants from the Pakistani Taliban have attacked a school in Peshawar, killing 141 people, 132 of them children, the military say. Pakistani officials say the attack is now over, with all of the attackers killed. A total of seven militants...
President M Abdul Hamid and his wife Rashida Khanom on Tuesday hosted a reception at Bangabhaban on the occasion of the country's 44th Victory Day. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina joined the function held at the lawn of the presidential palace...
Some miscreants torched a stage erected for observing programmes marking the 44th Victory Day in Sherpur Sadar Upazila on Monday night. Locals said a podium was erected at Pakuria Govt Primary School ground to hold programmes in observance of the...
Bangladesh fast bowler Rubel Hossain has said he will soon reply to all questions by journalists on his alleged cheating on actress Naznin Akter Happy. ‘I will answer all your questions by holding a press conference in a day or...
India Tuesday declared a ban on Islamic State, days after having detained an engineer for running a popular Twitter account extolling the militant group's military campaign. India has the world's third-largest population of Muslims, but they have largely shunned Islamist...
Outgoing US Ambassador in Dhaka Dan W Mozena will make a farewell call on BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia Wednesday evening. The meeting will be held at the BNP chairperson's Gulshan residence around 5:30pm, her media wing member Shamsuddin Didar told...
BNP leader Tarique Rahman has continued his sustained attack on the man who put Bangladesh on the map by again reinterpreting the nation’s history. This time he has labelled Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman a 'Razakar' and claims that the nation's...
Over 50 houses and shops of indigenous people have been set ablaze in Rangamati. A row over a pineapple field is believed to have triggered Tuesday's incident at Naniarchar Upazila. Communal tensions have been running high in the area since...
Oil fell to just above $59 a barrel for the first time since May 2009 Tuesday, extending a six-month selloff as slowing Chinese factory activity and weakening emerging-market currencies added to concerns about demand. International benchmark Brent crude has almost...
The people across the country Tuesday celebrated the 44th Victory Day voicing a strong demand for expediting the war crimes trial and quick execution of verdict. The nation with a deep sense of respect remembered the martyrs who sacrificed their...
The Pakistani military said a sixth gunman had been killed at a school attacked by the Taliban on Tuesday, and that operations were "closing up". "6th terrorist killed in last block," Major General Asim Bajwa tweeted. "IEDs (bombs) planted by...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has condemned the attack by Taliban militants on a school in Pakistan's Peshawar that has left at least 141 people, most of them children, dead. Her Special Assistant Mahbubul Hoque Shakil told bdnews24.com that she in...
RAJSHAHI, Dec 15 (BSS): The Liberation War monument Shabash Bangladesh located at Rajshahi University (RU) symbolises the valour and vigour of the young freedom fighters who had sacrificed their lives to liberate their country in 1971. RU, second largest public...
COMILLA, Dec 15 (UNB): A farmer was killed and six people sustained bullet wounds as extortionists opened fire during extortion in Daudkandi upazila on Sunday evening. The deceased was identified as M Ishque Miah, 60, son of late Lal Miah...
KHULNA, Dec 15 (BSS): Construction of Gallyamari Martyrdom Complex and Bir Shrestha Ruhul Ameen Memorial are yet to be completed due to lack of fund allocation. Freedom Fighters and leaders of the civil society have expressed their deep concern over...
RANGPUR, Dec 15 (BSS): Mayor of Rangpur City Corporation (RCC) Alhaj Sarfuddin Ahmed Jhantu has said implementation of massive infrastructural development works is progressing to turn Rangpur into an eco-friendly modern city. Jhantu, also a valiant freedom fighter, said the...
GAIBANDHA, Dec 15 (BSS): An extensive Boro cultivation programme has been taken in all the seven upazilas of the district during the current season. Official sources said the Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE) has set a plan to bring 1,24,179...
NARAYANGANJ, Dec 15 (UNB): A female garment worker was strangulated to death allegedly by her husband in Bholail area of Fatullah upazila on Sunday morning. The deceased was identified as Shraboni, 22, daughter of Faruk Miah, hailed from Jaypurhat. Victim's...
JESSORE, Dec 15 (UNB): An alleged robber was killed in a lynch-mob attack at Nehalpur in Manirampur upazila early Monday. The deceased was identified as Touhidul Islam Touhid, 32, son of late Nazrul Islam of Masna village in the upazila....
BENAPOLE, Dec 15 (UNB): Miscreants looted valuables worth Tk 0.5 million from a house after doping five members of a family at Ganganandapur village in Jhikorgacha upazila Sunday. Relatives of the victims said unknown miscreants sprayed some kind of doping...
Current net factories sealed off, owners fined A mobile in Munshiganj court on Sunday sealed off two current net factories in Muktarpur BSCIC Industrial Town here and fined the owners for producing and marketing the contraband product. The court, in...
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