Mystery shrouds the contents of slain Rajshahi University (RU) teacher AKM Shafiul Islam’s mobile phone. His colleagues say the sociology teacher was still holding onto the phone when they rescued him after he was attacked. Political science teacher SM Ekram...
US stocks rose in afternoon trading on Tuesday, lifting the S&P 500 to a record high as healthcare shares extended gains. Actavis Plc, Gilead, Celgene and other biotech names were among the S&P 500's biggest drivers, a day after Allergan...
Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) personnel arrested an alleged drug trder in Faridpur Railway Station area on Tuesday. RAB-8 sources said, a RAB-8 team, led by Company Commander Md Mojammel Hossain, raided Lakshmipur Railway area near Faridpur Railway Station and arrested...
Police arrested three alleged terrorists from in front of Karonation Government Primary School in Bogra town on Tuesday night. Police also recovered 1 foreign-made pistol, 2 magazines and 2 rounds of bullet from arrestees - Imranur Saki, son of Ramzan...
Police arrested an alleged drug peddler along with 250 bottles of Phensidyl at Parnaduali village in Magura town on Tuesday. The arrested was identified as Arzina Begum, 30. Jahangir Alam, officer-in-charge of Sadar Police Station, said a police team raided...
The Malaysia-bound trawler detained by Navy warship BNS Durjoy in Bay of Bengal with 625 passengers on board was brought to Chittagong on Tuesday evening. It anchored at Bangladesh Navy’s Ready Response Berth jetty in Patenga near Chittagong sea port...
Bangladesh Navy on Wednesday filed 2 cases with Chittagong’s Patenga Police Station over the seizure of a Myanmar-flagged trawler, which was illegally trafficking 625 people to Malaysia on Monday. Lt Commander Mahbubur Rahman filed the cases against 96 people, said...
A local court in Bogra on Tuesday placed a leader and two activists of Islami Chhatra Shibir, the student wing of Jamaat-e-Islami, including its Azizul Haque College unit president, on a one-day remand in connection with a case filed under...
Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) Commissioner M Shahabuddin has been admitted to in Singapore hospital with heart complications. ‘The Commissioner has long been suffering from heart disease. He is set to undergo surgery on Thursday at the hospital,’ ACC Public Relations...
A mobile court in Khulna sentenced a schoolteacher to three months' imprisonment for sexually harassing a female student in Khulna city on Tuesday. The teacher was identified as SM Nazrul Islam, 43, librarian of Udayan District Police School. Executive magistrate...
Members of the Detective Branch (DB) of police arrested five people, including a deputy general manager of Biman Bangladesh Airlines, from different areas of Dhaka city on Tuesday night and early Wednesday. They were detained for their alleged involvement in...
Describing PM’s Adviser HT Imam as the chief Imam of the ruling party, BNP on Tuesday claimed that the Election Commission had arranged farcical polls on January-5 as per his blueprint. ’We’d said about irregularities in an election under a...
An old woman was burnt to death in a fire that erupted in Sandwip Upazila in Chittagong district on Tuesday. The deceased was identified as Chhaya Rani Shil, a resident of Khantarhat area of the Upazila. Locals said the fire...
Police in an overnight drive on Tuesday arrested 98 people on various charges from five Upazilas of Chapainawabganj district. Al Mamun, additional superintendent of police, said separate teams of police carried out drives in five Upazilas of the district at...
A suspected burglar was killed in a lynch-mob attack while fleeing after stealing goods from a house in Boro Koibarto Khali village in Rajapur Upazila of Jhalakati district on Wednesday. The deceased was identified as Monir Hossain, 32, son of...
The Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected review petitions filed by two death row prisoners convicted of killing Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal (JSD) leader Kazi Aref Ahmed. Anwar Hossain and Rashedul Islam Jhontu were sentenced death for killing Kazi Aref Ahmed 15...
A bumper production of sugarcane is expected at the 8 sub-zones of Rangpur Sugar Mills Limited (RSML) as the sugarcane saplings have grown well in the fields. Around 5,000 farmers of the sub-zones have cultivated sugarcane on 5,370 acres of...
The Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) have handed the visiting NIA team a list of 51 miscreants, including 10 militants, who have purportedly been holed up in India. On its part the National Investigation Agency (NIA) delegation has handed the RAB...
In our country, education is fast becoming a costly affair over the years which the middle class cannot afford. English medium schools are charging exorbitant tuition fees from their students and Bangla medium schools are also no exception. Education has...
It is a piece of good news for us that the US and Chinese Presidents have agreed to curtail greenhouse gas emission. The two countries produce 44 per cent of greenhouse gases of the world and it is quite alarming....
Shamsul Alam | 2014-11-18 00:00:00
Research is a methodological search for finding solutions to problems mankind faces in order to improve the quality of living standards. Research helps reduce knowledge gaps by creating new knowledge and translating knowledge into action. All innovations are outcome of...
Abdur Rahman Chowdhury from Virginia, USA | 2014-11-18 00:00:00
The US mid-term election held on November 04 was marked by poor turnout of voters. Around 33 per cent voters cast their ballots while 67 per cent decided not to exercise their right of franchise. On the election day, unlike...
Prime Minister’s (PM) Adviser HT Imam claimed Monday that his speech was represented ‘fragmentarily’ by a section of the media spreading a wrong message that he had assured Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) leaders of jobs in the civil service and...
Our Correspondent | 2014-11-18 00:00:00
MAGURA, Nov 17: Awami League (AL) leader advocate Mahabubul Akber Kallal came under attack Sunday night while chamber of another AL leader Shakharul Islam Shakil was set ablaze. Locals informed that advocate Mahabubul Akber Kallal, science and technology secretary of...
Denouncing a court summon against its senior vice chairman Tarique Rahman in a defamatory case, BNP on Monday claimed the move is a deep-rooted conspiracy by the government against him, reports UNB. In a statement, BNP spokesman Mirza Fakhrul Islam...
A Tk one billion defamation case was filed in a Dhaka court on Monday against BNP senior vice chairman Tarique Rahman for his “disparaging remarks” on Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, reports UNB. Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Md Rezaul Karim took cognisance...
NAOGAON, Nov 17 (UNB) : A local Swechchhasebak League (SL) leader and his younger brother were hacked to death by unidentified miscreants at Durgapur in Sadar Upazila early Monday. The deceased was identified as Ohidur Islam, 42, vice-president of Sadar...
The Parliamentary Standing Committee on the Chittagong Hill Tracts Affairs Ministry placed in Parliament Monday its report on the three separate bills 2014 (amendment) for three districts of the Chittagong Hill Tracts Zila parisad with a unanimous recommendation for passage...
The International Crimes Tribunal-1 set on Monday November 25 for the prosecution case summing-up arguments on 1971 war crimes facing by fugitive accused Engineer A Jabbar of Mathbaria, Pirojpur, reports UNB. Responding to a time plea, the three-member tribunal, headed...
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