Chairperson of the Brac and Board of Trustees of Brac University Sir Fazle Hasan Abed met President Abdul Hamid at Bangabhaban on Monday. During the meeting, Abed handed over an invitation letter to the President requesting him to attend the...
All scheduled classes and examinations of Rajshahi University (RU) remained suspended for the 3rd consecutive day on Tuesday as the teachers have been boycotting classes demanding immediate arrest of the killers of Dr AKM Shafiul Islam, a professor of the...
A moderate earthquake measuring 5.5 on the Richter scale have jolted the southeast region of the country. The quake was felt in the southeast region around 537 kilometres (km) away from the Bangladesh Metrological Department Seismic Centre at Agargaon in...
The High Court on Monday fixed November 23 for order on the plea for revoking the evidence before the trial court provided by prosecution witness (PW) Joj Mia in the August 21 grenade blast case a decade ago. After hearing...
The seasonal lean period of ‘monga’ passed off from Rangpur region without any bite for the 6th consecutive time this year following a big change in the overall socioeconomic condition of the common people. The poor led normal life this...
The government will launch campaign soon throughout the country against piracy, said Information Minister Hasanul Huq Inu. He said the anti-piracy campaign sould be launched to ensure revival of the film industry. He said to protect the film industry piracy...
The 4th session of the 10th Jatiya Sangsad (Parliament) resumes on Tuesday afternoon. The House will resume its sitting at 4:00pm with Speaker Dr Shirin Sharmin Chowdhury in the chair. The sitting will start with recitation from the Holy Quran,...
Bangladesh Navy personnel on Tuesday brought back to Cox’s Bazar the Myanmar-flagged trawler (engine-propelled boat), detained in Bangladesh’s territorial waters while heading towards Malaysia with over 600 people on board. Bangladesh Navy ship BNS Durjoy forced the overloaded trawler to...
A six-member committee has been formed to provide assistance to the visiting National Investigation Agency (NIA) team over sharing information about the October 2 bomb blast in Burdwan town in India’s West Bengal state. Home Ministry senior secretary Dr Mozammel...
Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) has urged the government to propose inclusion of anti-corruption as a distinct goal in South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (Saarc) agenda. The call came in a letter written to the Bangladesh Prime Minister by the...
A man was killed in a room of a boarding (residential hotel) in Manikganj Sadar Upazila on Monday. The dead is Rakibul Islam Rakib, son of Niamat Ali, a resident of Char Ruppur village of Easwardi Upazila of Pabna district....
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The Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and the Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) saw positive trend in early hours of trading on Tuesday, the third trading session of the week. DSEX, the prime index of the DSE, went up by 9.06 points...
The engine-driven boats in Bay of Bengal near the coasts of Teknaf Upazila and St Martin island are seen as life-changers. Those desperate to cross over to Malaysia through the sea reach for these motor-propelled boats in ever greater numbers,...
Asian markets headed higher on hopes of more stimulus in Europe after closing down on Monday on news of a recession in Japan. Japan's Nikkei 225 was up 1.8% to 17,271.53, following Monday's fall - the biggest one day drop...
Police recovered the body of a hotel manager from 'Hotel Greenbag' in Vatarkhal in Barisal city on Tuesday morning. The dead is Mizanur Rahman, 55, of Patharhat area of Mehendiganj Upazila of the district. Being informed, police rushed to the...
A Chittagong court on Monday sentenced two people to life term imprisonment for killing a businessman in 2006. The convicts are Jahir Uddin, son of Atar Ali, and Zia Uddin, son of Ruhul Amin, both residents of Korerhat area in...
The S&P 500 edged up to close at a record on Monday as deal activity worth $100 billion offset concerns about overseas growth after Japan's economy slipped into recession. The Dow Jones industrial average rose 12.62 points, or 0.07 per...
Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) personnel recovered one pistol, four magazines and 10 rounds of bullet in Shibganj Upazila in Chapainawabganj district on Monday afternoon. Major Sheikh Mizanur Rahman, additional director of Chapainawabganj BGB Battalion-9, said being ingormed, a BGB team,...
Bangladesh House Building Finance Corporation (BHBFC) is extending its home loan coverage to rural areas aimed at developing planned and modern housing in villages while protecting cropland from indiscriminate use. The state-owned house financing organisation will offer cheaper loan for...
Customs Intelligence officials seized 250 cartons of foreign-made cigarettes at Hazrat Shahjalal (R) International Airport in the city on Tuesday. The cigarettes of Esse Special Gold brand, made in South Korea, were being smuggled into the country through the airport,...
The Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE) has set a target of producing 5,258 tonnes of wheat in Joypurhat district during the current Rabi season. The DAE sources said, a total of 1,724 hectares of land to be brought under wheat...
Bangladesh was among 13 countries at high risk of being hit by terrorism, said the Institute for Economics and Peace. The Global Terrorism Index released along with its annual report shows Bangladesh scoring 5.25 for year 2013, that places it...
Three Bangladeshi teenagers including a girl returned home through Putkhali border on Monday after serving 1 year in an Indian jail. Border Security Force (BSF) men handed them over to the Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) personnel at night. They hail...
Police in separate drives arrested 112 fugitives, accused in various cases, from 11 Upazilas of Bogra district on Monday night. Sources at Bogra district police media centre said separate teams of police carried out drives in 11 Upazilas early in...
Father of Felani, who was shot dead by Border Security Force (BSF) personnel while crossing the barbed-wire fence on India-Bangladesh border in Kurigram district on January 7, 2011, returned from India through Burimari Land Port in Lalmonirhat district early Tuesday....
Nazeem A Choudhury, Head of Consumer Banking, Eastern Bank Ltd. (EBL) and Pradip Kar Chowdhury, Executive Director, Finance and Planning of ACI Limited recently signed a Payroll Banking Agreement at ACI Head Office in Dhaka. EBL Deputy Managing Director Hasan...
Officials of Narcotics Control Department recovered 1.5 kg hemp in Adamdighi Upazila in Bogra district on Monday. The arrested is Abdul Alaol, 28, son of Matiur Rahman of Hakroail village of Nachole Upazila of Chapainawabganj district. Narcotics Control Department officials...
Police arrested two alleged robbers in possession of four crude bombs and six sharp weapons at Arabpur in Jessore town on Tuesday. The arrested are Arif Hossain, 32, son of late Mofayel Hossain of Shashthitala PTI Road of the town,...
The sitting of the Jatiya Sangsad (JS) resumed at 4:09pm on Tuesday with Speaker Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury in the chair. The 4th session of the 10th Jatiya Sangsad resumed last week after more than about month of holidays, including...
Some miscreants tortured to death a fish trader and dumped the body in Jhaudia village in Jessore Sadar Upazila at sometime between Monday night and early Tuesday. The dead is Shahidul Islam, 42, son of Abul Hossain, a resident of...
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