The government has appointed new administrators for the North and South Dhaka City Corporations (DCC) with the terms of current appointees nearing an end. Jute Department's Director Rakhal Chandra Barman will be in-charge of DCC North, while Md Showkat Mostofa,...
Joint secretary AKM Jahangir, an officer on special duty (OSD), was sent on forced retirement with an immediate effect Thursday, apparently for joining a meeting between BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia and some retired and current government officials. A gazette notification...
Ferry services on Shemulia-Kewrakandi route in Padma River has resumed after 14-and-half-hour of disruption caused by dense fog. Habibul Islam, senior terminal superintendent of Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Corporation (BIWTC) at Kewrakandi Ferry Ghat (terminal), said river communication on the...
Operation of flights of several international airlines, which were scheduled to land or take off from the country's main airports, faced an unusual delay at Hazrat Shahjalal (R) International Airport in Dhaka on Thursday and early Friday due to dense...
Vast swathes of Bangladesh will possibly continue to experience cold and dense fog for at least four more days, the Met Office has forecast. Meteorologists say thick fog was causing biting cold in parts of the country. Bangladesh recorded Thursday’s...
A daylong international seminar on ‘Climate Change and Role of Aquaculture on Food Security’ was held at Noakhali Science and Technology University (NSTU) on Thursday. Education Secretary Nazrul Islam Khan attended the seminar as the chief guest with acting Vice-Chancellor...
The government and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) have inked a US $40 million loan agreement that will provide financial services and technical training to 452,000 rural men and women in rural areas across Bangladesh. The project –...
The government has elevated 124 police sub-inspectors (SI) to make them inspectors. A media statement from the Police Headquarters in Dhaka on Thursday announced the promotions. It said 106 unarmed and 18 armed SIs have been transferred to different districts...
The European Union has lauded Bangladesh’s progress in willfully moving from aid to trade. ‘Bangladesh proudly stands on its own 2 feet,’ its head of delegation in Dhaka Pierre Mayaudon has said while addressing a programme in Dhaka. ‘This is...
A man was beaten to death allegedly by his two younger brothers centring a land-related dispute at Baralekha Upazila in Moulibazar district on Thursday. The deceased was identified as Alauddin, 60, of West Shankarpur village. Police arrested his two brothers...
Austria has hoped that its relationship with Bangladesh will strengthen in the days to come. Austria’s President Dr Heinz Fischer said both Dhaka and Vienna will work together for further bolstering the ties. Fischer said this when first resident Ambassador...
The US House of Representatives has passed a $ 1.1 trillion (tn) budget hours before government was due to shut down at midnight on Thursday. The Republican measure was passed by 219 votes to 206 after President Barack Obama had...
Police arrested two people, including alleged killer of a local Awami League (AL) leader, from Sheikhhati in Upashohor of Jessore town on Thursday night. The arrested are Manjur Hossain, an activist of local unit Jubo League, and his associate Kazi...
Two people, including a woman, were killed and another was injured in separate road crashes in Jessore Sadar Upazila on Thursday night. Police said a man was killed and another injured when a bus crashed into a human hauler on...
Asian stocks rose after US data on retail sales and unemployment claims boosted optimism in the world’s largest economy. Japanese shares fluctuated ahead of the weekend’s election. The MSCI Asia Pacific Index (MXAP) advanced 0.1 per cent to 136.89 as...
Robbers swooped on a group of tourists and looted a large amount of money and other valuable items from them in Kamalganj Upazila in Moulvibazar district on Thursday. Three tourists were injured as the miscreants beat them with the butt...
State Minister for Science and Technology Architect Yeafesh Osman has said that Russia is cooperating with Bangladesh as they did during Bangladesh’s War of Liberation in 1971. He mentioned that Russia is cooperating in power sector too what they had...
Environment and Forest Minister Anwar Hossain has called upon the global community, particularly the developed countries, to take the lead in enabling the most climate vulnerable countries like Bangladesh to carry forward the activities on adaptation and mitigation. The minister...
A Jatiya Sangsad (JS) panel has recommended engaging the army in constructing a number of government buildings in Dhaka city. That has fuelled criticism that Bangladesh’s armed forces were turning ‘corporate’. A big difference of amounts quoted money by two...
The authorities have backpedalled on its decision to use chemicals to contain the oil that has spread over 34,000 hectares of area in Shela River in Sundrabans East Zone endangering ecology of the world’s largest mangrove forest. Now they have...
Oil spill from sunken tanker ‘OT Southern Star 7’ in Sundarbans has affected 7 young crocodiles at Karamjal Wildlife Reproduction Centre. Environmental experts and forest officials had feared negative effects after the oil tanker carrying over 350,000 litres of furnace...
At least three people, including a university student, were killed and 10 others injured when a truck rammed a human hauler in Chougaccha Upazila in Jessore district on Friday. The deceased were identified as Abu Hanif, 26, a student of...
Four people were injured when a train slammed into a human hauler at a level crossing in Kaliakoir Upazila in Gazipur district on Friday. The identities of the victims could not be known. Police said the Khulna-bound ‘Sundarban Express’ train...
A man was killed in a road accident in Motijheel area in Dhaka city on Friday. The deceased was identified as Akbar Ali, 35, son of Mansur Ali. He was a driver of a vehicle owned by a cosmetics manufacturing...
Movement of ferries in Shimulia-Kewrakandi route in Padma River resumed on Friday morning after 9-hour’s of suspension due to dense fog in the important waterways since Thursday night. Shekhar Chandra Roy, assistant manager of Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Corporation (BIWTC)...
Some miscreants strangulated to death a woman and dumped her body in a secluded place in Khilkhet in Dhaka at sometimes between Thursday night and early Friday. The victim could not be identified. Locals found the body, aged around 23,...
An accident involving two tractors and a bus on Bangabandhu (Jamuna) Bridge early Friday led to tailbacks on both ends of Jamuna River. Locals and affected passengers said the situation normalised around 12noon. The driver of one of the tractors...
Experts have warned that a massive oil spill triggered by Tuesday’s oil tanker capsize in Shela River in Chandpai Range have seriously threaten the Irrawaddy dolphins in the Sundarbans. The mangrove delta is home of this increasingly endangered species that...
Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) personnel rescued 19 Bangladesh nationals while they were being trafficked to India through Satkhira’s Gazipur frontier on Friday. The rescued people hail from different upazilas of Sunamganj, Gazipur, Mymensingh and Thakungoan districts. Tipped off, a BGB...
A demonstration was staged in the city's Topkhana Road on Friday protesting the authorities’ decision to allow merchant ships and cargo vessels pass through different rivers and channels of the Sundarbans. The National Committee for the Protection of the Sundarbans...
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