Police rescued a cattle trader from a house at Benapole union at Sharsha Upazila in Jessore on Friday, 8 hours of his abduction. Two kidnappers were also arrested. They are: Sakkarul, 33, son of Khorshed Ali of Goyra village, and...
A charge-sheeted accused in an arson case was arrested from Temukhi under Moglabazar Police Station of Sylhet district on Friday night. The arrested is Nazrul Islam Turan, 30, son of Abdus Salam, a resident of Silam Tikarpara village in South...
At least 50 people, including women and children, were injured in a clash between 2 warring influential clans over establishing dominance at Charkoijhuri village in Shahjadpur Upazila in Sirajganj district on Friday. Quoting locals, police said the 2 powerful clans...
Police arrested eight activists of Islami Chhatra Shibir, including its Azizul Haque College unit president, from Satmatha of Bogra town on Saturday morning. The arrestees are: Shamiul Islam, President of Azizul Haque College unit of Shibir and its activists Mushfiqur...
An alleged drug trader, a female one, was arrested at Chanchra Raypara at Benapole Union under Sharsha Upazila in Jessore on Friday night. Police claimed that they recovered 200 Yaba tablets from her. The arrestee was identified as Zobeda Khatun,...
A brilliant century by Maminul Haque helped Bangladesh reach 234 for the loss of 3 wickets on the 4th day of the 3rd and final cricket Test against Zimbabwe in Chittagong on Saturday afternoon. Bangladesh are leading by 363 runs...
Dhaka will push Kuala Lumpur (KL) for expediting manpower recruitment from Bangladesh and discussing the ways to further strengthen trade and investment between the two friendly countries during Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's upcoming Malaysia visit, said Bangladesh envoy in KL....
A dozen dwelling houses were gutted in a fire on Friday in Balargati village under Tungipara Upazila in Gopalganj district. Fire Service and Civil Defence Officer of Tungipara Fire Station Nurul Alam Raziv said an electric short-circuit of one Poritosh...
A man was burnt to death in a fire that erupted in a hotel at Upashohor in Dinajpur town on Saturday. The dead is Abdul Haque, an employee of the 'Hotel Sultan' at Upashohor and son of Abdul Khalek of...
Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) personnel seized Indian contraband items worth Tk 3.35 million (Tk 3352,000) from Amrakhali village at Benapole in Jessore on Saturday morning. Being tipped off, a BGB patrol team raided Amrakhali border point at Benapole union under...
The 'Young Bangla' initiative has been launched to utilise the power of youth to make Bangladesh a prosperous nation. Representatives of about 250 youth organisations across the country joined the launch of the platform on Saturday. It was inaugurated by...
Bangladesh set a target of 449 runs for Zimbabwe to win the 3rd and final cricket Test in Chittagong on Saturday, the 4th day of the 5-day match. Bangladesh declared their 2nd innings at 319 for 5, taking a lead...
The BNP has come down hard on prime minister’s son Sajeeb Wazed Joy for his comments over its founder Ziaur Rahman. ‘Joy is the new leader of the new generation. He’s young. What can I say about him? I won’t...
Marico Bangladesh Limited (MBL) announced the appointment of two new Independent Directors-- Rokia Afzal Rahman, the President of the Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Dhaka (MCCI) and Masud Khan--Director, Finance, Lafarge Surma Cement Limited to the Company's Board of...
Björn Rosengren, President & Chief Executive Officer of Wärtsilä Corporation, will arrive in Dhaka on Monday on a two-day visit. Wärtsilä’s Chief Financial Officer, Mr Marco Wiren, and President of Power Plants and Executive Vice President, Mr Rakesh Sarin also...
Rajshahi University (RU) teacher AKM Shafiul Islam was murdered near the campus on Saturday. Witnesses say a group of youths assaulted the sociology teacher with sharp weapons in front of Bihashpalli when he was returning home around 3:00pm. He sustained...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday asked the members of Jubo League (JL) not to get involved in any such activities that will bring ‘bad name’ for the organisation. ‘You’ve to look after one thing that no one should do...
US President Barack Obama says Asia’s security must not be based on intimidation, where big nations bully small ones. Obama told students in Australia’s Brisbane where he is attending the G20 summit, that security in the region must depend on...
BRISBANE: Russian President Vladimir Putin is to walk out of a G20 summit in Australia, an aide said Saturday, after he faced scorn and scepticism from Western leaders over Ukraine despite venturing to paper over Europe's deepest chill in relations...
Amra Sylhetbasi, a local social organisation, on Saturday called a day-long hartal in Sylhet district for Monday protesting the implication of the name of Sylhet City Corporation mayor Ariful Haque Chowdhury in the supplementary charge-sheet in the former Finance Minister...
ISLAMABAD, Nov 15 (AFP): Pakistan and Afghanistan pledged to begin a new era of economic cooperation Saturday, with Afghan President Ashraf Ghani saying three days of talks had ended 13 years of differences. Ghani and Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif...
BRISBANE: Feuding G20 leaders found common ground Saturday in vowing to “extinguish” the Ebola outbreak as they worked to revamp the global economy at a summit marked by discord over Ukraine and climate change. Along with the crisis between Ukraine...
Health activists on Saturday raised concern over the use of toxic mercury in dentistry. They came up with the demand at a press meet, jointly organised by World Alliance for Mercury Free Dentistry and Asian Centre for Environmental Health with...
Over 100 students continued their indefinite hunger strike at the Central Shaheed Minar for the fourth day on Saturday demanding that the Dhaka University (DU) authorities withdraw its decision not to allow them to sit for its admission test twice,...
State Minister for Home Affairs Asaduzzaman Khan on Saturday said the countrywide crackdown against the foreigners staying in the country illegally will continue, according to a news agency.
JAKARTA: A powerful 7.3-magnitude earthquake rocked the Maluku Islands in eastern Indonesia Saturday, sparking a tsunami warning for areas up to 300 kilometres (185 miles) away. The undersea quake struck at a depth of 46 kilometres (28 miles) at 10:31...
Tablets linked to the deaths of more than a dozen women who visited a sterilisation camp in Chhattisgarh are likely to have contained a chemical compound commonly used in rat poison, two senior state officials said Saturday. Preliminary tests of...
An organisation of Rajshahi University (RU) teachers has announced to boycott classes and examinations protesting the killing of a colleague. The announcement was made Saturday hours after miscreants hacked to death sociology teacher AKM Shafiul Islam near the campus. Rajshahi...
Awami League Advisory Council member and Industries Minister Amir Hossain Amu said in Barguna on Saturday that Bangladesh would emerge as a developed nation in the community of nations under capable and farsighted leadership of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina by...
The Forest Department has rescued a rock python and a palm civet, classed as endangered species, from Rangpur and Chapainawabganj districts respectively. The ‘rock python’ was spotted and confined by an employee of a dairy firm in Honumantola area of...
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