The Department of Health sealed off an illegally set up private hospital in Dhaka city and sentenced six of its employees, including three fake doctors, to various jail terms with fines on Saturday. Sources said a team of the Health...
The woman who was declared dead even though she was alive at the Dhaka Medical College Hospital, was a case of sheer negligence by a duty doctor, it has emerged in an investigation conducted by an Internet newspaper. During the...
Jatiya Party Chairman Hussein Muhammed Ershad has said that ‘conspiracy being hatched by BNP’ will not work as people have dumped the party. In an oblique reference to a reported meeting between some government officials and the BNP high-ups, Ershad...
A newlywed woman has succumbed to her burn injuries, allegedly caused by her husband, after fighting for life for several hours at Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH). The victim, Irene Akhter, 24, wife of Asaduzzaman Jhantu of Ispahani Road in...
The government of Bangladesh has decided to send 100 tonnes of drinking water and five desalination plants to the Maldives to address its safe water crisis caused by a fire at a water purifying plant in the Indian Ocean country....
The three-day Dhaka Apparel Summit began in the city on Sunday. The Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) is organising the 1st-ever summit titled ‘Bangladesh RMG 2021: $50 Billion on the 50th Anniversary of Bangladesh,’ at Bangabandhu International Conference...
Grade-VII student Sabiha Akter Sumi was about 20 minutes late to school for her final examinations on Saturday. She had set out in good time but was caught in the traffic like many others during Bhutan’s Prime Minister’s visit. It...
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The Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) witnessed positive trend while the Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) saw negative trend in early hours of trading on Sunday, the 1st session of the week. DSEX, the prime index of the DSE, went up by...
Noted actor Khalil Ullah Khan Khalil died of cardiac arrest at Square Hospital in the city on Sunday morning. He was 80. Khalil, a popular actor in television drama, theatre and cinema, breathed his last around 11:10am. Sources at the...
A teenage girl allegedly committed suicide in Alir village under Goainghat Upazila in Sylhet district on Saturday. The deceased was identified as Arina Begum, 16, daughter of Junab Ali, a resident of Alir village. Quoting family members, police said Arina,...
A Dhaka court on Sunday turned down detained ex-telecoms minister Latif Siddiqui’s bail petition. The court of Mohammad Asaduzzaman Noor, Metropolitan Magistrate, Dhaka, also rescheduled charge the framing for March 15 against the sacked minister in a case filed over...
Barely a decade ago, Gaibandha’s Abdul Gafur worked as a day labourer and lived from hand to mouth. But the commercial production of grass changed it all. Gafur became a millionaire in a matter of a few years. His success...
Standard Chartered Bank Bangladesh has been awarded the prestigious “Bank of the year” award at The Banker Awards 2014. The award was handed over to Abrar A Anwar, Head of Corporate & Institutional Clients of Standard Chartered Bangladesh at a...
BNP's senior leader Gayeshwar Chandra Roy has voiced the apprehension that party chief Khaleda Zia could be arrested at any time as per an ‘evil plan’ of the government. ‘The illegal government is making a blueprint and Deshnetri (BNP Chairperson)...
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The market ended lower for the second running session on Sunday amid choppy trading with turnover hitting below Tk 4.0 billion-mark once again as investors followed cautious stance. DSEX, the prime index of the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) ended at...
The BNP-led 20-party alliance on Sunday threatened to announce a non-stop nationwide protest programmes if gas and power tariffs are hiked as per the government’s move. ‘Non-stop programmes will be thrown from the day the prices of power and gas...
At least three college students were killed and 20 other people injured many of them critically, in a road accident in Paba Upazila in Rajshahi district on Sunday. The dead are Mahmuda Akter Tania, a 1st year student of Social...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has called upon all concerned to remain alert against local and international conspirators who are out to destroy highly potential readymade garment (RMG) sector of the country. ‘Bangladesh is the world's 2nd largest readymade garment exporting...
Bangladesh women’s team clinched the International Handball Federation (IHF) Trophy beating hosts Pakistan by 34-22 goals in the final at Faisalabad in Pakistan on Sunday. Bangladesh women’s team earlier confirmed their final berth beating Nepal 35-19 in the semifinal on...
A man was shot to death in a 'gun battle' between a gang of miscreants and police at Kushtia's Mirpur Upazila on Sunday morning. Enamul Haque, 35, was shot dead near Shahidul's Brick Field around 3:00am, said Mirpur Police OC...
Typhoon Hagupit is sweeping across the eastern Philippines, toppling trees and power lines and threatening coastal areas with a powerful sea-surge. More than half a million people have fled coastal villages in the area, which was still recovering from Typhoon...
NEW YORK: Police clashed with protesters in California on the fourth night of demonstrations across the United States against recent killings of African American suspects by white police in the United States. Protesters in Berkeley, California, threw bricks, rocks and...
Shakib Al Hasan has regained his position as the top allrounder of the game's shortest format Twenty20. Pakistan's Mohammad Hafiz's poor performance has catapulted Shakib to the top. Hafiz scored just 11 runs in the two-match T20 series against New...
Several improvised bombs have been exploded in front of the BNP's Naya Paltan headquarters minutes before a programme of its student front Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD). Police say at least four blasts took place on Sunday afternoon. Two groups of...
A light earthquake was felt at 05 hours 53 minutes and 46.11 seconds on Friday at the Seismic Centre of Bangladesh Meteorological Department (BMD) at Agargaon in the city. The location of the tremor was in Arunachal, India, a Met...
SYLHET, Dec 5: Robbers looted valuables worth Tk 3.0 million (30 lakh) from the house of a Saudi expatriate at Palpur village in Chhatak upazila of Sunamganj district early Thursday. Sources said a gang of robbers, numbering 10/12, swooped on...
BNP will hold an emergency press conference at the party chairperson's Gulshan office this (Saturday) morning. BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir will address the press meet to be held at 11am, BNP chairperson's media wing member Sayrul...
Two reputed organisations and 10 eminent personalities have been given the ‘Nawab Bahadur Nawab Ali Chowdhury National Award-14’ for their outstanding contributions in different fields. Dhaka University (DU) Vice Chancellor AAMS Arefin Siddique, Planning Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal, Editor of...
A suspected robber was killed in a 'gunfight' with Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) personnel at Kaukhali Upazila in Pirojpur district on Friday evening. The dead is Nazir Ahmed Sabuj, 40, allegedly the ringleader of a pirates’ gang. Deputy commanding officer...
The Bangladesh Government Press (BG Press) has been facing allegations of question paper leak but the authorities have not yet taken steps to plug possible loopholes. Although BG Press’s responsibility was proven in the question leak of a government recruitment...
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