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...
Local BNP leaders and workers have demanded the resignation of the party’s Narayanganj district unit president Advocate Taimur Alam Khandker for his weak leadership. At a meeting of BNP’s Fatulla thana unit at Panchabati BNP office, they censured him for...
Three people were killed and eight others injured in separate road crashes in Mirsharai Upazila of Chittagong and Savar Upazila of Dhaka on Friday afternoon. In Mirsharai, a collision between a covered van and a CNG-run auto-rickshaw at Sufia Road...
Jatiya Party Chairman Hussein Muhammad Ershad has claimed that BNP is facing a serious leadership crisis. He predicted that the party will go out of existence before the next national elections. ‘The national elections will be held after 4 years...
Five suspects have been arrested over the attempted heist at a Sonali Bank branch in Rajshahi city, police say. They were arrested in raids carried out in the city’s court area within hours of the Thursday night incident. The government-run...
Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) personnel recovered 40 powerful bombs in Patuakhali Sadar Upazila on Friday night. Tipped off, a Rab-8 team conducted a drive at Shiali Bazar around 10:30pm and recovered the unattended bombs from a shop, said Lt Commander...
Police arrested a local leader of Jamaat-e-Islami from Chandlai area in Chapainawabganj Sadar Upazila on Friday night. The arrested is Kamal Uddin, Majlish-e-Sura member of the district unit of Jamaat and also president of the district Workers Welfare Federation, and...
Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) personnel arrested a man in possession of four pistols at Milbazar at town on Friday afternoon. The arrested is Mokhlesur Rahman, a resident of Gopalganj district. Mizanur Rahman, assistant superintendent of police of Satkhira Rab-6, said...
Ferry services disrupted owing to dense fog on the Shimulia-Kawrakandi route of Padma River has resumed after a gap of around 9 hours on Friday. Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Corporation (BIWTC) Shimulia Ghat Manager (commerce) Sirajul Haq confirmed it, saying...
Bhutanese Prime Minister Tshering Tobgay arrived in Dhaka on Saturday morning on a 3-day visit. A special Druk Air flight carrying him landed at Hazrat Shahjalal (R) International Airport in the city’s Kurmitola at 9:00am. He was welcomed at the...
Key suspect in Burdwan blast case Shahnoor Alam, alleged to be the financial brain of outlawed outfit Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), was arrested on Friday night by the NIA with the help of central security agencies from Nalbari district of Assam....
An Imam of a mosque came under attack by some Musallis for making offensive remarks on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in a pre-Juma prayers sermon in Ullaparha Upazila in Sirajganj district on Friday. Police said a group of Musallis (devotee)...
A cotton factory was gutted by a fire in the English Market area of Rajbari town on Friday afternoon. The fire broke out at ‘Asha Enterprise’ around 1pm and it soon engulfed the whole factory, said factory owner Asadul Khan....
The 87th birthday of Thailand’s King Bhumibol Adulyadej has been celebrated in Bangladesh. Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader attended the function as the chief guest. Thai Ambassador to Bangladesh Madurapochana Ittarong organised the birthday celebration function at Radisson...
The 87th birthday of Thailand’s King Bhumibol Adulyadej has been celebrated in Bangladesh. Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader attended the function as the chief guest. Thai Ambassador to Bangladesh Madurapochana Ittarong organised the birthday celebration function at Radisson...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has greeted the countrymen on the ‘Free Democracy Day’ marking the fall of dictator HM Ershad's regime. In a message Sheikh Hasina promised to protect achievements of the protracted pro-democracy mass movement. She said since 1990...
A man was strangulated to death by unidentified miscreants in Charghat Upazila Rajshahi district on Friday. The dead is Mantu Sheikh, 45, son of Ajmat Ali, a resident of Bodarpara Fatepur village. Local people found his body hanging from a...
Customs Intelligence officials seized 3.8 kilograms (kg) of gold at Hazrat Shahjalal (R) International Airport on Saturday. They also arrested a man – Abhishek, hailing from Munshiganj district – in this connection. Sources the airport said Abhishek landed at the...
A senior al-Qaeda militant, accused of planning to bomb trains in New York and London, has been killed in Pakistan, the country's military says. Adnan el Shukrijumah was killed in a raid in north-western Pakistan, near the Afghan border, the...
An initiative has been taken to make replicas of terracotta, a key element of ancient culture of Bengal, available across the country. Oitijhya Anweshan (OA), a non-government organisation working on ancient history and culture, has taken the exceptional initiative in...
An Awami League (AL) leader was shot and injured by some miscreants in Lakshmipur Sadar Upazila on Saturday. The victim is Omar Faruk, 35, vice-president of Chandraganj Union unit of AL. After the incident angry protestors blocked Dhaka-Lakhsmipur highway at...
A case has been filed against 14, including 10 Biman employees, over 124-kilogram (kg) gold haul in Dhaka’s Hazrat Shahjalal (R) International Airport in 2013. Assistant Revenue Officer of Customs Intelligence Department Mustafa Kamal filed the case with Airport Police...
Trashing reports that there was a meeting between their party chief and government officials, BNP acting Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Saturday said it is Awami League, not BNP, which has the record of capturing power through plots....
US Assistant Secretary of State for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs Ambassador William R Brownfield arrives in Dhaka this (Saturday) evening on a 3-day visit. Ambassador Brownfield will meet government officials to discuss US support for policing, border security,...
Sacked telecoms minister Abdul Latif Siddiqui, facing charges of hurting religious sentiments, has fallen ill in prison. He was taken to Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) in Shahbagh from Dhaka Central Jail in the city’s old part around 5:00am...
A day-long butterfly fair has been held on the Jahangirnagar University (JU) campus in Savar amid great festivity. Securing the slogan ‘Urle Akashe Projapoti, Prokriti Pay Notun Goti’ JU Zoology Department in collaboration with ‘Prokriti O Jiban’ foundation organised the...
The disbursement process of Rana Plaza Trust Fund to compensate the victims of last year’s multi-storey building collapse in Savar will start by this (December, 2014) month. The 9-storey Rana Plaza which housed five readymade garment factories when it collapsed...
Dr Akbar Ali Khan, former caretaker government adviser and also an ex-Cabinet secretary, has alleged that the country’s police administration is now working under full political control. He also cautioned that the situation will deteriorate further if necessary steps are...
Bangladesh and Bhutan on Saturday signed two agreements, including one on trade that will allow the two neighbouring countries to enjoy duty-free export of 90 items to each other. Another agreement is on allocation of a land at Dhaka city’s...
ADEN: American journalist Luke Somers and a South African hostage were killed Saturday during a failed attempt by US special forces to free them from Al-Qaeda militants in Yemen. President Barack Obama condemned the “barbaric murder” of Somers, saying he...
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