Junior School Certificate (JSC) and Junior Dakhil Certificate (JDC) examinations-2014 began across the country on Friday morning. The JSC and JDC examinations were supposed to begin on November 2 but the authorities have rescheduled the examinations, which will commence from...
President Abdul Hamid left Dhaka for China on Thursday night to attend the 2014 APEC CEO Summit slated for November 9-10 in Beijing. The President departed for Beijing at 11:55 pm on a regular flight of Singapore Airlines. He will...
The Jamaat-e-Islami’s 2nd spell of 48-hour non-stop nationwide hartal ended at 6:00am on Friday amid poor response. Jamaat called the 2-day shutdown that began at 6:00am on Wednesday to protest the death sentences awarded to its two leaders for war...
Some miscreants killed a retired assistant secretary in Gopalganj Sadar Upazila on Thursday. The dead is MA Sabur, 70, a former assistant secretary of the Home Ministry. Police and local sources said some local hoodlums of Charpathalia went to Sabur’s...
Two persons were killed and three others injured when a truck collided head-on with a CNG-run auto-rickshaw in Katabaria area under Shajahanpur Upazila in Bogra district on Thursday evening. Police and locals said a Bogra bound truck from Dhaka collided...
At least 20 houses were gutted when a fire that broke out at a labour colony in Gazipur city corporation area on Thursday afternoon. The fire broke out at a tinshed house and flare up within a moment, said Shaheen...
Some miscreants injured a Sub-Inspector (SI) of Detective Branch (DB) of police in Comilla city on Thursday afternoon and snatched away a pistol from him. DB police source said a gang of 7/8 miscreants riding in two motorcycles swooped SI...
Police arrested 21 Jamaat-Shibir men in Khulna city and different other parts of the district on charge of destructive activities during hartal on Thursday. Of them, Khulna Metropolitan Police (KMP) picked up two Jamaat-e-Islami activists. They are acting Ameer of...
There is no alternative to ensuring quality education at all levels and the students must know and have deep knowledge about the 1971 Liberation War for their proper growth in line with the pro-liberation spirit. Member of the Parliament (MP)...
Leader of the Opposition in Parliament Raushan Ershad has urged parties and different other organisations to bastain from calling programmes that may disrupt activities in educational institutions and increase the risk of violence during the ongoing two important examinations. Instead,...
Police have arrested the alleged girlfriend of a man who is suspected to have murdered his wife and son at Mirpur's Paikparha in the city. The man, Amanullah Aman, 35, was also arrested on Wednesday after his wife Irin Aktar...
The admission form for the Masters of Philosophy (M. Phil) programme under 2014-2015 session of Dhaka University (DU) will be available at the concerned office of the university from November 16. In a release issued on Thursday, the DU authority...
BNP Senior Vice Chairman Tarique Rahman has again criticised Bangladesh’s founder Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. Addressing a discussion in London on Wednesday, Tarique claimed that a sedition case should be filed against Sheikh Mujibur Rahman for being the President of...
Bangladesh's largest private mobile operator Grameenphone (GP) is planning new services to increase its Internet users to 50 million within five years. It is working on special programmes to supply 3G-enabled mobile handsets and various mobile applications and contents to...
Bangladesh threw a target of 314 to Zimbabwe as the Tigers managed to score 248 for 9 wickets in their 2nd innings in the 2nd Test in Khulna on Friday afternoon. In the morning, Bangladesh, resuming on their overnight score...
The several rounds of nationwide hartal (shutdown), enforced by Jamaat-e-Islami protesting recent verdicts against party top leaders has hurt the country’s economy. Shops, garments, and transports sectors have been badly hit. Since the hartals are usually marked by violence, ordinary...
A man was killed and 8 other people were injured as two rival groups clashed for land at Paroil village under Gobindaganj Upazila in Gaibandha on Thursday. The dead is Majibor Rahman of the village. Police said Azgar Ali and...
The deep depression over West Central Bay and adjoining East Central Bay moved slightly Northwestwards over the same area and was centered at 9:00am on Friday about 1045 kilometres (km) Southwest of Chittagong Port, 915-km Southwest of Cox's Bazar port,...
Health Minister Mohammed Nasim has urged Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) not to make ‘sweeping allegations’ against any sector of Bangladesh. ‘If you have specific allegations, I’ll look into it,’ Nasim said while responding to a question on the graft watchdog’s...
Police in an overnight drive arrested 13 activists of Islami Chhatra Shibir, the student wing of Jamaat-e-Islami, including its district unit president (North), and a leader of the Islamic party’s another affiliated organisation from different parts of the district early...
Two garment workers died killed in separate road accidents on Friday morning in Gazipur district. The deads are Rezaul Haq, 40, from Jhenidah district, and Sohel Rana, 24, from Sherpur district, Naojor highway police outpost Sub-Inspector Md Mizanur Rahman said...
Bangladesh won the 3-match Test series against Zimbawe 2-0 beating them by 162 runs in the 2nd match in Khulna on Friday afternoon. Taijul Islam trapped Tendai Chatara leg-before to bring the hosts a much-awaited Test series win, first after...
Two United Nations human rights experts on Friday urged the government not to execute the condemned Jamaat-e-Islami leader Muhammad Kamaruzzaman who was awarded capital punishment for 1971 war crimes on Monday. UN special rapporteurs on summary executions, Christof Heyns, and...
A global trade deal between India, the United States and the European Union is close to being signed, with India agreeing to sign the stalled international treaty on easier customs rules, India’s one of the largest circulated English newspaper has...
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) observed National Revolution and Solidarity Day through various programmes on Friday. The day was observed marking the civil-military ‘uprising’ in 1975. On this day in 1975, amid political turmoil soldiers and civilians jointly freed then...
Robbers looted valuables from the house of a local influential man at Gopaltila in Tilagarh in Sylhet city on Thursday. Local sources said a gang of robbers swooped on the house of Dipak Roy, convener of Shahparan thana unit Jatiyatabadi...
Bangladesh’s all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan rewrote the history books as he became the 3rd cricketer after Imran Khan (1983) and Ian Botham (1980) to score a century and claim 10 wickets in a Test match. Shakib scored 137 runs for...
Silk Road 2.0 and 400 other sites believed to be selling illegal items including drugs and weapons have been shut down. The sites operated on the Tor network - a part of the internet unreachable via traditional search engines, according...
China and Japan have agreed to try to reduce tensions over a disputed chain of islands in the East China Sea. Beijing officials said a crisis management mechanism had been set up to prevent the situation from worsening. The strategically...
A fire at a factory inside Dhaka Central Jail in capital Dhaka’s Bakshibazar has burned blankets worth a few crore takas. Fire Service Control Room officer Mohammad Ali said the fire broke out at privately owned ‘Kajal Wollen Mills Limited’...
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