Claiming that he has been charged with sedition for revealing historical facts, BNP senior vice chairman Tarique Rahman has said a sedition case should be filed against Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman for being the president of Bangladesh after returning home...
Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested a condemned convict of Ramna Batamul blast case from Keraniganj Upazila early Thursday, reports UNB. The arrestee was identified as Abu Bakar alias Hafez Selim Hawladar, 35, one of eight condemned convicts of...
Pro-Awami League (AL) teachers' platform known as Blue Panel swept the dean elections of Dhaka University (DU) Thursday, reports UNB. The Blue Panel bagged eight posts while the BNP-Jamaat-backed White Panel two only. Election Commissioner and DU treasurer Kamal Uddin...
BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia will address her party's scheduled rally at Suhrawardy Udyan in the city tomorrow (Saturday), reports UNB. BNP will arrange the rally at 2.00 pm to mark the civil-military 'uprising' that led to the release of then...
COMILLA, Nov 6 (UNB): A local leader of Jatiyatabadi Sramik Dal, the lobour wing of BNP, was found dead at Boalmari village in Daudkandi Upazila Thursday morning. The deceased was identified as Mokhlesur Rahman,45, president of Boalmari union unit Sramik...
CHITTAGONG, Nov 6 (BSS): Police in separate drives arrested five activists of Jamaat-Shibir from different areas of Lohagara Upazila last night. Abu Bakar, sub-inspector (SI) of Lohagara thana, said police arrested five activists of Jamaat-Shibir from different areas of Lohagara...
SIRAJGANJ, Nov 6 (UNB): A court here placed Thursday five suspected members of banned Islamic outfit Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), including its chief coordinator, on remand for three days in two cases. Senior Judicial Magistrate Sadia Sultana passed the order...
A prosecution witness (PW), also family member of a Liberation War victim, accused Thursday war crimes accused engineer A Jabbar of killing eleven people, including his elder brother Sakha Nath Kharati on May 22, 1971 in collaboration with Razakar militia,...
The ruling Awami League (AL), its associate bodies and other socio-cultural organisations staged demonstrations in the city Thursday denouncing the hartal (total shutdown) called by Jamaat, reports BSS. In the morning, anti-hartal public rallies, human-chain programmes and processions were organised...
WASHINGTON, Nov 5 (agencies): Republicans rode a wave of voter discontent to seize control of the U.S. Senate on Tuesday, dealing a punishing blow to President Barack Obama that will limit his legislative agenda and may force him to make...
Republicans secured a majority in the US Senate and strengthened their hold on the House of Representatives in midterm elections Tuesday. Here are the results of the vote, based on partial results and media projections: Senate: The Republicans captured at...
JERUSALEM, Nov 5 (agencies): Israeli police clashed with stone-throwing Palestinians inside Jerusalem's flashpoint Al-Aqsa mosque compound Wednesday after Jewish nationalists announced plans to visit the site despite weeks of soaring tensions. The compound, which is holy to both Jews and...
RIYADH, Nov 5 (AP): Saudi authorities arrested six people on Tuesday in connection with a shooting in the east of the kingdom the previous night that left five people dead and was apparently aimed at the country's Shiite minority. The...
NEW DELHI, Nov 5: (AP): Shops and businesses are closed in Indian-controlled Kashmir after separatists called a strike to protest the killings of two men by army soldiers two days ago. Paramilitary soldiers in armored vehicles patrolled deserted streets Wednesday...
Car crash kills 16 in Egypt CAIRO, Nov 5: Egyptian officials say at least 16 people, most of them students, were killed in a car crash involving their bus, a fuel tanker and two other vehicles on a highway north...
BEIJING, Nov 5 (Reuters): China will pay farmers subsidies of US $330 per tonne of cotton harvested this crop year outside its top producing region, potentially slowing a drop in output in the world's No.1 consumer of the fibre and...
LONDON, Nov 05 (AFP): Gold prices dived Wednesday to a fresh four-year low, as demand was dented by the soaring dollar after Republicans cruised to victory in US midterm elections, dealers said. At about 0855 GMT on the London Bullion...
SINGAPORE, Nov 05 (AFP): Oil prices extended losses in Asia Wednesday as dealers looked ahead to the release of the latest US supply report after a sell-off in the previous session owing to price cuts by Saudi Arabia. US benchmark...
RAJSHAHI, Nov 5 (BSS): Substantial and sustainable promotion of raised-bed technology in the farming field has become an urgent need for boosting crop production to feed the gradually increasing population. Sharing his expertise Dr Israil Hossain, Chief Scientific Officer of...
BENAPOLE, Nov 5 (UNB): Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) arrested 22 Bangladeshi nationals while entering the country through Putkhali border point here on Tuesday night, after going to India illegally. The arrestees hail from different areas of Jessore, Narail,...
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PABNA, Nov 5: Jatiya Gono Front, a left leaning forum launched campaign against Rooppur Nuke Plant, the much-talked about project in the country. In a press conference held at the Pabna press club on Wednesday noon the leaders of the...
SHERPUR, Nov 5 (UNB): A boy who failed in the test examination for the 2015 year's SSC examination allegedly committed suicide on Tuesday night at Uttar Garkanda in Nalitabari upazila as he could not bear the pain of failing in...
HABIGANJ, Nov 5 (BSS): Two people were killed as a hit a rickshaw van carrying vegetable at Digambar Bazaar on the Dhaka-Sylhet highway in Bahubal upazila of the district this morning. The victims were Sukur Ali, a vegetable vendor, and...
SUNAMGANJ, Nov 5 (UNB): A man was killed and 30 others were injured in a clash between two rival groups over fishing in a water body in Sadar (South) upazila on Tuesday. The deceased was identified as Tafazzul Hossain,45, son...
Our Correspondent KHULNA, Nov 5: The holy Ashura was observed on Tuesday on the 10th Muharram commemorating the Karbala tragedy, in Khulna, Khalishpur and Daulatpur area of Khulna city as elsewhere in the country with due solemnity and religious fervour. ...
Our Correspondent NILPHAMARI, Nov 5: To recoup the losses that some farmers sustained in Aman cultivation during the last flood in Nilphamari district, the government is distributing chemical fertilisers and seeds free of cost to them for cultivating winter crops....
RANGPUR, Nov 5 (BSS): Experts at the inaugural ceremony of a two-day training course today asked the poor and extremely poor farmers for adopting modern agriculture technologies to increase production of chemical-free hygienic rice. World Vision Bangladesh (WVB) under its...
MYMENSINGH, Nov 5 (BSS): Kotwali Police recovered the floating body of an unidentified woman from the Brahmaputra river in Khagdador area here this afternoon. A towel was wrapped around the neck of the body and the criminals might have left...
4 drug addicts, 4 other peddlers jailed in Faridpur A mobile court in Faridpur on Tuesday convicted four drug addicts and four drug peddlers and sentenced them to imprisonment with various jail terms each on charge of taking drugs including...
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