Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's son and her ICT affairs adviser Sajeeb Ahmed Wajed Joy on Friday received the ‘South South Cooperation Visionary’ award on behalf of his mother. Prime Minister Hasina was nominated for the award for her government’s efforts...
Two factions of the local unit of Awami League (AL) engaged in a clash at Samta Bazar in Sharsha Upazila in Jessore district on Friday night over establishing dominance. Police said local AL leaders Liakat and Akbar Member had long...
At least 20 people were injured in a clash between two rival groups at Kamdia village in Saltha Upazila in Faridpur on Friday. Locals said there had been a long-running enmity between Nurul Islam Matubbar and Siddik Matubbar of the...
A Bangladeshi was shot dead allegedly by the members of an Indian tribal community in Jaintapur Upazila in Sylhet district on Friday. The dead is Kudrat, 30, a day labourer and son of Asad Ali of Guabari village of Jaintapur....
Mobile court will be deployed on a VIP road in the city on Tuesday to curb violation of traffic rules. The Dhaka Metropolitan Police on Saturday declared that a mobile court will operate from Tuesday to prevent people from flouting...
The authorities of the city have evicted flower shops occupying the sidewalks in Shahbagh area for a long time. Dhaka City Corporation (South) started the drive, assisted by police, on Saturday morning. Shahbagh Police Station’s Inspector Habil Hossain said the...
Social Islami Bank Limited (SIBL) has recently donated an incubator to the Dhaka Medical College Hospital as a part of CSR activities on the occasion of 19th founding anniversary of the bank. Mr. S. K. Sur Chowdhury, Deputy Governor of...
A cargo ship sank with 160 tonnes of salt in Meghna River in Komolnagar Upazila in Lakshmipur district on Friday. Naval police and locals said the cargo vessel ‘MV Ziron’, with nine crew and 160 tonnes salt, was going to...
A 10-year old girl has been raped before being strangled to death in Old Dhaka. Chawkbazar Police Station’s OC Azizul Haq said the incident took place around Friday midnight on the Islambagh Beribadh. Moni Akter was raped and dumped near...
A pregnant housewife was killed allegedly by her husband over a family feud in Nabiganj Upazila in Habiganj district on Friday night. The dead is Reffat Begum, 25, wife of Raihan Uddin of Khagaura village. Mother of a three-year-old son,...
The total NAV of MTB Unit Fund stood at Tk 290,878,064.56 on the basis of cost price and Tk 255,624,575.14 on the basis of market price at the close of business operation on 20 November 2014. The face value per...
Uncertainty looms over successful implementation of the government’s multimedia classroom project in Pirojpur district for various reasons, including shortage of skilled teachers and frequent load shedding. A strong initiative towards digitalisation of the education sector in the secondary and higher...
A battery-run auto-rickshaw driver died in a road accident in Kaliakoir Upazila in Gazipur district on Saturday. Three passengers of the auto-rickshaw were injured in the crash. The victim, Fazal Mia, 30, was a resident of Kaliakoir. Kaliakoir Police Sub-Inspector...
Slain Habiganj housewife Refa Begum's family on Saturday afternoon filed a case with Nabiganj Police Station accusing her husband Raihan Chowdhury for the grisly murder. Police have already arrested Raihan over the killing. Nabiganj police OC Liakat Hossain said after...
A housewife allegedly committed suicide by taking poison in Manirampur Upazila in Jessore district on Friday night. The dead is Roksana Begum, 35, wife of Hazrat Ali of Ghughurail village. Police said Roksana took pesticide at her husband’s house at...
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia's Press Secretary Maruf Kamal Khan Sohel on Saturday claimed that Prime Minister’s Adviser HT Imam is a ‘BNP man’ and urged the government to not harm him. ‘HT Imam is our man. Don’t dare to harm...
Bangladesh Bank (BB) governor Dr Atiur Rahman on Saturday said successful Micro small (MSMEs), and small and medium (SMEs) entrepreneurs will help Bangladesh emerge as a successful economy in the world. “MSMEs contribute up to 30 per cent of GDP...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday urged all concerned at the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) to demonstrate enough efficiency through research works and sincerity to provide improved and better services to patients. The Prime Minister said this while...
A six-member Swedish delegation, led by its Minister for International Development Cooperation Isabella Lövin, will visit Bangladesh from November 24-27, aiming to deepen to bilateral ties, according to a news agency.
Nine Bangladeshis, who were detained by Indian Police, returned home on Saturday through Sona Masjid border point in Shibganj uapzila of Chapainawabganj. Border Security Force (BSF) of India handed over them to Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) after a flag meeting...
Primary School Certificate (PSC) and Ebtedayee examinations will begin from Sunday. This year 2.7 million students will take the PSC tests and 311,265 will appear for the Ebtedayee examinations. The exams will start with the English test from 11am to...
Investigation into the murder of Rajshahi University professor Shafiul Islam is being accorded highest priority, Inspector General of Police has said. Hassan Mahmood Khandker was speaking during a passing-out parade at the Bangladesh Police Academy in Rajshahi’s Sarda Saturday. “We’re...
State Minister for Power and Energy Nasrul Hamid has said Bangladesh will replace 30 million conventional stoves with environment-friendly bio-gas run cookstoves by 2030. The junior minister disclosed the plan while addressing the World Summit on Clean Cookstoves in New...
A fire has raged through a floor of the multi-storey National Sports Council (NSC) building near Dainik Bangla intersection in capital Dhaka. Seven fire-fighting units put out the flames within half an hour of it breaking out around 7:40pm on...
GARISSA: Somalia’s Shebab Islamists Saturday ambushed a bus in Kenya, killing 28 passengers in what they said was a revenge attack for police raids on mosques in the troubled port city of Mombasa. The gunmen ambushed the bus in the...
At least 3,036 workers died in workplace accidents during the last five years from 2009-2014, said a survey released on Saturday. Safety and Rights Society (SRS) and Bangladesh Legal Aid and Services Trust (BLAST) jointly released the report at a...
US President Barack Obama will attend India's Republic Day celebrations in January as chief guest, a sign of steadily expanding ties between two countries that share concerns about China's growing power in Asia. Obama was invited by Prime Minister Narendra...
BNP Dhaka city unit convener Mirza Abbas on Saturday alleged that an international plot is on to kill their party senior vice chairman Tarique Rahman. Abbas, also a BNP standing committee member, was addressing a discussion at the Jatiya Press...
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