Industrial units at only 4,104 plots, out of 10,338, are in production in 74 industrial estates of Bangladesh Small and Cottage Industries Corporation (BSCIC) across the country. The data was presented when BSCIC activities came up for discussions at the...
NARAYANGANJ, Oct 16 : A fire broke out at the floating restaurant, Mary Anderson, at Fatullah in Sadar upazila on Wednesday night. However, there was no report of casualty form the blaze. Sources said the fire originated from an electric...
SATKHIRA, Oct 16 : A Bangladeshi young man was shot to death by Indian Border Security Force (BSF) members at Boikari border point in Sadar upazila early Thursday. The deceased was identified as Ayub Ali (35), son of Shamser Ali...
Police in separate drives arrested 80 people on various charges from different areas of Rangpur district in the last 24 hours ending Friday morning. The arrested persons include absconding warrantees and convicts, drug peddlers, traders and traffickers, extortionists, terrorists, dacoits,...
Police arrested a young man from Takpara Ghorasal Pilot High School area at Polash Upazila at Narsingdi on Wednesday afternoon. After arresting Al Amin, 22, police searched his body and recovered a foreign made pistol along with three rounds of...
At least five people were killed and 10 others injured in a head-on collision between a bus and a truck at Tangail Sadar Upazila on Friday. The deceased could not be identified. Elenga highway police said a truck collided head-on...
A mortar shell, 81 centimetres in length, was recovered from Ghaghot River near Islampur Noakhalipara village in Rangpur’s Mithapukur Uazila on Thursday. Police said that fisherman Majibar Rahman of the village first noticed the mortar shell while fishing in Ghaghot...
Four countries – Venezuela, Malaysia, Angola and New Zealand – won seats on the United Nations Security Council on Thursday for 2 years from January 1, 2015. Meanwhile, Spain defeated Turkey in a 3rd round of run-off voting. The 193-member...
The space is hosting an event this weekend that occurs once in a million years or so. A comet as hefty as a small mountain will pass mind-bogglingly close to Mars on Sunday, approaching within 87,000 miles (140,006 kilometres) at...
A middle-aged man died after he fell from a truck at Dinajpur Sadar Upazila on Thursday. The deceased could not be identified. Witnesses said he was seriously injured after he fell down from roof of a goods-laden truck near the...
Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte has assured Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina of participating in more development projects in Bangladesh, including building a deep seaport at Sonadia Island. The Netherlands premier came up with the assurance at a meeting with PM...
The United Kingdom has observed that the risk of political violence still existed in Bangladesh. The UK in its country case study update on Bangladesh which forms part of the 2013 Human Rights and Democracy Report, said although political violence...
A college student was killed as a speeding truck knocked down him in Tentulia Upazila in Panchagarh district on Thursday night. The dead is Sohel Rana, 21, son of Sobed Ali, hailing from Padiagach (Khutagaj) village. He was an HSC...
A village police allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself from a tree at Khagrakhuri village in Manikganj Sadar Upazila on Thursday. The dead is Delwar Hossain Delu, 56, son of late Nifazuddin. Police and locals said Delu’s family members found...
The BNP is mourning BRAC University teacher and noted TV commentator Piash Karim, who died of a cardiac arrest on October 13. ‘We are observing a mourning day across the country to pay respects to Prof Pisah Karim,’ BNP Joint...
Transport bottlenecks have forced India’s northeastern states to procure much needed rice from neighbouring Bangladesh and Myanmar. The Indian government has floated bids to import rice from Myanmar for northeastern states of Manipur and Mizoram. The Food Corporation of India...
A cleaning operation has been launched in Bandarban to attract tourists. State Minister for Chittagong Hill Tracts Affairs Bir Bahadur Ushwe Sing led the drive from the district town’s press club area at 7:00am on Friday. The 2-hour-long exercise cleared...
A Dhaka University (DU) teacher was mugged on his own campus on Thursday evening. Mass communication and journalism department teacher Dr Sudhangshu Shekhar Roy he was going to the TSC on a rickshaw around 7:15pm. ‘When I reached in front...
The students who want to sit for the Dhaka University’s admission tests took to the streets on Friday morning. They staged a protest rally on the main thoroughfare in DU campus area around 10:00am. The agitating students also took out...
At least two persons were killed in a road accident on the Dhaka-Chittagong highway in Gazaria Upazila in Munshiganj district on Friday. Police and witnesses said a bus rammed an auto-rickshaw from behind on the Meghna-Gumti Bridge at Gazaria, killing...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Friday congratulated Saber Hossain Chowdhury, MP, on his being elected the president of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) for the next three years. Saber Hossain is the 1st Bangladeshi to win the IPU president post. In...
Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) personnel on Friday recovered another large cache of ammunition, including anti-tank artillery shells, in the bush of Satchhari in Habiganj district. RAB-9 commander Wing Commander Riad Hasan Rabbani said they resumed the operation on Friday and...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and Russian President Vladimir Putin have expressed the hope that the socioeconomic ties between Bangladesh and Russia will get strengthened further in the days to come. The two leaders expressed their high hopes while having talks...
A high school headmaster at Benapole union in Jessore's Sarsa Upazila has been suspended for embezzling the stipend of two physically challenged students. Baropota United High School's management body chief Abdul Gaffar said they decided to suspend Ainuddin at an...
A transport worker fell from a bus in Uttar Badda area in the city and died on the way to Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) on Friday morning. The dead is Shah Ali, 25, a bus helper. Witnesses said that...
Several organisations staged demonstration at Central Shaheed Minar in the city on Friday. The demonstrators began gathering at the Shaheed Minar from Friday morning and stayed there till 1:00pm. Later, the ruling party’s student wing Bangladesh Chhatra League activists, too,...
The government looks very optimistic about the resumption of manpower recruitment from Bangladesh by the United Arab Emirates (UAE) withdrawing its all restrictions in this regard and signing fresh deals. Bangladesh has already got a positive signal from the UAE,...
A 2-day national conference on the role of microfinance institutions will begin in Dhaka on Saturday. The conference styled ‘Towards Poverty Alleviation and Social Development: The Role of Microfinance Institutions’ will be held at Palli Karma-Sahayak Foundation (PKSF) auditorium in...
BRAC University professor Piash Karim who passed away on Monday was laid to eternal rest at Banani Graveyard in the city on Friday. Piash Karim, also a political analyst and TV talk-show panelist, was buried around 3pm after two namaj-e-janazas....
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