A fire broke out in a commercial building in the city's Mouchak area Friday. Fire Service sources said the fire originated on the 2nd floor of the 90/B, New Circular Road around 1 pm. Nazrul Islam, senior station officer of...
NOAKHALI, Oct 10: A trawler with over 100 passengers on board sank in the Meghna River near Chairmanghat in Hatiya uapzila Friday. Hatiya Thana officer-in-charge Syed Fazle Rabbi said the trawler, 'Rebeka', that left Nalchira Ghat around 9 am hit...
President Abdul Hamid returned home on Friday night from Saudi Arabia after performing Holy Hajj. A regular flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines carrying the President landed at Hazrat Shahjalal (RA) International Airport at 9.15pm. The President was received by industries...
The death of an Assistant Sub Inspector (ASI) of police near Lakshmipur Police Lines early Friday was not an accident, he was murdered by assailants, claims Lakshmipur's Superintendent of Police Shah Mijan Shafiur Rahman. Addressing a media briefing, he stated...
At least 7 people were killed and 10 others injured in road accidents in Sirajganj, Khulna and Jessore districts in the last 24 hours ending at 7pm on Friday. In Sirajganj, an unidentified van-puller died on the spot and 10...
The condition of former Ameer of Jamaat-e-Islami Prof Ghulam Azam, who is serving 90-year imprisonment for war crimes, has improved in the last 24 hours, doctors at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) Hospital have said. ‘Ghulam Azam is now...
Fire broke out at a cotton mill and a coaching centre on Friday in the city’s Khilgaon and Kadamtali areas. However, none was injured in either incident. In Kadamtali, electric short circuit caused a fire at a cotton mill in...
A 2-month-old boy has been strangulated to death allegedly by his father in Sadar Upazila in Comilla district. Police recovered the body of Omar Hossain, son of Monir Hossain, from a dustbin in Alampur village under Sadar Upazila on Friday...
Some miscreants hurled bombs targeting four Awami League leaders of Jessore Sadar Upazila unit, leaving them seriously injured on Friday night. Police said the incident happened in Churamonkati Bazar in Sadar Upazila around 8:15pm. The injured were identified as Munna,...
Volunteers, disaster management officials and aid workers conducted mock evacuation drills in hundreds of villages along India’s east coast on Friday as a powerful cyclone approached, threatening devastation to farmland and fishing hamlets. Cyclone Hudhud was about 470km offshore on...
A youth was killed at the house of his uncle in Chunarughat Upazila in Habiganj district on Friday night. The dead is Nazrul Islam, 20, son of Abdul Hamid of Dubaria village. Locals said Nazrul along with his brother-in-law went...
A man, injured by some local miscreants on Friday afternoon, succumbed to his injuries at Dhaka Medical College and Hospital (DMCH) early Saturday. Witnesses said a gang of identified local miscreants mercilessly beat Md Nasir Hossain, 25, on Friday afternoon...
The members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) rounded up 23 people, including women and children, while crossing the India-Bangladesh border at Benapole in Jessore on Friday night. All the detainees are Bangladeshi national, sources at the BGB Battalion-23 said on...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina reached Chittagong city on Saturday morning to attend programmes to award ‘National Standard’ to BNS Osman. A helicopter carrying the Prime Minister, landed at the Naval Berth adjacent to the NCT Jetty in the port city...
Bangabir Kader Siddiqui has apologised for his elder brother Abdul Latif Siddique, the cabinet minister, over his rant on Holy Hajj and Tabligh Jamaat. Kader Siddiqui, also the president of Krishak Shramik Janata League (KSJL) urged his brother to seek...
All preparations to remove Telecoms Minister Abdul Latif Siddiqui from the Cabinet have been completed. Cabinet Secretary M Musharraf Hossain Bhuiyan told reporters on Saturday that the process of removal of Latif Siddiqui was on. ‘A file on this matter...
An unexploded bomb, hurled at a house at Goalgram village in Daulatpur Upazila in Kushtia early Saturday, has been recovered. Local people and police said a gang of miscreants hurled brick chips and a powerful bomb at the house of...
A 25-kilometre-long tailback has developed on Tangail-Dhaka highway as a large number of people are returning to Dhaka after the Eid-ul-Azha and Durga Puja holidays. The vehicles in that stretch – from Elenga to Natiyapara – are moving at a...
The World Bank Group-International Monetary Fund (IMF) Annual Meetings 2014 has begun in Washington DC to lessen income disparity by raising global employment. After more than a decade the World Bank (WB) has agreed to give budget support to Bangladesh,...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday extended her heartiest congratulations to Pakistani female education activist Malala Yousafjai and Indian child rights activist Kailash Satyarathi for jointly winning the Nobel Peace Prize. In a message, the Prime Minister said fearless Malala,...
The grocery markets in Dhaka are regain momentum after the public holidays of Puja and Eid-ul-Azha with many shops still closed. Friday morning saw the capital’s kitchen markets at Fakirapool, Shahjahanpur, Gopibag and Mugdha almost empty with few buyers in...
Dhaka Chamber of Commerce and Industry (DCCI) will unveil ‘DCCI Tax Guide 2014-15’ on Sunday, which is expected to help create awareness among businesses and entrepreneurs about tax paying. Chairman of the National Board of Revenue (NBR) M Ghulam Hussain...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is expected to leave Dhaka for the Italian city of Milan on Wednesday on a four-day visit to attend the 10th summit of the Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM), according to a news agency.
Share trading at Dhaka and Chittagong stock exchanges begins on Sunday after a long recess of nine days. The stock market went for an extended holiday from October 5 to celebrate Eid-ul Azha as the three-day official holiday became nine-day...
The return flights of Biman Bangladesh Airlines carrying Bangladeshi Hajj pilgrims from Saudi Arabia will get normal within the next 5-6 days removing the sufferings of the devotees, claimed its MD and CEO AM Mosaddique Ahmed on Saturday, according to...
The return flights of Biman Bangladesh Airlines carrying Bangladeshi hajj pilgrims from Saudi Arabia will get normal within the next 5-6 days removing the sufferings of the devotees, claimed its MD and CEO AM Mosaddique Ahmed Saturday. Asked about the...
Motor-launches and speedboats crossing the Padma on the Mawa-Kewrakandi route were being disrupted due to adverse weather. The vessels were twice stopped from plying the rough currents though only cautionary signal 2 had been issued, Md Mohiuddin Ahmed of BIWTA’s...
Cabinet Secretary M Mosharraf Hossain Bhuiyan on Saturday said the gazette notification on minister Abdul Latif Siddique’s removal for his derogatory remarks about Hajj and Tablig Jamaat will be issued upon the President’s approval. “The cabinet division will issue a...
Armed militants have kidnapped 16 people including Muslim labourers from India’s Mizoram state along the Tripura-Bangladesh border early Saturday, police said. The incident occurred less than 24 hours after three militants of the same group ran away from their base...
Food Minister Advocate Quamrul Islam on Saturday said BNP would not have any representation in the poll-time government for the 11th parliament polls as it has no representation in the 10th Jatiya Sangsad (Parliament). Quamrul Islam said this while speaking...
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