Awami League MP from Sirajganj-3 (Raiganj-Tarash) constituency Ishak Hossain Talukder who died on Monday was laid to eternal rest on Tuesday. Ishak Hossain, also a freedom fighter, was buried at his family graveyard at Bakua village in Raiganj upazila with...
Law enforcers arrested a Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) member, an accused in the sensational seven-murder case of Narayanganj, from Saneswar village in Baufal upazila early Tuesday. The arrested was identified as Ruhul Amin, 32, a lance corporal of Bangladesh Army...
Observing that BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia’s movement will never see light, Awami League leader Mahbub-ul-Alam Hanif on Tuesday said they need not to take advance preparation to foil the movement. He made the remarks while exchanging views with local Awami...
The International Monetary Fund has cut its forecast for global economic growth for both this year and next and warned the recovery is "weak and uneven". It is now forecasting 3.3% growth this year, down from its forecast in July...
Light to moderate rain or thundershowers accompanied by temporary gusty wind is likely to occur at a few places over Chittagong division and at one or two places over Dhaka, Khulna, Barisal and Sylhet divisions and the regions of Pabna...
Golam Faruq, managing editor of the Bonik Barta, died of cardiac arrest in Mymensingh on Monday night. He was 48. Faruq, also son of Awami League MP from Mymensingh-6 constituency Moslem Uddin, breathed his last at Mymensingh Medical College Hospital...
Even while President Barack Obama's raises money for Democrats this week from coast to coast, he will steer clear of any public campaign events with Democratic candidates. Appearing with Democrats would hand Republicans easy opportunities to saddle their opponents with...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has expressed her satisfaction over the law-and-order situation during Durga Puja and Eid-ul-Azha, two major religious festivals of the Hindu community and the Muslim Ummah respectively. She expressed her satisfaction when a delegation of top police...
At least 30 people were injured in a clash between two groups of Awami League over establishing supremacy at Bethulia village in Mohammadpur upazila on Tuesday. Locals said upazila AL general secretary Abdul Mannan and its Binodpur union unit general...
The return hajj flights of Biman Bangladesh Airlines Ltd to carry home the Bangladeshi hajjis from Saudi Arabia will begin on Thursday. The first return hajj flight, ‘BG-2012’, carrying 419 Bangladeshi hajjis will take off from Jeddah at 10:30am local...
The Foreign Ministry on Tuesday refuted recent media reports that the Bangladesh-India (West Bengal) border has been sealed following a bomb-blast incident in Bardhaman. “Attention has been drawn to the recent media reports informing that following the bomb blast incident...
The government will make a new list of freedom fighters by Dec 16 by redefining the 1971 war veterans, Liberation War Affairs Minister AKM Muzammel Haque has said. He made the announcement on Tuesday while speaking with reporters after a...
Law enforcers have been put on highest alert to check smuggling of rawhides of sacrificial animals, as a portion of those is smuggled out to a neighbouring country every year. The Home Ministry has asked the law enforcement agencies, especially...
The night ended with the dawn of Eid-ul-Azha. Hours before the festival, Dhaka looked like a city transformed. The buzzing capital appears deserted, its thoroughfare empty. Most people have left the mega city for their homes in towns and villages...
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has greeted diplomats and important personalities on the occasion of Holy Eid-ul-Azha. The former prime minister greeted the eminent personalities on Monday at a reception at Bangabandhu International Conference Centre in the city. The reception started...
Miscreants looted Tk 1.5 million from 6 cattle traders after stabbing one of them indiscriminately and beating other traders in Turag area on the Eid day (Monday). Cattle trader Jamirul, 40, received critical stab injuries on his neck and chick....
A man was beaten to death by some miscreants in Madaripur Sadar Upazila on Monday. The victim was identified as Majed Mollah, 32, hailing from Madra village. Witnesses said a gang of miscreants attacked Majed suddenly on a field adjacent...
Several leaders of Jamaat-e-Islami, including war crimes convicts Delwar Hossain Sayedee and Mohammad Kamaruzzaman, have spent this Eid-ul-Azha at Dhaka Central Jail at Kashimpur in Gazipur district. According to jail authorities, there are 990 prisoners in Dhaka Central Jail Part-1,...
Bangladesh's biggest Eid congregation was held at Kishoreganj’s Sholakia where tens of thousands came to pray on Monday. Maolana Farid Uddin Masoud began the prayers for Eid-ul-Azha at 9am. The 1st Eid Jamaat (congregation) at Sholakia was held in 1828....
This year's Nobel prize in medicine was awarded with one half to John O’Keefe and the other half jointly to May-Britt Moser and Edvard I. Mosel. The Nobel Prize Committee awarded them for their discoveries of cells that constitute a...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday said that she is not afraid of any conspiracy against her as reported in different news media recently. ‘I don’t see any reason to be afraid of… had I been afraid of such conspiracies...
Speakers at a programme in the city have demanded arrest, trial and punishment of BNP senior vice chairman Tarique Rahman for his remarks against Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. They said that Tarique Rahman violated the Constitution by terming Bangabandhu as...
Some miscreants slaughtered to death a CNG-run auto-rickshaw driver and dumped his body in Charchuala area in Chhatak Upazila in Sylhet at sometime between Sunday and early Monday. The victim was identified as Ashik, 30, an auto-rickshaw driver by profession....
Journalists have walked out of a press conference attended by Shah Rukh Khan (SRK) in India's Chennai on Friday after the Bollywood superstar had arrived several hours late. Quoting unnamed sources the Hindu online reports: ‘The error was because of...
The two city corporations of the capital – north and south – have got into the business of cleansing clotted blood and fluids of sacrificial animals and removing cow dung and other solid wastes. The Dhaka City Corporation north and...
Awami League leader of Sirajganj and member of the Parliament (MP) Ishak Hossain Talukder died of cardiac arrest at the age of 62 on Monday. Family members said Ishak Hossain had suffered pain in the chest at his residence in...
In the wake of bomb blast in West Bengal’s Burdwan district India on Monday sounded a high alert across the eastern state and virtually sealed its borders with Bangladesh, Nepal and Bhutan. Indian police suspect Laskar-e-Taiyeba and Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB)...
Muslims across the country celebrated Eid-ul-Azha with religious fervour and spirit of sacrifice on Monday. Eid-ul-Azha is the 2nd largest religious festival celebrated by Muslims to commemorate the act of prophet Ibrahim (AS) attempting to give up the life of...
Muslims in Bangladesh are celebrating the Eid-ul-Azha, the second most important festival in the Islamic calendar today (Monday) offering prayers and slaughtering animals.On this day, Muslims, who can afford, sacrifice animals to commemorate Prophet Ibrahim's willingness to sacrifice his son...
Hundreds of thousands came together for special prayers for Eid-ul-Azha today. Like every year, the main congregation was held at 8:30am at the 'National Eidgah Maidan' next to the High Court, said a media statement from Islamic Foundation.Members of the...
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