Bangladesh was a shining example of digital technology used for delivering financial services to the poor, Bill Gates has said. In a keynote address at Sibos, a banking-industry conference in Boston, the IT mogul described the Bangladesh experience as ‘wild...
A fire, which broke out at a spinning factory in Gazipur on Sunday morning, has been doused. The fire left three workers of Ishraque Spinning Mill injured, two of them critically. Sreepur Fire Station official Md Tashraf Hossain said the...
Five auto-rickshaw passengers were killed on Sunday in a collision with a bus at Mymensingh. The accident at the Bagherkanda by-pass road nearby the Dhaka-Mymensingh highway around 11.45 am left four others injured, said Kotowali Police Station OC Fazlul Karim....
Police rescued a man from the Sundarbans on Saturday night, three days after his abduction from Khulna city. Mahfuzur Rahman, an engineer of Chittagong University (CU), was rescued from the jungle near Hadda village in Koyra Upazila in Khulna, said...
A dozen people were killed and as many injured in road accidents in Madaripur, Comilla, Tangail, Sirajganj and Natore districts on Saturday. At least five people were killed as a bus knocked them down near Haji Shariatullah Bridge in Shibchar...
Thirteen suspected robbers were killed and an unspecified number of people, including cops, injured in two separate gun battles between police and a gang of robbers in the Sundarbans in Paikgachha and Koyra Upazilas in Khulna district on Sunday. Police...
Hundreds of thousands will come together for special prayers for Eid-ul-Azha on Monday. The authorities have prepared the congregation sites well ahead of the 2nd biggest religious festivals of the Muslims. Like every year, the main congregation will be held...
Gradual adoption of greener fuels for transport vehicles over the last one decade is showing a prospect of reducing air pollution in the city, experts said. They suggested that steps should be taken to accelerate the change of fuels to...
A woman was killed and 17 other people were injured in a road crash at Bokchar in Gobindaganj Upazila in Gaibandha district on Sunday. The deceased could not be identified yet. Officer-in-charge of Gobindaganj highway police Masud Parvez said the...
At least six persons were killed and six others injured in a road accident at Bagertek in Mymensingh district on Sunday. The accident occurred around 12 noon when a passenger bus hit a tempo (human hauler) at Bagertek on Muktagachha...
Commerce Minister Tofail Ahmed on Sunday said the government will establish a special economic zone (SEZ) at Bhelumia and Beduria union parishads in Sadar upazila of Bhola district very soon. He said this while addressing the inauguration of a three-kilometre-long...
Celebrations of Eid ul-Azha for the Muslims in West Africa have been badly affected by the Ebola outbreak. Reports from Guinea say public places used for prayers are deserted while religious leaders in Sierra Leone told Muslims not to shake...
Awami League joint general secretary Mahbub-ul-Alam Hanif on Sunday said the crisis or anarchy that the BNP chairperson and other leaders are talking about actually exists inside their party. Hanif said this while addressing a discussion with businessmen held at...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will exchange greetings with people from all walks of life, including judges and foreign diplomats, in Dhaka on Monday on the occasion of Eid-ul-Azha. Sheikh Hasina, also the Awami League chief, will first exchange Eid greetings...
A youth has been arrested with firearms by Police detectives from a Durga Puja pandal in Comilla Sadar Upazila. The detainee was identified as Nurul Islam, 24, from Noapara in the Upazila. Comilla district’s Detective Branch SI Shah Kamal Akand...
An unidentified woman was crushed under the wheels of a train in Darikharbona railway crossing under Boalia Police Station in Rajshahi city on Sunday. Quoting witnesses police said a Khulna-bound express train from Chapainawabganj crushed the women aged around 40...
Chittagong City Corporation (CCC) has taken various steps for quick disposal of sacrificial animal waste and garbage to ensure that no harm is caused to the environment. As part of the preparation, the CCC authorities divided 41 wards of the...
In the last three days several cows have died in cattle markets in different areas of the country. Government officials said the animals were dying because of travel fatigue and overfeeding. Chittagong District’d Additional Livestock Officer Farhad Hossain said four...
Four cattle traders of Tangail fell victims to agyan (dope) party members and were robbed of Tk 0.6 million in a Gulistan-bound bus coming from Narayanganj. The victims, Shahjahan Mia, 45, Arif Hossain, 25, Md Babu, 30, and Ananda, 30,...
Security has been beefed up in the city on the occasion of Eid-ul-Azha, which will be observed in the country on Monday. Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) said they are ready to provide security for Musallis who will say Eid prayers...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will visit Malaysia in the first week of December at the invitation of Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak. PM Hasina is likely to leave Dhaka for Kuala Lumpur on December 3. A Foreign Ministry source said...
A schoolboy drowned in a pond in Uttara in the city on Sunday. The deceased was identified as Zobair, 16, the student of a school situated Uttara. Locals said Zobair drowned while taking bath in a pond in a park...
Khaleda Zia will greet diplomats and important personalities at Bangabandhu International Conference Centre (BICC) on the occasion of Eid-ul-Azha. Her press secretary Maruf Kamal Khan on Sunday said the BNP chairperson will greet eminent personalities from 11am to 12:15pm on...
Bangladesh's national skipper for one-day internationals (ODI) Mashrafe Bin Mortaza has been blessed with baby boy on his own birthday. Family sources said a boy was born to Mashrafe and his wife Sumona Huq on Sunday. Both Sumona and the...
The bifurcated Dhaka City Corporation (DCC) is going to deploy around 13 thousand staffs to clean the wastes of sacrificial animals from the capital this time. The cleaning staffs of Dhaka City Corporations both North and South will start their...
Witnesses say Islamic State (IS) group militants have publicly killed six Iraqi soldiers in Anbar province, where it continues to make gains despite an expanding US-led campaign of airstrikes. Witnesses say the soldiers — one in uniform and five in...
At least 12 people were killed in separate road crashes and an accident involving train in different districts on Sunday, the 1st day of Eid-ul-Azha holidays. Six auto-rickshaw passengers were killed in a collision with a bus at Bagherkanda Bypass...
In a bid to avert any possible traffic jam in the city, Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) has delimited routes for carrying rawhide inside the capital between October 6 and 9. DMP sources told UNB on Sunday that they have taken...
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) says it wants a formal clarification of US Vice President Joe Biden's recent comments that its allies in the Middle East sent weapons and cash to extremists fighting in Syria. On Sunday, the UAE's official...
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