One civilian was killed and 13 were injured Saturday when an explosion occurred in Pakistan's Balochistan province. According to police, a bomb was planted on a motorcycle parked on the Chakar road area of Sibi city, Dawn online reported. The...
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia on Saturday said law and order has immensely deteriorated under the ruling Awami League (AL). She was speaking at a mass rally of the BNP-led 20-party alliance at Jamalpur Zilla School ground in Jamalpur town on...
United States has announced a grant assistance of USD 402 million to Nepal to strengthen its democratic institutions. The funds to be provided by US Agency for International Development (USAID) will be used over the next five years to reinforce...
The Asian Development Bank will fund $120 million towards Bhutan's 118 MW Nikachu hydropower project whose total estimated project cost is $200 million dollars. The project is modelled on public-private partnership (PPP) lines, with Druk Green Power Corporation (DGPC), and...
Myanmar's national government has drafted a plan that will give around a million members of the persecuted Rohingya Muslim ethnic minority a bleak choice: accept ethnic reclassification and the prospect of citizenship, or be detained. Most of Myanmar's 1.1 million...
Sri Lanka has won the backing of 22 nations in its battle against the United Nation's war crimes probe into the country's human rights record during its brutal civil war. A government statement said the countries in a joint statement...
Maldivian President Abdulla Yameen Abdul Gayoom said five additional islands to be developed as resorts would be opened for bidding this year. In a statement given on occasion of World Tourism Day, President Yameen said that the government was aiming...
US Ambassador to Bangladesh Dan W Mozena on Saturday said Bangladesh will have to build a good regional system with India and Myanmar and enhance its trade ties with the neighbours. He also suggested Bangladesh to enhance its trade ties...
Green activists at a discussion in Dhaka on Saturday called for introducing a Saudi Arabia-like modern waste management system to deal with the wastes of sacrificial animals during Eid-ul-Azha, considering the public health, economy and environment. They said millions of...
The privately-run Summit Group hopes to put into operation another two power plants in months to boost the country’s power generation now hovering at over 6,300 MW, officials said on Saturday. The power plants are 335 MW Summit Meghnaghat Power...
A Bangladeshi man was beaten to death allegedly by the members of Indian Border Security Force (BSF) along Kushkhali border in Sadar upazila of Satkhira on Saturday. The deceased was identified as Jagdish Goswami, 40, son of Bishnupad Goswami of...
SATKHIRA: A Bangladeshi man was beaten to death allegedly by the members of Indian Border Security Force (BSF) along Kushkhali border in Sadar upazila Saturday. The deceased was identified as Jagdish Goswami, 40, son of Bishnupad Goswami of Gopinathpur village...
BANGALORE: A special court in Bangalore sentenced Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa and her three associates - N Sasikalaa, J Elavarasi and V N Sudhakaran - to four years imprisonment in the Rs 66.65-crore disproportionate assets case. The court...
Land Minister Shamsur Rahman Sharif on Saturday urged agriculture scientists and researchers to invent high yielding varieties of sugarcane to increase its production to make the country self-sufficient in sugar industry. "The country is importing huge quantity of sugar every...
United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Saturday highly appreciated Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina for maintaining stable situation in Bangladesh. He also hoped that the progress of Bangladesh would continue through this stability. The UN secretary general came up with...
An excruciating mosquito-borne illness that arrived less than a year ago in the Americas is raging across the region, leaping from the Caribbean to the Central and South American mainland, and infecting more than 1 million people. Some cases already...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday urged the United Nations (UN) to play the central role as the custodian of global peace, security and development saying the evil forces destroying secular fabrics of the nations should be eliminated. Expressing her...
Bangladesh Air Force has inducted to its fleet four K-8W fighter trainer aircrafts bought from China. The Inter Services Public Relations Directorate (ISPR) says those were bought as part of the government’s effort to modernise the force, according to a...
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Saturday he's serious about holding peace talks with Pakistan but also criticised the neighboring country, insisting it must create an "appropriate atmosphere" for the dialogue. In a lengthy address to UN General Assembly,...
BNP chairperson's adviser Khandker Mahbub Hossain on Saturday alleged that the government has brought the 16th amendment to the constitution to diminish the independence of the judiciary by keeping judges under psychological pressure. ‘’The judges will remain under political pressure...
Thirty-five activists of Jamaat-e-Islami and its student wing, Islami Chhatra Shibir, have been arrested from Chittagong in connection with cases of sabotage, police say. Chittagong district police’s ASP Imran Bhuiyan said they were ronded up in Satkania and Lohagara Upazilas...
The authorities of Chittagong University (CU) have extended the last date of admission process for 6 days for the 1st year honours courses for 2014-2015 academic session. CU deputy registrar (Academic) SM Akbar Hossain said the admission procedures will continue...
The foreign ministers of the SAARC countries gathered at Hotel Westin in New York on Thursday (US eastern standard time) to take stock of the current world situation and also discuss the topics to be included in the top agenda...
Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC)’s Chairman M Badiuzzaman passed a busy day in the United States on Thursday (US eastern standard time). The ACC chief arrived in the capital of the USA last week to hold meetings with attorney general, lawyers and...
Miscreants killed a local Juba League leader on Friday at Lauhajang in Munshiganj district a day after his abduction. Being informed police recovered the body of Md Rafiqul Islam, 32, from near a crematory at Kazir Pagla at Lauhajang. His...
A Dhaka Cyber Tribunal has turned down bail petition of The Daily Inqilab’s News Editor Robiullah Robi in a case filed under the Information and Communication Technology Act. Judge KM Shamsul Haque passed the order following hearing over the bail...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has urged the US investors to create a new business partnership to help Bangladesh become a middle income country by 2021. ‘As we aspire to become a middle-income country by 2021, I call upon the US...
An old man was chopped to death and three other people were injured in a clash between two rival groups for a piece of land at Malahar village in Mohadevpur Upazila in Naogaon on Thursday. The dead is Mokbul Hossain,...
Bangladesh women have lost to Pakistan by four runs in a dramatic Asiad cricket final. However, they handed Bangladesh their first silver in the Incheon event, which they had sealed earlier when the women cricket team trounced Sri Lanka in...
Bangladeshi scientist Dr Mirza Mofazzal Islam has been honoured with a prestigious global award for his contribution to increasing food security by using radiation technology. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) jointly...
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