Leaders of Bangladesh Jatiya Hindu Mohajote (BJHM) Friday renewed their demand for a three-day government holiday during Durga Puja, the largest religious festival of the Hindu community, reports UNB. "We get a one-day leave on Dashami, the last day of...
KUSHTIA, Sept 05 (BSS): Joint General Secretary of the ruling Awami League (AL) Mahbub-ul-Alam Hanif said here today the government's activities have been continuing against the militant outfits in the country. "The activities of the militant outfits have been continuing...
A 2-day long 3rd national debate competition has got underway at Rajshahi University (RU) campus. Business Studies Faculty Debating Forum (BFDF), a renowned students’ debating organisation on RU campus, organised the programme. RU Vice Chancellor Prof Muhmmad Mizanudiin inaugurated the...
State Minister for Chittagong Hill Tracts Affairs Bir Bahadur Ushwe Sing has said doctors should take more care about their patients as they can give relief to them with good behaviour. ‘Behaviour and passionate are essential qualities of a physician,...
The World Food Programme (WFP) has distributed huge quantity of high energy biscuits among 1,200 flood affected families of three unions under Chilmari Upazila in Kurigram district. The biscuits were distributed on Friday afternoon as part of distribution of the...
Different crops including T-Aman paddy on a total of 3,429 hectares of land owned by 36,000 farmers of four Upazilas in Gaibandha were damaged due to flood, officials at the Department of Agriculture Extension office in the district have said....
Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat has cancelled its programme to besiege the Saudi Embassy in Dhaka today after the Saudi government announced that it had no plans to destroy the tomb of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH). Addressing a media briefing in the...
Social Welfare Minister Syed Mohsin Ali has kept his word to rebuild a portion of Moulvibazar Stadium’s boundary wall that was demolished for wedding ceremony of his daughter. The wedding ceremony of Syeda Sanjida Sharmin, the minister’s 2nd daughter, was...
Bangladesh is set to welcome a Japanese Prime Minister after 14 years. Shinzo Abe will arrive in Hazrat Shahjalal (RA) International Airport at about 1pm. His wife Akie Abe will accompany him. Red carpet will be rolled out and Bangladesh...
The condition of BNP standing committee member Dr RA Gani has slightly improved. RA Gani fell ill on Friday afternoon and was admitted to Ibrahim Cardiac Hospital at Shahbagh in the city, hospital sources said. He is now undergoing treatment...
Another member of the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) has been arrested over Narayanganj 7 murders. Purnendu Bala, Sub Inspector (SI) of Narayanganj-based RAB-11, was arrested in Tejgaon area in Dhaka city on Friday for his alleged involvement in the 7...
The 25th annual general meeting of BASIC Bank Ltd was held recently with its chairman Alauddin A Majid in the chair. Additional secretary of the Bangladesh government Gokul Chand Das and managing director (current charge) Fazlus Sobhan were present, among...
The Chehlum of AN Mahfuza Khatun Baby Maudud has been held at her home. Senior journalist, writer, social worker, women rights activist and former MP Baby Maudud died at a Dhaka hospital on July 25 of cancer after a long...
Eastern Bank Limited (EBL) in association with Visa, the leading global payment technology company has launched special Visa Hajj & Umrah Travel prepaid card. The card aims to offer hassle free international travel for pilgrims, along with a secure and...
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has arrived at Hazrat Shahjalal (RA) International Airport on a 22-hour official visit to Bangladesh. His wife, Akie Abe, is accompanying him. Shinzo Abe's brief but crucial tour, aiming to expand and deepen 'comprehensive partnership'...
At least five passengers were killed and 20 other people injured in Habiganj when a bus and a human hauler (four-wheeler) collided on Saturday. Habiganj Police Station OC Md Nazim Uddin said the accident took place in the Dhuliyakhal area...
Musician and folk music collector Pandit Ramkanai Das passed away at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) in the city on Friday night. His doctor neurosurgeon Kanak Kanti Barua said the musician breathed his last at the neurosurgery ICU around...
Dutch-Bangla Bank Ltd awarded scholarship to 5,050 students as the 9th phase who passed S.S.C/ equivalent examination in 2014 Saturday. Abul Maal Abdul Muhith, MP, Minister for Finance was present as the Chief Guest and handed over the Scholarship Awarding...
The bill for a constitutional amendment to restore Parliament’s authority to impeach Supreme Court judges will be tabled on Sunday. A post of the National Parliament website says it is included as an agenda for the session today. Law minister...
Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) personnel arrested a young man with 124 Yaba tablets in Khamarpara under Gobindaganj Upazila in Gaibandha district on Friday night. The arrestee was identified as Zafar Ali, son of Abdul Baten Sheikh, of Ramchandrapur village under...
Information Minister Hasanul Haque Inu says he felt the ‘loneliness’ of vehicles seeing a series of photographs of them rotting in police impound. He suggests laws be amended to allow the use of such vehicles instead of leaving them to...
Jagannath University (JnU) administration has detained eight admission test attendees and handed them over to police on charges of cheating. Acting Proctor Nur Muhammad said after the examinations began at 3:30pm on Friday, 7 people were detained from the university...
Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has paid tribute to Bangladesh’s Liberation War heroes at the National Martyrs’ Memorial in Savar. Abe led his entourage to the memorial around 2:00pm on Saturday and placed flowers on it in memory of the...
Police recovered hanging body of a young man from Kholapara in Konabari of Gazipur city on Saturday. Jakir Hossain, sub-inspector (SI) of Konabari police camp, said locals spotted the body of Mithu, 28, son of Afsar Ali, a resident of...
Police in India’s West Bengal state have arrested four Muslim young men in Kolkata on Friday, when they were on way to Bangladesh to join the militant group, Islamic State (IS). ‘It is apparent from what they confess that some...
A local Awami League leader, injured allegedly by some Jubo Dal men over establishing supremacy at Sondara village in Ramganj Upazila in Laxmipur, died at Dhaka Medical College Hospital on Saturday. The dead is Jahangir Alam, member secretary of Ward...
Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) personnel arrested a young man with pistols and ammunition, and a private car in Puthiya Upazila in Rajshahi on Friday night. The arrestee was identified as Harunur Rashid, 23, son of Bachhu Sarker of Nataiparea area...
Bangladesh Bank (BB) Governor Dr Atiur Rahman assured Japanese investors of enhanced facilities for investing in Bangladesh. The governor, addressing the Japan-Bangladesh Business Forum in the city, said the central bank had already brought some changes to the related rules...
Bangladesh Bank (BB) will give Bangladesh Krishi Bank (BKB) Taka 2.0 billion for its "Ghore Fera Kormo Suchi" (go back home project). The project aims at rehabilitating slum dwellers to the rural areas from cities and towns. The central bank...
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