Sheikh Hasina has convened an emergency meeting of the Awami League's Central Working Committee before the Eid-ul-Fitr. The party chief’s meeting call comes amid the BNP’s threats to hit the streets after the Eid to make the government accept its...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s son Sajeeb Ahmed Wazed Joy has celebrated his 43rd birthday in an amusement park in the US. He has also thanked all those who wished him on his birthday. In a Facebook post on Sunday night,...
The BNP says it sees ‘an ominous sign’ in the prime minister’s remark, challenging to face it on the streets after the Eid-ul-Fitr. Party’s Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi said the government’s efforts to thwart the 20-Party Alliance’s agitations...
A large number of Bangladeshis living in the United States have returned home to celebrate Eid-ul-Fitr with families and relations. Travel agents said the number of home-goers increased this year with Eid festival coinciding with summer vacation in the US...
A large number of Bangladeshis living in the United States have returned home to celebrate Holy Eid-ul-Fitr with families and relations. Travel agents said the number of home-goers increased this year with Eid festival coinciding with summer vacation in the...
Dhaka has worn a desolate look, barring a few places where markets and shopping malls are located, as majority of homebound people left the city before Monday morning. The remaining holidaymakers are moving out from Dhaka today to celebrate the...
A man has been killed during a ‘shootout’ between a gang of miscreants and police in Shailkupa Upazila in Jhenaidah district. Two policemen were also injured in the 'gun battle' in Kanapukuria village around 2:30am on Monday. The deceased had...
Two children have been killed and 35 more injured when a bus fell into a pond at Narayanganj’s Araihazar. The incident took place at Satgram Union’s Purinda at 9pm on Monday. The children who died are 6-month old ‘Nasima’ from...
Communications Minister Obaidul Quader on Monday claimed that he was 90 per cent successful in ensuring safe journey of the homebound people ahead of the Holy Eid-ul-Fitr. ‘Compared to other years, people can travel on the highways with ease,’ he...
The Muslims in the country will celebrate their biggest religious festival Eid-ul-Fitr on Tuesday as the crescent moon heralding the month of Shawal has been sighted in Bangladesh on Monday evening. Reports of the moon's sighting came in from Sherpur,...
President M Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina hve greeted the countrymen as well as the Muslims across the world on the occasion of holy Eid-ul-Fitr, the greatest festival of Muslims. In separate messages on the eve of the...
There are chances of rain in parts of Bangladesh, including Dhaka city, over the next two days when the country’s Muslims will celebrate the Holy Eid-ul-Fitr. With the Shawal moon is sighted on Monday evening, Muslims will mark the end...
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has issued a letter to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas offering her sympathy over the death and suffering in Gaza Strip. Palestinians in Gaza observed Eid-ul-Fitr on Monday as death toll from an all-out offensive by Israel...
The downing of Malaysia Airlines jet MH17 in eastern Ukraine may constitute a ‘war crime’, the UN human rights chief Navi Pillay says. Ukraine and Western governments believe pro-Russian rebels shot down MH17, using a missile system supplied by Russia....
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has been conveying her greetings on the occasion of the Holy Eid-ul-Fitr to the countrymen via their mobile phones through SMS since Sunday midnight. The premier is greeting the people of the country through digital system...
The main Eid-ul-Fitr congregation in Dhaka city will be held at National Eidgah at 8:30am, as usual. National mosque Baitul Mukarram’s Khatib Maulana Mohammad Salahuddin will conduct the prayers to be joined by people from all social strata, including President...
The elite force, Rapid Action Battalion (RAB), has taken stringent security measures across the country for smooth celebration of the holy Eid-ul-Fitr, the greatest religious festival of Muslims. Sources at the RAB Headquarters said some 2,000 members of the force...
Security measures will be adequate at National Eidgah where the main Eid-ul-Fitr jamat (congregation) is scheduled to be held, Dhaka Metropolitan Police Commissioner Benazir Ahmed said on Monday. The DMP Commissioner visited the Eidgah to see the preparations and the...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday urged the world, especially the Muslim Ummah to stand up against the Israeli aggression on Gaza and the killings of the Palestinians. She lamented that the countries and organisations which are vocal against alleged...
NTPC Ltd is looking to start electricity generation from its thermal power project in Bangladesh by December 2018, says a report in The Telegraph. The report said NTPC had entered into a 50:50 joint venture with Bangladesh Power Development Board...
A fire gutted several tailoring shops at Narail Sadar Upazila on Sunday. The burned to ashes clothes and sewing machines worth Tk 1.2 million, the shop owners and fire service officials said. They said the fire originated in a shop...
A meeting of the National Moon Sighting Committee will be held on Monday (Ramadan 29) in the conference room of the Islamic Foundation at Baitul Mukarram in the city. The meeting will begin around 7.15pm to review the news of...
Dutch experts are heading to the site of the downed Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 in eastern Ukraine, officials say. It follows an agreement between international observers and pro-Russian separatists, the Ukrainian justice ministry says. Separately, Malaysia says it has struck...
The Israeli military says it is resuming air, ground and naval raids on Gaza as Palestinian militants continue to fire rockets after rejecting a humanitarian truce. Israel had accepted a UN request for a 24-hour humanitarian ceasefire, but warned it...
Secretariat, the seat of nation’s bureaucracy, was almost empty on Sunday. As the last working day before Eid started, most of the officers and staff signed the attendance register and left for home. After 11:30am, very few officers were found...
Light to moderate rain or thundershowers accompanied by temporary gusty wind is likely to occur at many places over Dhaka, Barisal, Chittagong and Sylhet divisions and at a few places over Rajshahi, Rangpur and Khulna divisions with moderately heavy to...
An alleged mugger was killed in a lynch-mob attack in the city’s Wari area on Sunday. The dead is Sajjadur Rahman Robin, 25, son of Saifur Rahman Liton of Bhajhari Saha Street in Wari. Police said when a gang of...
The central bank has issued currency notes of Tk 170 billion (17,000 crore) in the market ahead of the Holy Eid-ul-Fitr, the greatest religious festival of the Muslims. Out of the amount, Tk 100b is new and the rest of...
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