BNP Acting Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Thursday said they will continue their movement until they achieve the victory. ‘BNP has been on a movement for the last five years to establish people’s rights. We’re still on the...
ALGIERS: An Air Algerie flight crashed Thursday en route from Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso to Algiers with 110 passengers on board, an Algerian aviation official said. There were few clear indications of what might of happened to the aircraft, or...
Bangladesh has progressed on the UNDP's Human Development Index with significant strides in closing the gap between men and women. On the index for year 2014 released on Thursday, Bangladesh has been placed at the 142nd position among 187 countries....
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said if Awami League (AL) had not been voted to power in the 2008 and 2014 general elections, winning the maritime boundary rights over Myanmar and India would not have been possible. "Questions could be...
Six days after its formation, the convening committee members of BNP’s Dhaka city unit on Thursday paid homage to party founder Ziaur Rahman by placing wreaths at his grave amid scuffles and tussles. The committee members, led by its convener...
Muslims across the country will observe the holy Lailatul Qadr, the night of divine blessings and benediction, on Friday night with due solemnity and religious fervour. The holy Quran was revealed on Prophet Hazrat Mohammad (pbuh) on this exalted night...
Agriculture Minister Matia Chowdhury on Thursday alleged that the USA is siding with Bangladesh war criminals and killers instead of advocating for peace for its poor people. “The US people and its President talk about human rights. They’re now desperate...
The Asian Centre of Human Rights, who campaigned for release of right-wing activist Adilur Rahman Khan, has now started a vicious campaign to reduce the nation's contribution to UN peace-keeping. Its report titled 'Bangladesh: Sending Death Squads To Keep THE...
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia, now in Saudi Arabia, has urged President of the Islamic Development Bank (IDB) Dr Ahmad Mohamed Ali to increase his bank’s assistance for Bangladesh’s socio-economic development. Khaleda made the request when Dr Ahmad met her at...
Commerce Minister Tofail Ahmed on Thursday said the Saarc countries should make a tangible progress in tariff concessions and removal of other trade barriers faster to turn Saarc into an effective trade block. “Unless it’s done, the dream of Safta...
As part of its global strategy, UK visa applications submitted in Bangladesh will be assessed by the visa section at the British High Commission in New Delhi from October 1. The visa section at the British High Commission in Dhaka...
Bangladesh Medical and Dental Council (BMDC) on Thursday suspended the registration of Dr Shafiul Azam for misconduct and deception as he assaulted Prothom Alo senior journalist Shishir Morol. Following the BMDC action, the doctor of ZH Sikder Women's Medical College...
At least 15 people have been killed and more than 200 injured when a UN-run school used as a shelter in Gaza was shelled, the Gaza health ministry says. Hundreds of Palestinians were in the school in Beit Hanoun, fleeing...
WASHINGTON: The International Monetary Fund lowered its 2014 global economic growth forecast Thursday, noting "negative surprises" from the United States and China and geopolitical risks in Ukraine and the Middle East. The IMF projected global growth of 3.4 per cent...
The British government wants to strengthen its relations with Bangladesh on all fronts to help Bangladesh take its development trajectory to a newer height, said Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali Thursday, according to a news agency. “The election is over....
The Supreme Court (SC) on Thursday trashed the graft case pending with the trial court against Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah, religious affairs secretary of the ruling Awami League (AL), as ‘being not pressed’. A three-member Appellate Division Bench, headed by Chief...
RANGPUR, July 23 (BSS): Massive infrastructural development works under the Test Relief (TR), Food for Work (FFW) and Works for Taka (Kabita) programmes have been completed at the costs of 10,570 tonnes of food grains and Taka 81.5 million during...
FARIDPUR, July 23 (BSS): Three remote villages of North Channel union of Faridpur Sadar Upazilla of this district were electrified yesterday evening through formal inauguration in a simple function held at Goldangi bazar ten miles away from district headquarter on...
RANGPUR, July 23 (UNB): Three motorcyclists were killed as a truck crashed into the motorbike they were riding on the Rangpur-Bogra Highway in Mithapukur upazila on Tuesday night. The deceased, identified as Firoz, 22, son of Majnu Mia, Arafat Rahman,...
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GOPALGANJ, July 23: The cultivation of exportable betel leaf is facing setback due to lack of proper attention and patronage of the department concerned. According to the Agriculture Extension Department (AED), Gopalganj official sources, about 450 bighas of land have...
RAJSHAHI, July 23 (BSS): Some ethnic leaders at a meeting here said fundamental rights particularly the land rights of the plain ethnic communities should be protected collectively. They viewed the disadvantaged people in the barind tract comprising Rajshahi, Naogaon and...
SUNAMGANJ, July 23 (UNB): A teenage boy was found dead at Jagadishpur village in Jagannathpur upazila on Tuesday evening. The deceased was identified as Afsar Miah,11, a resident of the village. Police said local people spotted the body of Afsar...
A writ petition was filed with the High Court (HC) on Thursday challenging the legality of holding the post of an NGO by Information and Communication Technology Secretary M Nazrul Islam Khan. Jiten Chandra Biswas, an official of non-government organisation ...
MANIKGANJ, July 23 (UNB): A young man was beaten to death allegedly by his neighbours at Kaliani village in Sadar upazila Tuesday. The deceased was identified as Abul Hossain,30, son of Nabin Miah, a resident of the village. Quoting locals,...
HABIGANJ, July 23 (UNB): Police recovered the bodies of three unidentified young men from rail track near Noapara railway station in Madhabpur upazila on Wednesday morning. Of the deceased, two were identified as Shipon, 30, son of Raisullah, and Butna,32,...
DINAJPUR, July 23 (BSS): Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) Dinajpur has taken up a programme to cultivate transplanted Aman on 2,49,800 hectares of land in 13 upazilas of the district during the current season. DAE sources said 30 percent cultivation...
Eid vacation begins at RUET Rajshahi University of Engineering and Technology (RUET) goes on a 12-day vacation for Shab-e-Qadr, Jumatul Wida and Eid-ul-Fitr from tomorrow, a RUET press release said here Wednesday. All sorts of academic and administrative activities will...
The High Court (HC) on Thursday ordered the government to establish pillars on the boundaries of the Turag and Balu rivers in two weeks after demarcating areas of the rivers in peak monsoon. It also asked the government to submit...
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