In separate incidents, two people were found dead in Jhenidah and Brahmanbaria districts Friday, reports UNB. In Jhenidah, the body of a farmer was recovered from a pond at Karamcha village under Maheshpur Upazila in the morning. The victim was...
BARGUNA, May 23 (UNB): A court here convicted Thursday a man and his nephew and sentenced them to life term imprisonment for killing his brother (father of the nephew) in 2004. The convicts are Mir Habibur Rahman and Mir Abu...
BARGUNA, May 23 (UNB): A court here convicted Thursday a man and his nephew and sentenced them to life term imprisonment for killing his brother (father of the nephew) in 2004. The convicts are Mir Habibur Rahman and Mir Abu...
Rain or thundershowers accompanied by temporary gusty or squally wind is likely to occur at one or two places over Dhaka, Rajshahi, Rangpur, Chittagong and Sylhet divisions and the regions of Jessore and Kushtia until 6:00 pm today (Saturday), reports...
Youth's body found in city The body of a youth was recovered from the New Market area in the city Friday. The victim was identified as Md Raju (22), an employee of a tailoring shop of the market, son of...
A unity among the affected people from both Bangladesh and India needs to be forged for putting international pressure on India to realise an equitable share of water of trans-boundary rivers, suggests Dr Akbra Ali Khan. "We need to proceed...
Awami League (AL) Advisory Council member and former Railway Minister Suranjit Sengupta alleged on Friday that a vested quarter carried out the killings in Nayaranganj, Feni and Laxmipur with the intention of jeopardising democratic practices in the country, reports BSS....
The Awami League (AL) will not contest the by-polls for Narayanganj-5 constituency slated for June 26. The seat fell vacant after the death of Jatiya Party MP Nasim Osman on April 30. The main opposition party's Presidium member was elected...
Information Minister Hasanul Haq Inu called Friday for stopping use of such information technology that hampers peace in public life, reports BSS. "We will have to use safe information technology keeping pace with the world by preventing objectionable issues and...
TANGAIL, May 23 (BSS): The political and diplomatic relations between Bangladesh and India will be strengthened further under the government of Narendra Modi, said Indian High Commissioner in Bangladesh Pankaj Saran. "Not only the political and diplomatic relations will get...
Speakers at a national convention urged the people on Friday to build a unity for realising due shares of 54 common river waters, including the Teesta, from India, reports UNB. They also demanded for establishing a coordinated water management at...
The government has undertaken a four-step action plan (FSAP) to create jobs in the IT sector and develop the entrepreneurs as IT industrialists, reports BSS. The FSAP made by the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Division are: creating computer literate...
CHITTAGONG, May 23 (BSS): Police arrested four activists of Jamaat-e-Islami from Satkania upazila of the district early Thursday. Satkania police in an overnight drive arrested the Jamaat activists from different areas of the upazila. The arrested persons were identified as...
SUNAMGANJ, May 23 (UNB): Indian Border Security Force (BSF) returned Friday a Bangladeshi national, who was picked up from Bagli frontier Wednesday. Havildar Khairul Islam of Charagaon BOP of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) said the BSF members handed over Musa...
CHITTAGONG, May 23 (BSS); Chittagong Metropolitan Police (CMP) arrested seven leaders and activists of banned militant outfit Hijbut Tahrir from the Andarkilla area in city's Kotwali thana on Friday. The identity of the arrested persons could not be known immediately....
FE Report The country posted a much lower current account surplus in March last than that in the corresponding period last year on higher payments for services. Economists say comparatively low receipts from transportation, travel and government services affected the...
FE Report Drivers of all modes of transportation must avoid the tendency of going through wrong direction on the city streets as Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) installed a new device Friday to prevent motor vehicles from using the wrong lane....
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina leaves the city for Japan midnight today (Saturday) on a four-day official tour, which is expected to usher in a new horizon in the Bangladesh-Japan relationship, reports UNB. This will be also Hasina's first bilateral visit...
Arafat Ara | 2014-05-24 00:00:00
The government will take actions against entities failing to comply with the mandatory jute packaging law from July 01 in a bid to ensure use of jute bags. State minister for textiles and jute Mirza Azam said mobile courts will...
FHM Humayan Kabir | 2014-05-24 00:00:00
The government is likely to set the gross domestic product (GDP) growth target at 7.3 per cent for the next fiscal year (2014-2015), officials said Friday. Economists, however, have found the target 'ambitious' in view of political uncertainty and deterioration...
KABUL, May 23(BBC): Heavily-armed gunmen launched a pre-dawn attack on the Indian consulate in the Afghan city of Herat. At least three attackers stormed nearby houses to fire on the compound with machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades, police said. The...
BANGKOK, May 23(Agencies) : Thailand's ex-PM Yingluck Shinawatra and a number of members of her family have been detained, as leaders of the nation's military coup tighten their grip on power. Ms Yingluck and scores of politicians from the deposed...
COMILLA, May 23: - A 30-kilometre tailback was created on Dhaka-Chittagong highway following a road accident in Daudkandi upazila of the district on Friday morning, causing sufferings to thousands of passengers. Highway police sources said vehicular movement was disrupted on...
Noakhali, May 23 A van driver was shot dead and several other people were injured in a gunfight between activists of the Awami League and BNP at Amishapara Bazar in Sonaimuri upazila on Friday. The deceased was identified as Zaber,...
Bangladesh Bank (BB) Governor Dr Atiur Rahman has been made chairman of the Board of Directors of the Asian Clearing Union (ACU) for 2015. The decision was taken at the 43rd meeting of the Board of Directors of ACU held...
The U.N. Security Council approved sanctions Thursday against Nigeria's Boko Haram, reports CNN. It added the terrorist group to the United Nation's 1267 sanctions list, a list of al Qaeda-linked organizations subject to arms embargoes, travel bans and asset freezes....
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