The Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) will interrogate Aslamul Haque, a ruling party MP (Dhaka-14), on March 5 next over the allegation of illegal wealth accumulation by him. The Commission on Wednesday sent a notice to Aslamul asking him to be...
International Development Association (IDA), the World Bank’s concessional arm, will provide additional $265 million for the ongoing Secondary Education Quality and Access Enhancement Project. Economic Relations Division (ERD) Secretary Mohammad Mejbahuddin and World Bank Country Director Johannes Zutt signed an...
The government has decided to demolish all illegal structures, including bazaars, on both sides of roads and highways across the country to improve the traffic situation. The decision was taken at a meeting of the cabinet committee on road safety...
The Ambassador of Chile to Bangladesh, based in New Delhi, Cristian Barros, Wednesday invited Bangladeshi entrepreneurs to start business in Chile under an initiative ‘Startup Chile’. The envoy informed that the Chilean government has taken an initiative, titled ‘Startup Chile’,...
A week after the first phase polls in 97 upazilas (UZs), the residents of 115 upazilas parishads of the country’s 52 districts are going to vote on Thursday to pick their long list of representatives to upazila parishads in the...
GAZIPUR: Miscreants vandalised 11 idols of Hindu gods and goddesses in a temple at Bataniachala in Kaliakoir upazila early Wednesday. Suryamohon Sarkar, general secretary of Sarbojanin Puja Mandir, said a gang of unidentified miscreants swooped on the temple sometime at...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday expressed her optimism that the GDP growth in the current fiscal year would hit 6.5 per cent and even more although the World Bank apprehended that it might come down to 5.7 per cent...
NEW DELHI: India's top court Wednesday ordered the arrest of the head of the giant Sahara business group for failing to appear in a case involving repayment of billions of dollars illegally collected from small investors. The Supreme Court issued...
The Election Commission has asked the law enforcers to be on ‘maximum alert’ to hold the second phase of the Upazila Parishad election smoothly Thursday. Polls will be held in 116 Upazilas and some 20 million voters are expected to...
India’s Navy Chief Admiral DK Joshi resigned Wednesday taking “moral responsibility” over the spate of mishaps involving naval warships in the last seven months, the Hindu reported. Admiral Joshi, who had about 15 months more left in service, submitted his...
Some 8.3 million employments were created in the last five years due to various pragmatic steps of her immediate past government, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina told the Parliament on Wednesday. Citing statistics, she said that at present, each percentage of...
Awami League MP-elect from Jessore-1 constituency Sheikh Afil Uddin who was yet to be sworn in came under attack by his party men in Jhikargachha upazila on Wednesday. Witnesses said supporters of ruling party-backed candidate in the upazila polls Monirul...
National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) Chairman Mizanur Rahman is unhappy about the lack of initiatives to bring feminist writer Taslima Nasrin back home. His reaction came at a view-exchange meeting on empowerment of women held at CIRDAP auditorium in the...
As part of her move to rejuvenate her party’s grassroots leaders through district tours, BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia is going to Rajbari on Saturday to address a public rally. Khaleda will address the rally to be organised by her party-led...
BANGKOK, Feb 25 (AFP): Thailand risks sliding into civil war after a wave of political violence that has claimed 21 lives including several children, top security and army officials warned Tuesday. Near-daily gun and grenade attacks in protest-hit Bangkok have...
KANO, Feb 25 (AFP): Suspected Boko Haram Islamists Tuesday killed 29 as they opened fire on secondary school students as they slept in a dormitory in Nigeria's troubled northeastern Yobe state, the military said. Casualty figures from the attack in...
SRINAGAR, Feb 25 (AFP): Hundreds of angry villagers clashed with police in Indian Kashmir on Tuesday following suspicions security forces shot dead seven civilians they mistook for rebels, a police officer and a witness said. The villagers torched a police...
JERUSALEM, Feb 25 (AFP): Israeli police Tuesday entered the sensitive Al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem's Old City to disperse stone-throwing Palestinian protesters, a police spokesman said. The clashes came as parliament was to debate a bill calling for Israeli sovereignty...
10 workers dead, 17 injured in Thai building collapse BANGKOK, Feb 25: At least 10 workers died and 17 others were injured when a large concrete beam collapsed Tuesday at a construction site just outside Bangkok, police said. Television footage...
RAJSHAHI, Feb 25 (BSS): Adverse impact of climate change has been posing a serious threat to indigenous fish species, particularly the small ones, as most of the water bodies are now dying in the region especially in its high Barind...
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JHENIDAH, Feb 25: Prize distribution ceremony of annual sports and merit development competition of Kaliganj Shur Niketon Pathshala under Jhenidah district was held at 11 am on Monday at the school premises. Prof. Amirul Alam Khan, Chairman of Jessore Secondary...
MIRSARAI, Feb 25 (UNB): It is wonderful. Many call it the second Foy's Lake, but lack of maintenance of its infrastructures and inadequate security measures for visitors are destroying all the prospects Mohamaya Lake has. Three years have elapsed since...
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GOPALGANJ, Feb 25: Farmers are cultivating BARI-16, a high yielding variety (HYV) mustard on their croplands as it has proved profitable in the district this year. According to Agriculture Extension Department (DAE), Gopalganj sources said, a total of 3,768 hectares...
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PABNA, Feb 25: A minor boy was slaughtered to death in Ishwardi upazila of Pabna on Monday night. Police recovered the body of the victim from a field of Mohadevpur village at about 9 pm on Monday. Police arrested the...
RANGPUR, Feb 25 (BSS): A Panchagarh court on Monday afternoon sentenced two brothers to life term rigorous imprisonment and fined them Taka 20,000 each, or in default, to suffer another six month jail term each, for murdering a man. District...
BENAPOLE, Feb 25 (UNB): A baul (Folk) singer was killed and two of his troupe members were injured in an attack by unidentified miscreants at Dumdia village in Sadar upazila of Jessore district on Monday night. The deceased was identified...
Commerce Minister Tofail Ahmed on Wednesday said Bangladesh would get duty-free market access to Chile from January 1 next year which will help boost Bangladesh’s export. He said a preferential trade agreement would be signed with Chile in line with...
NARSINGDI, Feb 25 (UNB): Police recovered the body of an expatriate with the throat slashed from Champaknagar village in sadar upazila here on Tuesday. Identified as Shafiqul Islam,30, son of Abul Kasem, a resident of the village, the deceased was...
BANGLADESH: Reigning World Cup champions India defeated hosts Bangladesh by six wickets in the second match of the Asia Cup one-day tournament in Fatullah Wednesday. Virat Kohli scored 136 off 122 balls as India surpassed Bangladesh's 279-7 in 49 overs....
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