A minor boy was burnt to death in a fire in Kaliakoir upazila in Gazipur district early Saturday. Police and locals said the fire originated from an electric short circuit at a house at Bhannara on Friday night and soon...
Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) personnel rescued 40 people, including women and children, from the clutches of human traffickers while they were being trafficked to India through Benapole union of Sharsha upazila in Jessore on Saturday. Acting on secret information, a...
A big fire in an old building at Al-Jamia district in Saudi Arabia’s capital Jeddah killed two Bangladeshi nationals and injured five Yemenis on Friday. Civil Defence’s firefighting teams tamed the blaze and rescued the injured. The injured were admitted...
A fire has broken out at a shoe factory at Karnaphuli Export Processing Zone in the outskirts of Chittagong city. The fire started around 1pm on Saturday, said Jasim Uddin, deputy assistant director at Chittagong Fire Service Station. Three firefighting...
At least two construction workers have been killed and two others injured as a wall collapsed on them at an under construction building at Badda in Dhaka city on Saturday. The identities of the deceased could not be known immediately....
Four railway stations on Sylhet-Akhaura route have remained closed over the last four years due to shortage of manpower, including station masters, much to the sufferings for the passengers. The four shut stations are Tilagaon and Bhatera stations in Kulaura...
BNP chairperson’s adviser and Bangladesh Bar Council vice-chairman Khandaker Mahbub Hossain has urged the government to arrange a referendum to test its popularity. “The government doesn’t believe in people’s power,” he said while addressing a discussion organised by All Community...
Artworks of Rokeya Sultana and Kanak Chanpa Chakma, two eminent women artists from Bangladesh, have been selected for exhibition at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris.UNESCO Director General Irina Bokova will inaugurate the exhibition on March 7 and will remain open to...
Expressing doubt whether his party would be able to play a strong role as opposition in parliament, Jatiya Party chairman HM Ershad on Saturday said it would have been better had his party not joined the cabinet.“Everybody, even me, has...
Good news awaits workers seeking overseas jobs as the government is expecting a positive outcome from the negotiations with some Middle Eastern countries to tap the labour markets therein, according to officials. The government has already struck some progress with...
Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) announced Saturday the 15-member Bangladesh squad for the three-match One Day International (ODI) series on February 17, 20 and 22 against Sri Lanka to be held at Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in tne city. Bangladesh Squad: Mushfiqur...
Deputy Speaker Fazle Rabbi Mia urged BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia to regret her political mistakes. “You (Khaleda) have ruined the country…you’ve done a blunder by boycotting the parliamentary polls and now paying the price for the mistake. Now you should...
Bangladesh Bank (BB) governor Atiur Rahman called on banks to lower their lending rates for microfinance institutions. Addressing the inauguration of Dhaka Microfinance Conference 2014, the central governor noted that the interest on deposits has already been lowered by 2...
A strong earthquake, of 4.6 magnitude, has hit the western Greek island of Kephalonia. No damage has been reported. The tremor occurred at 9:31 a.m. Saturday at sea, west of the island, 25 kilometers (16 miles) below the sea surface,...
Two people have been killed in an alleged gunfight between law enforcers and unknown miscreants at capital Dhaka’s Jatrabarhi, police say. Jatrabarhi Police Station Sub-Inspector (SI) Emranul Islam said the incident took place around 5:30pm Saturday at Sutikhalparh’s Balur Math...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday sought cooperation and support from the people of country, including the sports-loving ones, in successfully hosting the ensuing ICC World Twenty20 to be held in Bangladesh from March 16 to April 6 this year....
The bodies of two local leaders of Jamaat–e-Islami and its student body Islami Chhatra Shibir in Pirgachha upazila were exhumed from their respective family graveyards for postmortems on Saturday, 40 days after their burial. Police exhumed the bodies of Merazul...
A video-message said to be from Al-Qaeda’s current chief Dr Ayman Al-Zawahiri is circulating on the Internet, calling on Muslims in Bangladesh to resist the evil plans of the ‘leading criminals in the subcontinent and the West against Islam.’ bdnews24.com...
JESSORE: Seven primary school students were killed and 40 others injured as a bus carrying picnickers plunged into a pond at Jhautala in Chougachha upazila on Jessore-Meherpur Highway Saturday night. Officer-in-charge of Chougachha Police Station Motiur Rahman said the bus...
BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Saturday demanded an exemplary punishment of the law enforcers who allegedly killed its activist Jahangir Hossain of Mohanpur village in Sirajganj after his alleged forced disappearance. In a statement, Alamgir said...
Hifazat-e Islam claimed that it has no relations with the audio message of Al-Qaeda’s current chief Dr Ayman Al-Zawahiri, calling to resist anti-Islam forces in Bangladesh. “We think the audio message which is being circulated in the name of Al-Qaeda...
Reaffirming India’s commitment to economic development of Bangladesh, President Pranab Mukherjee says the two countries must sustain and accelerate the current momentum in all areas of bilateral cooperation. "A democratic, stable and prosperous Bangladesh is in India's interest. Geographic and...
The UN mediator Lakhdar Brahimi has apologised to the Syrian people after peace talks in Geneva ended without making progress. He had held final discussions with both sides in Geneva in a last-ditch bid to break the stalemate between the...
Police recovered three bodies of newborn babies from different spots of the city’s Mohammadpur area Saturday. Mohammadpur police said they recovered two bodies of newborns from a dustbin adjacent to Novodoy Housing and another from a dustbin in front of...
Turkish MPs have approved controversial plans to reform the country’s top judicial body, amid a brawl which left one opposition MP with a broken nose. The government wants the Supreme Board of Judges and Prosecutors - the HSYK - to...
Nilratan Halder | 2014-02-15 00:00:00
A young officer in the revenue department posed a question the other day, 'How much money does one need?' Apparently sounds naïve but this simple question adds extra meaning when it comes from someone who has the opportunity to stash...
ABM Ahsanullah | 2014-02-15 00:00:00
During our seven months' stay, rather a long sojourn, on UCR campus we visited several historical sites and tourist resorts, after every two weeks when Farhan would come from Oregon where he took up a job in Intel Inc. On...
Nazir Ahmed | 2014-02-15 00:00:00
Bangladeshi Muslims living in the United Kingdom and Europe are very kind and generous when it comes to donating money to charity. They have proved their generosity and shown their apparent kindness in the last decade or so by donating...
Iftu Ahmed from Aurora, IL, USA | 2014-02-15 00:00:00
No one knows when the first cricket of Mymensingh was played. No doubt that at the very outset of the nineteenth century, cricket was played in Mymensingh with great enthusiasm. It does not mean that cricket was not played in...
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