Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid has appealed to all not to do anything that disrupts the ongoing SSC examinations. He was speaking to reporters after visiting Motijheel Government Boys’ High School on the first day of Secondary School Certificate and...
Poet and journalist from the ‘60s Fazal Shahabuddin passed away on Sunday morning at the age of 78. Shahabuddin, the founding editor of the once popular weekly Bichitra, died at his home in Moddho Bashaboo in the city. A namaj-e-janaza...
A microbus driver was chopped to death by miscreants and the body was dumped in a betel-nut garden at Radhapur in Lakshmipur Sadar upazila on Saturday. The deceased was identified as Muradul Islam Sumon, 35, a microbus driver and son...
Country’s armed forces must remain vigilant and ready to face any threat and uphold the democratic trend and the Constitution, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina told a conference of generals here on Sunday. The conference was held at the Officers’ Mess...
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Stocks ended marginally lower Sunday with declining turnover value as investors moved cautiously amid profit booking tendency. The prime index of the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) --- DSEX --- ended at 4,822.71 points, shedding 22.37 points or 0.46 per cent...
Iran’s official news agency says hard-line lawmakers have accused President Hassan Rouhani of halting a scheduled missile exercise. The Sunday report by IRNA says 24 lawmakers in a statement said the Supreme National Security Council, headed by the president, stopped...
Police have recovered the bodies of two unidentified young women in Kamalganj upazila in Moulvibazar district. Police said locals found the bodies in Mirtinga tea garden and informed them. Police recovered the bodies and sent those to Moulvibazar Sadar Hospital...
Members of Indian Border Security Force (BSF) picked up a Bangladeshi national from Dabri border in Haripur upazila early Sunday. The victim was identified as Manglu Mohammad, 35, son of Kalu Mohammad of Dabri village in the upazila. BGB sources...
At least 15 people have been killed and 130 injured in a fire at a hotel used by pilgrims in the Saudi holy city of Medina, state media report. The blaze started on Saturday afternoon, the authorities say, in the...
One of India's most influential cricket journalist Lokendra Pratap Sahi has attacked the country's cricket board chief N Srinivasan for sacrificing ' Asian cricket unity' to pursue his personal ambitions. "Asian unity in cricket, much celebrated till not long ago,...
Australian High Commissioner in Dhaka Greg Wilcock on Sunday presented approximately AUD 220,000 (Tk 1.5 crore) to eight NGOs for community development in Bangladesh. The grants were made under the Australian High Commission’s Direct Aid Programme (DAP) 2013-14. The eight...
A two-day orientation programme for the members of parliament (MPs) who elected for the first-time began in the Parliament on Sunday. Speaker Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury inaugurated the programme with 50 MPs participating in it. The aim of the programme is...
Bangladesh earned Tk 41.59 billion by exporting 84.904.50 metric tons of different kinds of fishes in the last fiscal year (2012-13), which was less than the previous two years. Fisheries and Livestock Minister Md Sayedul Haq informed this in the...
The dividing line between politics and journalism has become more blurred than ever before in Bangladesh, says a report of the US-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). Bangladesh was among nine countries identified as facing decline in press freedom --...
Awami League informed the Election Commission (EC) that it has forged an alliance with six political parties to contest the elections to parliamentary seats kept aside for women. AL election conducting committee member Riazul Kabir Kawsar submitted a list of...
Russian officials on Sunday angrily denied a report that they were colluding with the Americans to help each other win figure skating gold at the Sochi Olympics. It follows a story in French newspaper L'Equipe quoting an unnamed Russian coach...
Deceased war crimes accused Jamaat-e-Islami leader AKM Yusuf’s body has been autopsied at the Dhaka Medical College and Hospital morgue. “He suffered brain haemorrhage, which is common in case of strokes,” Assistant Professor of Forensic Department AKM Shafiuzzaman said Sunday...
The country’s entire power distribution system will be brought under prepaid metering system by 2021, said State Minister for Power and Energy Nasrul Hamid in Dhaka on Sunday. He made the announcement at a contract signing ceremony of Dhaka Power...
Taking a dig at the Prime Minister, BNP alleged that Sheikh Hasina has boarded a hired Indian train having failed to catch a Bangladesh one. “The Prime Minister has failed to catch a train of Bangladesh Railways (BR) to have...
The High Court has directed the government to pay over Tk 4.3 million as compensation to Hindu families made targets of hate attacks in November last year in Santhia, Pabna. The bench of Justices Quazi Reza-Ul Hoque and Justice ABM...
GAZIPUR: Agriculture Minister Matia Chowdhury alleged that BNP-Jamaat had used Bangladesh as a transit for arms smuggling as they have no patriotism. “It’s been proved time and again that they (BNP-Jamaat) have no patriotism. They had used Bangladesh as a...
Saudi Arabia has assured Bangladesh of taking more doctors and health staff for its hospitals as the two countries agreed to work closely in the health sector. The health ministers of the two countries in a bilateral meeting in Riyadh...
Progotishil Chhatra Jote, a conglomerate of left-leaning student organisations, called a strike at Social Sciences and Arts faculties of Dhaka University on Tuesday to realise its four-point demand, especially bringing an end to evening courses in all public universities and...
Independent MP Haji Mohammad Selim voiced his strong resentment in Parliament Sunday for not being allowed to receive and welcome the Prime Minister at his constituency Friday. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Friday evening inaugurated the country’s first ‘light and sound...
Train communications of Chittagong with Dhaka and Sylhet remained suspended as a freight train bogie derailed in Gangasagar area of Akhaura upazila on Sunday evening. Sources at Akhaura Railway Station said two wheels of the bogie of the Dhaka-bound train...
RANGPUR, Feb 8 (BSS): 'Monga' eradication, one of the biggest successes of the immediate past government, has been taking a permanent shape following notable macroeconomic development of the poorer section people in Rangpur region. The present government has been conducting...
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KHULNA, Feb 8: The export of produced jute goods has been halted from 9 state-run jute mills of Khulna region and the goods remain stockpiled in the warehouses of the mills. The normal export has fallen during the last 3...
RAJSHAHI, Feb 8 (BSS): The Barind Multipurpose Development Authority (BMDA) has been implementing different need-based uplift projects to improve the socio- economic condition by increasing crop production side by side protecting the environment almost everywhere in the country's northwest region....
The Election Commission (EC) has sent the affidavits of five powerful politicians to the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) in response to the latter’s request for investigation into the allegation of their illegal wealth accumulation. The EC on Sunday sent the affidavits...
CHUADANGA, Feb 8 (UNB): Members of Indian Border Security Force (BSF) pushed back nine Bangladeshi people into the Bangladesh territory through Darshana border early Friday. They were identified as Khwaja Sheikh, 30, Dwin Islam, 40, Faruk Sheikh, 33, Nahid, 20,...
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