The members of Detective Branch (DB) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police on Friday arrested six people with about 4 kilograms of cocaine in the city. A team of detectives conducted a drive in Khilkhet in Dhaka city and held a group...
Jahangirnagar University (JU) has expelled a leader of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) on charge of assaulting a teacher. Mamun Khan had attacked the university’s Urban and Regional Planning Department chairman, Associate Professor Golam Mainuddin. Mamun is a student of the...
Canadian firefighters searched the ashes of a Quebec retirement home on Thursday after it burned nearly to the ground on a bleak midwinter night, leaving more than 30 residents feared dead. Quebec police confirmed five fatalities from the blaze, while...
ASM Feroz has been appointed as the Chief Whip in the 10th Parliament. The Patuakhali MP was a Whip in the 9th Parliament. Along with him, Sherpur MP Md Atiur Rahman Atik, Dinajpur MP Iqbalur Rahim, Maulvibazar MP Md Shahab...
Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) personnel recovered 3,000 pieces of sex stimulating Indian Enegra tablet from Laudubi village in Kolaroa upazila of Satkhira district on Friday morning. Subedar Abul Kalam of BGB 38-battalion said a BGB patrol team conducted a drive...
A university student allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself at his house in South Surma upazila in Sylhet on Thursday afternoon. The deceased was identified as Mostafizur Rahman, 22, son of Abdus Salam of Shuklampur village in the upazila, according...
A car bomb has exploded outside the police headquarters in Egypt's capital, killing four people and wounding 51, Egypt's health ministry says. The powerful blast was felt across Cairo and black smoke could be seen rising over the city centre,...
North Korea has sent an open letter to the South calling for reconciliation and an end to "hostile military acts". The letter, published in North Korea's state media, comes weeks before South Korea is due to hold joint military drills...
Two devotees have died on the Biswa Ijtema grounds on the bank of river Turag early Friday. They were Abdul Mojid, 65, of Sirajganj and Omar Ali, 48, son of Asar Ali of Keraniganj, said Uttara Zone SB Inspector Billal...
An Afghan official says a gunman on a motorcycle opened fire at a group of local cricket players, killing five of them during a game in eastern Laghman province in Kabul. A provincial spokesman, Sarhadii Zhouak, says the attack took...
Police arrested a suspected member of banned outfit Hizbut Tahrir Bangladesh from a mosque at Bashiruddin Road in city’s Kalabagan on Friday afternoon. On October 23, 2009, the government banned all kinds of activities of Hizbut Tahrir Bangladesh in the...
Police arrested a suspected member of banned Islamist outfit Hizbut Tahrir Bangladesh from a mosque at Bashiruddin Road in Dhaka’s Kalabagan on Friday afternoon. On October 23 in 2009, the government banned all kinds of activities of Hizbut Tahrir Bangladesh...
The overall development of Padma Multipurpose Bridge has so far reached only 10 per cent, according to an official document. In the completed 10 per cent, most the works of land acquisition, land development and rehabilitation have been done. However,...
Salma, a woman worker who was miraculously found alive beneath the debris several days after the horrific Rana Plaza building collapse at Savar, has committed suicide. Police said the readymade garment worker, who was just 27, hanged herself Friday morning....
The government, seized by the spirit of BAKSAL, has pushed democracy to the brink of death, Khaleda Zia has said, urging people to unite against it. “We have to swear today to overthrow this anti-democratic regime that came to power...
The UN human rights chief has called on Burma to investigate reports that dozens of Rohingya Muslims have been killed in attacks by Buddhists in Rakhine state. In a statement, Navi Pillay said a "full, prompt and impartial investigation" was...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will visit Gaibandha Saturday on a day-long visit to meet the family members of those killed and wounded in the recent polls related violence. She will exchange views at Gaibandha Circuit House at 12.45 pm with...
Industries Minister Amir Hossain Amu on Friday said that the BNP’s decision to join the upazila elections proves Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was on the right path about the 10th general election. “BNP’s decision to participate in the upazila elections...
Garment exporters are now breathing easy as foreign buyers are beginning to return, with Bangladesh getting down to business after a spell of political upheaval. Upset over deadly factory fires, collapsing buildings, raging workers’ unrest over wages, and relentless political...
The Sri Lanka Cricket team, led by Anjelo Mathews arrived in the capital today (Friday) to play two Tests, three ODI and two Twenty20 matches against the Bengal Tigers. The Island-nation Sri Lanka team comprises 15 players and 10 officials....
East West University (EWU) and Northern University of Bangladesh (NUB) won their respective matches in the 7th ULAB Fair Play Cup Inter-Private University T20 Cricket Tournament at the ULAB playground in Mohammadpur in the city Friday. In the days’ first...
The Jamaat-e-Islami is and will be an ally of the BNP in future, Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has made it clear. "Jamaat is a key member party of the 18-Party alliance. That's why Jamaat was with BNP and will be,"...
LONDON: Europe's main stock markets slid further Friday on continued concerns about the Chinese economy and a renewed bout of turbulence in emerging market currencies. London's FTSE 100 index of top companies dropped 1.01 per cent to stand at 6,704.87...
Stressing that the business and politics should not be mixed up, Commerce Minister Tofail Ahmed Friday urged all to come under the same platform rising above differences in the greater interest of the country’s economy. “We’re marching ahead economically. We’ll...
The bitter cold is hindering the search for as many as 30 elderly and infirm Canadians unaccounted for after a fire destroyed a Quebec old people's home. Crews are struggling in temperatures of -21C (-6F) in L'Isle-Verte, a day after...
Our Correspondent | 2014-01-24 00:00:00
RANGPUR, Jan 23: Potato growers of Rangpur district are apprehensive about the output of the most popular vegetable during the current season as potato fields at different upazilas under the district have been affected due to late blight disease. According...
Our Correspondent | 2014-01-24 00:00:00
CHUADANGA, Jan 23: Thousands of poor, ultra poor and rootless people of Chuadanga district are suffering greatly for lack of necessary warm cloths as cold wave is sweeping over the district. The biting cold, dense fog and chilling winds crippled...
FARIDPUR, Jan 23 (BSS): Three week long Measles - Rubella vaccination campaign , as part of the countrywide programme will begin in the district from January 25 with the target of vaccinating 95 percent children aged 9 months to 15...
JOYPURHAT, Jan 23 (BSS): Rajshahi Krishi Unnayan Bank (RAKUB) Joypurhat region has distributed over Taka 426.3 million as agricultural loans among 5,978 farmers of the district during the first six months of the current fiscal through its 15 branches. RAKUB...
KHULNA, Jan 23 (UNB): A sexagenarian man was crushed under the wheels of a train in the city on Wednesday. The deceased was identified as Wasiullah, 60, a resident of Kulbari in Demra area of the capital. GRP police said...
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