FHM Humayan Kabir | 2025-04-06 00:00:00
After more than one and a half decades, the World Bank is coming forward with its technical assistance to conduct a feasibility study on greening the operations of Bangladesh Railway (BR), officials said on Saturday.The global lender has recently proposed...
Rain/thunder showers with lightning flashes and temporary gusty wind is likely to occur at one or two places over Dhaka, Mymensingh, Chattogram and Sylhet divisions in the next 24 hours from 06:00 am today (Sunday), according to the Met Office....
Tens of thousands of pilgrims from home and abroad joined Mahatirtha Snanotsav, a traditional holy bath of Hindus, at Brahmaputra River at three kilometre-long holy pilgrimage site of Langalband here since early hours of Saturday, reports BSS.Pilgrims are participating in...
Dengue claimed another life and 10 more people were hospitalised across the country in the 24 hours till Saturday morning, raising the year's death toll to 14 and total cases to 1,902, according to the Directorate General of Health Services...
Some 10.7 million mobile users left Dhaka during the extended nine-day public holiday for Eid ul-Fitr, spanning from March 28 to April 3, reports UNB.This information, based on data from the Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC), covers users of four...
FE REPORT All the government offices, public and private banks, financial institutions, and capital market reopen today (Sunday) following a nine-day-long Eid vacation.On Saturday, returning city dwellers faced trouble at Kamalapur Railway Station, Sadarghat launch terminal, and bus terminals at...
Against the backdrop of an increasingly complex and uncertain global political and economic landscape, the just-held 6th BIMSTEC Summit has reaffirmed BIMSTEC's crucial role in forging regional cooperation to enable the member states to deal with their shared security and...
Environment, Forest and Climate Change Adviser Syeda Rizwana Hasan on Saturday said waste must not be burned under any circumstances - whether at the Matuail Sanitary Landfill or anywhere else, reports BSS.Talking to journalists after inspecting the Matuail landfill in...
Workers of an electric goods shop were pictured unloading ceiling fans from a covered van in the city's Nawabpur area on Saturday, as the ever busy business hub in Old Dhaka has got back its normal face after a nine-day...
Foreign relations experts on Saturday observed that follow-up talks should start quickly on Rohingya repatriation as Myanmar has confirmed that out of over 1.30 million of the ethnic minority Muslim people, who took makeshift refuge in Bangladesh, 180,000 are eligible...
RANGPUR, April 5 (BSS): National Citizen Party (NCP) Member Secretary Akhtar Hossain said they will never accept the rehabilitation of the Awami League, accusing the ousted party of committing genocide and crimes against humanity in Bangladesh. "If anyone from the...
The United States has revoked the visa of a Bangladeshi student and detained her after she participated in a protest against Israeli actions in Gaza. In a separate incident, another Bangladeshi student was arrested even though a previous theft case...
KHULNA, April 05 (BSS): Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami Secretary General Prof Mia Golam Parwar said efforts to reinstate fascist Awami League (AL) in the country will not be tolerated.He reiterated people no longer want to see any form of autocracy in power.The...
FE REPORT Police have arrested a Sramik League leader for his alleged involvement in killing a shop employee during students' movement against discrimination in July 2024. The arrestee was identified as Alamgir Hossain (45), a former general secretary of the...
Home Adviser Lieutenant General Md Jahangir Alam Chowdhury (Retd.) on Saturday said Bangladesh always practises secularism as there was no difference among the people having different religious faiths, reports BSS."Bangladesh has always practised secularism. There is no such secularism like...
PATUAKHALI, Apr 5 (UNB): A 17-year-old boy who sustained bullet injuries to the head during the July uprising in Dhaka died at a hospital in Bauphal upazila of Patuakhali district on Friday.The deceased was identified as Ashiqur Rahman, also known...
BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Saturday said the talks between Bangladesh Chief Adviser Professor Dr Muhammad Yunus and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi created a ray of hope for the nation, reports BSS."It's a matter of great...
RANGPUR, April 5 (BSS): Chief Justice Dr Syed Refaat Ahmed on Saturday emphasised the foundational role of judicial independence in upholding the rule of law."Judicial reform is no longer a distant aspiration, it is unfolding now, he told a seminar...
A turf war between rival groups in Shariatpur's Zajira Upazila has turned violent as men wearing helmets hurled crude bombs from buckets in an open field, reports bdnews24.com.The scene, which resembled a war film, unfolded on Saturday morning in the...
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressed deep respect for Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus and praised his contributions during their bilateral meeting held in Bangkok on Friday, reports UNB."We saw her (Hasina's) disrespectful behaviour towards you. But we continued to...
TANJIM HASAN PATWARY | 2025-04-06 00:00:00
Media works as an intermediary between the wheel of events and the mass people to transmit news or motion from time to time, which undoubtedly smooths the way for the thirst to know the ongoing phenomena in the world. In...
Anindeta Chowdhury | 2025-04-06 00:00:00
We all must have imagined a scenario that someday we will just stop going to the office without even giving them notice. Guess what, the dream has become now a reality and many people are practising it in different sectors....
Khalid Saifullah Khan | 2025-04-06 00:00:00
Without digital literacy, we risk being left behind like medieval people, and the vision of building a 'smart Bangladesh' will remain a pipe dream, as it is right now. Even though the idea of digital literacy has been introduced in...
MAGURA, Apr 05 (BSS): A van driver was killed in a road accident near Binodpur Bazar intersection under Mohammadpur upazila in Magura district on Saturday.The deceased was identified as Mohammad Ali, 45, a resident of Mollapara village in Binodpur union...
SATKHIRA, Apr 05 (UNB): A man was killed by his brother in a dispute over fishing in the Kalaroa upazila of Satkhira on Saturday.The deceased has been identified as Mosharraf Hossain, 60, son of the late Fazr Ali of Boalia...
OUR CORRESPONDENTCOX'S BAZAR, Apr 05: Tourists from both home and abroad in their multitudes thronged the Cox's Bazar sea beach during the Eid-ul-Fitr holiday since Monday (March 31) for merrymaking following the trend as ever. Tour loving people in their...
RANGAMATI, Apr 05 (BSS): The 10-day Baisakhi Fair begun on Saturday at Majherbosti of the district marking the 'Boisabi Utsab' (Festival), the biggest traditional event in the hill regions, and Pahela Boishakh, the first day of Boishakh in the Bengali...
MOUNT MAUNGANUI, New Zealand, Apr 05 (AFP): Pakistan's brittle batting was exposed again as a Ben Sears-inspired New Zealand won the third and final one-day international by 43 runs Saturday to sweep the series 3-0.The tourists were dismissed for 221...
Bangladesh's young leg spinner Rishad Hossain is chuffed to about finally making it to a franchise-based T20 tournament abroad, after missing it out on two occasions earlier, reports Cricbuzz.Rishad, who earned the spotlight after his noteworthy performance in the last...
The seventh round of the Bangladesh Championship League (BCL), the country's second-tier professional football competition, begins today (Sunday) after the Eid-ul-Fitr holiday with three matches scheduled at different venues in the capital and its adjoining areas, reports BSS.On the day,...
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