Friday, September 29, 2023 09:07:40 AM
Friday, September 29, 2023 09:07:40 AM
The Ganajagaran Mancha has planned an anti-communal march from Dhaka to Jessore on Jan 10-11 in protest against attacks on ...
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Police have detained BNP Vice Chairperson Selima Rahman on Tuesday, hours after she announced the extension of the party’s ongoing ...
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Police have arrested BNP chairperson\'s adviser and Bar Council Vice Chairman Khandaker Mahbub Hossain. He was nabbed as soon as ...
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Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will meet President Abdul Hamid after sweeping the 10th parliamentary elections. The meeting has been scheduled ...
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Instead of following the US in debunking the recent Bangladesh elections as \'not credible\', the UN has chosen to lambaste ...
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Jatiya Party chief HM Ershad takes oath as Member of the10th Parliament ending all speculations Jatiya Party chief Hussein Muhammad ...
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The Chairman of the US Senate Foreign Relations CommitteeRobert Menendez have written Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and BNP ChairpersonKhaleda Zia ...
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Ministers, state ministers and deputy ministers ofSheikh Hasina-led new government have started assuming office.Staff at the respective ministries greeted the ...
0 CommentsPeople from all walks of life paid their ...
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The first session of the 10th National Parliament ...
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BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has said thatBangladesh has been stripped of democracy and that it must be restored througha movement. ...
0 CommentsThere is mounting criticism of the New Zealand government for getting a 60-seat boat built cheaply in Bangladesh instead of ...
0 CommentsLocal Hajj agencies need not to take approval from Bangladesh Bank to send collateral money to Saudi agents for those ...
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The new government\'s major challenge is to restore faith in a bid to accelerate economy, former Bangladesh Bank Governor Md ...
0 CommentsIndian High Commissioner in Dhaka Pankaj Saran is meeting with BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia for first time after the general ...
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Miscreants have exploded two handmade bombs near the rally venue of Ganajagaran Mancha in Bogra.
Angry Mancha activists thrashed two youths ...
The parliamentary polls over, the Election Commission now plans to conduct the Upazila Parishad elections from next month.
It is expected ...
The BNP wants to maintain good relations with India, Khaleda Zia has told Indian High Commissioner in Dhaka Pankaj Saran.
But ...
A Union Parishad chairman at Natore’s Shingra hasbeen ...
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Elections will be held in 102 Upazila Parishads onFeb 19.The Election Commission has announced the poll schedule onSunday. Their terms ...
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Five leaders of BNP, including three standingcommittee members, have been granted bail by the High Court in two cases filedwith ...
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Police's Detective Branch has detained three African nationals from Dhaka's Uttara with equipment to produce fake US dollars.The arrests were ...
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The High Court has granted bail to Bar Council ViceChairman Khandker Mahbub Hossain in a case of instigating violence. The ...
0 CommentsIt is time to leave the official accommodation for those who have failed to make it to the parliament. MPs, ...
0 CommentsUnidentified miscreants have hacked to death aleader of Ramna Swechchhasebak League unit in a lane near the busy Moghbazarintersection in ...
0 CommentsBangladeshis, holding Green Cards in the US, will now have to pay tax on money they have in their accounts ...
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Law Minister Anisul Huq says he is exploring whether 195 Pakistan army personnel, released over forty years ago under the ...
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Locals have rescued 35 persons from the capsized launch in Patuakhali. Many are still trapped in the sunken vessel, said ...
0 CommentsThe High Court has ordered not to arrest or harass BNP leaders Sadek Hossain Khoka, Ruhul Kabir Rizvi and Golam ...
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Two men suspected for their involvement in theKishorganj Sonali bank heist have been arrested in Dhaka with five sacks ofcurrency ...
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Former communist chief minister of West Bengal, Buddhadev Bhattacharjee has attacked his successor Mamata Banerjee for opposing the Teesta river ...
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Rajshahi University authorities have called anemergency syndicate meeting hours after police and Bangladesh Chhatra League(BCL) attacked students demanding the cancellation ...
0 CommentsThe High Court has stopped hearing a matter after feeling \'uneasy\' by a minister\'s phone call.
The bench by Justices Sharif ...
RAB have arrested Md Saidur Rahman Shahid aliasShahid ...
0 CommentsThe Supreme Court Bar Association has demanded the removal of the minister who on Monday had phoned one of the ...
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A trainer aircraft of the Bangladesh Air Force(BAF) pulled ...
0 CommentsMinisters and MPs had a somewhat \'casual\' day in Parliament on Thursday with many taking a nap, chatting, reading newspapers ...
0 CommentsMominul Haque\'s gritty century earned Bangladesh adraw in the ...
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Bangladesh\'s economy has not been hit too hard amid unprecedented political violence in the last six months, Finance Minister Abdul ...
0 CommentsThe High Court has granted bail to Fahima Islam Lopa, a suspect in the murder of Juba League leader Riazul ...
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Renowned sociologist and former Dhaka Universityprofessor Rangalal Sen has passed away. He died at a Chittagong hospital on Monday afternoon, ...
0 CommentsResults of an opinion poll conducted by the US -based International Republican Institute (IRI) shows Bangladeshis are deeply concerned about ...
0 CommentsThe High Court has ordered a jetty, under construction on the Meghna at Brahmanbaria\'s Ashuganj, to be removed.
Justices Salma Masud ...
British lawyer Toby Cadman has said his petition to the International Criminal Court (ICC) at The Hague for investigating the ...
0 CommentsJamaat-e-Islami and its student wing Islami Chhatra Shibir have no relation with al-Qaeda, the Islamist party has claimed.Their claim comes ...
0 CommentsCustoms officials have detained a cleaner with 40 gold bars worth Tk 20 million at the Shahjalal International Airport.
Jainal, 45, ...
A resolution has been introduced in the US Congress to promote International Mother Language Day in the country.
US Representative Grace ...
Elimination of the roots of militancy in Bangladesh should be the country\'s top priority, National Human Rights Commission Chairman Mizanur ...
0 CommentsA Awami Juba League activist has been killed in Khulna's Koira, three days after the Upazila polls.Local Awami League leaders ...
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At least 40 percent of the readymade garment factories in Bangladesh do not pay minimum wages to their workers, claims ...
0 CommentsThe Sonali Bank has incurred a loss of Tk 20 million last year after hackers breached its vulnerable \"password and ...
0 CommentsPolice have announced Tk 200,000 as bounty for each of the three top militants of Jam'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) freed ...
0 CommentsA passenger has allegedly been beaten to death simply because he refused to pay Tk 2 more for the fare ...
0 CommentsLocals in Patuatoli have destroyed a banner on Shaheed Ajmal Hossain Hall, minutes after it was put up by Jagannath ...
0 CommentsMembers of the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) on Sunday seized about 11 kilograms of gold and arrested a man after ...
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The photo along with a report on the ongoing construction of a power plant in Fatulla was published in the ...
0 CommentsMiscreants have decamped with unspecified amount of cash from a branch of Sonali Bank at Bogra\'s Adamdighi Upazila by digging ...
0 CommentsMamun Ahmed didn\'t think twice about becoming a software programmer after graduating in computer science from a public university.
The 27-year ...
Exporters, importers, producers for local market will be entitled to forex travel quota of $ 400 a day, $ 4000 ...
0 CommentsOmanese officials have said that nearly 70,000 of the total number Bangladeshi workers in that country have 'run away' from ...
0 CommentsThe capital market is now \'stable\' due to the government\'s efforts to bring it back on an even keel since ...
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The High Court has found Prothom Alo Joint Editor Mizanur Rahman Khan guilty of gross contempt for two of his ...
0 CommentsLoan distributions in the banking sector have failed to keep up with a steady increase in deposits in the last ...
0 CommentsRebutting a minister\'s claim, the Islami Bank has said it has donated Tk 30 million for the Independence Day event ...
0 CommentsYet another schoolboy injured in the Jessore picnic bus accident has died, taking the death toll in the February tragedy ...
0 CommentsThe Bangladesh consul general in New York has claimed that allegation of his ex-servant working for free under \'slavery-like conditions\' ...
0 CommentsThe BNP has accused the ruling Awami League of massively rigging the fourth phase of the Upazila elections by forcing ...
0 CommentsPosts, Telecommunications and Information Technology Minister Abdul Latif Siddique allegedly beat an engineer of the Power Development Board (PDB) in ...
0 CommentsA minister of Bangladesh\'s ruling coalition has suggested not to ban the Jamaat-e-Islami-but only if the party offered a public ...
0 CommentsA madrasa teacher has been slaughtered by a local youth allegedly for protesting sexual harassment of a girl at Shahjadpur ...
0 CommentsThe High Court has asked for all internal reports of police about the firing on agitating students of Rajshahi University ...
0 CommentsFinance Minister AMA Muhith has admitted that the amount of \'black money\' in the economy is rising, adding that a ...
0 CommentsBangladesh will soon have separate \'industrial villages\' for the readymade garment sector, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said.
She urged the ...
Bangladesh\'s foreign exchange reserves have reached yet another milestone by crossing $20 billion-mark, mainly due to buoyant remittance flow and ...
0 CommentsRuhul Amin Howlader has been removed from the post of Jatiya Party\'s Secretary General, said Chairman HM Ershad\'s spokesperson Sunil ...
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The government wants to \'silence\' the Ganajagaran Mancha movement since it no longer serves the interests of the ruling party, ...
0 CommentsEleven personnel of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) have been injured in an explosion while they were disposing of drugs in ...
0 CommentsA Supreme Court Justice has urged everyone to come forward and protect Bangladesh from the powerful \'mafia syndicates\' which are ...
0 CommentsTwo siblings have died and at least 20 others, including the seven members of a family, have been hospitalised after ...
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Indian motorcycle manufacturer Hero Motor Corporation and Bangladesh\'s Nitol-Niloy Group will jointly set up a plant in Bangladesh.
The two companies ...
Bangladesh\'s taka has got stronger against the US dollar reporting a steady exchange rate for a year amid periodic intervention ...
0 CommentsIntern doctors at the Sir Salimullah Medical College and Hospital, better known as Mitford hospital, have called off their strike.
Their ...
Water levels in the mercurial Teesta river have dramatically risen and fallen with a span of a few hours.
On Wednesday, ...
The sudden spike in the water levels of the Teesta river has sent the two major political parties of Bangladesh ...
0 CommentsIt seems Ticfa will not be the forum for discussing duty-free market access for Bangladesh exports to the US.
The Assistant ...
Bangladesh has announced it is eliminating duty on the import of fire-safety equipment in the first US-Bangladesh Ticfa meeting in ...
0 CommentsPolice on Tuesday recovered an AK-22 rifle, seven bullets, two magazines, 10 detonators and three sluice-gate knives at the Kamalapur ...
0 CommentsThe government has banned black or tinted glasses on microbus starting from May 10 after the recent rise in abductions ...
0 CommentsBangladesh's second war crimes tribunal is expected to deliver a verdict in Jamaat-e-Islami leader Mir Quasem Ali's case any day ...
0 CommentsAKM Shamin Osman has advised authorities to check if \'members of a law-enforcing agency\' are behind the murders of seven ...
0 CommentsA first-grader has moved High Court to return to school after being forced to leave following a row between her ...
0 CommentsSenior Awami League leader Suranjit Sengupta came down hard on the home ministry, criticising its role in seven murders in ...
0 CommentsPolice have seized the shotgun belonging to the brother of Nur Hossain, the prime suspect in the abduction and murder ...
0 CommentsThe lawyers in Narayanganj have threatened to lay siege to the RAB-11 office on May 11 if the investigation into ...
0 CommentsBangladesh\'s balance of payment surplus has declined with increasing imports.
According to central bank statistics released on Thursday, the surplus stood ...
Minister Mofazzal Hossain Chowdhury Maya, whose son-in-law led RAB-11 during the sensational seven murders in Narayanganj, has issued a statement ...
0 CommentsBNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has asked the government to break up Bangladesh\'s elite anti-crime force Rapid Action Battalion (RAB).
The force, ...
Family members of slain Narayanganj City councillor Nazrul Islam are meeting Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at Ganabhaban.They were seen entering ...
0 CommentsChina has signed four military agreements with Bangladesh to enhance Dhaka\'s defence capabilities.
They were signed on Monday in presence of ...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has ordered the state minister for home not to spare anyone involved in Narayanganj mayhem.
Authorities have ...
Manufacturers have demanded of the government an import duty cut on \'Urea Resin\', a raw material which is used to ...
0 CommentsOne person was killed and two others were sustained burn injuries as a TV set at a house in Dhaka\'s ...
0 CommentsThe High Court has asked the committee investigating the Narayanganj multiple murders to report progress by June 4.
The investigation body, ...
Bangladesh\'s ambassador in Greece has come under investigation for his alleged abusive comments on ruling Awami League and its ministers.
Golam ...
Incensed by the police not showing disgraced RAB officers arrested in the multiple-murder case, lawyers at Narayanganj have called for ...
0 CommentsThe BNP has demanded withdrawal of military officers from the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB).
\"There\'s a conspiracy going on to taint ...
Students of the Sylhet Nursing College, defying authorities order to vacate dormitories, have continued their protest against an attack on ...
0 CommentsPolice will seek the Interpol's help to arrest the prime accused of Narayanganj multiple murders Nur Hossain.The district police have ...
0 CommentsLutfur Rahman has become the executive mayor of Tower Hamlets for a second time, beating the Labour Party candidate.Rahman contested ...
0 CommentsTwo policemen were injured when a sound grenade accidently went off during a training exercise at Rajarbagh Police Lines on ...
0 CommentsA student from Bangladesh has been shot dead by miscreants in the US state of Florida. Shihab Mamun, 22, was ...
0 CommentsOnce a turbulent fast flowing river, the Karnaphuli is facing a fate similar to the Buriganga\'s -- what with unending ...
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The government has asked Bangladesh\'s top readymade garment exporters and manufacturers to clear workers\' wages before the Eid-ul-Fitr.
State minister for ...
India\'s H-Energy East Coast Private Ltd (HEECPL) has sought clearance for a Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) terminal in West Bengal\'s ...
0 CommentsTax free income slab will stay the same at Tk 220,000 per annum in the upcoming budget.
If the budget is ...
The new budget has proposed cutting supplementary duties on most cars, which may cause their prices to drop.
Cars ranging from ...
The new budget proposes a five-year tax exemption for Bangladesh bourses to prop up the capital market that has been ...
0 CommentsA Brahmanbaria judge has been withdrawn a day after she ordered police to register a murder case against RAB personnel.
It ...
Two talesman have report-edly been abducted in Rangamati's Baghaichharhi Upaula.Ramani Mohan and Arun Bikash Chalana were taken away late on ...
0 CommentsThe JICA President Akihiko Tanaka is due to arrive in Dhaka on Saturday on a four-day visit.
It has been 11 ...
A Jatiya Party MP has staged a highway blockade in protest against an Awami League MP\'s repeated laying of project ...
0 CommentsAwami League MP Abdul Matin Khasru has asked the bureaucrats to change their mindset and stop stonewalling information from the ...
0 CommentsPhotojournalist Haji Zahirul Haque has died in a Delhi hospital, his family members say. He was on life support for ...
0 CommentsA Chittagong court has indicted eight people for the collapse of a flyover in Chittagong that claimed 13 lives.Metropolitan Sessions ...
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A Bangladeshi-born US citizen was arrested on Wednesday in central Texas on charges of terrorist activities including 'committing violent jihad', ...
0 CommentsA Texas court has indicted Bangladeshi-born American Rahatul Ashikim Khan for conspiring to provide material support to terrorists, US media ...
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Sri Lanka, so far heavily dependent on Indian drugs, has signed an MoU with Bangladesh to import pharmaceuticals products.The country's ...
0 CommentsJewellers have raised the prices of gold within three weeks of the previous price adjustment.
Bangladesh Jewellers Assocation, in a media ...
Government has extended a ban on exports of all varieties of rice except the aromatic one for another year, till ...
0 CommentsA court in India's West Bengal state has ordered Nur Hossain and his two accomplices to fourteen days in judicial ...
0 CommentsThe US has described the recent statements of the Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) President as \"outrageous and ...
0 CommentsFinance Minister AMA Muhith has lambasted the media for misreporting the scope for \'whitening\' black money in the 2014-15 budget.
\"You ...
Parbatya Chattagram Jana Sanghati Samiti (PCJSS) has demanded immediate arrest and exemplary punishment for those responsible for the attack on ...
0 CommentsBanglalink has paired with Opera Software to provide a co-branded mobile web browser to its subscribers.
The Opera Mini browser, designed ...
A court in West Bengal has sent Nur Hossain, a prime suspect in the Narayanganj seven-murder case, and his two ...
0 CommentsTransparency International Bangladesh (TIB) has submitted its report on corruption in private universities to the education ministry.The report was found ...
0 CommentsThe BNP has said that the verdict on disputed maritime boundaries has established India's dominance over the Bay of Bengal ...
0 CommentsResults of the test for admission to MBA (Evening) Programme under the Faculty of Business Studies of Dhaka University (DU) ...
0 CommentsFormer Chittagong mayor ABM Mohiuddin Chowdhury has written to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina against what he says is a \'conspiracy\' ...
0 CommentsThe central bank has asked all scheduled banks to keep their branches open in Dhaka, its adjacent areas, and Chittagong ...
0 CommentsAustralia Bangladesh Chamber of Commerce and Industry has launched a membership drive, inspired by the growing two-way trade within a ...
0 CommentsThe anti-talk faction of the United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA-I), led by Paresh Barua, has for the first time ...
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Power-starved Meghalaya is preparing \"wind energy density maps\" to identify regions in the mountainous state where wind energy could be ...
0 CommentsEconomists are wary of the new monetary policy that stresses foreign loans to improve liquidity and boost growth.
Instead, they prefer ...
Petrol price in India has been lowered by Rs 1.09 per litre, the second reduction in three and half months, ...
0 CommentsBangladesh has signed an MoU with Bulgaria to hold official talks with the European country for enhancing mutual cooperation.
Bulgarian Deputy ...
Two Bangladesh Railway employees have been suspended for dereliction of duty over the train-bus collision at Jhenaidah\'s Kaliganj that left ...
0 CommentsA fracas over purchasing train tickets turned deadly on Friday at Natore\'s Lalpur, leaving at least 3 persons dead and ...
0 CommentsThe Supreme Court has ordered Jamuna Bank\'s Deputy Managing Director Mozammel Hossain to surrender to the lower court.
The bank official ...
The UK and Japan have condoled the Padma launch tragedy in Bangladesh. Japanese ambassador in Dhaka Shiro Sadoshima in a ...
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Rescue workers are still awaiting the arrival of tugboat Kandari-2 with powerful survey equipment to the site where Pinak-6 met ...
0 CommentsPrime Minister Sheikh Hasina has been invited to address the United Nations General Assembly next month for Bangladesh\'s \'best performance\' ...
0 CommentsTwo persons have been handed over to the police with Tk 5,000 counterfeit currencies by locals in Chittagong on Friday ...
0 CommentsThe National Identity Registration Division of the Election Commission (EC) says it spotted \'discrepancies\' in 44 Upazilas during updating of ...
0 CommentsWorkers of a readymade garments factory have vandalised their workplace at Kashimpur in Gazipur, after failing to trace a colleague ...
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A Dhaka court has rejected the bail petition of Oishee Rahman, who is accused of killing her parents, Police Inspector ...
0 CommentsResults of the Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) examinations will be published on Wednesday.
Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid along with chairmen ...
Biman Bangladesh Airlines will for the first time use its own aircraft only to fly Hajj pilgrims from the country ...
0 CommentsThe theft of a portion of underground telephone cables connecting Dhaka\'s Gulshan, Tejgaon, and Niketon have caused as many as ...
0 CommentsThe administrative investigation committee on the Narayanganj seven murders is not going to India to question prime suspect Nur Hossain ...
0 CommentsBangladesh has received a \"positive response\" from India regarding transit passage to Nepal and Bhutan through its territory, a special ...
0 CommentsA court has sentenced three people to fourteen years\' imprisonment for throwing acid at a housewife in Bagerhat.
It has also ...
Activists of the Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) and the Islami Chhatra Shibir engaged in a turf war on Sunday at ...
0 CommentsThe machine readable passport (MRP) project will get underway in all districts within a month says the Ministry of Home ...
0 CommentsTarique Rahman has alleged Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman led a family of killers, stirring up fresh ...
0 CommentsBangladesh will sign a deal with India to introduce waterway travel between the countries, finance minister AMA Muhith has said.
\"The ...
Bangladesh will build an 1165-acre exclusive zone for tourists in Teknaf with hotels, night clubs, park and convention hall.
The government ...
Bangladesh Railway has suspended two staffers and three security officials of Chittagong Railway Station following demand by Bangladesh Chhatra League.
The ...
Three of the five RAB personnel arrested over Narayanganj\'s sensational multiple-murder have reportedly \'confessed\' to their involvement in the crime. ...
0 CommentsPolice are yet to make any headway into the murder of Islamic Front leader Nurul Islam Farooqi.
\"The motive for murder ...
A large portion of the Moulvibazar Stadium\'s boundary has been demolished for the wedding of Social Welfare Minister Syed Mohsin ...
0 CommentsThe Detective Branch (DB) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police has arrested another person in connection with the triple murders in Moghbazar. DMP ...
0 CommentsThe High Court has confirmed the trial court\'s death sentence for three men who in 2006 had raped a teenaged ...
0 CommentsState Minister for Power and Energy Nasrul Hamid Bipu has said the government will soon invite bidders for exploration in ...
0 CommentsChristian Organisation for Relief and Rehabilitation (CORR) - The Jute Works was founded on Sept 2, 1973 with the aim ...
0 CommentsA special task force of West Bengal police, supported by sleuths of central intelligence, have arrested four Muslim youngmen in ...
0 CommentsBangladesh has withdrawn its candidature for the non-permanent seat on the UN Security Council in support of its \'long-tested\' friend ...
0 CommentsLaw Minister Anisul Huq has rubbished the BNP's allegation that empowering Parliament to remove judges will constrict them and made ...
0 CommentsBangladesh and India have decided to swap Nur Hossain with Anup Chetia, top sources say. The decision has been taken ...
0 CommentsSeveral bombs have gone off near BNP\'s main offices at Dhaka\'s Naya Paltan before the party along with its allies ...
0 CommentsThe Awami League and BNP activists in New York have taken position outside the John F Kennedy Airport in New ...
0 CommentsSenior Awami League leader Suranjit Sengupta has demanded measures from the \'highest quarters\' against frauds by secretaries.
\"A secretary, who has ...
Two employees of Dhaka Electric Supply Company (DESCO) have been electrocuted in Dhaka on Thursday.
DESCO\'s engineer Md Mizan said that ...
Bangladesh-born British MP Rushanara Ali has resigned from opposition front bench to abstain from a vote in UK Parliament that ...
0 CommentsIt is good news for thousands of poor elderly patients looking for treatment that sometimes mean taking refuge on the ...
0 CommentsRoad transport minister blames \"unfit\" cattle-loaded trucks for slow vehicular movements on highways as people have started heading towards their ...
0 CommentsSeveral hundred ready-made garment workers of a Tuba Group factory have protested in front of the BGMEA Bhaban in Dhaka ...
0 CommentsThree compartments of train Upakul Express, headed from Noakhali to Dhaka, went off the tracks near Brahmanbaria's Talshahar Station.At least ...
0 CommentsThe ruling Awami Leagues\'s student front leader Siddiqui Nazmul Alam has threatened to \'beat up senior BNP leaders\'.
A status on ...
A headmaster of a secondary school in Sherpur has allegedly charged money for distributing free textbooks among students.Parents of several ...
0 CommentsState Minister for Home Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal has skirted questions over permission for the BNP to hold a rally in ...
0 CommentsThe BNP-led alliance\'s countrywide non-stop blockade has failed to evoke much response in the capital with traffic as usual on ...
0 CommentsThe United States has called on the bickering parties in Bangladesh to shun violence that has left four people killed ...
0 CommentsBNP Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi has cleared his medical bill after the Apollo Hospitals Dhaka lodged a police ...
0 CommentsThe BNP has appealed to India to restore democracy in Bangladesh. Through various channels, India has been approached by the ...
0 CommentsTour operators in Bangladesh fear the BNP-sponsored blockade will cost the tourism industry up to Tk 1 billion in losses ...
0 CommentsLocks on several building accesses and department doors of Dhaka University have been jammed with super glue during a strike ...
0 CommentsAn audio tape of a long telephone conversation purportedly between BNP leader Sadeque Hossain Khoka and Nagarik Oikya Convenor Mahmudur ...
0 CommentsNagarik Oikya Convenor Mahmudur Rahman Manna, now at the centre of raging discussions on the social media after his leaked ...
0 CommentsAwami League spokesperson Mahbub-Ul Alam Hanif has said \'proper legal procedure\' will be followed for the arrest of BNP Chairperson ...
0 CommentsPolice have brought sedition charges against Nagorik Oikya chief Mahmudur Rahman Manna and BNP leader Sadeque Hossain Khoka.
A leaked phone ...
Four auto-rickshaws and a 'human hauler' were set on fire at Feni during the BNP-led alliance's countrywide blockade and shutdown.The ...
0 CommentsA Jatiyatabadi Juba Dal activist has died nine days after sustaining a bullet injury in a \'shootout\' with the police ...
0 CommentsBombs have been hurled at the fisheries department office in Magura in the wee hours of Monday during blockade and ...
0 CommentsAn alleged drug peddler has been knifed to death by some unidentified persons in Tongi. Jahangir Alam aka Chhoto Jahangir, ...
0 CommentsBNP leader Salahuddin Ahmed\'s wife has sought the prime minister\'s intervention to trace her husband.
She went to the Prime Minister\'s ...
Veteran politician Mozaffar Ahmed, who had rejected a cabinet position after independence in 1971, has now refused the Independence Award.
The ...
Bangladesh have exported more in the first nine months of the current fiscal year, beginning on July 1 last year, ...
0 CommentsSouth America\'s one of the poorest economies, Guyana is keen to work closely with Bangladesh.
It\'s newly appointed non-resident High Commissioner ...
Hours after BNP leader Abdul Awal Mintoo failed to resurrect his bid in court, the party has thrown its support ...
0 CommentsA High Court judge has declined to hear a bail petition by Narayanganj multiple murders suspect MM Rana.
The former RAB ...
A man burnt in an explosion three days ago at a toilet of a shopping centre in Malibagh has died ...
0 CommentsSupporters of the governing Awami League-backed mayor aspirant in Chittagong have captured at least four polling stations in South Paharhtali ...
0 CommentsThe European Union has called for investigations into irregularities in Tuesday's city polls, claiming it has "credible" reports of rigging, ...
0 CommentsPolice have filed their chargesheet against Gazipur City Corporation Mayor MA Mannan for vandalising vehicles.
Gazipur\'s Senior Judicial Magistrate Begum Farzana ...
Khaleda Zia has drawn the attention of US Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Wendy Sherman towards the large-scale ...
0 CommentsThe prime minister\'s son and her ICT adviser Sajeeb Ahmed Wazed Joy has distributed laptops to over 200 university students ...
0 CommentsEditor-in-chief Toufique Imrose Khalidi on the campaign trail ahead of the May 7 UK ballot.
On a walkabout in the heart ...
The Bangladesh Press Council has asked law enforcers to take legal steps against 11 Munshiganj TV and print journalists after ...
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Government plans to promote Bangladesh tourism remains hazy even three months after declaring 2016 as the Tourism Year.
People involved with ...
The government will provide round the clock security for members of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman\'s family.
A circular issued on Monday ...
Bangladesh is ending the 2014-15 financial year on a high in terms of export earnings.
According to Export Promotion Bureau statistics ...
Saudi Arabia has rejected Bangladesh\'s proposal to increase the quota of Hajj pilgrims. The religious affairs ministry, however, said in ...
0 CommentsThe verdict on an appeal by Jamaat-e-Islami leader Ali Ahsan Muhammad Mujahid against the death sentence awarded to him by ...
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Bangladesh had a total of 14.32 trillion cubic feet (TCF) of gas reserves until March - the latest figure available.
State ...
Businesses have demanded retaining 0.3 percent tax at source on export of readymade clothing.
Leaders of the associations representing apparel exporters ...
Bangladesh Garment Manufactures & Exporters Association (BGMEA) has accused European buyers of interference in the apparel factories.
BGMEA President Atiqul Islam ...
The US in its just-released annual counterterrorism report has appreciated Bangladesh's efforts to combat both domestic and transnational terrorist activities.The ...
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Before Eid Bangladesh Bank (BB) releases new currency notes to meet the market demand.
However, it may not be the case ...
The central bank has served show-cause notices on 20 officials for agitating against the contractual appointment of an officer.
In the ...
The Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) has once again given a wake-up call to Bangladeshi authorities to take a foolproof ...
Awami League leader Suranjit Sengupta has advised the ministers to desist from saying anything embarrassing.
His advice followed information minister Hasanul ...
Although Magnetic Ink Character Recognition (MICR) cheques are believed to be full-proof against counterfeit, recent complaints lodged with the Bangladesh ...
Securities and Exchanges Commission has stayed the Initial Public Offering (IPO) of National Insurance following its disagreement with the Insurance ...
The Cabinet has greenlighted the amendment to the Value Added Tax and Supplementary Duty Act, 2012, with a provision to ...
0 CommentsA huge Indian military operation to checkmate separatist rebels in the country's northeastern borders with Myanmar has started, officials told ...
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Ahead of Eid-ul-Fitr, the government has asked factories including garment units to pay workers their June salaries by July 10 ...
A tribunal will be formed to try BNP chief Khaleda Zia and her associates for \'instigating\' firebombings during the BNP-led ...
0 CommentsPolice have suspended three constables of the Special Branch (SB) and Detective Branch (DB) and arrested them on charges of ...
0 CommentsThe central bank estimates that transactions in mobile banking have increased ahead of Eid-ul-Fitr.
According to Bangladesh Bank estimate, daily average ...
Expatriate Bangladeshis have sent home a record $500 million in a week ahead of the Eid-ul-Fitr, the central bank says.
The ...
A video clip has surfaced on the internet showing an official of a state-run facility in Barisal beating up two ...
0 CommentsBNP leader Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, released from jail on Tuesday, returned home on Thursday after being treated at a ...
0 CommentsLiving in a shanty on or below the hills of Chittagong is like 'playing chess with death'. Incessant rains often ...
0 CommentsPeople relocated from hills in Chittagong are trickling back to their houses because of a lack of permanent rehabilitation and ...
0 CommentsExport and import operations at the Akhaura land port in Brahmanbaria will remain suspended for two days from Saturday due ...
0 CommentsThe charge d'affaires of the Libyan embassy in Dhaka, Khaled Mohamed Abu Said has cautioned all not to keep any ...
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The Bangladesh Bank aims to distribute Tk 164 billion as agriculture and rural credit in 2015-16 fiscal year (FY).
Governor Atiur ...
The driver of a truck that had overturned five years ago and killed 45 people, including 43 school children, in ...
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The Ganajagaran Mancha has demanded hanging of BNP leader Salauddin Quader Chowdhury without much delay.
The Supreme Court has upheld the ...
The Supreme Court\'s verdict upholding the death sentence of Salauddin Quader Chowdhury for war crimes
organisers of the 1971 Liberation ...
The number of mobile internet users has increased by 10.48 million in a year.
Mobile phone subscribers also rose by 10.31 ...
The central bank has asked the scheduled banks to let the residents of former enclaves open accounts with only Tk ...
0 CommentsA delegation of Malaysian officials will come to Dhaka next week to sign a deal to recruit 1.5 million workers ...
0 CommentsThe policemen suspended for negligence in handling Sylhet teen Samiul Alam Rajan's murder should be tried for criminal offences, Bangladesh ...
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Three-wheelers will get a two-hour window on the national highways for refuelling, says the government.Auto-rickshaws, which are banned from highways, ...
0 CommentsA mob has lynched one person in Gazipur\'s Kapasia, after chasing him down following robberies in three houses in the ...
0 CommentsTwelve-year-old Rakib Hawladar died from excessive internal bleeding caused by the rupture of intestines due to high pressure of air ...
0 CommentsThe Bangladesh Submarine Cable Company Limited (BSCCL) has backed the government\'s decision to export unused 10 GBPS (gigabyte per second) ...
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Foreign Minister Abul Hassan Mahmood Ali has pushed for a free trade agreement with Turkey to expand trade ties.
The two-way ...
The government will take no new initiatives to have preferential trade facilities in the US revived, the commerce minister says ...
0 CommentsPolice have arrested four people on charges of beating a bus driver to death in Dhaka's Sayedabad.The news of their ...
0 CommentsA man in Netrokona has been sentenced to death for killing his four-year-old son. The court of Netrokoan's Additional Sessions ...
0 CommentsGanajagaran Mancha has alleged the home minister and the police chief are effectively condoning murders of bloggers by warning of ...
0 CommentsA letter threatening to kill 19 persons including ministers, teachers, cultural activists, Ganajagaran Mancha organisers and bloggers has been sent ...
0 CommentsPolice have arrested a nephew of State Minister for Labour and Employment Mujibul Haque Chunnu over the murder of blogger ...
0 CommentsWith two 'border haats' already operational with Bangladesh, the tiny northeastern state of Tripura wants more."We have identified possible locations. ...
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Bangladesh\'s foreign exchange reserves have crossed the $26 billion mark for the first time.
On Monday, the reserves reached $26.03 billion, ...
A Sylhet court has issued arrest warrants against 3 absconders accused in the case over the brutal killing of 13-year-old ...
0 CommentsA parliamentary watchdog feels the latest hikes in electricity and gas prices are justified despite protests against the increase.
It says ...
Stakeholders hope the conviction of two fraudsters for the 1996 capital market manipulation will help restore the investors\' faith in ...
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An organisation of public university teachers, pressing for a separate pay scale, says it finds Finance Minister AMA Muhith\'s comment ...
The government has reassigned four additional secretaries and 21 joint secretaries through a public administration ministry order.
Additional secretaries Amit Kumar ...
An US court has sentenced to jail Robert Lustyik, the former FBI agent who took bribes in return for sensitive ...
Saudi Arabia has announced compensation for the family members of the deceased and those injured in the last Friday's crane ...
0 CommentsIndian intelligence agencies are discounting the possibility of Islamic State's involvement in the recent killings of an Italian and a ...
0 CommentsSmaller political parties, not recognised by the Election Commission but keen to contest polls for local bodies, may take recourse ...
0 CommentsIt took the government three months to bring back Kamrul Islam, accused of beating Sylhet teenager Samiul Alam Rajan to ...
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Law Commission Chairman ABM Khairul Haque has emphasised the shunning of bigotry to make Bangladesh peaceful and prosperous.
He made the ...
The gazette to put into effect the Eighth National Pay Scale will possibly be issued in the first week of ...
0 CommentsDurga Puja, the biggest annual religious festival of the Hindus in Bangladesh, begins on Monday across the country.The Maha Shashthhi, ...
0 CommentsBangladeshi nationals, who had been on a hunger strike at a US detention centre, will be released soon and can ...
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Cabinet Secretary Muhammad Musharraf Hossain Bhuiyan has been appointed an alternate executive director to the World Bank.
A public administration ministry ...
The attackers of a Shia gathering at Old Dhaka\'s Huseni Dalan evaded detection by security forces by entering in a ...
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Police top brass has ordered its forces to fire if attacked following the killing of two policemen on duty within ...
The information ministry has asked five TV stations to explain why they have aired scenes, in dramas, showing people smoking.
ATN ...
The government has made it mandatory for all online newspapers to be registered by Dec 15, including those already published ...
0 CommentsA special court in New Delhi has sent Assamese separatist leader Anup Chetia to 6-days transit remand following an appeal ...
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Thousands of commuters are stranded in Rajshahi after bus owners went on an indefinite strike demanding three-wheelers be kept off ...
The local currency has depreciated by 1.25 percent against the US dollar in the space of a month. Experts, however, ...
0 CommentsThe High Court has questioned the legality of the final result of the 34th BCS examinations. It issued a rule ...
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Bodies of a policeman\'s wife and child have been recovered from their house in Sudarganj Upazila of Gaibandha.
Police are yet ...
Oman has issued a general amnesty for 25 Bangladesh nationals who are in jail there for various offences.
Sultan Qaboos bin ...
A priest in Rangpur has complained that 10 priests working in various churches in the northern district have received death ...
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Jihadist threat monitoring portal SITE Intelligence Group has again reported that the Islamic State (IS) has claimed credit for Thursday\'s ...
The High Court has issued a rule over the planned merger of mobile phone operators Robi and Airtel. After initial ...
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Mayor aspirants in the forthcoming municipal elections are mostly businessmen by profession. Their academic qualifications range from \'self-educated\' to PhD.
While ...
Health Minister Mohammed Nasim has asked the district health authorities to monitor hospitals under them \"properly\".
He particularly asked them to ...
The High Court has directed the police chief to instruct his force not to present crime suspects before the media ...
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As many as 385 rebel candidates are in the fray so far for the Dec 30 municipal polls. They have ...
The Election Commission has so far received 31 complaints of violation of the electoral code of conduct for the municipal ...
0 CommentsPolice have recovered a beheaded body from a suitcase kept on a rickshaw at Dhaka\'s Basabo. The severed head was ...
0 CommentsThe body of a woman has been found hanging in her room in Dhaka\'s Derma. The family of the dead ...
0 CommentsThe investigation agency of the International Crimes Tribunal will start a probe into the war crimes allegedly committed by 195 ...
0 CommentsA doctor has alleged he was physically assaulted by a few employees of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) where ...
0 CommentsRoads towards Tongi will be closed for vehicles other than those carrying Bishwa Ijtema devotees on Sunday. Traffic police took ...
0 CommentsThe deadline for the completion of the Moghbazar-Mouchak flyover project has been extended yet again, with its cost going up ...
0 CommentsThe process to extradite to India Daud Merchant, convicted for Bollywood music baron Gulshan Kumar\'s murder, has started, says Bangladesh ...
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Dhaka University students, divided over whether the proposed Metro Rail should pass through the campus, demonstrated on Wednesday.Some supported it ...
0 CommentsChief Justice SK Sinha has expressed dissatisfaction over the inordinately long time some judges take to give verdicts. He has ...
0 CommentsDoctors in Chittagong have called off their 'cease work' after patients and their relatives suffered for five days.The president of ...
0 CommentsA woman in Lakshmipur has given birth to quadruplets. Kajal Akhter delivered four babies-two males and two females-at \'Matri Chaya ...
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BNP Acting Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has alleged that the government has filed a treason case against party ...
Two boys, accused of stealing a mobile phone, were trussed and mercilessly beaten up at Rajshahi\'s Paba Upazila.
The entire episode ...
Eastern Bank Limited (EBL) says it will fully compensate their clients who lost their money to card skimming last week.They ...
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Police have arrested two men suspecting their involvement in the murder of four children in Habiganj's Bahubal Upazila.Abdul Ali and ...
0 CommentsGazipur police have recovered the body of an apparel factory worker from her home in Tongi and her husband is ...
0 CommentsPolice are helping the perpetrators by not including specific charges in the case filed over the torture of two boys ...
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Three policemen beat and wounded a youth in the head with bricks when he protested against their misbehaviour with a ...
RAB has arrested eight persons from various parts of the country, including the capital, on charges of women trafficking.
They have ...
Law Minister Anisul Huq has declined to comment on the food minister\'s demand that a new Appellate Division bench should ...
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Eight members of a family, including three children, have been burnt in a fire that was perhaps caused by a ...
Police are not helping in the search for Tanvir Hassan Zoha who is missing following the theft of Bangladesh Bank ...
Poet Nirmalendu Goon has been nominated for the Independence Award after his outburst on social media over this year\'s nominations.
On ...
The family of Tanvir Hassan Zoha is hopeful of the safe return of the 'IT specialist', who went missing five ...
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The Insaf Barakh Kidney and General Hospital says it will perform free cleft lip and palate surgeries every month.
The first ...
A Criminal Investigation Department (CID) official has claimed to have got \'significant\' information concerning the cyber theft of Bangladesh Bank ...
A Narayanganj court has sent Twaki Mancha leader Rafiur Rabbi to jail in a cheque fraud case.
Additional District and Sessions ...
A team of police's Criminal Investigation Department has arrived in Comilla to investigate the murder and suspected rape of Victoria ...
0 CommentsThe military has described Sohagi Jahan Tonu as 'a child' of the Bangladesh Army and promised all help in catching ...
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A rights activist, demanding justice for college student Sohagi Jahan Tonu, has criticised Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina for being \'silent\' ...
A local Awami League leader\'s son has allegedly hacked a school teacher at capital\'s Sekhertek.
Pranab Kumar Sarker, the headmaster of ...
Sajeeb Ahmed Wazed Joy says Shafik Rehman can be tried in the United States as well since he was \'involved ...
Al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) has reportedly taken responsibility for killing Bangladeshi gay-rights activist Xulhaz Mannan and his friend ...
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Two more people have been arrested over the murder of Rajshahi University teacher Prof AFM Rezaul Karim Siddiquee.
Police have identified ...
Khaleda Zia has asked Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to have her son Sajeeb Ahmed Wazed Joy questioned in custody over ...
0 CommentsThe United States, India and Bangladesh are the on the \"same page\" in fighting terrorism and violent extremism, the US ...
0 CommentsIsraeli politician Mendi N Safadi has admitted meeting BNP leader Aslam Chowdhury in India, but claimed that it was during ...
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The 14-Party coalition led by the ruling Awami League has demanded that the teacher who has been sacked after public ...
Islamic State (IS) has reportedly claimed responsibility for Friday\'s murder of a homeopath in Kushtia, SITE Intelligence Group says. Mir ...
0 CommentsThe former governor of Bangladesh\'s central bank has defended himself and his colleagues in the $81 million cyber heist in ...
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The Bangladesh National Hindu Grand Alliance has demanded a three-day holiday for the Durga Puja, instead of one-day, for celebrating ...
Bangladesh\'s power plants have set a new record of power generation.
The electricity generation on Saturday evening was 8,942 megawatt, which ...
The UN Security Council has \"strongly condemned\" the deadly terrorist attack in a Dhaka cafe that killed more than 20 ...
0 CommentsOne of the five the Islamic State reportedly claimed to be the gunmen who launched Friday's terror attack in Dhaka ...
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BNP politician Salahuddin Ahmed, currently incarcerated in jail on charges of illegally entering the Indian state of Meghalaya, has been ...
Controversial Islamic preacher Zakir Naik, facing heat over reports that a Dhaka terrorist was inspired by his speeches, has claimed ...
0 CommentsAn Asia-Pacific money laundering group has moved its meeting out of Bangladesh citing security concerns, officials said on Monday, 10 ...
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Mohammad Basharuzzaman, who is among the 10 missing youths appearing on a police list after the July 1 Dhaka cafe ...
Separate road crashes in the port city of Chittagong and on the Dhaka-Chittagong Highway have left three people killed.Police said ...
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The merger between mobile phone operators Robi and Airtel has been okayed by the Prime Minister\'s Office.
Telecoms regulator officials say ...
Investigators have identified five individuals who took part in the killing of the gay rights activists Xulhaz Mannan and Mahbub ...
0 CommentsJust as 9/11 changed the American psyche forever, \'things will never be the same again\' for Bangladesh after the Gulshan ...
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The killers of teenager Himadri Majumder Himu should meet their fate soon, says his mother after five were sentenced to ...
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The body of a mosque\'s Imam has been found stuffed inside a sack in Kishoreganj.
Police have identified the victim as ...
A team from Bangladesh will meet officials of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the Federal Bureau of Investigation ...
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India and Bangladesh have agreed to jointly produce a documentary on the 1971 War of Independence of Bangladesh.
The decision was ...
The Secretary General of OIC, Iyad Ameen Madani, has arrived in Dhaka on Wednesday on a two-day \"working visit\", the ...
A New York City man appeared in court on Tuesday and denied charges he shot and killed a Bangladeshi Imam ...
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The ongoing eviction drive against restaurants and hotels located in residential areas of Dhaka has impacted adversely on the business ...
A Philippine court on Thursday released on bail a former branch manager of a Manila bank in a perjury case ...
0 CommentsDhaka North Mayor Annisul Huq says he wonders why the Bashundhara City shopping mall catches fire so often.A fire broke ...
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The ammonia leaked from the DAP fertiliser factory in Chittagong\'s Anwara has affected trees and water bodies in the area.
The ...
Hours before the Supreme Court delivers its verdict on Jamaat-e-Islami financier Mir Quasem Ali\'s petition to review his death penalty ...
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A Bangladeshi couple living in New York have died while their son was admitted to the hospital with critical injuries ...
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Law Minister Anisul Huq has said the president\'s being out of the country on health grounds will not delay the ...
New York police have arrested a suspect in the murder of a 60-year-old Bangladeshi woman. Nazma Khanam, who moved to ...
Retired police officer Babul Aktar has returned to his Dhaka home, 20 hours after the home ministry issued the order ...
0 CommentsThe final probe report on the Bangladesh Bank cyber heist submitted by a government-commissioned investigation committee will be published on ...
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A schoolgirl has been stabbed to death in Madaripur's Kalkini. Police have detained a youth named Milon Mandal, 20, who ...
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Rajshahi University has suspended mass communication and journalism department associate professor Tanvir Ahmed over the unnatural death of his former ...
A Tangail court has thrown out the bail plea of Awami League MP Amanur Rahman Khan Rana, who is detained ...
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Acclaimed poet, author and playwright Syed Shamsul Haq, who died Tuesday, was nowhere near his swansong, Cultural Affairs Minister Asaduzzaman ...
Despite several extensions the Hatirjheel Development Project will not be completed on schedule.
The city development authority, RAJUK has asked for ...
The government has released a list of 12,619 teachers centrally selected for appointment to private schools and colleges.
Education Minister Nurul ...
Bangladesh has been placed at 111 on the Girls\' Opportunity Index, a report published by Save the Children.
The report ranks ...
The Shia Muslim community has organised Taazia processions in Dhaka to commemorate the death of Imam Hussain, grandson of the ...
Traffic on Airport Road will be restricted for 24 hours due to Chinese President Xi Jinping`s Dhaka visit.
The DMP traffic ...
World Bank President Jim Yong Kim has arrived in Dhaka to see firsthand the progress Bangladesh has made in eliminating ...
Lawmaker Suranjit Sengupta has slated critics of the recently passed law aimed at cancelling the registration of NGOs for \'malicious\' ...
Bangladesh\'s Sammilito Sangskritik Jote, the central platform of cultural activists, has called for a rethink by West Bengal Chief Minister ...
Suhrawardy Udyan wears a festive look two days ahead of the 20th national council of the ruling Awami League scheduled ...
Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman\'s grandchildren Radwan Mujib Siddiq Bobby and Saima Wazed Hossain will not join the 20th National Council ...
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Singer Runa Laila has toured London\'s House of Commons at the invitation of the Shadow Minister for Early Years education ...
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The war crimes tribunal will announce its verdict on Shariatpur\'s Moulvi Idris Ali Sardar any day.
The man, now absconding, is ...
Those were extraordinary times that gave birth to a befitting hero. Aviator, musician, photographer and all-round visionary - Captain Aminur ...
The local Awami League leader, who played a key role to settle Santals on the land acquired by a sugar ...
A decision in principle to reduce fuel oil prices in order to strengthen the country's economy will be finalised soon, ...
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Sultana Kamal has urged the women rights activists to give no excuses for not taking up the fight against religious ...
Saudi Arabia wants to hire 1,000 medical specialists from Bangladesh after a gap of ten years.
The kingdom informed government officials ...
Border guards in Bangladesh have intercepted 11 boats carrying 130 Rohingya nationals trying to cross the border through different points ...
0 CommentsA Bangladeshi man has been in assaulted in New York, amid escalating hate crimes against religious minorities and immigrants in ...
0 CommentsA man has been murdered in broad daylight on a busy street in Chittagong. Police and witnesses said the murder ...
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A group of 22 Rohingyas fleeing persecution in Myanmar has crossed the Bangladesh border and now seek refuge in Chittagong.
A ...
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More than 400 Rohingyas have been turned back from the border along Cox's Bazar in BGB's (Border Guard Bangladesh) ...
A judicial probe and another by the Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) have been launched into the violent eviction of ...
0 CommentsPolice's investigation in the Bangladesh Bank cyber heist has shifted its gaze on some IT technicians of the central bank, ...
0 CommentsThe Bangladesh Telecommunications Company Ltd (BTCL) is facing allegations of overlooking a mandatory tender process in awarding contract for installation ...
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The parents of murdered Comilla college student Sohagi Jahan Tonu have sought a meeting with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina as ...
A thorough investigation is needed to find out whether the fire that ripped through a mall in Dhaka\'s Gulshan was ...
0 CommentsTraders say they want to restart their businesses at Gulshan's DNCC market which suffered a massive fire.
They have urged the ...
Slain MP Manjurul Islam Liton\'s widow may have seconded the Awami League view that Jamaat-e-Islami is involved in her husband\'s ...
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A respiratory solution of the British drug-maker GSK is being sold at more than twice the price in Bangladesh market.
The ...
Prime convict Nur Hossain, former RAB officer Tarek Sayeed and three others were in the condemned cells at Kashimpur Central ...
0 CommentsA senior leader of the ruling Awami League\'s student front in Satkhira has been found dead. The body of Emon ...
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Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has faced a question on the proposed Rampal Power Plant near the Sundarbans at the World ...
Trader Mahbubur Rahman was arrested by police in Noakhali and told he was wanted in a 2011 case filed under ...
Journalists take to the streets demanding punishment of the policemen who assaulted two journalists covering an anti-Rampal agitation on Thursday.
As ...
The Gopalganj rickshaw van driver, who carried Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina around her ancestral village, will be getting a job ...
0 CommentsDepartment of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has taken up an extensive Tk 1.59 billion project aimed to expand use ...
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Good news awaits readers. Kabori\'s memoirs, Smriti Tuku Thaak, will soon make its way to the bookshops and of course ...
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Police in Gaibandha have found a pistol buried in the courtyard of the Sundarganj home of former Jaitya Party MP ...
A Canadian court has denied asylum to a BNP activist for the party\'s involvement in violence during protests and terrorism.
In ...
Seven transport workers arrested during clashes at Dhaka\'s Gabtoli during the nationwide strike have been remanded in police custody for ...
0 CommentsExpatriate Bangladeshis have remitted $936.2 million in February, the lowest in a month in last five years.
The previous record low ...
Police in Sirajganj have recovered a firearm from near Shahjadpur Mayor Halimul Hoque Miru's house which they say was used ...
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Police in New York have arrested seven Bangladeshis in connection with a $3 million credit card fraud case.
The seven are ...
Rapid Action Battalion has said another attack suspect died after being arrested in the capital's Ashkona where a militant was ...
0 CommentsDetermined to resolve the Teesta River water sharing issue, the Indian government is planning to bring together the chief ministers ...
0 CommentsThe Supreme Court has set Mar 30 for the appeal hearing of the High Court decision to fine 154 tanneries ...
0 CommentsThe government will fine and jail passengers who wrongly occupy seats reserved for women, children, elderly and handicapped people on ...
0 CommentsIndia\'s Border Security Force (BSF) has intensified its security on Sylhet\'s border with Northeast India following \'Operation Twilight.\'
An official of ...
The local government ministry has suspended six Barisal City Corporation ward councillors accused in cases of violence. Barisal City Corporation ...
0 CommentsThe Election Commission has 'fully succeeded' in achieving public confidence through Comilla City Corporation election, its chief KM Nurul Huda ...
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Police have held two teenagers for selling \'fake question papers\' on social media. A team of detectives picked up Shahidul ...
Bangladesh missions in Delhi, Thailand and Singapore have celebrated the first day of the Bengali New Year with traditional fervour.
Bangladesh ...
Two Bangladeshi children have run the Facebook account of the European Union Delegation in Dhaka on Thursday as part of ...
Bangladesh hopes to make up through sub-regional cooperation including BIMSTEC after the failure of SAARC, says the international affairs adviser ...
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Bangladesh has put up a formal proposal to the UNESCO to organise an Annual World Cultural Conference.
The plan was presented ...
Six Bangladeshi-Canadian women have received the PACE-RMM Women Achievers Award for their \'contributions and commitment to the community\'.
The recipients were:
Ottawa-based ...
Pakistani journalist Hamid Mir has announced that he will return the award Bangladesh bestowed on his father for his contributions ...
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Deaths of two Canadian youths of Bangladeshi origin, who reportedly committed suicide, have sent shock waves through the Bangladeshi community ...
One of the raped university students has claimed that Apan Jewellers owner's son Safat Ahmad pestered her and friend to ...
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BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has outlined her party's Vision 2030, pledging to bring constitutional reforms to create a balance of ...
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The Dhaka University English Department has launched three new books at a ceremony on Sunday.
The new volumes are two textbooks, ...
Two more suspects of a rape case started by two university students have been arrested in Dhaka.
Driver 'Billal', who allegedly ...
Gold jewellers in Bangladesh have called an indefinite strike, starting Thursday, alleging harassment by tax officials in the midst of ...
0 CommentsSenior lawyer Dr Kamal Hossain has called Attorney General Mahbubey Alam names at a hearing at the court of the ...
0 CommentsThe Appellate Division has asked the State not to make any \'political speech\' at the hearing on an appeal against ...
0 CommentsAfter the removal of the Lady Justice statue from the Supreme Court premises, a cabinet member has said no sculptures ...
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Finance Minister Abul Maal Abdul Muhith has said the uniform VAT rate will remain unchanged at 15 percent.
\"There\'s a lot ...
Incessant rains triggered by Cyclone Mora have left large swathes of Chittagong city inundated. Light rains started on Tuesday morning ...
0 CommentsAn Indian domestic worker employed at the home of an International Labour Organization (ILO) official in Dhaka\'s Gulshan has been ...
0 CommentsThe Election Commission or EC plans to issue laminated national ID cards rather than smartcards due to high demand.
EC officials ...
Awami League\'s Obaidul Quader has offered to provide jobs and money to its student leaders to keep them away from ...
0 CommentsThe government has cut the import duty on rice to 10 percent from the existing 25 percent to encourage private ...
0 CommentsCabinet members Amir Hossain Amu and Hasanul Huq Inu have spoken up for the finance minister in parliament, a day ...
0 CommentsA Dhaka court has issued arrest warrants for Premier Bank Chairman HBM Iqbal and two others in a Tk 2 ...
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Landslides have once again struck Rangamati, the hill district in southeast Bangladesh that was recently devastated by a series of ...
Immigration officers at the Dhaka airport have allegedly barred missing BNP leader Ilias Ali\'s wife from leaving for the UK ...
0 CommentsCounter-terrorism officers have been granted seven days to question Soheil Mahfuz, a suspect in their investigation of the deadly attack ...
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A bridge constructed at a cost of Tk 6 million at Dhopachharhi Union in Chittagong\'s Chandanaish Upazila is on the ...
Eleven workers from Bangladesh and India have been killed in a fire that ripped through their windowless house in Najran, ...
0 CommentsAn inquiry opened over the fatal boiler blast in a Bangladesh apparel factory has identified seven reasons behind the disaster.
Thirteen ...
A ruling MP has publicly supported \'extrajudicial killings\' by law-enforcement agencies, including the Rapid Action Battalion or RAB.
MA Latif praised ...
A judge in the Canadian province of Ontario has rejected a class-action lawsuit seeking $2 billion from Joe Fresh and ...
0 CommentsAmid demonstration by students, the University of Dhaka has scheduled the exams for affiliated colleges.
Students of the seven colleges in ...
A Dhaka University student died after a landslide struck a hill, popular with tourists, in Cox's Bazar on Saturday, police ...
0 CommentsThe Election Commission, is taking steps to use modern equipment at polling centres as part of smart election management.
The EC ...
Six Bangladeshis, including two brothers, have died in a road traffic accident in Saudi Arabia.
The accident occurred at \'Alzubarah\' on ...
The Supreme Court has outlined a 39-point code of conduct for judges in the decision reinstituting the Supreme Judicial Council ...
0 CommentsThe High Court is livid with the government for not acting on its order to identify those behind an alleged ...
0 CommentsTufan Sarkar, a Sramik League leader from Bogra, made headlines after his relatives reportedly shaved the heads of his alleged ...
0 CommentsMinister AMA Muhith\'s remarks over the top court ruling declaring the 16th amendment illegal will not land him in the ...
0 CommentsBRAC University has reinstated its law teacher Farhaan Uddin Ahmed, who was allegedly assaulted by officials after termination that angered ...
0 CommentsThe Malaysian authorities have detained more Bangladeshis in a drive on a market at Jalan Silang in Kuala Lumpur conducted ...
0 CommentsJournalists in Bangladesh get paid more than civil servants, and should therefore not have a wage board, Finance Minister AMA ...
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The woman who claimed that Salman Shah did not commit suicide, but was murdered two decades ago, should testify in ...
A student in Chittagong may lose an eye after they were struck by a duster thrown by a teacher.
A Chittagong ...
A senior assistant commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police\'s Detective Branch suffered bullet wounds as miscreants opened fire during the law-enforcement ...
0 CommentsAn agriculturist has warned a food crisis as hundreds of thousands of hectares of arable land have gone under water ...
0 CommentsAn angry mob has beaten to death two persons for their suspected involvement in stealing cattle in Gazipur.
Police have identified ...
ABN Group Managing Director Syed Sadat Ahmed has been abducted from Banani in Dhaka, his family say.
He was forced out ...
Congestion was also reported on a 1.5 kilometre stretch of the Dhaka-Chittagong Highway near the Meghna-Gomoti Bridge yesterday morning.
According to ...
A Dhaka court has once again extended the deadline for the police to submit a probe report over the 2016 ...
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Turkey`s First Lady Emine Erdogan will arrive in Dhaka early Thursday to meet Rohingya Muslims who fled persecution in Myanmar's ...
0 CommentsHumanitarian agencies operating in Cox's Bazar urgently need $77 million to assist the people who have fled violence in Myanmar's ...
0 CommentsStephen Toope, currently Director of the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto, will become the first ...
0 CommentsThe European Parliament has adopted a resolution threatening Myanmar with taking “punitive sanctions” following the Rakhine State crisis that is ...
0 CommentsA Russian foreign ministry statement indicates that Moscow considers Rohingya crisis as an internal issue and is against any outside ...
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Fans, friends and followers showered the mortal remains of naturalist Dwijen Sharma with flowers as the body was taken to ...
Members of the Canadian public have called on its government to revoke the honorary citizenship of Myanmar\'s de-facto leader Aung ...
A member of the Rohingya community who campaigns for the rights of the Burmese ethnic group in Europe has rejected ...
0 CommentsThe United States will provide nearly $32 million for humanitarian assistance to Rohingya Muslims displaced by sectarian violence in Myanmar. ...
0 CommentsThe UN resident coordinator in Dhaka has asked Bangladesh to be prepared "psychologically" that it will have to deal with ...
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The UN refugee agency has seen an \"increasing trend\" of diarrhoeal diseases among Rohingyas as half a million of them ...
Chief Justice SK Sinha, whose one-month \'sick leave\' stirred speculations, has attended the Lakshmi Puja ceremony at Dhakeshwari Temple.
\"He ...
Police have pressed charges in court in the two cases against expelled Bogra Sramik League leader Tufan Sarker and 12 ...
0 CommentsThe Bangladesh government has barred three NGOs from operating aid activities among the Rohingyas, who fled violence in Myanmar's Rakhine.
A ...
Nine US senators have sent a letter thanking Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina for her \'strong leadership and compassion\' on the ...
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Amnesty International says Myanmar security forces are using crimes against humanity in a targeted, systematic and widespread campaign of violence ...
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The Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority, or BIWTA, has lifted restrictions on water travel after weather improved following two days ...
Warrants have been issued against Apan Jewellers owners Dildar Ahmed and his brother Azad Ahmed in two cases of money ...
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The government has announced a plan to give three more months of aid to support 380,000 families in the haor ...
The US envoy in Dhaka says the Rohingya crisis will affect Bangladesh\'s economy as over half a million Myanmar nationals ...
The outgoing UN Resident Coordinator in Dhaka has said it is "very clear" to them that Bangladesh's has a "very ...
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The Rapid Action Battalion or RAB has arrested the prime suspect in the murders of a woman and her 18-year-old ...
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A Bangladeshi delivery driver is fighting for his life and is likely to lose his sight in both eyes after ...
0 CommentsInspector General of Police AKM Shahidul Hoque has assured journalists that they cannot be arrested under the Information and Communication ...
0 CommentsAwami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader says the ruling party is not attempting to stop people gathering for the BNP ...
0 CommentsAn accident on the Chittagong-Cox's Bazar highway has killed three college students.
The crash between a motorbike and a bus was ...
Students at the Bangladesh University for Engineering and Technology, BUET, have now boycotted class for 21 days over a list ...
0 CommentsMyanmar will take back only those refugees who fled to Bangladesh following the violence on Oct 9, 2016 and Aug ...
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The UK parliament has had a lengthy discussion on the Rohingya crisis which Minister for Asia and the Pacific Mark ...
0 CommentsJyotirindra Bodhipriya Larma, popularly known as Shantu Larma, has warned the Bangladesh government that the hill regions will be engulfed ...
0 CommentsA bus and two freight trucks have sunk into the Kocha River after a lighter barge rammed into a ferry ...
0 CommentsDonald Trump\'s recognition of Jerusalem as the Israeli capital will jeopardise the peace efforts the US itself initiated, says Prime ...
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A bus has veered off course and rammed into a roadside tree killing four people in Comilla\'s Daudkandi Upazila.
Six people ...
Customs officials have seized 74 gold bars worth around Tk 36 million from three passengers at the Hazrat Shahjalal International ...
0 CommentsNine victims of a stampede during funeral rites for former Chittagong City Mayor ABM Mohiuddin Chowdhury have been cremated without ...
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Police have arrested nephew of the marine engineer who has been found dead at a construction site in Sukrabad.
The law ...
A fire broke out in a workshop in Jessore from a truck, which was being repaired, leaving two people killed.
The ...
Four years into its term, the government is set to add new faces to the cabinet amid speculations over a ...
0 CommentsUPDF central leader Mithun Chakma has been gunned down in Khagracchari's Sadar Upazila.
He was shot in the sluice gate area ...
The Indian Council for Cultural Relations has announced scholarships for meritorious Bangladeshi nationals wishing to pursue undergraduate, postgraduate and PhD ...
Anti-Corruption Commission Chairman Iqbal Mahmood says the government has not responded to the commission\'s efforts to tackle large-scale corruption.
\"We told ...
Columnist Farhad Mazhar\'s wife has moved a petition objecting to the police\'s investigation, which concluded no truth was found in ...
Unidentified people have taken away Lakehead Grammar School owner Khaled Hassan Matin from his office in Dhaka.
The education ministry in ...
The High Court has halted the Dhaka North mayoral by-polls and elections to 18 new wards in the city corporation ...
0 CommentsThe Anti-Corruption Commission has arrested former AB Bank chairman Wahidul Haque over his suspected involvement in laundering Tk 1.65 billion.
Former ...
A Dhaka court has granted police three days to grill businessman Saiful Haque in a case involving the laundering of ...
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Bor will be taking the place of former Deputy High Commissioner David Ashley. The British High Commission will hold a ...
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At least 30 people suffered injuries after a bus veered off track and fell into a river in Tangail\'s Madhupur, ...
The High Court has once again summoned a police officer to hear explanations over his inaction against a Farmers Bank ...
0 CommentsDespite tough security measures and stern warnings by the education minister, question paper leak continues unabated.
The leaked question paper of ...
No Bangladeshis were killed or injured in the shooting spree at a Florida high school, said Atiquer Rahman, executive vice ...
0 CommentsA senior jail official has said they are not taking Khaleda Zia, jailed for corruption in Zia Orphanage Trust 10 ...
0 CommentsLaw Minister Anisul Huq has responded to Khaleda Zia's lawyers, saying that the judge in the Zia Orphanage Trust graft ...
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The High Court will allow BNP Chairperson Khaleda to challenge the verdict in the Zia Orphanage Trust graft case.
Justice M ...
Two people died and a third was injured after a truck fell into a ditch from a bridge that collapsed ...
0 CommentsBangladesh's hostile political environment could lead to a resurgence of jihadist militancy, warns the International Crisis Group.
In a report released ...
Reacting to the US envoy\'s recent comments stressing an all-inclusive election, senior Awami League leader Tofail Ahmed as asked the ...
0 CommentsA security agency has detained a security guard of the Shahajal University of Science and Technology or SUST in connection ...
0 CommentsAs many as 40 points of a reserved forest near Rohingya camps at Teknaf in Cox\'s Bazar along the border ...
0 CommentsPolice have detained 39 foreign nationals for attempting to enter the Rohingya refugee camps at Cox\'s Bazar\'s Ukhiya without proper ...
0 CommentsUS-Bangla Airlines suspended flights to Kathmandu indefinitely after its plane crash killed at least 49 people in the Nepalese capital.
Airline ...
Families of those killed in the US-Bangla plane crash will have to wait for more days to receive the bodies, ...
0 CommentsAn alleged robber died on Saturday in what police narrated as a shootout in Feni\'s Fulgazi, but his family said ...
0 CommentsThe Bangladesh Nationalist Party matched itself with Jamaat-e-Islami on their position on war crime trials, as they appointed Lord Alex ...
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The medical condition of Afsana Khanam, the widow of US-Bangla pilot Abid Sultan, went from bad to worse.
\"We decided to ...
A Jhalakathi court has ordered the authorities to reopen the case again six Rapid Action Battalion or RAB personnel over ...
0 CommentsA man with suspected ties to a robbery at an MP's house in Thakurgaon has died in what the police ...
0 CommentsExperts have urged the government not to drop Multiple-Choice-Questions (MCQ) from exams, but to instead, find the underlying cause of ...
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The World Bank has expressed doubt about the government\'s economic growth projection of 7.65 percent for the current fiscal year.
\"Remittance ...
China, the biggest trade partner with $15 billion exports to Bangladesh, wants to see the upcoming general elections \"smooth and ...
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Two factions of the Tabligh Jamaat have clashed over an previous conflict at Dhaka's Kakrail Mosque-the headquarters of the religious ...
0 CommentsThe Anti-Corruption Commission or ACC has threatened to file a case against Deputy Inspector General of police Mizanur Rahman for ...
0 CommentsThe Election Commission has decided to challenge a High Court order that stalled Gazipur City Corporation polls.
The commission's decision comes ...
Fours years into the killing of Fulgazi Upazila Chairman Ekramul Haque Ekram, law-enforcement agencies have yet to arrest 17 people ...
0 CommentsTofael Ahmed Joseph, a criminal who rose to infamy in the 1990s, has been freed on presidential mercy.
\"We freed him ...
People from different walks of life expressed their concern over the killings of suspected drug dealers in 'shootouts' with law-enforcement ...
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The family of slain publisher Shahzahan Bachchu have started a case naming four unidentified people as suspects over the murder ...
Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan has proposed to take BNP chief Khaleda Zia to Dhaka's CMH for medical tests, hours after ...
Two leaders of the BNP say they saw \'a change in the outlook of the Indians\' about Bangladesh during a ...
The United States has expressed its concern over the anti-drug operations in Bangladesh and called for transparent investigations of all ...
0 CommentsBNP leader Mizanur Rahman arrested on charges of conspiring to make the Gazipur city polls controversial has been remanded for ...
0 CommentsUN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has said Rohingyas are victims of ethnic cleansing and the world has failed them.
In a ...
Police investigating the cyber heist of Bangladesh Bank\'s reserves in New York have failed to submit a report to court ...
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A Bangladeshi store owner has been shot dead in Florida in a case that local police described as a robbery. ...
0 CommentsMahbubul Alam Hanif, joint general secretary of the Awami League, has expressed his satisfaction over the election atmosphere in Rajshahi, ...
0 CommentsSome unidentified youths armed with sticks assaulted student protesters when they were already battling against the police during their campaign ...
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Students from various educational institutions have taken to the Dhaka streets for a seventh consecutive day of protests to demand ...
0 CommentsPolitics sneaked into the non-political protests carried out by students with calls for safe roads, Awami League General Secretary Obaidul ...
0 CommentsPolitics sneaked into the non-political protests carried out by students with calls for safe roads, Awami League General Secretary Obaidul ...
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BNP candidate Ariful Haque Chowdhury has won Sylhet mayoral elections, beating Awami League candidate Badar Uddin Ahmed Kamran by 6,196 ...
0 CommentsNineteen civil society groups have released a joint statement calling for the immediate release of Bangladeshi photojournalist Shahidul Alam and ...
0 CommentsA tribunal has issued a warrant of arrest for businessman Aziz Mohammad Bhai in a case over the 1996 share ...
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Dhaka Metropolitan Police chief Md Asaduzzaman Mia has said nobody will be spared, if traffic rules are violated.
Mia pledged to ...
An unidentified group has shot and hacked a local council chairman to death in Satkhira's Kaliganj Upazila.
The incident took place ...
Former Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha said that he resigned in the face of intimidation and threats.
Justice Sinha made the ...
Anti-Corruption Commission Chairman Iqbal Mahmood says he is embarrassed to answer questions from the media regarding allegations of corruption against ...
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As it moves to align with the BNP, Bikalpadhara Bangladesh has told Khaleda Zia's party that it can forget about ...
0 CommentsFormer Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha says he is living as a refugee in the United States and seeks asylum.
Sinha ...
The BNP has been making \'irrelevant demands\' to the government only to boost the morale of its activists, said Awami ...
0 CommentsAn army officer has filed a general diary against Zafrullah Chowdhury, the leader of a professional group supporting the BNP, ...
0 CommentsPolice have filed two separate cases against militants who were arrested during raids at suspected militant hideouts in Narsingdi's Shekerchar ...
0 CommentsA court has scrapped the bail of BNP Standing Committee member Amir Khosru Mahmud Chowdhury in an ICT Act case ...
0 CommentsAfter facing two recent cases over extortion, Zafrullah Chowdhury, the leader of BNP-backed professional group, has now been sued for ...
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The BNP on Wednesday said the dialogue between the Jatiya Oikyafront and the government about the national election ...
The Election Commission will ask for a report from police on Wednesday\'s violent clashes between them and the BNP supporters ...
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A Bangladeshi man has been shot at in the leg by robbers in the Astoria neighbourhood of Queens, New York ...
0 CommentsAMA Muhith\'s wealth has doubled in a decade of his two consecutive terms in the Awami League government as finance ...
0 CommentsBadruddoza first met with Chinese diplomats at 12:30pm. The Chinese ambassador to Dhaka, Zhang Zuo, led a four-member Chinese delegation ...
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Md Joynal Abedin Khan :
Hundreds of students, guardians and locals on Tuesday protested the committing of suicide by a student ...
Jatiya Party Secretary General Mashiur Rahman Ranga says the party is \'unsatisfied\' with the 29 seats assigned to it by ...
0 CommentsSupporters of the Awami League and the BNP candidates have clashed in Sirajganj and Netrakona as the election campaign kicked ...
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Two persons have been killed after a covered van hit a motorbike at Agargaon in Dhaka.
The accident took place near ...
The Awami League will take a 'zero tolerance' policy to free Bangladesh from corruption if it is reelected, Sheikh Hasina ...
0 CommentsThe Awami League says the Jatiya Oikyafront has to be joking with the nation by including the continuation of war ...
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Renowned film and drama director Saidul Anam Tutul has died in a Dhaka hospital at the age of 68.
Tutul who ...
Poet Habibullah Siraji has been appointed as the new Director General of Bangla Academy.
The Public Relations Department of the academy ...
Sixty-eight women, who make up only about 4 percent of the candidates, will compete in the Dec 30 polls.
The figure ...
Police say they have seized a large quantity of materials used to make petrol bombs and other makeshift weapons from ...
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The UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office, or FCO, has awarded Julian Francis for his outstanding contribution to Bangladesh since its ...
No polling agents for the BNP candidates were seen in many polling centres in Dhaka during the 11th national election. ...
0 CommentsA sailor has gone missing after two vessels sank near Bhashan Char in the Bay of Bengal on Thursday.
The lighter ...
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has complained about a seat assigned for her in court during a hearing of the GATCO ...
0 CommentsThe BNP has decided to stay away from the mayoral by-polls to Dhaka North City Corporation and elections to Upazila ...
0 CommentsA Jubo League activist has been killed and his brother injured in an attack in Kishoreganj.
Yusuf Monir, 48, and his ...
A UN human rights expert does not expect Rohingya refugees to return to Myanmar from Bangladesh anytime soon. "It is ...
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At least 12 crude bombs were exploded at six different places in Jashore town near the residence of ...
Agitated garment workers have blocked the Narayanganj-Adamjee-Demra road and vandalised vehicles to protest the death of a fellow worker in ...
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The local administration in Chattogram has begun an eviction drive to remove 2,500 illegal government and private structures \'engulfing\' the ...
0 CommentsA bus has rammed an autorickshaw on the bridge over the Buriganga River in Dhaka\'s Postogola, leaving three people dead.
The ...
US lawmakers have described Bangladesh as having \"a negative trajectory of democracy\" in a letter to Secretary of State Mike ...
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The Bangladesh Chhatra League has announced its panel for the Dhaka University Central Students\' Union elections, with Rezwanul Haque Chowdhury ...
The campaigns for the mayoral post in the by-election to Dhaka North City Corporation will end at midnight on Tuesday.
The ...
In the aftermath of the devastating fire in Chawkbazar, the government has announced a temporary measure that will see the ...
0 CommentsAwami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader has said the opposition alliance has become isolated from the people as they have ...
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The Rapid Action Battalion or RAB has arrested 22 members of an alleged fraud ring that embezzled tens of millions ...
0 CommentsAn air ambulance has arrived in Dhaka to fly critically ill Obaidul Quader to Singapore.
Two specialists of the Mount Elizabeth ...
The Jatiya Oikya Front MPs-elect Sultan Muhammed Mansur and Mukabbir Khan may defy the coalition decision and take their oaths ...
0 CommentsThe Biman Bangladesh Airlines plane that was stormed by commandos after a hijack attempt by a man is going to ...
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A Bangladeshi expatriate woman living in Japan has been killed at her home.
Japanese police have detaied her husband in connection ...
A man has been killed and another injured after an alleged shootout with Dhaka police in Mohammadpur\'s Bosila. Police claim ...
0 CommentsRAJUK\'s apartment project in Uttara has yet to be completed though it is three years past its initial deadline. The ...
0 CommentsNew Zealand will arrange for one close relative from the family of each Bangladeshi who died in the Christchurch attack ...
0 CommentsBangladesh has \"rejected\" the human rights report released by the US State Department and sent a \"protest\" note to Washington. ...
0 CommentsThe new Dhaka University Central Students\' Union or DUCSU and the hall unions will meet for the first time on ...
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Workers from garment maker Intramex Group have blocked three roads in Gazipur city to protest the factory locking its doors ...
0 CommentsStudents from Sylhet Agricultural University (SAU) have boycotted classes in protest of the death of Gori Mohammed Wasim, who was ...
0 CommentsA case has been filed over the fire at the multi-storey FR Tower commercial building in Dhaka's Banani.
Dhaka Metropolitan Police ...
Cracks have started to emerge in the slabs and beams of Banani's fire-ravaged FR Tower leaving the high-rise in a ...
0 CommentsDhaka North Mayor Atiqul Islam has sought time to ensure safety and security of people on the streets, saying there ...
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Mukabbir Khan had to leave the office of Dr Kamal Hossain as the Gono Forum chief, angry at the new ...
0 CommentsTwo Bangladesh expatriates have been killed and two others injured in a road accident in Qatar.
The accident took place in ...
A third grader has died and three other children injured after a ceiling at their primary school in Barguna collapsed ...
0 CommentsParts of the ceiling and a beam of a school have collapsed in Barguna just five days after a grade-three ...
0 CommentsThe Communist Party of Bangladesh or CPB has formed human chains from Ganabhaban to Bangabhaban in Dhaka to protest the ...
0 CommentsThe authorities have dissolved the governing committee of Feni\'s Sonagazi Islamia Fazil Madrasa citing the murder of student Nusrat Jahan ...
0 CommentsHome Minister Asaduzzaman Khan has described terror attacks on churches and luxury hotels in Sri Lanka as heartrending and ruled ...
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A Bangladeshi shop employee from Feni has been shot to death in South Africa, his family has said.
The 45-year-old Fazlul ...
The BNP has expelled Zahidur Rahman for taking oath as an MP defying the party.
Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir ...
SM Siraj-ud-Daula, Principal of Sonagazi madrasa in Feni has confessed to ordering the fatal arson attack on student Nusrat Jahan ...
0 CommentsThe BNP MP designates have taken oath of office on instructions from acting chief in exile Tareque Rahman, according to ...
0 CommentsThe key index of the Dhaka Stock Exchange has slipped to a 27-month low as a continued fall in share ...
0 CommentsA road traffic accident in Saudi Arabia has left at least 10 Bangladeshis dead and seven others injured.
The accident occurred ...
The Police Bureau of Investigation, or PBI, have recovered the glass used to douse kerosene on the body of Feni ...
0 CommentsBangladesh has received a record amount of foreign direct investment, (FDI), in 2018 with China being the leading investor in ...
0 CommentsPolice have suspended two sub-inspectors of Songazi station in Feni for negligence in handling the case of Nusrat Jahan Rafi, ...
0 CommentsPolice have suspended two sub-inspectors of Sonagazi station in Feni for negligence in handling the case of Nusrat Jahan Rafi, ...
0 CommentsA woman, her son and daughter have been found dead at their home in Dhaka\'s Uttarkhan, according to police.
Police went ...
Prominent poet Hayat Saif has died at the age of 76 while undergoing treatment for old-age complications at a Dhaka ...
Biman Bangladesh Airlines will start carrying hajj pilgrims on Jun 4, Public Relations Managing Director Shakil Meraj has said. Booking ...
0 CommentsA journalist has been found dead in Jamalpur\'s Sadar Upazila and police suspect he has been murdered.
His body was ...
More than 50 officials of the Rajdhani Unnayan Kartipakkha, or RAJUK, including its former chairman, committed a series of irregularities ...
0 CommentsThe photos on social media of farmers setting ripe paddy on fire reportedly to protest low prices in Bangladesh are ...
0 CommentsA suspected drug peddler has been killed in a so-called shootout with police in Cox\'s Bazar\'s Teknaf Upazila.
The incident occurred ...
A madrasa teacher has murdered a 12-year-old student in Jashore\'s Sharsha Upazila, after a failed rape attempt.
Hafizur Rahman, a teacher ...
Biman pilot Captain Fazal Mahmud flew to Qatar earlier this month without a passport to bring back Prime Minister Sheikh ...
0 CommentsA Feni court has begun conducting the trial proceedings against the 16 accused in the murder of madrasa student Nusrat ...
0 CommentsVoter turnout in Upazila elections across Bangladesh has halved from that of the parliamentary polls held about six months ago.
Voter ...
Toufiq M Seraj, the managing director of real estate firm Sheltech, has died at the age of 63.
He passed away ...
An Egyptian landlord has been jailed for 10 years for the murder of a Bangladeshi man in New York about ...
0 CommentsThree men implicated in human trafficking cases have died in a so-called shootout with police in Cox\'s Bazar\'s Teknaf.
The incident ...
The woman who tried to save her husband from attackers wielding long, sharp weapons in Barguna has recounted the horror ...
0 CommentsThe Anti-Corruption Commission has initiated a lawsuit against 11 people, including former chief justice Surendra Kumar Sinha, for a loan ...
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The railway authorities have attributed the derailment of nine oil carriages in Rajshahi to negligent repair work on the tracks.
According ...
Bidisha Siddique, the former wife of Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad, has bid an emotional farewell to her husband following ...
0 CommentsHM Ershad has left behind two sons and at least two adopted children.
The former military dictator, who seized power in ...
Priya Saha, a beleaguered activist who works for minority rights, has stood by her remarks on the alleged persecution of ...
0 CommentsRefat Sharif, the victim of the much-publicised daylight murder in Barguna, along with his assailants Nayon Bond and Rifat Forazi ...
0 CommentsDoctors at the national heart institute have conducted a heart surgery without cutting chest bones in a minimally invasive procedure ...
0 CommentsAnother man from the Rohingya community with alleged links to the murder of Omar Faruk, a local leader of the ...
0 CommentsA man has been killed and at least nine others injured in a turf battle between two factions of the ...
0 CommentsA man wanted for multiple crimes has been killed in a so-called shootout with police following his arrest in Narsingdi.
The ...
The government has proposed implementing a two-year internship programme to qualify as a doctor, much to the chagrin of medical ...
0 CommentsInformation Minister Hasan Mahmud has ruled out the involvement of Middle-East-based militant outfit Islamic State or IS in a crude ...
0 CommentsThe government has appointed Joint Secretary Md Mahbub Alam Talukder as the new refugee relief and repatriation commissioner to Cox\'s ...
0 CommentsTwo people have been killed in so-called shootouts with police and RAB in two separate incidents in Cox's Bazar and ...
0 CommentsForeign Minister AK Abdul Momen has said that the government will never force Rohingyas to go to Bhashanchar from Cox's ...
0 CommentsThe government has ordered a halt on operations of two NGOs in Cox's Bazar for "secretly assisting" a Rohingya rally ...
0 CommentsThe authorities in Cox\'s Bazar have seized over 2,000 sharp tools like billhook and knife stashed in the offices of ...
0 CommentsThe home ministry has suspended an imprisoned assistant superintendent of police of Gazipur highway circle on corruption charges.
\"SM Badrul Alam ...
Dhaka Metropolitan Police Commissioner Md Asaduzzaman Mia has promised to \'wipe out\' all types of gangs in a bid to ...
Md Firoz-Ul-Amin Real, a Bangladeshi PhD student of Louisiana State University in the US, has been shot dead reportedly by ...
0 CommentsA bus operated by Victor Paribahan has run over and killed a youth while injuring another in Dhaka's Uttara.
The victims ...
The Awami League will organise its 21st National Council on Dec 20 and 21 to elect new leaders.
General Secretary Obaidul ...
The government has suspended Pabna Sadar Police OC Obaidul Hoque for his alleged involvement in arranging a marriage between a ...
0 CommentsPolice have detained 15 women and three men during a raid on a health club and beauty salon in Dhaka's ...
0 CommentsA rally of the Awami League in New York was attacked during Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina\'s address to the United ...
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Ismail Hossain Samrat, the president of Jubo League's Dhaka South unit, will soon be arrested by law enforcement, Home Minister ...
0 CommentsMyanmar has rejected calls to establish a 'safe zone' for its minority Muslim Rohingya community and urged Bangladesh to carry ...
0 CommentsMyanmar has agreed to issue national identity cards or NIDs to all Rohingyas after verifying their credentials, Foreign Minister AK ...
0 CommentsPolice have been given another seven days to grill Jubo League leader Khaled Mahmud Bhuiyan in two cases related to ...
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US Ambassador in Dhaka Earl Miller has called for a full investigation into the killing of BUET student Abrar Fahad.
"I ...
Anik Sarkar, remanded in custody for his alleged involvement in the murder of BUET student Abrar Fahad, has given a ...
0 CommentsExpelled Jubo League leader Ismail Chowdhury Samrat has returned to jail after undergoing treatment in a hospital.
Samrat was discharged from ...
The 35 people killed in a bus crash in Saudi Arabia may include some Bangladeshis, the Bangladesh mission in the ...
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The brother-in-law of Biplob Chandra Baidya Shuvo, whose Facebook account was hacked to spread religious slur triggering deadly clashes in ...
0 CommentsBangladesh Cricket Board President Nazmul Hassan has met with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to discuss the ongoing strike by cricket ...
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Deepak Aggarwal, who the International Cricket Council has identified as a corruption suspect, told Shakib Al Hasan during a conversation ...
The volatility in the onion market is likely to persist until a huge quantity of the kitchen staple imported from ...
Sheikh Hasina has made a list of around 1,500 people who have infiltrated the Awami League, Obaidul Quader has said.
The ...
The Anti-Corruption Commission or ACC has been given six days to grill expelled Jubo League Ismail Chowdhury Samrat for possession ...
0 CommentsA local gang has murdered a woodworker after raping his wife in Jamalpur.
The incident took place on Friday night, police ...
Sheikh Fazle Shams Parash, the new chairman of Jubo League, has vowed to continue the war started by Prime Minister ...
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Hosna Akhter - a Bangladeshi housemaid who appealed for help in a video alleging torture by her employer in Saudi ...
0 CommentsThe terrorists convicted of the killings of 22 people in an attack on an eatery in Dhaka in 2016 are ...
0 CommentsThe Bangladesh Power Development Board or BPDB has proposed to the energy regulator to increase bulk electricity tariff by 23.27 ...
0 CommentsBNP leaders Hafiz Uddin Ahmed and Khairul Kabir Khokon have been released on bail hours after their arrest near the ...
0 CommentsPolice are interrogating a man in connection with the murder of an elderly woman and her housemaid in Dhaka\'s Mirpur.
Sohel, ...
The BNP has expressed frustration over the top court's decision to defer the hearing of Khaleda Zia's bail appeal in ...
A Rohingya man has been killed in an alleged gunfight over \'territorial dominance\' between rival factions at a refugee camp ...
The international community must not shirk its responsibility when it comes to the education of Rohingya children in the camps ...
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The prime minister\'s Military Secretary Major General Mia Mohammad Zainul Abedin has died during treatment in Singapore. He was 59.
Zainul ...
Approximately 8,093 babies will be born in Bangladesh on New Year\'s Day, according to UNICEF.
Bangladeshi babies will account for 2.06 ...
The government has appointed Nahida Sobhan as the ambassador to Jordan, the first female envoy of Bangladesh in the Middle ...
0 CommentsThree more cold waves are expected to sweep over Bangladesh in January, according to a weather forecast.
A severe cold wave ...
A domestic help has stolen cash from Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal\'s residence in Gulshan and fled.
A theft case was ...
Police have detained a madrasa teacher in Gazipur\'s Kaliganj Upazila after the 4-year-old son of the headmaster was found dead ...
0 CommentsA Faridpur court has sent three doctors to jail for allegedly trying to embezzle Tk 100 million from the government ...
0 CommentsPrime Minister Sheikh Hasina has called on Bangladesh envoys in the Middle East to work towards strengthen ties with Muslim ...
0 CommentsPolice have arrested a man accused of abetting the rape of his teenage daughter in exchange for a loan waiver ...
0 CommentsA man has been beaten by a mob after he pulled a revolver on protesters amid a demonstration staged by ...
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A man has been beaten by a mob after he pulled a revolver on protesters amid a demonstration staged by ...
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Atiqul Islam, the Awami League\'s mayoral candidate for Dhaka North, has urged the Election Commission to defer the polls due ...
The Election Commission\'s budget for the Dhaka city election trebled to Tk 600 million from five years ago.
More than 500 ...
Bangla Academy has announced the names of the winners of its 2019 literature awards.
They include writer Wasi Ahmed and poet ...
Bangladesh Bank has doubled the limit on foreign currency that travellers can bring into the country without declaration to the ...
0 CommentsA group of Bangladeshi students stuck in Yichang, a city in Hubei province of China, have appealed for evacuation citing ...
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BNP Standing Committee member Gayeshwar Chandra Roy has been hospitalised with \'throat problems\'.
\"He is struggling to speak and so he ...
A man, who was set to undergo testing for the novel coronavirus, has fled from Dhaka\'s Shaheed Suhrawardy Hospital, according ...
0 CommentsThe local authorities in Madaripur\'s Shibchar Upazila have ordered all shops, business entities and public transports shut to prevent the ...
0 CommentsThe two-day special session of the 11th Jatiya Sangsad on the birth centenary of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, was suspended ...
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A US court has dismissed a civil case filed by Bangladesh Bank against Manila-based bank Rizal Commercial Banking Corp, individuals ...
Two garment factories have been shut down in Savar in an effort to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus.
The ...
The government has cancelled leave for all employees in the Trading Corporation of Bangladesh and the Directorate of National Consumer ...
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Ruhul Kabir Rizvi has urged the BNP leaders and activists not to crowd at the BSMMU hospital, from where their ...
Industry owners do not want to shut down factories as a measure to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus, ...
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The Bangladesh Telecommunications Company Limited\'s phone lines used by the Fire Service and Civil Defence have been restored across Bangladesh ...
The sufferings of patients across Dhaka have been compounded during the coronavirus crisis as many doctors have stopped attending their ...
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The chief executive officer of Dhaka South City Corporation has come under heavy criticism after sprinkling money towards people seeking ...
Khaleda Zia, who is receiving treatment at her Gulshan residence after her jail sentence was suspended, is now in stable ...
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Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will update the media on the latest situation centring the coronavirus outbreak and the government\'s efforts ...
The authorities have locked down several institutions, including seven houses, in Cox\'s Bazar\'s Teknaf Upazila after a RAB officer was ...
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Several factory owners are planning to continue operations by trimming their workforces in a bid to offset the economic implications ...
\"I was suffocating as I had severe breathing problems. I felt like I was dying. Only then did I realise ...
0 CommentsThe government has ordered a list of its officials who have been absent from their respective offices and, in turn, ...
0 CommentsBangladesh Bank has raised advance to deposit ratio or ADR by 2 percentage points, enabling banks to lend more during ...
0 CommentsAround 350,000 dairy farmers across Bangladesh are struggling to survive as the nationwide lockdown due to the coronavirus outbreak has ...
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A senior journalist of Prothom Alo has tested positive for the coronavirus amid a surge in infections across Bangladesh.
The Bangla-language ...
The Indian media has reported the arrest of Moslem Uddin, another convicted killer of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, who had ...
Supreme Court Bar Association President AM Amin Uddin feels the legal action against editors and journalists for reporting corruption deals ...
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The Commonwealth Journalists Association has warned its member states against misuse of extraordinary powers to silence independent media coverage of ...
The Bangladesh economy has been haemorrhaging Tk 33 billion a day from its service and agriculture sectors during the nationwide ...
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Students are worried that the coronavirus lockdown is going to have a negative impact on their studies and decrease the ...
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has expressed serious concern about the case started against bdnews24.com\'s Editor-in-Chief Toufique Imrose Khalidi ...
0 CommentsTens of thousands of workers rejoined work in 127 factories of three Export Processing Zones in Chattogram amid allegations that ...
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The death of a Bangladeshi man from the coronavirus in Scotland has left his family facing up to an uncertain ...
Importers will not need to pay container storage fees for clearance of goods from the Chattogram Port within May 4, ...
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Homayuan Kabir Khokon, a journalist who died within an hour of his admittance to a Dhaka hospital with complaints of ...
Rangamati is the only district in Bangladesh to remain free from coronavirus cases in the massive outbreak that spreads to ...
0 CommentsDhaka University history Professor Muntassir Mamoon has been hospitalised in Dhaka on being diagnosed with COVID-19.
He was admitted to the ...
The owners of private medical colleges and hospitals have cancelled festival allowances for teachers, doctors and other employees ahead of ...
0 CommentsBashundhara City Complex and Jamuna Future Park are not opening their doors to Eid shoppers as a precaution against the ...
0 CommentsPolice officers tasked with ensuring the safety of citizens on the ground are growing increasingly susceptible to the coronavirus as ...
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Nazmul Karim Chowdhury, Vice-Chancellor of Fareast International University in Dhaka, has died from the COVID-19 disease at the age of ...
The Election Commission is willing to bide its time and observe how the ongoing coronavirus crisis unfolds across Bangladesh before ...
0 CommentsBangladesh Bank has eased restrictions on clearing funds from the Tk 300 billion coronavirus stimulus package for industrial sectors allowing ...
0 CommentsAn office assistant at the Prime Minister\'s Office has made a confessional statement to a court about misappropriating an official ...
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A bag containing about Tk 8 million in cash has purportedly been lost from a cash-in-transit vehicle of National Bank ...
UNB, Dhaka :
At least 64 percent children from marginalised groups and their families are currently facing severe food crisis amid ...
UNB, Khulna :
Despite bumper production of watermelon in Dakope upazila of Khulna, frustration has gripped the growers as they are ...
Travellers have crammed into ferries at Munshiganj\'s Shimulia to cross the Padma river to 21 southern districts despite coronavirus scare ...
0 CommentsA truck packed with migrant labourers trying to reach their distant homes amid a nationwide lockdown over the coronavirus has ...
0 CommentsAzad Rahman, a composer, music director, singer and winner of National Film Awards, has died at the age of 76.
Azad ...
The government has begun drafting a policy to implement online education programmes at public and private universities amid the coronavirus ...
Disgruntled garment workers took to the streets to demand payment of wages and Eid-ul-Fitr bonuses in another round of protests ...
0 CommentsThe government will publish the results of the SSC and equivalent examinations \'any day\' after Eid-ul-Fitr, according to education authorities.
The ...
As Cyclone Amphan slammed into the coasts of Bangladesh, fierce wind gusts and rains snapped power supply, plunging much of ...
0 CommentsThe government\'s decision to expand the treatment of COVID-19 in all hospitals in Bangladesh has drawn mixed reactions from health ...
0 CommentsDhaka\'s New Market will pull up its shutters on Sunday after more than two months of closure during the shutdown ...
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Sohail F Rahman, the chairman of one of Bangladesh\'s leading conglomerates Beximco Group, has left Dhaka for London on a ...
Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal is planning to increase the threshold of tax-free income for individuals to Tk 300,000 in ...
0 CommentsFormer chief whip Md Abdus Shahid and Gono Forum MP Mokobbir Khan have contracted COVID-19, taking the number of Bangladeshi ...
0 CommentsA COVID-19 patient has complained of being overcharged for oxygen therapy at Dhaka\'s Anwer Khan Modern Medical College Hospital which ...
0 CommentsAfter East Rajabazar, the Directorate General of Health Services has marked some areas in Dhaka's Wari as coronavirus hotspots.
It has ...
The Anti-Corruption Commission has found \"illegal assets\" worth about Tk 40 million Shamima Noor Papia.
The commission is preparing to file ...
Dr Sabrina Sharmeen Husain, currently in police custody over her alleged ties to a Covid-19 test scam, abused her credentials ...
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The government has appointed Rear Admiral M Shaheen Iqbal as the chief of Bangladesh Navy by promoting him to the ...
0 CommentsThe OPEC Fund for International Development or the OPEC Fund has provided a $70 million loan to Bangladesh to help ...
0 CommentsThe government has suspended the primary education completion and equivalent examinations of this year due to the coronavirus epidemic.
\"The prime ...
Bangladesh Army chief General Aziz Ahmed has sought exemplary punishment for those involved in the killing of retired major Sinha ...
0 CommentsThe ninth session of the 11th parliament drew to an end in five days amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Speaker Shirin Sharmin ...
The government will allow those who turned 30 on Mar 25 amid the coronavirus shutdown to apply for government jobs. ...
0 CommentsThe Mahalaya, a ritual that marks the beginning of the Durga Puja festivities, has begun across the country amid the ...
0 CommentsBangladesh has registered 26 more deaths from the novel coronavirus infection in a day, taking the body count to 4,939.
The ...
At least four Rohingya refugees have been killed in clashes at a camp in Cox\'s Bazar.
Md Shamsuddoza, the additional commissioner ...
Bangladesh has logged 1,520 new cases of the novel coronavirus infection in a daily count, taking the tally so far ...
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The regional and international community should redouble its efforts to resolve the Rohingya crisis, said US Deputy Secretary of State ...
0 CommentsCountry has registered 23 new fatalities from the novel coronavirus in a daily count, taking the tally so far to ...
0 CommentsThe Dhaka South City Corporation has decided to pause its drive to lay overhead internet and satellite television cables underground.
The ...
Heavy rainfall is likely to drench parts of Bangladesh and India\'s West Bengal as Hindu devotees gear up for the ...
0 CommentsThe incessant downpour which drenched different parts of Bangladesh over the last two days is set to make way for ...
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Proshanta Kumar Halder, who had spoken of his desire to return to Bangladesh amid allegations of having assets beyond means ...
0 CommentsCommunist leader and freedom fighter Haider Anwar Khan Juno died in hospital care at the age of 76.
He passed away ...
The Bangladesh National Zoo in Mirpur is set to reopen its doors to visitors today (Sunday) under health protocols after ...
0 CommentsBangladesh National Museum is set to reopen to visitors on a \'limited scale\' today, after remaining shut for more than ...
0 CommentsThe government has imposed an entry fee for visitors at the Ratargul swamp forest, which has become an attractive tourist ...
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The Rapid Action Battalion has arrested a Rohingya couple and seized Tk 11.7 million and more than 5,000 yaba pills ...
0 CommentsBangladesh has recorded 2,525 new cases of the coronavirus, the highest daily tally in about three months, taking the caseload ...
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A power system \'hiccup\' at an office of Bangladesh Telecommunications Company Limited or BTCL in Dhaka has left around 30,000 ...
The flow of foreign direct investment into Bangladesh is plummetting at an alarming rate as the global economy continues to ...
0 CommentsThe government has named Brig Gen Md Nasim Parvez as a Director General (DG) of Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC).
The ...
The country has recorded 1,355 new cases of the coronavirus infection in a daily count, taking the tally of infections ...
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Manzur-I-Mawla, a poet and former director-general of Bangla Academy, has died in hospital care at the age of 80.
He breathed ...
Veteran chest physician Prof AKM Shamsul Huq, former Director of the National Institute of Diseases of the Chest and Hospital, ...
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By encouraging child journalism in Bangladesh, bdnews24.com has played the role of a pioneer in the field, Information Minister Hasan ...
The High Court has ordered the police to immediately release Md Arman, a saree craftsman of Dhaka\'s Pallabi who has ...
0 CommentsThe government is expected to make public the details of the Bangabandhu-2 satellite, including its type and utilities, by April.
A ...
Khandaker Aliour Rahman, Secretary of Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA), died in hospital care from the coronavirus infection.
He breathed his ...
News Desk :
At least seven construction workers were killed and four others injured after a Kushtia-bound truck and a construction ...
Detective Branch of police have arrested a young man on charges of using pictures of senior government officials in multiple ...
0 CommentsBangladesh has recorded 387 new cases of the coronavirus in a daily count, taking the tally of infections so far ...
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Bangladesh has recorded 388 new cases of the coronavirus in a daily count, taking the tally of infections so far ...
Bangladesh has recorded 418 new cases of the coronavirus in a daily count, taking the tally of infections so far ...
0 CommentsAs much as 58.67 percent of voters have turned out in the fifth phase of the mayoral polls to the ...
0 CommentsA Chattogram court has sentenced nine people to death on charges murder in Fatikchhari 17 years ago.
Chattogram\'s Fourth Additional District ...
Reforms to Saudi Arabia\'s \'kafala\' sponsorship system have taken effect from Sunday, offering expatriate workers in the kingdom greater flexibility ...
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Britain\'s Queen Elizabeth II has sent her best wishes to the people of Bangladesh on 50 years of independence.
In a ...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has urged people to forget differences and work together to build a \"prosperous and non-communal\" Bangladesh ...
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US President Joe Biden\'s Special Envoy for Climate John Kerry is coming to Dhaka for consultations on climate ambition ahead ...
The government has allowed all stores and shopping malls to reopen on Friday, altering the lockdown rules designed to curb ...
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The police have set up light machine gun or LMG posts at six of their stations in Sylhet city to ...
0 CommentsA community centre and a mosque have been gutted by a fire that broke out at Ukhiya camp for the ...
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Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has assured people of government support amid the pandemic and urged them to follow the health ...
0 CommentsBangladesh Bank has raised the limits for cash withdrawal from ATMs during the lockdown that starts on Wednesday.
Customers will be ...
The Bangladesh Medical Association has condemned the alleged harassment that doctors face on their way to work during the ongoing ...
0 CommentsHifazat-e Islam's Joint Secretary General Mamunul Haque incited Kawmi madrasa students to riot by exploiting the opposition to Indian Prime ...
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Mamunul Haque, a joint secretary general of Hifazat-e Islam, had links with the militants responsible for the grenade attack on ...
0 CommentsThe authorities have ordered a temporary halt on supply of oxygen to industries as a precaution fearing shortage for COVID-19 ...
0 CommentsBangladesh will soon sign a contract to import the coronavirus vaccine made by China\'s Sinopharm, says Health Minister Zahid Maleque.
Negotiations ...
Health Minister Zahid Maleque hopes that as many as 500,000 doses of China\'s Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine will arrive in Dhaka ...
0 CommentsA mobile court has fined 17 people at the Basundhara City shopping mall for defying health protocols amid the coronavirus ...
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After losing her parents and two sisters in a boat crash on the Padma River in Madaripur, grief is the ...
0 CommentsSome leaders of Hefazat-e Islam have met Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal for the second time in three weeks.
The meeting ...
Law Minister Anisul Huq is reviewing an appeal by BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia's family to let her fly abroad for ...
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After a long journey from Japan to India, the first six cars of the Dhaka metro rail have marked their ...
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Thousands are crossing the Padma River in a mad rush to reach home for the upcoming Eid-ul-Fitr holidays amid the ...
0 CommentsThe High Court has suspended the cutting of trees at the Suhrawardy Udyan, a historic park in Dhaka.
\"Our order is ...
Namrata Talukdar Orpa completed her postgraduate degree from Dhaka University in 2020, but it\'s a long road ahead for her ...
0 CommentsThe Detective Branch of Dhaka Metropolitan Police has said it will investigate the case started against Prothom Alo Senior Correspondent ...
0 CommentsCountry has registered 1,457 new cases of coronavirus infection in a day, taking the tally to 785,194.
The death toll from ...
Parliament will go into session for the presentation of the national budget for the 2021-22 fiscal year on Jun 3.
A ...
A young man whom his family reported to the police as abducted has returned home to his village in Narayanganj ...
0 CommentsThe government has locked down five Rohingya refugee camps in Cox\'s Bazar following the spread of coronavirus infections.
The restrictions imposed ...
The Rapid Action Batallion has arrested Inamul Hasan Faruqi, an aide to Hefazat-e Islam chief Junaid Babunagari.
Faruqi, the publicity secretary ...
Two school teachers have died while accompanying a patient to a hospital after a head-on collision between an ambulance and ...
0 CommentsThe court has ordered everyone to act \"responsibly\" while granting bail to Prothom Alo\'s Senior Reporter Rozina Islam in a ...
0 CommentsThe Water Development Board has expressed concerns about flooding in the low-lying areas of Bagerhat, a southwestern district, as Cyclone ...
0 CommentsBangladesh has agreed to give Sri Lanka loans of at least $200 million from the foreign exchange reserves under a ...
0 CommentsKamal Saudagar has made his living gathering fish eggs from the Halda River for many years. In the past two ...
0 CommentsBangladesh has recorded 1,292 new cases of coronavirus infection in a day, taking the tally to 794,985.
The death toll from ...
The University Grants Commission has allowed the public universities to hold the honours and master\'s final exams in person or ...
Three members of a family, including a child, have been burnt after a fire broke out at their tin-roofed house ...
0 CommentsDr Mashiur Rahman, who was previously the pro vice chancellor at National University, has been promoted to the position of ...
0 CommentsBangladesh Export Import Company (Beximco) has been awarded three IT-related contracts by the government worth an estimated Tk 3.57 billion.
The ...
Rajshahi has recorded a higher tally of COVID-19 cases than Dhaka and Khulna over a 24-hour period as it emerged ...
0 CommentsBangladesh is set to receive a second batch of 600,000 doses of the Sinopharm coronavirus vaccine as a gift from ...
0 CommentsPrime Minister Sheikh Hasina has ordered local authorities not to take any risks and impose lockdowns on those areas seeing ...
0 CommentsThe government is planning to launch an educational TV channel for students to prevent any further loss of learning due ...
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A heated debate has broken out in parliament about clubs in Dhaka city, and their involvement with alcohol and ...
0 CommentsAfter Abdus Samad, 68, and his wife Husne Laila, 58, from Thakurgaon were diagnosed with COVID-19, Samad ended up in ...
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The Rapid Action Battalion has arrested four people on charges of illegally trading cryptocurrency bitcoin.
Hamim Prince Khan, 32, the mastermind ...
Foreign direct investment flows to Bangladesh declined 11 percent to $2.6 billion in 2020 from a year earlier, according to ...
0 CommentsThe Bangladesh government has further tightened health restrictions from Jun 28 to Jul 1 in an effort to fight a ...
0 CommentsThe government has suspended a plan to register students for the Higher Secondary Certificate exams of 2021 as a surge ...
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As the fire broke out at the factory of Hashem Foods Ltd in Narayanganj's Rupganj, 28-year-old senior operator Mohammad Ali ...
0 CommentsExcitement had gripped the football fans of Brahmanbaria over the final match of the Copa America between Brazil and Argentina. ...
0 CommentsDisgruntled inmates of Jashore Child Development Centre (JCDC) have staged protests overnight over a meagre food supply at the government ...
0 CommentsBangladesh\'s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has summoned acting British High Commissioner Javed Patel to express its \"disappointment\" with a recent ...
0 CommentsMd Abul Hashem, chairman of Sajeeb Group, and six others, including his two sons, have been sent to jail after ...
0 CommentsSaiful Alam\'s design and printing shop in Dhaka\'s Purana Paltan was doing well enough to earn a living for his ...
0 CommentsBangladesh has decided to extend the ongoing lockdown restrictions by five days to Aug 10, as coronavirus cases and deaths ...
0 CommentsBangladesh has registered 235 new deaths from COVID-19 in a day, taking the total toll to 21,397.
The COVID-19 caseload surged ...
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