OC in trouble for demanding biriyani, sweets
15 October 2023, 15:16 PM Country
Water scarcity hampers jute processing
19 July 2022, 18:00 PM Bangladesh
Auto rice mill near school
18 July 2022, 18:00 PM Bangladesh
Sudden Jamuna erosion makes many homeless
13 July 2022, 18:00 PM Natural disaster
Natore UP member found dead, wife injured
12 July 2022, 18:00 PM Crime & Justice
Two kids drown in Lalmonirhat, Kurigram
12 July 2022, 18:00 PM Accidents & Fires
Permanent shops on leased land!
12 July 2022, 18:00 PM Crime & Justice
Illegal pond: A threat to surrounding cropland
12 July 2022, 18:00 PM Crime & Justice
Payra erosion threatens Barguna villages
25 June 2022, 18:00 PM Bangladesh

6 get death penalty for killing couple for land property in Tangail

A tribunal in Dhaka today sentenced six people to death for killing a couple -- a retired government primary school teacher and his wife -- in a bid to grab land property in Sadar upazila of Tangail in 2017.
13 September 2020, 10:45 AM

Arms case: 4 more witnesses testify against Regent Group chairman Shahed

Four more prosecution witnesses today gave their statements before a Dhaka tribunal in connection with an arms case against Regent Group Chairman Mohammad Shahed.
13 September 2020, 10:26 AM

CPB(M) announces siege of textile and jute ministry on Sept 15

Communist Party of Bangladesh (Marxist) -- CPB (M) -- today announced a siege of the Ministry of Textiles and Jute on September 15 to realise its three-point demand, including the resignation of Jute Minister Golam Dastagir Gazi for his failure in protecting the country's jute industry.
13 September 2020, 10:23 AM

Helping defaulters secure loans with fake NIDs: 5 including election office operators arrested

They are data entry operators of election offices. Having the access to the NID database server, they -- in collusion with some others -- created a gang that provide fake National ID cards, helping defaulters secure bank loans using those.
13 September 2020, 10:15 AM

Covid-19: 31 die, 1,476 infected, 2,372 recover in 24 hours

Thirty-one people have died from Covid-19 and 1,476 new infections were recorded in the country in the last 24 hours, according to a press release issued by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).
13 September 2020, 10:14 AM

Man kills 3, including wife, in Narsingdi

A man allegedly stabbed three people, including his wife and house owner, to death in Shibpur upazila of Narsingdi early today.
13 September 2020, 09:39 AM

Apex court upholds HC bail order for CU teacher in sedition case

The Supreme Court has upheld a High Court order that granted bail to Anwar Hossain Choudhury, an assistant professor of Chattogram University’s sociology department, in a sedition case.
13 September 2020, 09:31 AM

Rooppur power plant scam: HC questions bail order for contractor Shahadat

The High Court has questioned the lower court order that granted bail to contractor Shahadat Hossain in a case filed over corruption in purchasing furniture and household items for officials of Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant in Pabna.
13 September 2020, 07:32 AM

Bangladesh takes the lead in sending troops to UN Peacekeeping Missions

Bangladesh has secured the top position among 118 countries in sending troops to the United Nations peacekeeping missions.
13 September 2020, 06:47 AM

DG-level BGB-BSF conference scheduled for today postponed

The director general level meeting between Border Guard Bangladesh and Indian Border Security Force scheduled to start today in Dhaka has been postponed.
13 September 2020, 06:42 AM

Man attacked by nephew over land dispute dies in Narail

A man was killed in an attack, allegedly by his nephew, over land dispute in Kalia upazila of Narail last night.
13 September 2020, 06:12 AM

Attack on Ghoraghat UNO: Injured father shifted to Dhaka for better treatment

Ghoraghat UNO Wahida Khanam’s father Omar Ali Sheikh has been shifted to National Institute of Neurosciences and Hospital in Dhaka from Rangpur Medical College Hospital (RMCH) for better treatment.
13 September 2020, 05:16 AM

BCL leader stabbed to death in Narail

Criminals stabbed a former leader of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) to death allegedly over previous enmity in Narail’s Lohagara upazila on Friday.
12 September 2020, 18:00 PM

Lawyer sent to jail on rape charge

A Panchagarh court yesterday sent a lawyer to jail in connection with a case filed for raping a 10th-grader in Atwary upazila on Friday afternoon.
12 September 2020, 18:00 PM

Covid-19 forces indigenous women to change profession

Before the coronavirus pandemic, Arpa Dewan, an honours 3rd year student of Rangamati Government College, taught at a local kindergarten school in the district town to support her family and her education.
12 September 2020, 18:00 PM

Floodwaters receded, but marks of wrath all over

Lal Banu Begum and her family decided to come home after the floodwaters started to recede, but only to find their house, made of corrugated iron sheets, in utter despair.
12 September 2020, 18:00 PM

Establish value-based healthcare system in Bangladesh: Omar Ishrak

Chairman of Intel and Medtronic speaks at 38th Annual Installation Ceremony of Rotary Club of Metropolitan Dhaka
12 September 2020, 17:54 PM

NBR to make e-payment of customs duty mandatory from April 2021

The National Board of Revenue (NBR) is going to make e-payment for import and export duties mandatory for businesses to pay from April next year.
12 September 2020, 16:05 PM

PM’s grace smiles on poor family in Lalmonirhat

Soyful Islam, a habitant of Telipara village at Kaliganj in Lalmonirhat, has been pulling the traditionally cow-drawn oil grinder (ghani) by himself due to lack of cattle for the last 25 years.
12 September 2020, 16:03 PM

Locals form human chain demanding capital punishment of an alleged rapist in Panchagarh

Protesting the rape of a tenth-grader student allegedly by an advocate, locals in Panchagarh formed a human chain demanding punishment of the accused lawyer this afternoon.
12 September 2020, 14:10 PM