Recover Gazipur forest land from grabbers

The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Accounts yesterday asked the forest department to soon recover forest land in Gazipur from grabbers.
28 June 2015, 18:00 PM

Renowned film actor Razzak in ICU

Renowned film actor Razzak, also widely known as “Nayak Raj Razzak”, was shifted to the intensive care unit (ICU) of the capital's United Hospital yesterday.
28 June 2015, 18:00 PM

Current gas reserve to last 16 yrs

With measured use, the country’s current gas reserve will last for about the next 16 years, Nasrul Hamid, state minister for power says in the parliament.
28 June 2015, 10:50 AM

Down in downpour

Life in the capital and elsewhere in the country was in an utter shambles yesterday due to incessant rain for the last four days. Thirteen more deaths in rain-induced incidents were reported in Cox's Bazar yesterday, raising the toll to 21 in the coastal district in the past couple of days. Two others were killed in Bandarban on Thursday. Flash floods inundated more areas, leaving several thousand people marooned in Narayanganj and Chandpur.
27 June 2015, 18:00 PM

Appeal for help

A 10-year-boy Sourov Sikder, only son of Govinda Chandra Sikder of Madaripur, has been undergoing treatment for cancer at
27 June 2015, 18:00 PM

Kamal president, Moslem secy of newspaper hawkers union

Mostafa Kamal and Moslem Mian have been elected president and secretary of the managing committee of Dhaka Newspaper Hawkers
27 June 2015, 18:00 PM

Man's body recovered from Karnaphuli river

Police recovered the body of an unidentified man, aged around 48, from the Karnaphuli River near Avoy Mitra Ghat in Chittagong city on
27 June 2015, 18:00 PM

Utter Insult To The Sovereign

Utter Insult To The Sovereign
27 June 2015, 18:00 PM

LET IT RAIN

But life has more than one dimension where people's ideology, belief, musical performance, livelihood strategies, etc. are interconnected and it is
26 June 2015, 18:00 PM

Rain triggers landslides

At least 10 people were killed yesterday in incidents triggered by unrelenting monsoon rain that continued to disrupt routine life across the country.
26 June 2015, 18:00 PM

Wave of terror attacks in three continents

Terrorists attacked sites in France, Tunisia and Kuwait yesterday, leaving a bloody toll on three continents and prompting new concerns
26 June 2015, 18:00 PM

New scheme to protect 4 cities from earthquake

The government has taken up a Tk 1,381 crore project to protect four cities, including Dhaka, from earthquakes. About 96 percent of the money would be from the World Bank.
25 June 2015, 18:00 PM

Buet closed amid fear of unrest

The Buet has been closed for an indefinite period after some unruly students vandalised its academic buildings, demanding postponement of term final exams.
25 June 2015, 18:00 PM

Razzak back home, finally

BGB Nayek Abdur Razzak “was gnawed by a member of Myanmar BGP” in the scuffle while being abducted on June 17, the BGP delegation claimed at the flag meeting over his return yesterday.
25 June 2015, 18:00 PM

Oil spill spreads again

More oil spilled from the train wagons that fell into a canal in Chittagong a week ago, threatening the ecosystem in and around the Karnaphuli river.
25 June 2015, 18:00 PM

Malaysia to take workers thru' private channel

After the government to government (G2G) system failed to live up to the Bangladeshi migrant workers' expectation, Malaysia under a new mechanism has agreed to recruit
24 June 2015, 18:00 PM

Wheat imported from Brazil not rotten

The food ministry yesterday said it had tested the samples of wheat imported from Brazil and did not find the grain “rotten” or “unfit for human consumption”.
24 June 2015, 18:00 PM

Hope for Razzak's return as Myanmar agrees flag meet

Almost a week after the abduction of BGB Nayek Abdur Razzak, Myanmar has agreed to hold a flag meeting in a day or two over his
23 June 2015, 18:00 PM

Fog over release of BGB man

Myanmar's border force yesterday said it will release BGB Nayek Abdur Razzak if Bangladesh takes in 550 boat people found adrift at
22 June 2015, 18:00 PM

Sufia Kamal: The Charming Rebel

We should not allow ourselves to be misled by a vested group, in the name of religion, and let people exploit our religious sentiments for narrow political ends.
19 June 2015, 18:00 PM