National,Back Page
With only three days left to be held the grand rally of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at Khulna Circuit House Ground on November 13, it has turned into a city of festivity with posters, banners, festoons, and billboards elaborating various development projects.Arcades (Gates), decoration with tinier ...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday asked the authorities concerned to gradually coming out from the trend of subsidies initially on utilities like electricity and water to reduce burden on the state coffer.The Premier gave the directive while chairing the last ECNEC meeting of the present gove...
Bangladesh has joined the global '50-in-5' campaign as one of the 11 first-mover countries committed to implementing digital public infrastructure (DPI) in a safe, inclusive, and interoperable manner.The '50-in-5' campaign was launched virtually on Wednesday evening (BST 7pm) to acce...
National,Front Page
President Mohammed Shahabuddin on Thursday asked the Election Commission (EC) to play responsible role with courage and sincerity to hold next national elections in a free, fair and credible manner following the constitutional rules and regulations."It is not possible for the Election Commissio...
Chinese Ambassador to Bangladesh Yao Wen on Thursday said Beijing hopes that Bangladesh general elections would be held based on “constitution and laws” and stability to be prevailed in the country after the polls."I want to underscore that the upcoming election is an internal affai...
Country, Districts
A court on Thursday sentenced 14 people to life imprisonment for killing a man at Harenda village under Panchbibi upazila of Joypurhat district, in 2003.Senior Judge of the District and Sessions Judge’s Court Md Noor Islam pronounced the verdict Thursday afternoon.The convicts are - Abdul Mann...
A court on Thursday sentenced six people to life term imprisonment for killing a school boy namely Shimul in Sadar Upazila of Lakshmipur.District and Sessions Judge Md Rahibul Islam handed down the verdict to Elias Hossain, Masudur Rahman alias Kala Masud, Nur Mohammad Liton, Saddam, Anowar Hossain ...
A large number of leaders and activists of Pirganj upazila unit of Awami League (AL) and its allied bodies on Thursday held a protest rally against the BNP-Jamaat's 48-hour blockade in different areas of the upazila town.The protest rally was brought out from in front of the Pirganj Awami L...
A large number of leaders and activists of Feni Government College unit of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) on Thursday held a protest rally against the BNP-Jamaat's 48-hour blockade in different areas of the district town.The protest rally was brought out from the Feni Government College campus,...
City
The prices of most vegetables are on declining trend in the city's different markets as the country is witnessing a plentiful supply of early varieties of winter vegetables over the last two weeks.As prices of most of the vegetables, including bean, aubergine, radish, cucurbitaceous plant, yard ...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina returned home on Wednesday morning from Saudi Arabia after attending the International Conference on Women in Islam and performing holy Umrah.A commercial flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines, carrying the Prime Minister and her entourage members, landed at Hazrat Shahjal...
Three international organisations have already expressed their interest to observe the upcoming general elections in Bangladesh, said the Election Commission (EC) on Wednesday.The international organisations are European Union (EU), Commonwealth and NDI (National Democratic Institute).Among these el...
BNP Vice-Chairman Major (retd) Hafiz Uddin Ahmed on Wednesday said BNP should join the upcoming Jatiya Sangsad (JS) elections and find an alternative to caretaker government system."BNP should go to the elections with the mediation of the United States, the United Kingdom and the European Union...
Awami League and its associate bodies are holding processions and rallies after taking to streets with an aim to build strong resistance against BNP-Jamaat's 48-hour blockade, terrorism and subversive activities in the protection of peoples' lives and properties.AL and its associate bodies b...
Expressing grave concern over the ongoing blockade programme being enforced by the BNP, country's businessmen today said that they do not want such programme which destroys the trade, commerce and country's economy, rather they want to do business.Businessmen came up with such observations a...
Commerce Minister Tipu Munshi on Wednesday said that the prices of potatoes and onion would come down in the market by the middle of December.Tipu said this while talking to reporters after the first meeting of the National Tariff Policy held at Bangladesh Secretariat.He said, "There is a short...
The government has awarded 73 exporters with the National Export Trophy for their outstanding performance in the country's export earnings in the fiscal year 2020-21.Commerce Minister Tipu Munshi handed over the trophies at a programme jointly organised by the Commerce Ministry and the Export Pr...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's ICT Affairs Adviser Sajeeb Wazed Joy has said the country's estimated loss to the economy stands at over US$ 3.5 billion from the six days alone between October 28 and November 6 as BNP, Jamaat-e-Islami, and their allies observed a total of six days of blockade...
Urging the countrymen to create resistance against the terrorists, Information and Broadcasting Minister and Awami League Joint General Secretary Dr Hasan Mahmud on Wednesday said the government is firmly bound to arrest the persons involved in arson attacks and their patron as well.“BNP&rsquo...
The foundation training course for around 99 newly recruited firefighters of 62nd batch ended here aimed at imparting them with the knowledge and tactics of extinguishing fire and conducting other rescue works. Fire Service and Civil Defense (FSCD) organized the five-month long foundation train...
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