National
Mahalaya, an auspicious occasion that heralds the advent of Goddess Durga, will be celebrated today through different rituals by Hindu community members across the country.Mahalaya marks the ending of Pitru Paksha (the dark fortnight dedicated to ancestors) and beginning of Devi Paksha (the di...
National,Politics
BNP Standing Committee Member Dr Abdul Moyeen Khan on Saturday said the Awami League's tyrannical rule has completely hollowed out the country's economy over the past 15 years."Recently, a highly renowned, world-famous newspaper in the UK published a report stating that 234 billion US d...
National,Politics,Country, Districts
Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Saturday said his party rebirths time and again like a phoenix bird defeating all conspirators as he addressed inaugural session of the Kishoreganj district BNP's triennial council."BNP is like a phoenix bir...
Bangladesh Railway (BR) has announced plans to operate four pairs of special trains on the Dhaka-Chattogram and Dhaka-Cox's Bazar routes during the upcoming Durga Puja holidays. The decision aims to accommodate the increased number of passengers during the festive season. Among the special ...
National,Country, Districts
Home Adviser Lieutenant General (Retd.) Md Jahangir Alam Chowdhury on Saturday said the anti-July Uprising forces will never come to power again."They who are against of the July Uprising will never come to power again. If you have anything like this in mind, shake it off," he said.He was ...
Senior Secretary of the Ministry of Home Affairs Nasimul Ghani has arrived in Pakistan on a nine-day official visit aiming to strengthen bilateral relations.He reached Islamabad International Airport in Pakistan by a Thai Airways flight on Wednesday, a handout said on Thursday.Upon his arrival, Spec...
National,Travel & Tourism
A total of 176 Bangladeshi nationals returned home from Libya on Thursday under a voluntary repatriation programme facilitated by the government of Bangladesh and supported by the International Organization for Migration (IOM).They were flown to Dhaka in the morning on a special flight operated by B...
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) held a virtual meeting with Finland's Ambassador for Human Rights Katja Pehrman on Wednesday.The meeting focused on key issues including democracy, human rights, rule of law in Bangladesh, and the upcoming parliamentary elections, according to a Facebook po...
National,Healthcare,City,Feature
Every dawn of Dhaka is unlike the other parts of the day as its tranquility and serenity enthralls the city dwellers with the sun just peeping on the sky. The ancient city, usually suffered by heavy traffic jams, honking and dust throughout the day, appears in a different form in the dawn as th...
The United States and Bangladesh have further advanced their defense and humanitarian partnership through Exercise Pacific Angel 25, a seven-day multilateral programme focusing on humanitarian assistance and disaster response.US Embassy Charg‚ d'Affaires Ambassador Tracey Ann Jacobson join...
BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Advocate Ruhul Kabir Rizvi today said proportional representation (PR) system in polls is being used to muddle up democracy of the country. He said, "Attempts are being made to distort democracy by bringing the PR system to the forefront and it's a ma...
BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Wednesday urged all including the party activists to remain vigil to thwart any conspiracies and sabotage in a bid to disrupting the upcoming Durga Puja, the biggest religious festival of the Hindus. Extending warm greetings to the Hindu comm...
British High Commissioner to Bangladesh Sarah Cooke visited the Chattogram Hill Tracts (CHT) to observe the impact of UK-funded health and education programmes aimed at improving the lives of marginalised and indigenous communities in the region.During the two-day visit on September 15-16, she trave...
National,Business & Commerce,Politics
Chief Adviser's Special Envoy Lutfey Siddiqi has said Bangladesh should negotiate free trade agreements (FTAs) or economic partnership agreements with key countries to obtain friction-free access to their markets since its graduation from LDC status is unavoidable."We have to negotiate free...
National,World,Politics
Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Acting Chairman Tarique Rahman voiced strong appeal to the international community to take urgent and decisive measures to stop what he described as an "Israeli genocide" against Palestinians in Gaza.In a statement posted on his verified Facebook page ear...
The International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) on Wednesday started recording depositions of NCP Convener Nahid Islam in crimes against humanity case filed against ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina and two others. The ICT-1 headed by Justice Golam Mortuza Majumder recorded the deposition of National...
The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) on Wednesday today approved a total of 13 development projects involving an overall estimated cost of Taka 8,333.28 crore, including two projects in the energy sector for facilitating gas exploration.The approval came from a meeting of...
China has said Bangladesh is welcome to participate in cooperation under the framework of the Global Governance Initiative (GGI), together with other nations to help build a more just and equitable global governance system.The GGI, launched by Chinese President Xi Jinping, aims to provide a "Ch...
National,Business & Commerce
The government on Tuesday recommended for approving a proposal in principle for signing a deal between the Fertiglobe Distribution Limited, UAE and the Bangladesh Chemical Industries Corporation (BCIC).The agreement will be signed to import urea fertilizer from that company under G2G basis for the c...
The International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) -1 on Tuesday fixed Thursday for framing charges against the accused for killing two people and firing a student who was hanging from a cornice of a building at Rampura area during last year's July-August mass upsurge.The three-member ICT-1, headed by Just...
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