National,Politics
Miscreants vandalised the house of Bangabir Abdul Kader Siddique, founder president of the Krishak Sramik Janata League, at Akurtakur in Tangail district town on Saturday night.A group of 10-12 masked miscreants wearing helmets entered the house around 12:30 am and vandalised two vehicles park...
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Prominent writer, researcher and left-leaning intellectual Badruddin Umar passed away on Sunday. He was 94.He breathed his last at Bangladesh Specialised Hospital around 10am, said Jatiya Mukti Council Secretary Faizul Hakim.Hakim said Badruddin Umar had long been suffering from various age-related ...
The government will resume the midday meal programme at government primary schools in 150 upazilas in early October, said Primary and Mass Education Adviser Prof Dr Bidhan Ranjan Roy Poddar on Sunday.“The midday meal initiative will move forward. It will resume soon in 150 upazilas,” he ...
National,Business & Commerce
The country’s overall inflation eased to 8.29 percent in August, down from 8.55 percent in July, marking the lowest level in more than three years, according to data released Sunday by the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS).The last time inflation stood lower was in July 2022 when it was re...
Home Affairs Adviser Lt Gen (Retd) Md Jahangir Alam Chowdhury on Sunday warned that attempts are being made to create unrest centering the upcoming Durga Puja celebrations.“Just like last year, efforts are underway to create instability during the Puja. We must remain on the highest alert this...
Gono Odhikar Parishad President Nurul Haque Nur, currently undergoing treatment at Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH), is suffering from short-term memory loss, claimed the party’s General Secretary Rashed Khan on Saturday.Speaking to reporters after visiting Nur at the hospital in the afte...
National,Politics,Country, Districts
Home Affairs Adviser Lieutenant General (Retd.) Jahangir Alam Chowdhury has said that the temporary police camp recently established in Guagachia Union of Gazaria Upazila, Munshiganj, is expected to become permanent soon.Speaking to reporters on Saturday after visiting the camp in the remote Jamalpu...
National,Politics,Art& Culture
Ahead of the Dhaka University Central Students' Union (DUCSU) elections scheduled for September 9, the Jatiotabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) has called for the temporary deactivation of all Facebook pages and groups related to Dhaka University.Nahiduzzaman Shipon, general secretary of the Dhaka Universi...
National,Country, Districts
Two people were killed and ten others injured in separate incidents during a procession named Jashan-e-Julus, marking the celebration of Eid-e-Miladunnabi, in port city of Chattogram on Saturday, said police.One of the deceased was identified as Mahfuz, 35, son of Shamsul Haque of Agrabad CDA area w...
Five people were killed and five others injured when a bus plunged into a canal on Laxmipur-Dhaka road in front of Chandraganj Kafil Uddin Degree College on Saturday, police said.The deceased were identified as Morshed Alam, 50, Joynal Abedin, 54, Humayun Rashid, 40, Ripon Hossain, 35 and Mazed Hoss...
BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Advocate Ruhul Kabir Rizvi on Saturday alleged that a deep conspiracy is currently underway in the country, which he fears, could be linked to an international plot.“I just want to tell the government — I have a strong feeling that a deep conspiracy is ...
Deputy Executive Director (DED) and Chief Operating Officer (COO) of the World Food Programme (WFP) Carl Skau has said that they need to address the urgent situation facing the Rohingya but WFP’s funding will soon run out by the end of November. “They (the Rohingya) have nowhere els...
BNP Chairperson’s Advisory Council member Zainul Abedin Farroque on Friday called upon Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami to apologise to the nation for its past mistakes and take part in the upcoming national election.“I saw in a newspaper that they (Jamaat) said PR is not needed if people don&...
Struggling with shortages in operational facilities, housing and logistics, the Bangladesh Coast Guard is set to get a much-needed boost as the government has cleared the 2nd revision of a major project, raising its cost and pushing back the deadline for completion.Under the latest revision, the cos...
Allegations surfaced that Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) has occupied the DUCSU cafeteria and is using it as a campaign office without permission from the authorities.Witnesses said two outsiders were seen inside the cafeteria on Friday afternoon with campaign materials for JCD-backed GS candidate S...
Transparency International (TI) Chair François Valérian has said Bangladesh has the historic opportunity to create a new democracy, not a democracy of the past, which in many countries consisted and still consists solely of more or less regular elections held to select those who will e...
The interim government on Friday strongly condemned the abhorrent desecration of the grave and the vile torching of the body of Nurul Haque, also known as Nura Pagla, at Goalondo. “This inhuman and despicable act is a direct affront to our values, our laws, and the very fabric of a just a...
Once again, the central office of Jatiya Party in the capital’s Kakrail came under attack, vandalism, and arson on Friday evening.Eyewitnesses said around 7:15pm, agitated protesters stormed the JP central party office and set fire inside the building.The incident was taken place after a rally...
The Government of Bangladesh is sending urgent humanitarian aid to Afghanistan following a powerful earthquake that struck the eastern part of the country on September 1, killing more than 1,400 people and injuring over 3,000 others.The disaster has also left over 8,000 homes completely destroyed, c...
A section of students at Barishal University (BU) entered the 37th day of their ongoing protest on Thursday, demanding resolution of a three-point charter, including infrastructure development, campus expansion, and a solution to their transportation crisis.As part of the protest, seven students beg...
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