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Man dies in Gopalganj road accident

Man dies in Gopalganj road accident

-- 2018-05-16 12:24:31

A man was killed after a bus crushed him at Gopinathpur in Sadar upazila under Gopalganj district on Wednesday. The deceased was identified as Angshu Biswas, 30, of Gopinathpur village in the upazila...

BNP demands reform of Election Commission

BNP demands reform of Election Commission

-- 2018-05-16 11:05:58

After observation of the Election Commission in the recent Khulna City Corporation polls and its activities over the region, BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir demanded its reconstituti...

12,000 hectares Boro crops under water in Sirajganj

12,000 hectares Boro crops under water in Sirajganj

-- 2018-05-16 10:51:52

Boro crops on around 12,000 hectares of land in four unions of Tarash upazila in Sirajganj went under water due to waterlogging caused by heavy rains. The affected unions are Magura Binod, Baogaon, M...

Man gets life sentence for Sirajganj rape

Man gets life sentence for Sirajganj rape

-- 2018-05-16 10:43:00

A tribunal in Sirajganj on Tuesday sentenced a man to life term imprisonment for violating a woman in 2005. The convict was identified as Magrab Ali, son of Haran Ali of Maheshpur Purbapara village i...

Schoolgirl among two dies in lightning

Schoolgirl among two dies in lightning

-- 2018-05-16 10:25:27

Two people including a schoolgirl have been killed in separate incidents of lightning strikes in Kishoreganj and Brahmanabria districts. In Kishoreganj, a housewife named Swarupa Akter, 45, wife of O...

Most traders defy rates fixed by city corporations

Most traders defy rates fixed by city corporations

Yasir Wardad 2018-05-16 10:02:22

Price hike of essentials, ahead of the holy month of Ramadan, continued as traders are selling those at much higher rates compared to those fixed by the two city corporations. According to the Depa...

Taka weakens against dollar, substantially

Taka weakens against dollar, substantially

FE Report 2018-05-16 09:55:53

The Bangladesh Taka (BDT) has fallen considerably against the US dollar as the demand for the greenback grew to meet import payment requirements. The local currency weakened by 50 poisha in a singl...

Top court upholds Khaleda's bail

Top court upholds Khaleda's bail

-- 2018-05-16 09:53:34

The Supreme Court has upheld the High Court’s bail order for BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia in a graft case. The Appellate Division delivered its verdict on Wednesday on two appeals against the Hi...

AL candidate wins Khulna city polls

AL candidate wins Khulna city polls

-- 2018-05-15 21:51:59

The Awami League has won the Khulna City mayoral election with its candidate Talukdar Abdul Khalek taking an unassailable lead of 65,640 votes over the BNP’s Nazrul Islam Manju as per results co...

RAB rescues seven abducted fishermen in Satkhira

RAB rescues seven abducted fishermen in Satkhira

-- 2018-05-15 21:41:17

Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) members rescued seven fishermen, who were abducted by forest robbers, from Pirkhali area of Malancha River of the Sundarbans under the Satkhira range early Tuesday. Assis...

IOM shifts 12,000 Rohingyas to safer ground

IOM shifts 12,000 Rohingyas to safer ground

-- 2018-05-15 21:26:03

International Organisation for Migration (IOM), the UN migration agency, has shifted almost 12,000 Rohingyas to safer ground. Storms continue to lash southern part of the country, damaging tarpaulin...

EU funded project for defender's of women's rights begins

EU funded project for defender's of women's rights begins

-- 2018-05-15 21:07:36

A three-year long new project funded by the European Union (EU) for supporting the human rights defenders working for women's and girls' rights in the country was launched in the city on Tuesday. The...

Keep anti-liberation forces, anarchist away from power: PM

Keep anti-liberation forces, anarchist away from power: PM

-- 2018-05-15 20:51:26

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday urged all to remain alert so that BNP-Jamaat clique cannot return to power as they were engaged in killings, bomb blasts and militancy. "The power of the coun...

Police arrest nine Jamaat-Shibir men in Satkhira

Police arrest nine Jamaat-Shibir men in Satkhira

-- 2018-05-15 20:44:20

Detectives arrested nine leaders and activists of Jamaat-e-Islami and Islami Chhatra Shibir from different parts of Satkhira town on Tuesday. The arrestees were identified as Obaidullah Mollah, 50, s...

'EC happy with Khulna city polls'

'EC happy with Khulna city polls'

-- 2018-05-15 20:09:40

The Election Commission is happy with Khulna City Corporation election as it was largely held in a peaceful manner. Election Commission Secretary Helaluddin Ahmed came up with the statement at a post...

PM to visit Rajshahi Wednesday

PM to visit Rajshahi Wednesday

-- 2018-05-15 19:46:22

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is scheduled to visit Rajshahi tomorrow (Wednesday). According to her tour schedule, the premier will inspect the march-past of Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) a...

Feni rail overpass partly opens to ease gridlock

Feni rail overpass partly opens to ease gridlock

-- 2018-05-15 19:36:10

A part of railway overpass at Fatehpur in Feni on Dhaka-Chattogram highway was opened to traffic on Tuesday. The overpass was opened around 2:30 pm for public, aiming to reduce traffic jam on the hig...

Saima for database on people with disabilities

Saima for database on people with disabilities

-- 2018-05-15 19:34:47

Chairperson of the National Advisory Committee on Autism Saima Wazed Hossain on Tuesday called for making a comprehensive database on people with disabilities to integrate them into all policies to ma...

KCC polls: AL candidate takes lead

KCC polls: AL candidate takes lead

-- 2018-05-15 19:13:11

Awami League-backed mayoral candidate Talukder Abdul Khalek has taken lead in the early counting of Khulna City Corporation Election on Tuesday. In the 27 polling centres including the two where elec...

Dhaka condemns Israel’s atrocities against Palestinians

Dhaka condemns Israel’s atrocities against Palestinians

-- 2018-05-15 18:34:56

Bangladesh on Tuesday strongly condemned the use of force by Israeli authorities against the Palestinians that left scores of Palestine civilians dead and several thousand injured. “While expre...

President stresses family, societal role in materialising child rights

President stresses family, societal role in materialising child rights

-- 2018-05-15 18:13:53

President Abdul Hamid on Tuesday underscored the need for playing responsible role by family, society and the state to materialise all rights of the children. President said this while addressing the...

Mugger stabs hawker to death in city

Mugger stabs hawker to death in city

-- 2018-05-15 18:00:03

A hawker was stabbed to death allegedly by a mugger on a foot over bridge in front of Birdem Hospital in the city on Tuesday. The deceased was identified as Nurun Nabi Mazumdar, 23, a cosmetic trader...

Manikganj road mishap kills three

Manikganj road mishap kills three

-- 2018-05-15 17:53:19

Three persons were killed and 20 others injured in a road mishap at Cross-Bridge area in Ghior upazila of Manikganj district on Tuesday afternoon. The identities of the deceased could not be known im...

Mobile court to remain vigilant during Ramadan

Mobile court to remain vigilant during Ramadan

-- 2018-05-15 17:45:40

The Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) has decided to conduct drives of the mobile courts against adulterated food items during the Holy month of Ramada slated for begin from May 17. "We will also take...

'Fund scarcity serious threat to handling Rohingya crisis'

'Fund scarcity serious threat to handling Rohingya crisis'

Mir Mostafizur Rahaman 2018-05-15 17:28:48

Acute fund shortage poses serious threat to providing humanitarian response to over one million Rohingya refugees, as at present only around 15 per cent fund is available against the required US$ 951...

Six Bangladeshis 'detained' in Armenia

Six Bangladeshis 'detained' in Armenia

'They were crossing border illegally' 2018-05-15 17:20:18

Six Bangladeshi citizens were reportedly detained while entering Armenia from Azerbaijan recently. Local media on Monday reported that Armenian law enforcement agencies detained and handed over them...

Biman plane makes emergency landing in Ctg

Biman plane makes emergency landing in Ctg

-- 2018-05-15 17:06:28

A flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines made an emergency landing following a technical glitch at Shah Amanat International Airport in Chattogram on Tuesday. The Kolkata-bound flight of the national fl...

Khulna city election ends

Khulna city election ends

-- 2018-05-15 16:58:30

Voting in the Khulna City Corporation Election concluded on Tuesday amid the allegations of capturing some polling stations, vote fraud and violence in some areas. The polling that began at 8:00 am c...

BNP alleges of widespread irregularities in KCC polls

BNP alleges of widespread irregularities in KCC polls

-- 2018-05-15 15:51:07

BNP alleged that ruling party men are responsible for various irregularities centering the ongoing Khulna City Corporation (KCC) election. A BNP leader on Tuesday also pointed that 50 per cent of poll...

Three die as truck, CNG collide head on in Mymensingh

Three die as truck, CNG collide head on in Mymensingh

-- 2018-05-15 15:19:54

Three people were killed and three others injured as a truck collides head-on with a CNG-run-auto-rikshaw on Mymensingh-Tangail highway at Gabtoli in Muktagachha upazila on Tuesday noon.   The i...