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Missing BD official in Pakistan returns

Missing BD official in Pakistan returns
A staffer of Bangladesh High Commission to Pakistan, Jahangir Hossain, returned to his Islamabad residence early today after remaining missing for about six hours. As the incident coincides with the six-hour detention of a Pakistan High Commission staffer by law enforcers in Dhaka, speculations are rife whether Jahangir was ‘picked-up and later released in retaliation’. “Jahangir returned to his residence unharmed around 12:30am today (local time) after remaining missing for six hours,” Bangladesh High Commissioner to Pakistan Suhrab Hosain told The Independent over phone shortly after his return. Without detailing whether Jahangir, a press wing staff, was picked-up by someone or where was he taken, the high commissioner…

341 passenger trains in service now: Minister

341 passenger trains in service now: Minister

Despite having shortage of coaches, locomotives and manpower at this moment, 341 passenger trains are operating daily on different routes of Bangladesh Railway (BR). Railways Minister M Mazibul Hoque said this in the Jatiya Sangsad yesterday while replying to a question from treasury bench member Amina…
11 get Bangla Academy Shahitya Puroshkar

11 get Bangla Academy Shahitya Puroshkar

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday handed over the prestigious Bangla Academy Shahitya Puroshkar to 11 personalities in recognition of their contributions to their respective fields, reports UNB. The recipients are Altaf Hossain (poetry), Shaheen Akhtar (fiction), Abul Momen and Dr Atiur Rahman…
The pride of Bangladesh- the garment sector

The pride of Bangladesh- the garment sector

Over the last 35 years our garments industry- both woven and knit- has become a sector that we can be proud of. It has instilled in us confidence, commitment towards excellence and has also been the biggest provider of job opportunity for millions of workers. The other exceptional aspect has been the…
Living as a foreigner

Living as a foreigner

I guess it starts with Westernisation. How its ripple effect shadows our ability to think for ourselves and instil idolatry perceptions of Western people-preferably white skinned. they must be cleaner, because they are white skinned; they must be smarter, simply because their country is in a better…
Govt for enacting laws to limit car usages: Quader

Govt for enacting laws to limit car usages: Quader

Roads Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader told the Jatiya Sangsad yesterday that the government is contemplating enactment of two laws to limit the plying of vehicles with a view to easing the prevailing traffic tailback in the capital city, reports BSS. “With the proposal of fixing…
Passport, driving licence can 
be used for six months: Tarana

Passport, driving licence can be used for six months: Tarana

Mobile phone subscribers who do not have National Identification Document (NID) will be able to register their SIM cards with passport, driving licence and birth certificate. State Minister for Posts and Telecom-munications Division Tarana Halim said this in a Facebook post yesterday. But, the SIM registration…
Presidential contenders offer closing arguments in Iowa

Presidential contenders offer closing arguments in Iowa

AFP, DES MOINES: Republican and Democratic candidates made last-gasp appeals to Iowa voters just hours before the first nominating contest of the 2016 campaign, with their White House aspirations on the line. By late Monday, presidential hopefuls will learn whether the time, effort and money they poured…
Kathak Int’l Poets Summit 2016 held

Kathak Int�l Poets Summit 2016 held

The ‘Kathak International Poets Summit 2016’ was held on January 31 at National Gallery Auditorium of Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy in the capital. Hosted by Kathak, Bangladesh-Poetry Initiative, the event mainly focuses on getting poets and poetry lovers together to define a path for the…
Pant posts fastest 50 in youth ODI

Pant posts fastest 50 in youth ODI

Opener Rishab Pant recorded the fastest half-century in youth ODI cricket as India secured an emphatic seven-wicket win over high flying Nepal in the ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup at Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium in the capital yesterday. Pant brought up his fifty off just 18 balls, one faster…
Two get life term for murder

Two get life term for murder

A Tangail court on Sunday sentenced two persons to life term imprisonment in separate murder cases. Additional Second District and Session Judge of Tangail Md Abul Manzur Mia pronounced the verdicts. The prosecution case in brief is that Osman Ali director of Sun Moon Coaching Centre at Pakulla under…
Translate classical Bangla literature

Translate classical Bangla literature

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday asked the authorities concerned for the translation of classical and well-selected Bangla works into different international languages to introduce the world readers with the ocean of Bangla literature, reports UNB. “I urge you for the translation of the…
The Big Bose Show

The Big Bose Show

In his quest to rewrite India's political history, Narendra Modi executes a masterstroke by declassifying Netaji files As a child, Amitava Das learnt through history text book pages that Subhas Chandra Bose was a nationalist who had become a rebel to free India. As he grew up, he was eager to know…
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