Rivalry between the lawmakers and local leaders has resulted in factional infighting in the ruling Awami League in most of the districts. It also impeds AL high-command’s effort to rejuvenate the party in the grass-root level. The emergence of two or three factions in the ruling Awami League at…

Tannery owners in the country are apprehending shortage of raw hide and skin in the absence of adequate number of sacrificial cattle for Eid-ul-Azha.They said non-arrival of cattle from India would affect their target to collect 55 to 60 lakh pieces of raw hide this year. They had collected 50 to 55…

At least 42 people, including 13 terrorists, were killed as the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) camp at Inqalab road in Peshawar's Badaber area came under…

A Bangladeshi national was killed and four others sustained bullet injuries as members of Indian Border Security Force (BSF) opened fire on them at Paschim Ram Krishnapur village bordering India in Sadar upazila of Joypurhat district yesterday, reports UNB. The deceased was identified as Sayem, a resident…

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia will celebrate the upcoming Eid-ul-Azha abroad. This would be the first time that Hasina and Khaleda are going to celebrate Eid with their family members respectively in the USA and UK.   Sheikh Hasina, also the president of the…

Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) yesterday detained three people, including an official of University Grants Commission(UGC), from Agargaon area for their suspected involvement in leaking question papers of different universities, reports UNB. One of the detainees was identified as Omar Siraj, an assistant…

Robbers looted TK 21 lakh from Rajarhat branch of Agrani Bank in Sadar upazila of Jessore district early yesterday, reports UNB. The heist came to light when local people found the grill of a window of the state-owned bank broken in the morning. Shikdar Akkas Ali, officer-in-charge of Kotwali Police…