India and Bangladesh may go for a draft document or paper on sharing water from river Teesta during Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s visit next month,…

The way Bangladesh have been performing for the last few years in both shorter and longer version and at home or in abroad has boosted the confidence and morale of the players alongside the team combination, BCB president Nazmul Hassan Papon said yesterday. He also believes that after such performances,…

Twenty-six per cent people in urban and rural areas are out of safe water coverage in the country. It is evenly distributed between the two areas by 13 per cent each, according to sources in the Department of Public Health and Engineering (DPHE).  Safe water supply coverage has been reduced to…

The BNP has raised questions about the death of a youth in Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) custody after the suicide attack on its Ashkona barrack. Speaking at a meeting, BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir wondered whether youths are being killed after being picked up and branded as militants,…

The Chittagong Metropolitan Police (CMP) yesterday conducted raids at two suspected hideouts of militants in Chittagong’s Akbarsha. A CMP team conducted the raid at Sri Shah Building in Kali Bari area of Ishan Mohajan Lane from 4pm to 6.30pm yesterday.  Another raid was conducted at MMH Nibas…

Bangladesh has proposed four memorandums of understanding (MoUs) with Brazil on cooperation in agriculture, tourism, cultural exchange and cooperation between training institutes of the two countries, reports UNB. The proposals were placed at the first-ever Bangladesh-Brazil Bilateral Consultation held…