Worried at India’s latest move to interlink rivers, the government is sending a letter to the Water Resources Ministry of the neighbouring country seeking an explanation in this regard, reports UNB. “…we cannot send any protest letter only seeing newspaper reports.  We’re…

With the fall of water level in the Brahmaputra, the river erosion has taken serious turn in Fulchhari and Shaghata upazilas of the district creating untold sufferings to the victims, reports BSS from Gaibandha. According to sources, the river intensified its erosion at Kanchipara, Ratanpur, Singria,…

Indian opposition parties disrupted parliament yesterday to demand resignation of two key ruling party leaders for allegedly helping a former Indian cricket official facing investigation for financial irregularities, reports AFP.  Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party denies…

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday strongly condemned the cowardly and heinous terrorist attack in Turkey that claimed the lives of 31 Turkish people and injured over 100, reports UNB. “We strongly condemn the cowardly and heinous terrorist attack,” she said in a condolence message to…

Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader yesterday urged all concerned to refrain from installing billboards on highways, reports UNB from Sirajganj. “Billboards shouldn’t be displayed alongside highways, but extortionists do that tagging their own images along with ministers and…

A two-year-old boy died as an artificial litchi got stuck in his throat in the city’s Hazaribagh area yesterday, reports UNB. The ill-fated little boy was identified as Tanjil, son of grocery shop owner Md Ibrahim of 136 Basila Road, Hazaribagh. Tanjil ate the artificial litchi at his home around…

A revision was filed yesterday challenging the judicial magistrate court order that rejected no confidence petition against the charge sheet in the seven-murder case of Narayanganj, reports BSS from Narayanganj. Selina Islam Beauty, wife of panel mayor of Narayanganj City Corporation (NCC), who was…

France’s President Francois Hollande has greeted Nobel Laureate Prof Muhammad Yunus, now in Paris, reports UNB. Prof Yunus was greeted at Elysee Palace at a dinner programme hosted by Hollande for important speakers of the Summit of Conscience for the Climate on Monday, said a Yunus Centre press…

Newly appointed and promoted ministers and state ministers yesterday visited the grave of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman at Tungipara and paid homage to him, reports UNB from Gopalganj. Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal, Expatriate Welfare and Overseas Employment Minister…