The Mahanagar Sarbojonin Puja Committee today urged the government to reschedule this year’s public holiday on Durga Puja on October 22 instead of October 23 fixed earlier by the authorities as the festival will end through celebration of ‘Bijoya Dashami’ on Thursday. The demand was…

Workers Party of Bangladesh (WPB) today called as “very unfortunate” the cancellation of Australian cricket team’s planned Dhaka visit. ”Australian cricket authorities have taken the decision on Australian government’s advice though Bangladesh had pledged them the highest…

Border Guard of Bangladesh (BGB) today said they arrested 406 people on different charges in frontiers across the country throughout September as part of its anti-crime campaign which also saw seizure of narcotics and smuggled goods worth Taka 74.43 crore, reports BSS. In a statement the paramilitary…

Bangladesh Sericulture Development Board (BSDB) has been implementing a project for promoting sericulture and its industry through entrepreneurship development at different levels of production, reports BSS from Rajshahi. According to the officials concerned, the five-year project titled “Extension…

The Chars Livelihoods Programme (CLP) has become one of the most effective projects bringing blessing to thousands of have-nots group char families in eradicating abject poverty in recent years, reports BSS from Rangpur. Successful implementation of the comprehensive livelihoods improvement programme…

Seven Bangladesh nationals returned home from India on Thursday night after languishing in Indian jail, reports UNB. Indian police handed them over to the Bangladesh immigration police through Benapole check post. The seven BD nationals, including eight-year-old boy Simon, had languished for about two…

A total of 19 aspirants to Awami League tickets for Tangail-4 by-election have bought nominations forms till the last day of collection of the same yesterday, reports BSS. Over the past two days, aspirants to Awami League tickets collected nomination forms from the political office of Awami League President…

Members of Rapid Action Battalion(RAB)-8 recovered huge amount of counterfeit notes, yaba tablets, sale proceeds of drug trading and arrested four persons from Boalmari upazila of this district on Thursday night, reports BSS from Faridpur. According to a press release issued by RAB yesterday night,…

An earthquake of 4.4 magnitudes jolted Chittagong and Bandarban this afternoon, an official of the Bangladesh Meteorological Depart-ment told BSS. The tremor was felt in Chittagong and Bandarban at 5.29pm and its epicenter was 332 kilometers south-east of BMD Seismic centre at Agargaon.  The location…

At least seven people were killed and 20 others injured in a fatal road accident at Jamalpur on the Dhaka-Sylhet Highway of the district at 10pm yesterday, reports BSS. Sherpur Highway Police Station Officer-in-Charge Golam Nurunnabi said the accident occurred when a Sylhet-bound passenger bus of 'Hanif…

BNP spokesman Dr Asaduzzaman Ripon yesterday said his party is ‘happy’ as Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was recognised as one of the this year’s ‘Champions of the Earth’ – the highest accolade of the UN Environmental Programme (UNEP), reports UNB. “We’re…

Lawyers of condemned war criminal Jamaat leader Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mujahid will meet him at Dhaka Central Jail this morning. Mujahid’s counsel Advocate Shisir Monir said five lawyers, led by him, will meet the Jamaat leader around 10:30am as per the schedule given by the jail authorities. Replying…