Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday strongly condemned the recent atrocities perpetrated by the Israeli forces in last few days on Palestinians and called for bringing the perpetrators to justice. She also reiterated Bangladesh’s commitment in realising the inalienable rights of people of Palestine…

Speaker of the Jatiya Sangsad Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury yesterday said Bangladesh has made a good progress in fulfilling people's demand for nutrition in the past couple of year, reports BSS. She made the comment when Country Representative of UNICEF Bangladesh Edouard Beigbeder called on the…

Director General of Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) Abu Mohammad Mostafa Kamal has been appointed as acting secretary of the ACC while ACC secretary Maksudul Hassan Khan was made secretary of the fisheries and livestock ministry. The public administration ministry issued two different circulars in…

Some 10 aspirants submitted nomination papers on the last date yesterday to contest in Tangail-4 (Kalihati) by-election, scheduled for November 10. According to Election Commission sources, four aspirants have submitted nomination papers from Krishak Sramik Janata League. They are Kader Siddiqui, his…

More than 10 percent of rural Bangladeshi adults are unaware of their high blood pressure, and this proportion doubles to one in five people aged 60 years and older, says a recent icddr,b study, reports UNB. Even among those taking anti-hypertensive medication, more than 50 percent were ‘uncontrolled’…

Pabna: A court yesterday placed four people on a five-day remand each in a case filed for killing a policeman in Ishawardi upazila, reports UNB. They are identified as  Khokon Hossain, 32, Jony Pramanik, 21, Masud Rana, 25, and Setu Hossain, 26, of the upazila. Judge of Pabna Cognizance court-2…

Two people were injured in an attack by district information officer in Khagrachhari sadar upazila yesterday morning.  The two were identified as Abdul Hannan, 60, a vendor and Jahangir Alam, 45. OC of sadar police Shamsuddin Bhuiyan said the incident occurred at district and session judge court…

Bikalpadhara Bangladesh President AQM Badruddoza Chowdhury yesterday criticised Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina for her remark that BNP-Jamaat are involved in the killing of foreign nationals, even before the completion of a police investigation in this regard. “If the prime minister, her son and…

Jagannath University (JnU) authorities yesterday temporarily suspended a teacher of political science for allegedly helping his relative during an admission test held on Friday. The authorities suspended the teacher, Mezbah-ul-Azam Saodagar, an assistant professor, after receiving a complaint from the…

Two school students were killed and four people injured in a road accident on Dhaka-Mawan Highway in Srinagar upazila of Munshiganj yesterday evening, reports UNB. The deceased were identified as Shuvo, 12, son of Sirajul Islam of Keyatkhali village, and Sourov, 13, son of M Jahangir of the same area.…