Disaster Management and Relief Minister Mofazzal Hossain Chowdhury Maya yesterday said Bangladesh has turned into a role model in disaster management in the world as the country attained the ability to tackle calamities, reports BSS.     “We have been able to minimize losses of…

Four people, including a Chinese national, were burnt critically in an explosion at a factory in Jhenaidah Sadar upazila yesterday morning. The people sustained burn injuries in fire triggered by the explosion of a chemical container at the Tazi Agro Industries, a Bangladesh-China joint venture. The…

Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali yesterday reiterated the government's commitment to sustain its efforts to attain desired level of literacy for ensuring overall development of the country, reports BSS. "We are committed to sustain our efforts to attain desired level of literacy to ensure overall…

The Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Department will arrange a two-day long Hackathon competition titled ‘National Hackathon 2016’ aiming to innovate solutions to the challenges to achieve the 10 selected Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), reports UNB. The best young technologists…

Pabna: Train communication of the country’s northern part with Dhaka remained suspended from Thursday afternoon following the derailment of a freight train in Chatmohar upazila, reports UNB. Chatmohar Railway Stationmaster Mohiul Islam said two bogies of the Sirajganj-bound train from Ishwardi…

Five labourers were injured in a cocktail explosion at Banpara in the town yesterday afternoon. Police said some day labourers found the crude bomb while digging earth to fill a low land in Banpara area. The cocktail suddenly went off while being handled by the labourers, leaving five of them injured. …

Some members of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) in Moheshpur upazila attacked and injured upazila unit BNP secretary Mominur Rahman yesterday morning. The BNP leader is now undergoing treatment at Moheshpur upazila health complex. Sources said Mominur came under attack by the aggrieved JCD activists,…

The Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) yesterday filed a case against controversial business tycoon and DATCO Group chairman Moosa Bin Shamsher for allegedly acquiring illegal wealth and providing false information to the Commission, reports UNB. ACC director and inquiry officer Mir Zainul Abedin Shebly…

The High Court has now asked the chairman and managing director of Japan Bangladesh Friendship Hospital to appear before it on March 27 to explain the ‘treatment’ of a dead child in the hospital, reports UNB. A two-member HC bench comprising Justice M Moazzam Husain and Justice Md Badruzzaman…