Donald Trump's campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, is leaving the Republican presidential contender's team following a tumultuous stretch marked by missteps and infighting, reports AP. A hard-charging figure, in some ways as brash and unconventional as the candidate himself, Lewandowski had…

The advance booking and sales of bus tickets for long-distance journeys for the Eid holidays began yesterday and will continue until June 30. Long queues of people were seen at ticket counters in Gabtoli, Kallyanpur, Malibag, Fakirapul and Shyamoli since early morning. However, some counters at Mohakhali…

Two Bangladeshi nationals were killed by the members of Indian Border Security Force (BSF) as they opened fire on them along Charaldanga bordering area in Gomostapur upazila yesterday. The deceased were identified as Zogdul Hoque Bhadu, 35, of Charaldanga village and Shahjahan Ali Bhuttu, 35, of Begpur…

Expatriates' Welfare and OverseasEmployment Minister Nurul Islam BSc on Monday told Parliament that Bangladesh exported some 3.3 lakh manpower to various countries in the last five months, reports UNB "A total of 3,30,222 workers were sent aboard from January 2016 to June 9, 2016," he…

A Chittagong court yesterday sent BNP joint secretary general Aslam Chowdhury back to jail in eight check fraudulence cases. Chittagong metropolitan magistrate Abdul Kader passed the order after a police team produced Aslam before the court, said court bench assistant Kafil Uddin. “When Aslam…

A four-member delegation, led by Prof Dr Zhang Wangxi of Beijing Language and Culture University, China, met Dhaka University (DU) Vice-Chancellor Prof Dr AAMS Arefin Siddique at the latter’s office of the university yesterday, reports UNB. Other members of the delegation were Prof Fang Ming,…

The journey of the holidaymakers in the up coming Eid will be comfortable compare to any previous period, Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader said yesterday. “There will be no traffic jam on highways. This time our preparations are better than before. The condition of highways is…

Chittagong: Speakers at a function here yesterday said the 10,000 Union Digital Centre (UDC) entrepreneurs will play vital role to make people in rural areas info-educated, reports UNB. The expansion of information technology has created an opportunity to know any information within a moment and the…

JHALAKATHI: A motorcyclist was killed in a road accident at Gabkhan Bazaar in Sadar upazila yesterday, reports BSS. The deceased was identified as M Suman Shikder, 25, son of Kabir Shikder. A resident of Magura village under Kaukhali upazila of Pirojpur district. Police said the accident occurred yesterday…

Local people blocked Sonaimuri- Laksam road and torched a pick up van in Bogadia Bridge area of Sonaimuri upazila protesting the death of a man in a road accident yesterday morning. Abdul Gafur, 46, a resident of Bogadia village and an employee of Sonaimuri upazila health complex, was killed as the…

A Mymensingh court yesterday sentenced a man to death for killing his wife in 2012. The court also fined the convict identified as Ashraful Islam, 28, of Gandappur village in Muktagacha upazila, Tk 10,000. According to the prosecution, Ashraful, a day labourer, married Rekha Akhtar, 19, daughter of…

Police on Sunday evening held two students of Jessore University of Science and Technology (JUST) for their alleged involvement in militancy. Leaders of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) captured Abir Ahmed, 25, and Shahinur Rahman, 25, students of department of Genetic Engineering of JUST and handed…

The second meeting of the Joint Coordination Committee for the Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) project will be held in Dhaka on Wednesday. Led by Rosatom’s deputy director general for international relations, Nikolai Spasskiy, the Russian delegation arrived in Dhaka yesterday, Rooppur power…

Three officials of the then Rapid Action Battalion-11 testified before a Narayanganj court yesterday in connection with the sensational seven-murder incident, distancing themselves from the gruesome killings, reports UNB. In their statements, they told the court that they had been ignorant about the…