Durga puja, the largest religious festival of the minority Hindus, will culminate in Bangladesh, with the immersion of idols on Wednesday evening. On the last day of the puja, devotees
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday urged the countrymen to abstain from saying anything hurtful to the religious sentiments and magnifying any incident that goes against any religion, rather look
Power supply is likely to be restored in all areas of Dhaka city by 8:00pm while in Chattogram by 9:00pm on Tuesday, said ICT state minister Zunaid Ahmed Palak. The
Bangladesh authorities rescued 31 Rohingya people on early Tuesday while they were on their way to Malaysia from Cox’s Bazar using the sea route. The rescued ones include women and
The Bangladesh Vegetable Oil Refiners and Vanaspati Manufacturers Association on Monday reduced the price of packaged soya bean oil by Tk 14 a litter to Tk 178 a litre with
At least 476 people were killed and 794 others injured in 407 road accidents in Bangladesh in September this year, according to a report published on Monday by the Road
Swedish paleogeneticist Svante Paaabo, who sequenced the genome of the Neanderthal and discovered the previously unknown hominin Denisova, on Monday won the Nobel Medicine Prize. ‘By revealing genetic differences that
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina has left Washington DC for Dhaka wrapping up her 18-day official visit to the United Kingdom and the United States. A VVIP chartered flight of Biman
Home minister Asaduzzaman Khan said on Saturday that the Rapid Action Battalion was always going through reforms and modernisation. The minister said that they were studying and securitising the United
At least 129 people were killed at a football stadium in Indonesia when thousands of fans invaded the pitch and police fired tear gas that triggered a stampede, authorities said
