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Missing covered van found empty in Savar
Police yesterday found a covered van, which had gone missing on the way to Dhaka from Chittagong early Thursday
23 October 2015, 18:00 PM
State-run Khulna Hard Board Mill in limbo
Valuable machinery and hardboard stocks worth Tk 2 crore have been lying idle at state-owned Khulna Hard Board
23 October 2015, 18:00 PM
7 mountaineers to scale Nepal mountain
A seven-member Bangladeshi mountaineering team is to leave for Nepal on October 27 aiming to climb Mt Kyajo Ri in 20 days and afterwards their leader, MA Mohit, who conquered Mount Everest twice, will seek to scale Mt Ama Dablam in 15 days.
23 October 2015, 18:00 PM
Pro-Jamaat lawyer 'held by lawmen'
A pro-Jamaat lawyer was picked up by law enforcers from a bus on the way to his village home in Sirajganj from Dhaka on October 22,
23 October 2015, 18:00 PM
Shariatpur people not to join Faridpur division
Opposing the move to put Shariatpur district under Faridpur division, the people of Shariatpur demand the government
23 October 2015, 18:00 PM
Workers seek more compensation
The workers of a Rana Plaza factory, who survived the nine-storey building collapse in 2013, yesterday demanded
23 October 2015, 18:00 PM
Hold fair local polls to remove past 'stigma'
Special Envoy to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina HM Ershad yesterday suggested the ruling Awami League (AL) to hold the upcoming local
23 October 2015, 18:00 PM
Eco-friendly 'light-trap' cuts use of pesticides
Light-trap and parching, environmentally sound methods for controlling harmful insects, especially Brown Plant Hopper, are helping
23 October 2015, 18:00 PM
Boy beaten mercilessly
Despite a huge public outcry, the number of children torutured and killed is getting bigger with nine-year-old Habibur Rahman of
23 October 2015, 18:00 PM
Holy Ashura tomorrow
The holy Ashura, commemorating the martyrdom of Hazrat Imam Hussain (RA), will be observed in the country tomorrow with due religious fervour and solemnity.
23 October 2015, 13:51 PM
Most building designs lack fire safety measures
Fire safety measures are ignored in most building designs in Bangladesh posing a high risk to human lives, a leading architect told a seminar in the capital yesterday.
22 October 2015, 20:53 PM
They call off hunger strike
Fifty-four South Asians, including 35 Bangladeshis, seeking asylum in the US ended their six-day hunger strike at a detention centre in El Paso, Texas on October 20 following two days' negotiations between Dhaka and Washington, said diplomatic sources.
22 October 2015, 18:00 PM
33 Bangladesh missions fail to achieve export targets
Thirty-three out of 53 Bangladesh missions failed to achieve respective export targets set for the first quarter (July-September) of the current fiscal year (2015-16), according to the latest statistics provided by the Export Promotion Bureau (EPB).
22 October 2015, 18:00 PM
136th IPU Assembly in Dhaka March 2017
Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), a global organisation of parliaments, announced hosting the 136th IPU Assembly in Dhaka in March 2017.
22 October 2015, 18:00 PM
Cops claim crimes halved in Dhaka district in a year
The number of recorded cases in Dhaka district has nearly halved in the last one year, a "success" which police attributed to a new initiative known as tele-policing.
22 October 2015, 18:00 PM
Ex-enclave people unlikely to be voters this year: EC
There is little chance for inhabitants of former 111 Indian enclaves to get enrolled as voters this year as the upazilas, union parishads and wards are yet to be demarcated incorporating the new areas.
22 October 2015, 18:00 PM
Form ninth wage board for journos
Leaders of a faction of the Bangladesh Federal Union of Journalists (BFUJ) demanded formation of ninth wage board and announcement of the New Year bonus for journalists and employees of the newspaper industry of the country.
22 October 2015, 18:00 PM
Fines for illegal parking, speeding to be hiked
Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal yesterday said fine for illegal parking and over speeding will be raised.
22 October 2015, 18:00 PM
Justice Manik comes under attack in London
Justice AHM Shamsuddin Choudhury, a former Supreme Court judge, comes under attack in London, says his daughter Nadia Choudhury in her Facebook account.
22 October 2015, 11:12 AM
GPA-5 achiever dies in road crash after applying for higher study
Locals of Manikdi in Matikata blocked Kalshi New Road for about two hours up to 8:00pm yesterday after a student was killed in a road accident, said police.
21 October 2015, 21:22 PM