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Protest continues in Mymensingh
More than 20,000 people of seven villages in Mymensingh brought out a procession in the town yesterday, demanding exemption of their homesteads and farmlands from acquisition.
30 November 2016, 18:00 PM
Disrespect to language martyrs!
Shaheed Minar commemorates the martyrs who laid down their lives during the Language Movement of 1952 in then East Pakistan.
30 November 2016, 18:00 PM
Crossing Padma a daily risk for Munshiganj students
Commuting to school should be a pleasure but it isn't always. Early morning rush and worries about homework; in the cities students
30 November 2016, 18:00 PM
Myanmar takes back 91 fishermen
Bangladesh repatriates 91 fishermen to Myanmar, who were detained by the Navy for illegally intruding into Bangladesh’s naval territory on December 8 last year.
30 November 2016, 14:21 PM
Tax return: Officials to work extra hours
The field offices will be accepting income tax returns for as long as the taxpayers keep coming today, the last day for tax return submission, according to a press release of the NBR.
30 November 2016, 07:51 AM
Drive to free Louhajang from grabbers begins
The district administration in a drive removed at least 100 structures to free the Louhajang river from illegal occupation.
29 November 2016, 18:00 PM
Fresh cracks in many houses
Fresh cracks have developed in several hundred houses of eight villages near the mine of Barapukuria Coal Mining Company Ltd (BCMCL) in Parbatipur upazila of the district due to the tremors and subsidence during extraction of coal, villagers said.
29 November 2016, 18:00 PM
14 teenagers return from India after serving jail
Fourteen Bangladeshi teen-age girls returned home yesterday through Benapole check-post after serving three years in an Indian prison.
29 November 2016, 18:00 PM
Chittagong transport strike postponed
Transport workers postpone their 24-hour strike across five districts of Chittagong following the assurance from police personnel to realise their demand.
29 November 2016, 04:25 AM
Seven-day ultimatum to repair roads
Lalmonirhat transport leaders yesterday threatened to go for a tougher movement if the authorities concerned do not
28 November 2016, 18:00 PM
Panchagarh freedom day today
On this day in 1971, valiant freedom fighters hoisted the flag of independent Bangladesh in Panchagarh town by
28 November 2016, 18:00 PM
Road blockade in C'nawabganj
Transport workers blocked Chapainawabganj-Rajshahi highway in the town for about five hours from 10:30am
28 November 2016, 18:00 PM
US wants to work to resolve Rohingya crisis: Envoy
US Ambassador to Bangladesh Marcia Stephens Bloom Bernicat says her country wants to work to put an end to the ongoing repression on Rohingya people in Myanmar.
28 November 2016, 11:47 AM
Sec 144 imposed at Phulbaria in Mymensingh
The local administration imposes section 144 in the municipality area of Mymensingh’s Phulbaria upazila where two people including a college teacher were killed during a police action yesterday.
28 November 2016, 05:31 AM
Third Ashulia factory fire victim dies
A female worker, who sustained burns in a factory fire in Ashulia on November 22, died undergoing treatment at a hospital in Dhaka raising the death toll of the incident to three.
28 November 2016, 04:37 AM
Most of Lalmonirhat roads in sorry state
Most of the roads in the district have been in awful condition for long, causing immense suffering to the users.
27 November 2016, 18:00 PM
23 Gaibandha Santals get HC bail
The High Court grants anticipatory bail to 33 people including 23 Santals of Gaibandha’s Gobindaganj for eight weeks in a case filed on charge of attacking police on November 6.
27 November 2016, 12:29 PM
Buddhist leaders condemn atrocities on Rohingyas
Protesting the atrocities on the Rohingyas in Myanmar, leaders of Bangladesh Buddhist Federation condemn the ongoing repression.
27 November 2016, 09:21 AM
Accused flees from police custody
An accused in a narcotics case fled from police custody in Belkuchi upazila of Sirajganj on Friday.
26 November 2016, 18:00 PM
Prepare to face cyber war
State Minister for ICT Division Zunaid Ahmed Palak said it seems there is now no world war but there is cyber war.
26 November 2016, 18:00 PM