Bangladesh

3 Shibir men held for anti-govt Facebook posts

Law enforcers detain three Islami Chhatra Shibir activists for using Facebook via proxy servers and posting anti-government remarks
3 December 2015, 12:45 PM

AL names municipality polls candidates

Ruling Awami League announces the list of its nominated candidates for the upcoming municipality elections scheduled to be held on December 30.
3 December 2015, 12:29 PM

Raw jute export banned

The government bans export of all sorts of raw jute from Bangladesh for an indefinite period.
3 December 2015, 11:55 AM

AL mayoral aspirant dies from drinking alcohol in Rajshahi

Awami League nominated mayor aspirant of Arani municipality in Rajshahi dies after heavy drinking of alcohol.
3 December 2015, 11:36 AM

Arrest United Hospital’s ‘sex offender’ nurse: HC

High Court directs police to arrest Saiful Islam, a staff nurse of United Hospital in Dhaka, and produce him before it on December 7 allegedly for sexually harassing a female patient.
3 December 2015, 10:04 AM

PM opens mobile therapy for autistic people

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina inaugurates the countrywide mobile therapy van service for the welfare of autistic and other physically-challenged people.
3 December 2015, 07:58 AM

15 Bangladeshis detained in Malaysia

Malaysian Immigration Department detained 89 foreigners of eight nationalities including 15 Bangladeshis for various immigration offences in a raid at a plywood factory in Kedah state on Tuesday.
3 December 2015, 07:00 AM

Rumana four-for takes Bangladesh to India

Rumana Ahmed stars with the ball as Bangladesh women cricket team crush Zimbabwe by 31 runs to qualify for the ICC Women’s World Twenty20 India in 2016.
3 December 2015, 06:41 AM

6 ‘militants’ held while ‘preparing to kill pir’

Detectives claim to have detained six alleged militants in Dhaka yesterday when they were preparing to kill a 'pir' (spiritual leader) . The detainees are active members of newly-introduced militant organisation, Mujahid of Bangladesh, DMP Joint Commissioner Monirul Islam says.
3 December 2015, 04:59 AM

Construction of structure at Pantha Kunja illegal: HC

The High Court declares illegal the construction of secondary transfer station (STS), a structure for waste management, at Pantha Kunja park in capital’s Karwan Bazar area.
2 December 2015, 14:30 PM

Chittagong destroy Sylhet by 10 wickets

A superb unbeaten opening stand of 140-runs between Tamim Iqbal and Tillakaratne Dilshan take Chittagong to a resounding victory over Sylhet in the 18th match of BPL-2015.
2 December 2015, 12:47 PM

Bangladesh offers Bhutan duty-free export of stones

Bangladesh offers Bhutan duty-free and quota-free export of stones and boulders for using those in the construction of Padma Bridge.
2 December 2015, 12:43 PM

5 get posting as acting secretary

The government today appointed five acting secretaries to different ministries and divisions to fill the vacant positions.
2 December 2015, 12:09 PM

Call to set roadmap for CHT accord’s implementation

The government must set a definite road map for effective implementation of Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) Peace Accord and eliminate frustrations of the region’s people, speakers at a discussion said today.
2 December 2015, 11:41 AM

Hasina among 100 leading global thinkers

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has been named as one of the world's top 100 global thinkers by Foreign Policy, a Washington-based prestigious magazine of global politics, economics and ideas.
2 December 2015, 10:02 AM

Youth’s body found on no-man’s land

Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) members recover the body of a young man on no-man’s land along with Sylhet border.
2 December 2015, 08:54 AM

'Save voices of Bangladeshi free thinkers'

Rafida Ahmed Banya, the widow of Bangladeshi-American blogger Avijit Roy, urges the international community to come forward to help save the voices of Bangladeshi journalists, writers, bloggers, and publishers and help them maintain a healthy secular society.
2 December 2015, 08:41 AM

Mustafizur Rahman becomes first Bangladeshi in ICC ODI Team of 2015

The 20-year-old left-arm bowling sensation, Mustafizur Rahman becomes the first Bangladeshi cricketer from his country to make the ICC ODI Team of the Year.
2 December 2015, 08:35 AM

'Commute Nizami's death sentence if found guilty'

A lawyer of war criminal Motiur Rahman Nizami appeals to the Supreme Court to commute his client’s death sentence to life term imprisonment if he is found guilty for committing crimes during the country’s Liberation War in 1971.
2 December 2015, 07:43 AM

48 trafficking victims return from Myanmar

A number of 48 Bangladeshi human trafficking victims, who were rescued by Myanmar authorities from the Bay of Bengal, return home following a flag meeting between Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) and Myanmar border guards.
2 December 2015, 07:08 AM