Around 250 to 300 tea workers of at least 90 indigenous families continued their strike for the second consecutive day yesterday, demanding most basic needs such as safe drinking water,
The services of Dhaka-Rajshahi non-stop intercity train Bonolata Express would be extended to Chapainawabganj, Railway Minister Nurul Islam Sujan said today. “People of Chapainawabganj have been demanding direct intercity train
This past 16th of April, the Dhaka Magistrate Court in Bangladesh accepted a blasphemy lawsuit filed against 36 writers and their accomplices over allegations of religious blasphemy. It was reported
The “Bangla Academy Sahitya Puroshkar 2016” was announced today in seven categories ahead of the ‘Amar Ekushey Boi Mela’. Prof Shamsuzzaman Khan, director general of Bangla Academy, made the announcement
The government has appointed finance ministry’s Additional Secretary Md Muslim Chowdhury as acting chairman of scam-hit Sonali Bank Limited. The ministry’s Bank and Financial Institutions Division announced his appointment in
A local Awami League leader was shot dead allegedly by another ruling party leader centering the upcoming union parishad election at Poyda of Pabna Sadar upazila on Sunday morning. The
Gazirvita union of Haluaghat, Mymensingh was the scene of a land extortion incident today, whereby a man resorted to to coercing his late brother’s family into handing over a few
A woman was killed by her husband allegedly for dowry at Kosba village in Sadar upazila yesterday. The victim, Selina Khatun, 35, was wife of Nesar Ahmed of the village.
A day after the Chhatra League attacked students of Kuet for protesting against bad food served at a feast, the pro-Awami League student body yesterday attacked freshers of Jagannath University
Khulna University of Engineering and Technology (Kuet) was shut down indefinitely yesterday after Bangladesh Chhatra League activists attacked students protesting sub-standard food at an annual feast on the campus. At