Breast cancer forces woman to 'kill self'

A sexagenerian has reportedly taken her own life by committing suicide after she, local say, could not endure chronic pain of breast cancer. The ill-fate woman, Aziron Begum, 64, was a resident of Ghorabandha village under Monoharpur union in Palashbari upazila of Gaibandha...

Fire at Modi's official resident in Delhi

A fire has broken out inside Prime Minister Narendra Modi's official residence, located at 7 Lok Kalyan Marg (formerly known as 7 Race Course Road) in New Delhi. At least nine fire tenders are at the spot and are trying to control the fire...

DNCC Mayor Atiqul quits to contest next polls

No open air cultural programme on New Year eve: DMP

No open air cultural programme will be allowed on the 31st December to maintain the law-and-order situation in the city, said Commissioner of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Mohammad Shafiqul Islam...

Rangers get a life-line beating Thunder

Power, energy prices change more than once a year

The Cabinet has nodded the draft of Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission (Amendment) Act, 2019 allowing the government to bring change in prices of power and energy (hiking or reducing) more than once a year...

Ministers who grabbed public attention in 2019

A number of ministers either drew public attention or came under fire hitting headlines in 2019 for various reasons, including onion price hike, fatal train crash or unprecedented dengue outbreak....

PM receives 2019 Asian Townscape Jury’s Award

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today received the ‘2019 Asian Townscape Jury’s Award’ for her government’s outstanding contribution to developing the Purbachal New Town Project....

Home loan interest rate for govt servants reduced

The government has made it more easier for the public servants to construct home by reducing home loan interest rate to 9 per cent from 10. The new interest rate would be applicable for only new borrowers, and it will come into effect from January 1 next year...

JSC, JDC, PEC, Ebtedayee results Tuesday

Ex-Foreign Secretary Muazzem Ali passes away

Bangladesh’s former foreign secretary and immediate-past High Commissioner to India Syed Muazzem Ali passed away on Monday at the Combined Military Hospital (CMH) in the capital...

BNP to hold demo Tuesday as police obstruct rally

Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) will hold demonstration at thanas in Dhaka city on Tuesday as police obstructed their rally on Monday. Ruhul Kabir Rizvi, Senior Joint Secretary General of BNP, announced the programme at a press conference at the party’s Naya Paltan central office at 11am...

Atiq to resign from DNCC mayor post today

DNCC incumbent mayor M Atiqul Islam, who got AL ticket to contest in the mayoral election of Dhaka North City Corporation, will resign from the mayor post on Monday. He will hold a meeting with councillors and officials of DNCC today. Later he will submit his letter of resignation to the Secretary of DNCC...

Taposh’s parliamentary seat announced vacant

Dhaka-10 parliamentary constituency has been announced vacant as Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh resigned from the parliament to contest in the mayoral election of Dhaka South City Corporation...

1st anniversary of 11th parliamentary election today

Today is the first anniversary of the 11th parliamentary election and AL-led 14-party alliance as it won a landslide victory under the leadership of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to run the government for the third term in a row...

US strikes in Iraq and Syria target Iranian-backed militia

The U.S. military has launched strikes on five facilities in Iraq and Syria belonging to a militia considered to be backed by Iran, the Pentagon said Sunday, two days after an American contractor was killed in an attack...

6 killed as car falls into canal near Delhi due to fog

Six people, including two children, were killed when their car skidded off the road and fell into a canal in Uttar Pradesh's Greater Noida, apparently due to fog, police said on Monday...

Shooter among 2 dead in Texas church attack

A gunman who opened fire in a Texas church, killing one person and leaving another in critical condition, died after parishioners at the Sunday morning service shot him in response, authorities said...

Biopic on Malala Yousafzai to hit the screens on January 31

Gul Makai, a biopic on Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai, is slated to be released on January 31, 2020. The film has been directed by HE Amjad Khan and produced by Sanjay Singla. It is presented by Jayantilal Gada and Tekno Films...

Tigers’ Pak tour to depend on security assessment

State Minister for Youth and Sports Zahid Ahsan Russell has said that Bangladesh would only send its cricket team to Pakistan for a proposed three-match T20I and two-match Test series if a thorough assessment of the security situation prevailing there deems it safe...