PM flies to Japan today

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina leaves Dhaka today for a 12-day visit to Japan, Saudi Arabia and Finland, amid high hopes of boosting trade and investment as well as mobilising support in addressing the Rohingya crisis.
27 May 2019, 18:00 PM

City traffic in disorder

The metro rail construction work on 8km of the capital’s key thoroughfares has made the chaotic traffic even worse, largely because steps have not been taken for better use of the narrowed down streets, experts and officials said.
27 May 2019, 18:00 PM

Less than 5-hr bus ride to Chattogram

Travellers on the Dhaka-Chattogram highway are reaping the benefits of the newly-built second Meghna and second Gumti bridges, as they no longer have to wait for hours in horrific tailbacks at both ends of the old narrow bridges.
26 May 2019, 18:00 PM

Ducsu VP beaten up in Bogura

A group of alleged Chhatra League activists yesterday assaulted Ducsu Vice President Nurul Haque Nur and other quota reformists in Bogura.
26 May 2019, 18:00 PM

A father’s cry continues in vain

Over a house in the capital’s Mirpur area, a banner hangs reading: some men in civilian clothes introducing themselves as law enforcers abducted Mohan Miah on June 10, 2018.
26 May 2019, 18:00 PM

Tigers not fazed by washout

Bangladesh’s first World Cup warm-up match against Pakistan was washed out without a ball bowled at the Swalec Stadium in Cardiff yesterday, but it spoke to the team’s battle-readiness that a wasted day did not bother them too much.
26 May 2019, 18:00 PM

Road Accident Cases: Conviction in only 5pc cases

Hours after Ataul Islam died in a road crash on October 12 last year, his family filed a case against the driver hoping to get justice. But Sub-inspector Riazul Islam got in the way.
26 May 2019, 18:00 PM

2 injured in bomb attack on police van

A bomb went off near a police pickup in the capital’s Malibagh intersection last night that injured two people, including a female police officer.
26 May 2019, 18:00 PM

OC taped Nusrat, then passed it on

A team of Police Bureau of Investigation found involvement of Moazzem Hossain, suspended officer-in-charge of Sonagazi Police Station, in recording the interrogation of madrasa student Nusrat Jahan Rafi and sharing the footage with another person.
26 May 2019, 18:00 PM

Stay govt bid to change court venue

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia yesterday filed a writ petition with the High Court challenging the legality of a government notification that says the Niko corruption case trial against her will be held at a special court inside Keraniganj Central Jail.
26 May 2019, 18:00 PM

Man lands in jail over rape of a minor

A Pabna court yesterday sent a man to jail on charges of raping a minor girl in the district’s Bhangura upazila.
25 May 2019, 18:00 PM

Bring them back before Eid

She once again stood at the Jatiya Press Club with the wish that her father would come back and embrace her.
25 May 2019, 18:00 PM

Eid won’t bring any joy to them

A little over a week is left before the Eid-ul-Fitr but that can hardly excite the paddy growers in Naogaon as they remain preoccupied with falling prices and debts.
25 May 2019, 18:00 PM

UN honours twelve fallen Bangladeshi peacekeepers

The United Nations has honoured 12 fallen Bangladeshi peacekeepers who lost their lives on duty in various parts of the world last year.
25 May 2019, 18:00 PM

Charges not framed even in 4 years

The charges in two graft cases against former state minister for housing and public works Abdul Mannan Khan and his wife Syeda Hasina Sultana could not be framed even in four years because of repeated time petitions.
25 May 2019, 18:00 PM

Jute Mill Workers: Govt to give Tk 200cr to pay arrears

The government is going to allocate Tk 200 crore to pay a portion of the arrears of workers and officials of state-owned jute mills ahead of the Eid, officials said yesterday.
25 May 2019, 18:00 PM

Modi appointed PM-elect

Indian President Ram Nath Kovind yesterday appointed BJP leader Narendra Modi Prime Minister-elect and invited him to form the new government.
25 May 2019, 18:00 PM

Back at Sophia, Tigers seek to keep winning

The Bangladesh squad’s World Cup campaign will get underway today with their first warm-up game against Pakistan at the Swalec Stadium in Cardiff, which will always be Sophia Gardens to Mashrafe Bin Mortaza and Co as it was so called when they sensationally beat the mighty Australians at the venue in 2005.
25 May 2019, 18:00 PM

PM to open 2nd Meghna, Gumti bridges today

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today inaugurates the much-awaited second Meghna and Gumti bridges on the Dhaka-Chattogram highway.
24 May 2019, 18:00 PM

Shutdown for six months

Annual holidays and other closures eat up more than half the academic year at many secondary schools and madrasas, one of the reasons why students have to turn to private tutors.
24 May 2019, 18:00 PM