India votes in 117 seats

Prime Minister Narendra Modi was among tens of millions of people who cast ballots in the third and largest phase of India’s general election yesterday amid reports of EVM glitches and clashes between TMC and Congress workers that left one voter dead.
23 April 2019, 18:00 PM

Vested group influences policymaking

A powerful vested group is influencing the government to make policies in its favour, the Centre for Policy Dialogue said yesterday.
23 April 2019, 18:00 PM

EC begins updating voter list

Enumerators appointed by the Election Commission yesterday started door-to-door visits in 135 upazilas to collect citizens’ data to update the electoral roll.
23 April 2019, 18:00 PM

LANKA MOURNS

Sri Lankans wept and prayed yesterday as they buried their dead from suicide bomb attacks on churches holding Easter services and luxury hotels that killed 321 people in the country’s worst violence in a decade.
23 April 2019, 18:00 PM

Teknaf Yaba Godfathers: Assets being sold to avert confiscation

As law enforcers are looking into the properties of 102 yaba godfathers and dealers who have surrendered, their families and paid agents are trying to sell off the assets fearing those would be confiscated.
23 April 2019, 18:00 PM

A different kind of protest

In a unique protest, residents of capital’s Jurain brought lemons, a bag of sugar, and a jar of Jurain’s murky tap water to the Wasa Bhaban in Karwan Bazar to “treat” Wasa MD Taqsem A Khan with sherbat yesterday.
23 April 2019, 18:00 PM

Sheikh Selim’s grandson among dead

The grandson of Awami League Presidium Member Sheikh Fazlul Karim Selim was killed in the series blasts that tore through churches and hotels in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday.
22 April 2019, 18:00 PM

DEATH TOLL 290 INJURED 500: Mystery shrouds source of attacks

It is one of the most lethal terrorist operations since September 11 -- with a death toll of at least 290 people. That number will almost certainly rise, given the hundreds that were also injured in the eight attacks at churches and hotels in Sri Lanka on Sunday.
22 April 2019, 18:00 PM

LANKA reels from horror

Sri Lanka said yesterday it was invoking emergency powers in the aftermath of devastating bomb attacks on hotels and churches, blamed on militants with foreign links, in which 290 people were killed and nearly 500 wounded.
22 April 2019, 18:00 PM

Time to be WARY OF WASTE

The two landfills in the capital have almost reached their limit with no immediate remedy in sight. Mountains of garbage are being formed in the landfills at Matuail and Aminbazar and there are fears that the waste will spill over into adjacent areas.
20 April 2019, 18:00 PM

Form cells to tackle sexual harassment

The Directorate of Secondary and Higher Education (DSHE) yesterday directed all school and college authorities to set up an anti-sexual harassment committee in line with a 2009 High Court order.
20 April 2019, 18:00 PM

Pesticides still being applied on mangoes

A number of mango growers are spraying toxic pesticides on their orchards in Rajshahi region, despite a High Court order to deploy police in the areas to prevent the harmful practice.
20 April 2019, 18:00 PM

Shab-e-Barat tonight

The holy Shab-e-Barat, the night of fortune and forgiveness, will be observed in the country tonight with due religious fervour.
20 April 2019, 18:00 PM

Another held over Nusrat killing

Police yesterday arrested another accused in the Nusrat murder case.
20 April 2019, 18:00 PM

Wasa water clean!

Dhaka Wasa managing director yesterday boasted that Wasa water “is 100 percent pure” while also admitting that sometimes he himself boils the water at his home.
20 April 2019, 18:00 PM

Two ‘drug dealers’ killed in ‘gunfights’

A suspected drug peddler was killed in a “gunfight” with police in Sirajganj, and another one in what police claimed was an encounter between two groups of drug peddlers in Cox’s Bazar, while, In Chapainawabganj, a body was recovered by police early yesterday.
20 April 2019, 18:00 PM

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) Mayor Sayeed Khokon said Dhaka could soon use the “Reduce, Reuse and Recycle (RRR)” method for managing the city’s waste.
20 April 2019, 18:00 PM

Diarrhoea cases on sharp rise

With the arrival of summer, the number of diarrhoea patients in and around the capital has gone up steeply this month compared to last month.
19 April 2019, 18:00 PM

AL to reorganise party from the grassroots: PM

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said her ruling Awami League had taken initiatives to reconstitute the party from the grassroots, aiming to enhance its organisational strength.
19 April 2019, 18:00 PM

Wild elephants in danger

A big portion of the wild elephant population in southern Cox’s Bazar is at risk of being wiped out, experts say. The mammals are confined to small patches of hilly forests in Inani-Shilkhali area as Rohingya settlements have taken over their migration corridors that lead to parts of Bandarban and Myanmar.
19 April 2019, 18:00 PM