UNB Bangladesh High Commissioner to India Syed Muazzem Ali on Tuesday visited a group of Bangladeshi freedom fighters who are receiving free medical treatment at the Army Hospital in New Delhi. He talked to the freedom fighters, aged between 60 and 70, and enquired about their ailments and the treatment they are receiving. A total…
Desk Report: A court here on Tuesday convicted two people to life imprisonment for possessing drugs. The convicts are Mithu Islam, son of Rabiul Ilam and Kausar Ali, son of Mobarak Gazi of Chakla village in Jibonnagar upazila.The court also fined each of them Tk 10,000 in default to suffer one year more in rigorous…
BSS Chittagong district Police in a raid arrested two women Yaba traders with 1,000 pieces of contraband Yaba tablets from College gate area under Chandanaish upazila of the district on Saturday night. The arrestees were identified as Anwara Begum,48, and Parvin Akter,30, both hailing from Teqnaf upazila of Cox’s Bazar district. On receipt of secret…
MEMO: Pope Francis urged European leaders on Sunday to stop bickering over the fate of 49 migrants stuck aboard two humanitarian rescue ships on the Mediterranean and to give them a safe port of call. With his comments at his address to tens of thousands of people in St. Peter’s Square at the end marking…
Desk Report: The National Mourning Day, commemorating the 45th anniversary of Bangabandhu’s tragic assassination, will be observed across the country on August 15th. Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was assassinated in a military putsch on August 15 in 1975, along with most of his family members. The predawn attacks left a total of 24 people killed….
Abrar Hussain: Thirteen people have been killed after separate road accidents in Narsingdi, Sirajganj, Satkhira, Gazipur,Munshiganj, Naogaon, and Sherpur districts of the country yesterday, report BDnews. In Narsingdi, seven people, including two women and a child, were killed after a bus collided with a microbus on Dhaka-Sylhet Highway in Shibpur upazila around 8:15am. In Sirajganj,…
M Humayun Kabir: Satyajit Biswas, a science teacher of Dhopadi Secondary School in Jessore’s Monirampur upazila, has never arrived late and has never taken sick leave in the course of his 31-year career at the school. Every school day morning like clockwork, Satyajit Biswas is to be seen on his bicycle, commuting the seven kilometres…
Reported by: Jannatul Ferdousi Written by: Eshan Maitra Fire Service statistic identifies, electric short-circuiting as major culprit behind all the fires occurring from highways to residents. Also, most shopping-mall authorities take little no security measure for electrical safety. This put them in hazardous situation and often fire related accidents occur. General Director Ahmed Khan commented…
NDTV A cab driver in Bangkok, Thailand, has been rewarded for his honesty after he returned a bag full of cash that an American tourist forgot in his taxi. According to Daily Mail, Jerry Allen Hart caught the cab to Suvarnabhumi Airport in Bangkok on Tuesday morning. However, while getting off the cab, he forgot…