Nazrul Islam Mukul, Kushtia A human chain has been formed in Kushtia in a bid to get all the payments of the municipal staff, e.g. their wage, PF pensions and gratuity, to be paid 100% from the Government Treasury. The conference was held on Monday at 11am in NS Road of Kushtia. Rabiul Islam, executive…
AP, Aerzen President Barack Obama and top U.S. allies are gathering in Germany to discuss issues he says are putting European unity “under strain.” Monday’s talks in Hannover come on the final day of Obama’s two-day visit to push for the conclusion of negotiations on a U.S.-Europe trade deal. German Chancellor Angela Merkel, British Prime…
AP, Kabul Afghanistan’s president has called on Pakistan to battle the Taliban rather than try to bring them into peace talks. Ashraf Ghani made the remarks during an address to parliament on Monday, a week after a Taliban assault on the Afghan capital, Kabul, killed 64 people and wounded another 340. Afghan officials have long…
AP, Aerzen President Barack Obama will send an additional 250 military personnel to Syria to help local forces fighting the Islamic State group, increasing to 300 the number of U.S. forces battling extremists in the war-torn country, administration officials confirmed Sunday. Obama was expected to announce his decision Monday during a speech in Hannover, Germany,…
Md. Taqi Yasir Saadi Muktafi, one of the renowned musicians and a guitar instructor talked about the present day Bangladeshi music scenario, his Hook’s Music School and his band KRAL in a discussion with Daily Our Time team. He is a physician of Bangladesh Medical College. He said, “New age guitar players will play better…
AP, Quito Ecuador’s government says the death toll from last week’s devastating magnitude-7.8 earthquake has risen to 654 with another 58 people missing. The website of the secretariat for risk management said Saturday that 113 people had been rescued alive following the quake that flattened coastal towns and more than 25,000 people remained in…
A regional outlawed party leader was hacked to death by miscreants in Bhinnogram area of Santhia upazila on Sunday morning. The deceased was identified as Al Amin Hossain, 35, son of Fazlal Miah, a resident of the area and a regional leader of Purba Banglar Communist Party (ML- Lal Pataka). Abdur Razzak, officer-in-charge of Ataikula…
Police arrested a young man along with one foreign-made pistol, two magazines and three rounds of bullet from Benapole check post area on Saturday night. The arrestee was identified as Kawser, son of Nur Islam, a resident of Lautali village in Faridganj upazila of Chandpur district. Mafizur Rahman, sub-inspector of Benapole port police station, said…
Police arrested an alleged robber along with one rifle, one pistol and 101 rounds of bullet from Amirabad area in Lohagara upazila on Friday night. The arrestee was identified as Abdur Rashid, a resident of Paloanpara of Raozan upazila. Officer-in-charge of Raozan police station Kefayetullah said tipped off, a team of the police station conducted…
Two motorcyclists were killed as a truck crashed into their vehicle at Bailyachhari in Matiranga upazila on Sunday morning. The deceased were identified as Joyonto Tripura,22, and Sukhendra Tripura,45. Police said a rod-laden truck hit the motorbike from the opposite direction in the area around 10:30am, leaving Joyonto and Sukhendra dead on the spot. Police…