Hossen Sohel of DOT : The Jatiya Party has decided to form the main opposition in parliament with Chairman HM Ershad as the leader of the group, reports bdnews24.com. The party’s newly-elected MPs will not join the government’s new cabinet, Ershad said in a statement yesterday. “I am requesting the honourable speaker of parliament to…
UNB A mobile court here on Tuesday sentenced a sales representative of a pharmaceutical company to one year’s imprisonment for assaulting a girl in Banghjal area of the town. The convict is Golam Kabir, a sales representative of Incepta Pharmaceuticals in Natore. Quoting locals, police said locals caught Kabir as he assaulted the class IX…
Reuters Pakistan is planning to ease visa restrictions for visitors from 55 countries, including most European nations, in a bid to revive tourism that was devastated by Islamist violence in the fallout from the 9/11 attacks in the United States. “We are reviewing our visa policies. We are trying to bring 55 countries into a visa-free…
Entertainment Desk Madonna has finally given up on ythe case that has given the custody of her 15 year old son to her husband. She told her friends that she has given up as her son Rocco does not want to live with her. This decalration was made after she broke down on stage during…
UNB: A teenager girl reportedly committed suicide by hanging herself at Abad Kochua village in Jashore sadar upazila as she could not tolerate an assault of her mother and brother following their protest against harassment by some eve teasers. The deceased was identified as Halima Khatun, 13, a class VIII student of Darus Sunnat Mojaddedia…
Samiul Bashar Samin Hypochondriacs have existed as the ultimate bane for doctors all over the world. You know you’re a hypochondriac when you walk into the doctor’s chamber and he sighs and asks, “What is it this time?” Yours truly knows this feeling all too well. To be honest, at this point I think my…
CNN: I was in denial, but I had felt a wave of seasickness coming over me for quite some time. I tried to persevere but after focusing far too long on every wave that hit the Sunsail F40 yacht as I steered, I had to take some time out to catch my breath. “There’s a…
DOT Desk: The sweeping cold wave coupled with blowing cooler winds continued disrupting public life for the seventh consecutive day in the northern region of the country, officials and local citizens said, reports The Financial Express. The situation deteriorated further following little falls in the minimum temperature at most places today causing unbearable sufferings to…
Sofian Khan: Five people lost their lives as a truck hit a Leguna in Shahjahanpur yesterday morning leaving seven others injured. According to the Bogra Additional Superintendent of Police (Sadar Circle) Sanatan Chakraborty, all the deceased were passengers of Leguna. The ASP said a Bogra-bound truck from Natore rammed an oncoming human hauler at Birgram on…
Imran Khalid, Freelance columnist based in Karachi, Pakistan/Daily Sabah, Turkey Each election period in Bangladesh has produced something new and further added more twists to the already febrile and charged political atmosphere in the country and now the same is expected in the forthcoming national elections as well The evolution of politics in Bangladesh has…