Nafrul Hasan Sylhet Central Prison will be operating from this December, confirmed executive engineer Sheikh Mizanur Rahman. Till now, the jail authority have been struggling to ensure the basic needs of their prisoners in the current central jail. This new modern prison can facilitate up to 2000 prisoner at a time. This huge prison stands…
UNB A labourer was killed and another injured as a timber-laden truck plunged into a roadside ditch at Banshbaria on the Chingra-Trimohoni road in Keshabpur upazila on Wednesday noon. The deceased was identified as Abdul Moral, 42, son of late Mosaddi Moral, a resident of Maddhakul village in Keshabpur upazila.
The Independent: ‘Ghumonto Shohore’ is one of the most popular songs ever performed by the country’s prominent band LRB. The big news for the fans of LRB and audience is their favourite band will be seen performing this popular song in ‘Ananda Mela’ on Bangladesh Television (BTV) this Eid. DhakaLive has news that LRB has…
Hindustan Times: Injury setbacks will not come in the way of ace Indian gymnast Dipa Karmakar’s quest for excellence in the Produnova vault, also called the ‘vault of death’ for its level of difficulty. Despite a none-too-impressive show at the Asian Games in Jakarta and Palembang, the “only way” for Dipa to make it to…
UNB: The week-long ‘Madhu Mela’, an annual festival marking the birth anniversary of the pioneer of Bengali sonnets poet Michael Madhusudan Dutta, will begin at his birth place in Sagardari of Keshabpur upazila on January 22. Marking the poet’s 195th birth anniversary, the festival will feature discussions, exhibition and cultural programmes. This year, Jatra (a…
Sayeed Muhammad: The police have allowed BNP to hold a rally marking its 40th founding anniversary in Dhaka’s Nayapaltan on September 1. BNP leader Shahid Uddin Chowdhury Anne confirmed the development yesterday afternoon, reports The Daily Star. Earlier in the day, a delegation of the party went to the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) headquarters in…
UNB Want to lose weight? Are you depriving yourself from eating what you love? Here is a catch, read on to know how you can lose weight by eating not starving. Starving yourself in the hope that few kilos S might reduce in the weighing machines, might seem a good idea to many. But,…
Arab News: Almost all Indian currency notes scrapped two years ago have been returned to the banking system, the country’s central bank says, raising questions about the point of the controversial attempt to tackle illegal money. India’s economy suffered a sharp downturn after Prime Minister Narendra Modi stunned the country in November 2016 by withdrawing…
Desk Report: The members of customs intelligence have seized a huge quantity of restricted and illegally imported medicine from a Hajj flight at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA) in Dhaka, reports the financial express. The medicine, worth 16 million, was found in the Hajj flight that came in from Jeddah, Saudi Arabia around 5:00 pm,…