DOT Desk With advent of the winter season, migratory birds from the Himalayan and Siberian regions are coming to water bodies of northern region, giving a pleasant look to the areas, reports The Financial Express. The riverine char areas and water bodies in Rangpur areas have worn an eye-catching look with arrival of migratory birds…
WIO News Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Tuesday highlighted the part Pakistan is playing in the US-Taliban negotiations, a round of which were held in the UAE a day earlier. Imran said he hoped that the could bring an end to “almost three decades of suffering of the brave Afghan people”. “Pakistan has…
Kabir Humayun: A total of 25 permanent and makeshift markets of sacrificial animals will be arranged in Dhaka Metropolitan area ahead of this year’s Eid-ul-Azha. DMP Deputy Commissioner (media) Masudur Rahman yesterday said that Dhaka South City Corporation will host 15 such markets and Dhaka North City Corporation the other 10. Apart from these certain…
CNN: Tanzania’s President John Magufuli has told women in the East African nation to stop taking birth control pills because the country needs more people, according to local media reports. “Women can now give up contraceptive methods,” Magufuli said. “Those going for family planning are lazy … they are afraid they will not be able…
UNB Members of Bangladesh Coast Guard in a drive seized 20 maunds of jatka (hilsa fry less than 10 inches in length) from the Bhola river in Sadar upazila on Saturday morning. Coast Guard sources said on a tip-off, a team of the force conducted the drive in the river around 8am and seized the…
Ideapod: Did you also envy the child in class who could memorize everything, for whom any test or exam was a piece of cake due to a good memory? Did you also think this enviable person was much smarter than you? Science has just proven this wrong! First of all, a good memory doesn’t equate…
Sofian Khan: Three more alleged drug-peddlers were killed overnight in the countrywide ongoing anti-drug operation, taking the death toll to 134 since the it begun on May 18. According to the claims of the law enforcers, one suspect was killed in an encounter during raids in Thakurgaon and Rangpur and an unidentified bullet-ridden body was…
Desk Report Detectives have arrested six members of a currency counterfeiting gang and seized fake notes worth Tk 51 lakh from Turag, on the outskirts of the capital. The arrestees were identified as: Md Abul Hossain alias Emon, 35, Sheikh Sumon, 32, Md Sagir Hossain alias Shaheen, 42, Md Iqbal Hossain, 32, Swapna, 19, and…
NTV Online Bangladesh national cricket team, led by proud skipper Mashrafe Mortaza, returned home after a ‘successful tour’ in the final of the Asia Cup against India in UAE. The team on Saturday night reached the Hazrat Shah Jalal International Airport in Dhaka at 11:30pm by a special flight. Bangladesh team was received cordially at…
UNB Two people were killed and three others injured when a truck rammed a CNG-run auto-rickshaw at Rasulpur in Sadar upazila on Friday. The accident took place around 6:30 am when a Mymensingh-bound truck from Tangail hit a CNG-run auto-rickshaw coming from the opposite direction, leaving two passengers of the auto-rickshaw killed on the spot…