Security has been tightened at the Indian Assistant High Commission office and the visa application centre in Sylhet amid heightened tensions following recent protests in the city. The move was…
Year after year, migration costs continue to rise in Bangladesh. Although the government set official fees in 2016 for travel to 16 countries, prospective workers routinely spend far more than…
Two Bangladeshi youths were shot dead by Indian Khasis near the Sylhet border on Friday, according to local administration officials, police and Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB). The incident occurred around…
Miscreants set fire to the office of the Senior District Election Officer in Kushtia Sadar upazila on Saturday. Office staff said the fire was set around 8:30AM by pouring inflammable…
A female leader of the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement has filed a rape case in Barisal, accusing fellow activist Suwan Al Talukder ,24, of sexually assaulting her. The case was filed…
President Mohammed Shahabuddin on Saturday expressed deep shock and sorrow at the death of Air Vice Marshal (Retd) Abdul Karim Khandker, widely known as AK Khandker, Bir Uttam. AK Khandker,…
Mention “perfume” and one might first envision fragrant liquids in fancy flacons. Yet the name itself, derived from the Latin “per fumum” — meaning “through smoke” — indicates that what…
Sharif Osman Hadi, spokesperson of Inqilab Mancha, whose death has shaken the nation, was laid to rest beside the grave of National Poet Kazi Nazrul Islam near the Dhaka University…
The 68th sugarcane threshing season of Thakurgaon Sugar Mills Ltd. was inaugurated on Saturday by dumping sugarcane in a donga at the “Cane Carrier” premises of the sugar mill. Bangladesh…
Al Amin Jumar and Urmi Akter clinched Bangladesh’s first-ever silver medal at the Yonex Sunrise Bangladesh International Challenge in the mixed doubles event in the capital on Saturday. They became…
