Dhaka: Cyclone Laila over the Bay of Bengal is likely to lash at Andhra Pradesh coast by Thursday afternoon, as the prognosis prompted Indian authorities to brace themselves with massive preparation for combating the oncoming calamity. Available reports say the government of India put

DHAKA: The High Court Thursday stayed for a month the reinstatement of 85 upazila election officers who were given their marching orders by the army-backed interim regime in 2007 amid troubles over electoral issues.An HC bench of Justice AHM Shamsuddin Chowdhury and Justice Delwar issued

Chittagong: Mayor ABM Mohiuddin Chowdhury resigned and soon submitted his nomination papers Thursday to stand for a fourth straight term in the June 17 Chittagong City Corporation elections.Prior to submission of his nomination to the returning officer at Chittagong Election Commission

DHAKA: Karmojibi Nari, a platform of the working women, Thursday demanded of the government to enact strict and effective law and ensures its enforcement to eradicate the eve-teasing menace that caused at least 15 girls to commit suicide as the last resort to get out of the hell in recent

Dhaka: An accidental inferno burnt three motor garages at Koshaibari market in city’s Airport area Thursday, leaving one person wounded. Uttara thana sources said the injured, Jashim, a motor mechanic of the locality, was rescued by neighbours in critical condition. He was admitted into

Dhaka:  Law Minister Barrister Shafique Ahmed Wednesday said the War Crime Probe and the Advocacy Panel are not accountable to each other, as both will work together in trying the criminals.“Leaders of the International Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ) and Crimes and Justice

Dinajpur: Four people, three of them young women of a family, were killed in lightning strikes in Kaharol upazila on Wednesday morning.Local sources said a thunderbolt struck on a house at Bergao village under No 2 Rasulpur union at about 9:30am, killing three women on the spot.The dead

Faridpur: A reckless truck killed a banker and severely injured one of his colleagues in front of the town’s Payra Chattar early Wednesday morning. Islami bank officer Faridul Haque, 36, died on the spot and senior principal officer of the same bank Shajahan Molla suffered critical

DHAKA: SAARC Agriculture Center (SAC) envisages five projects for building separate food bank for respective member-countries under an agreed recipe to ensure food security. The member-states will share technologies and cooperate with one another in tackling climate-change impacts through

DHAKA: North Bengal’s local representatives Wednesday lamented that the region kept lagging behind in development socially, economically and educationally being neglected since Bangladesh’s independence like the then East Pakistan. The disappointments were vented at a seminar on

DHAKA: Veteran politician and former BNP Secretary General Abdul Mannan Bhuiyan breathed his last on Tuesday midnight.Duty doctor at Square Hospital declared him dead at 12:01 on Tuesday night.The first Janaza for Abdul Mannan Bhuiyan, also former LGRD minister, was held Wednesday at

Dhaka: Amid a tug-of-war over MPO distributions, Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid wrote to Prime Minister’s education adviser Dr. Alauddin Ahmed requesting him to finalize the list of the Monthly Payment Order for non-government academic institutions within a week.PS to the

Dhaka: Around 20 shops burnt down in a devastating fire at Jhutpotti in city's Mirpur-10 area on Tuesday midnight, in a quick recurrence of+ nighttime blaze in such ghettos. There were no reports of casualty in the late-night blaze.Witnesses said the fire originated 00:40am in a shop

Dhaka: Cyclonic storm ‘Laila’ is likely to intensify further over the Bay of Bengal and move in a northwesterly direction to hit the coastal range of Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh in southern India, according to Met forecast.   In its latest warning on Wednesday morning the Dhaka

Dhaka: A shop at the Eastern Plaza shopping-maul in city’s Hatirpul area was burnt in a Wednesday morning fire, before the market opened for the day. The fire incident took place at shop no. 15/10, level-2, of Eastern Plaza around 7:00 am, official sources said.“On information, three

Dhaka: A ruling-party leader of city’s Mohammadpur area has been sued simultaneously by three leaders of its student wing for allegedly giving them death threat for not acting to his behest.          The leaders of Bangladesh Chhatra League filed general diaries with three

Dhaka: A Dhaka Court Wednesday ordered the Criminal Investigation Department cops to submit by June 30 the probe report in a case on the carnage committed by border guards at Bangladesh Rifles Pilkhana headquarters in February last year.Chief Metropolitan Magistrate AKM Enamul Haque set

Bandarban: Scores of indigenous people Wednesday laid a siege to roads and waterways in the upcountry Thanchi upazila to press their demand for appointing “permanent residents” and freedom fighters to the posts of assistant teacher in government primary schools. The tribal people

DHAKA: Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid Tuesday declared the government would pursue ‘zero’ tolerance against the tide of eve teasing as the problem bred a serious social menace across the country in recent times.He reiterated the need for waging mass campaigns as a social

Dhaka: The Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) Tuesday urged the government to make the Anti-Corruption Commission independent, neutral and effective in carrying out combat against a reported pervasive spread of corruption, which earned Bangladesh bad name in the recent past. In