BRAC Hope Festival started Thursday at the Bangladesh Army Stadium in the capital.The three-day festival is the epilogue to yearlong observances, marking 50 years of BRAC.The first day of the Hope Festival embodied the theme “A Tribute to Bangladesh.”T…
The Awami League will remain on the streets to prevent any disorder until the next parliamentary election, Information and Broadcasting Minister Dr. Hasan Mahmud said Friday.“We are not holding any alternate events, these are our regular events that wi…
Within hours of an Air Force F-22 downing a giant Chinese balloon that had crossed the United States, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin reached out to his Chinese counterpart via a special crisis line, aiming for a quick general-to-general talk that could…
The ruling party Awami League will organise ‘peace rallies’ at the union level of the country on Saturday, in yet another copycat or tit-for-tat program that seems dictated by the BNP’s announcemnent of its own program.The programmes will be held as pa…
A 65-year-old woman was burned to death trying to stay warm in Natore’s Bagatipara upazila early Friday, fire service said.The deceased Firoza Begum used to live alone in her thatched house in Hijli village of the upazila.Locals said the woman used to …
Rescuers pulled several people alive from the shattered remnants of buildings on Friday, some who survived more than 100 hours trapped under crushed concrete in the bitter cold after a catastrophic earthquake slammed Turkey and Syria, killing more than…
Global smartphone maker Oppo has brought A77 to the Bangladesh market with Glow Flat-Edge Design, 33W SUPERVOOC charging, a thickness of 8mm, a 5000mAh battery, Ultra-Linear Stereo Speaker, and other features.The phone was made available for purchase i…
Counselor of the US Department of State Derek Chollet has said they see “huge potential” in their relationship with Bangladesh and there is a lot of “room to grow.””We are keen to follow up on that – it is a remarkable journey – 51 years. We are intere…
Russian forces struck critical infrastructure in Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, and launched multiple strikes on energy infrastructure in Zaporizhzhia early Friday as Moscow stepped up its attacks in Ukraine’s south and east and air raid siren…
An assistant of a truck driver was killed, and five others were injured in a collision between a bus and a truck on the Chattogram-Cox’s Bazar Highway in Lohagara upazila Friday morning, police said.The deceased was identified as Md Mofiz from Charfess…
Two people were killed, and at least 40 others – mostly students – injured as a bus carrying a group of picnic-goers from a Jashore school overturned and crashed into a roadside tree in Gopalganj’s Kashiani Thursday night, police said.The deceased were…
Romania is likely to issue visas to more than 15,000 Bangladesh citizens from March to September this year, said a foreign ministry spokesperson Thursday.Last year a consular team from Romania stayed in Dhaka for three months and issued around 5,400 vi…
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