February 12, 2023

Grameenphone has made calls from Bangladesh to Türkiye and Syria free till February 15, as anxious family and friends attempt to speak to their loved ones caught up in the devastating earthquake in the countries.Türkiye and Syria are reeling from the w…

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Saturday that on his order a U.S. fighter jet shot down an “unidentified object” that was flying high over the Yukon, acting a day after the U.S. took similar action over Alaska.North American Aerospace Defen…

Police recovered the half-decomposed body of a woman from a home in the West Khabaspur Miapara area of Faridpur town on Sunday morning.The deceased was identified as Jhuma Akter, 35, the elder daughter of late Abdul Ahad Talukder of the area.As a bad s…

The owner of the Russian Wagner Group private military contractor actively involved in the fighting in Ukraine has predicted that the war could drag on for years.Yevgeny Prigozhin said in a video interview released late Friday that it could take 18 mon…

The lawyers of Brahmanbaria, who have been boycotting courts from January 4, will go back to their work from Monday, hopes Law Minister Anisul Huq on Sunday“A fruitful meeting was held with the lawyers and I believe that the lawyers will join courts fr…

Md Shahabuddin Chuppu, who is set to become the next President of Bangladesh, is a lawyer by profession and a member of the Advisory Council of Bangladesh Awami League.Md Shahabuddin was born in Pabna in 1949 and was one of the first members of Pabna d…

Speakers at an inaugural session of training on “Rights to Information (RTI) Act as a Tool to Promote Rights of Transgender and Hijra Community” on Sunday urged to make a comprehensive law to protect and promote the rights of the people belonging to th…

The government of Bangladesh has handed over the relief goods to the International Committee of Red Cross (ICRC) for proper coordination and distribution among the earthquake- affected people in Syria.The humanitarian assistance package for the people …

Every day, the residents of Dhaka city experience the challenge of reaching their destination on time. Commuting to the workplace passing through constant traffic, and congested roads, with limited public transportation options, has become a regular he…

Saiful, who used to be a van-puller, now sells ‘fuchka’ (street food) near the Padma Bridge.He now earns significantly more than he did previously – thanks to the boom the locality has seen in tourism since the Padma Bridge opened in June 2022. Many da…

“Everything is Allah’s will,” Md Shahabuddin Chuppu, who is set to be the next President of Bangladesh, said today.“There is no reaction now. This is Almighty Allah’s will,” Md Shahabuddin told reporters after submitting his nomination paper at the Ele…

Bangladesh and the Gambia Sunday signed a joint declaration agreeing on, among other issues, the co-deployment of the Bangladeshi and the Gambian armed forces at the UN peacekeeping missions.Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen and his Gambian counterpart M…