Nearly 400 Rohingya living in camps for the displaced in Myanmar’s Rakhine state were probably killed by Cyclone Mocha, the country’s parallel National Unity Government and local aid workers told RFA Tuesday.The NUG said the figure was based on estimat…
The people’s daily life has been severely hit in Mahottari district due to rising in temperature for the past few days. The temperature has reached as high as 42 degree centigrade.As a result, the number of people coming for treatment of various heat-…
Three policemen have been honoured for helping prevent the loss of property by notifying the house owner and neighbors about an incident of fire.Police Constables Prakash Tamang, Durga Prasad Niraula and Leela Bahadur Thapa, based at the District Poli…
‘Chase away corrupt persons: Protect democracy’, ‘Where does taxpayers’ money go? Into corrupt officials’ pockets’, ‘Salute to your courage: Beware of faltering’, ‘Who bought you a bungalow worth millions of rupees?’.These are the slogans sported on p…
With a view to carrying mangoes fromChapainawabganj and Rajshahi to Dhaka at a low cost, Bangladesh Railway isgoing to launch Mango Special Train from May 20, 2023 for the fourthconsecutive years.Deputy Commissioner of Chapainawabganj AKM Galiv Khan s…
Assistant Foreign Minister of Australia, Tim Watts, has arrived on a two-day visit of Nepal.The centrepiece of Mr Watts’ visit is going to be the handover of a 13th century wooden tunala (temple strut) from Ratneshwar Temple at Sulima Square to the lo…
The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Ministry of Water Resources today recommended declaring ‘Balu Mahal’ by the deputy commissioner (DC) of each district after holding discussions with the project engineers concerned.The committee recommended noti…
Construction of high altitude sports training centers in Mustang and Baglung remain stalled, many years since they were announced. The two big sports infrastructures projects were put forward by the federal and provincial governments.The Gandaki provi…
Bangladesh Olympic Association (BOA) will host Hangzhou 19th Asian Games Fun Run rally tomorrow (Wednesday) in the city.On the eve of Asian Games, the fun run program is being organized in the countries of Asia by the joint initiative of Olympic Counc…
Railways Minister Md Nurul Islam Sujan today said that the train service on the Dhaka-Cox’s Bazar route will be launched in September this year.”Out of the 10 priority projects of the government, two projects – the Padma Bridge Rail Link and the Dohaz…
Seven candidates including outgoing Mayor Talukder Abdul Khaleque have submitted their nomination papers to contest for the mayoral post in Khulna City Corporation (KCC) election to be held on June 12.Md Alauddin, returning officer of the KCC election…
The High Court (HC) today upheld the death of one and acquitted another in a case lodged over the murder of child Abdullah in suburban Keraniganj area in 2016.The court also ordered to hold trial of another convict afresh.A High Court division bench o…
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