Day: June 9, 2024

Kathmandu: The weather is presently partly cloudy in the hilly parts and clear in the rest of the country. This is due to the effect of local and westerly winds and low pressure area formed around Bihar, India, says the Department of Hydrology and Met...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her Indian counterpart Narendra Modi exchanged pleasantries after Modi's swearing-in ceremony here this evening. The foreign leaders, including Bangladesh Prime Minister, went to the oath-taking podium to greet Modi ...

A man was killed in a thunderbolt strike at Baniachang upazila of the district here this noon. The deceased was identified as Liton Mia, 24, hailed from Eralia village in the upazila. Local people said the incident occurred this noon when Liton was...

45 verified Bangladeshi nationals who were imprisoned in Rakhine State of Myanmar returned home today as Myanmar Naval Ship UMS Chin Dwin carried them at Cox's Bazar. At the same time, 134 members of Myanmar defence forces including Myanmar Border G...

A court here today placed police constable Kawser Ali on seven-day remand in a case lodged over murder of his colleague Monirul Islam in capital's Baridhara diplomatic zone last night. Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Md Shakil Ahammed passed the order...

State Minister for Shipping Khalid Mahmud Chowdhury today said that the present government will increase the number of dredgers to make waterways and ports more navigable. "During the tenure of the present Awami League-led government, 38 new dred...

Livestock officials and experts claimed that there is no shortage of sacrificial animals for the upcoming Eid-ul-Azha which is scheduled to be held in next week as over 1.29 crore animals are ready for the upcoming qurbani festival. The estimated de...

Branches of the scheduled banks in the readymade garments (RMG) industrial areas will remain open on June 14-16 to facilitate payment of garment workers' salary, Eid bonus, allowances and export-import activities. Bangladesh Bank (BB) today gave the...

Education Minister Mohibul Hassan Chowdhoury today said countrywide 4613 educational institutions are not under Monthly Payment Order (MPO) coverage. He said while responding to a star-marked query raised by treasury bench lawmaker M Abdul Latif whi...

The government today appointed former chief justice Hasan Foez Siddique as the new director general (DG) of the Judicial Administration Training Institute (JATI). Law and Justice Division of the Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Ministry issued...

French President Emmanuel Macron on Saturday urged for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and called for a political solution, while meeting with his United States counterpart Joe Biden, who is on a state visit to France. "After nine months of conflict,...

State Minister for Information and Broadcasting Mohammad Ali Arafat today said the Bangladesh Journalist Welfare Trust (BJWT) is an evidence of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina led government's goodwill in protecting journalists. 'Prime Minister Sheikh...