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A huge rally of BNP protesting the latest hike in fuel prices and power crisis is underway in front of its Nayapaltan central office in the capital.The rally, organised by BNP’s Dhaka south and north city units, formally began with the recitation from ...

Health Minister Zahid Maleque, Education Minister Dr Dipu Moni and US Ambassador to Bangladesh Peter Haas jointly launched the campaign at Bangabandhu International Conference Center (BICC) in the city.The full-fledged vaccination programme for childre...

A legal notice has been served to 11 people seeking Tk 10 crore compensation for Joj Mia who served four years jail term without committing any crime in August 21 grenade attack case.Supreme Court lawyers Mohammad Humayun Kabir and Mohammad Kausar se...

More than 200 major Alpine glaciers have disappeared in Italy since record-keeping began in 1895, Italy's environmental lobby group Legambiente said in a report released on Wednesday.In its third "Caravan of the Glaciers" report, Legambiente said the l...

The Cabinet on Thursday approved in principle the draft of the Drugs Act, 2022 with harsher punishment for drugs related anomalies and offenses.Under the draft law, the punishment for such crimes will be maximum 10-year jail with fine of Tk 10 lakh fr...

Another dengue patient died and 90 others were hospitalised in 24 hours till Thursday morning.The latest death was reported from Dhaka.With this, the authorities recorded 16 deaths from the viral infection this year, according to the Directorate Genera...

Bangladesh achieved a milestone on Wednesday (August 10) in addition to defeating Zimbabwe to avert a clean sweep. The Bangladesh men's cricket team became the tenth cricketing nation to play 400 ODI matches after making their ODI debut on March 31, 19...

The prisoners at the penal colony in St. Petersburg were expecting a visit by officials, thinking it would be some sort of inspection. Instead, men in uniform arrived and offered them amnesty — if they agreed to fight alongside the Russian army in Ukra...