Symbols have been allocated among the sevenmayoral candidates for the upcoming Barishal City Corporation election.Returning Officer Humayun Kabir distributed the symbols at the regionalelection officer’s office at Natullabad in the city this morning.I…
The members of Detective Branch (DB) of the DhakaMetropolitan Police (DMP) in several anti-drug raids arrested 52 people oncharges of selling and consuming drugs during the last 24 hours till 6amtoday.The DB in association with the local police carrie…
A 21-year-old girl has been murdered this morning at Ghimiregaun in Khandbari Municipality-1, Sankhuwasabha.Yuna Darnal of Sabhapokhari Rural Municipality-1, currently living in the district headquarters, was murdered by Nandaram Gadal, 23, of Sabhapo…
The need and relevance of news agencies has remained intact despite a string of new mediums of mass communications popping up. More than 80 percent of media houses across the globe are dependent on news supplied by world’s major news agencies like AP,…
Just weeks after thousands of Rohingya refugees lost their homes to Cyclone Mocha, they face another blow as funding shortages force the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) to cut food vouchers in Cox’s Bazar to just US$ 8, or less than 9 cents p…
A Bangladesh opposition stalwart was arrested yesterday, in Rajshahi city, some 256 km west of the capital Dhaka, for “threatening to kill” Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in a speech, on May 19.Rafiqul Alam, Deputy Commissioner of Rajshahi Metropolitan …
Ex-worker of Rastriya Samachar Samiti (RSS) Gautam Buddha Bajracharya has passed away. He was 62. He breathed his last at his residence at Samakhusi, Kathmandu on Wednesday evening. Bajrachayra has been suffering from lung cancer for the past few years…
Speaker Devraj Ghimire and Deputy Speaker Indira Ranamagar have congratulated Hari Budhamagar, a double amputee who successfully scaled Sagarmatha (Mt Everest). He scaled the world’s highest peak on May 19.The Speaker and the Deputy Speaker welcomed B…
The Newar community in the country including in the Kathmandu Valley celebrated the Sithi Nakha festival today by worshipping the water sources such as well, traditional water spouts, springs, ponds and taps. Prior to the worshiping, such water source…
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