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Durga Puja, the biggest religious festival of the Hindu community starts on Thursday. On the eve of the festival, President Md Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, in separate messages, conveyed their heartiest greetings to the members of the Hindu community. The five-day festival inaugurates on Sashthi with ‘Kalparambha’ in the morning and ‘Bodhon’,

European Union heads of missions in Dhaka on Wednesday expressed the hope on the eve of the European Day and the World Day against death penalty that Bangladesh would abolish capital punishment in keeping with a UN resolution. In a letter to the editors of Bangladesh, they recalled that the United Nations General Assembly had ... Read more

An oil-laden lighterage vessel caught fire at Anu Majhirghat area on Karnaphuli River in the port city on Wednesday evening. Two units of fire fighters and a team of Bangladesh Navy rushed to the spot and controlled the fire. No casualty, however, was reported in the fire. Sources said, the lighterage vessel named Suchana used ... Read more

9 dead in Gazipur factory blaze At least nine people died in a fire that broke out in four buildings of a knitwear factory at Sripur in Gazipur on Tuesday evening, officials said. The superintendent of police, Abdul Baten, told New Age that he had been reported that eight to 10 people might have been ... Read more

‘Ensure that development projects continue’ Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday urged people to vote her party to power again for ensuring continuation of the “development spree initiated by her government”. Addressing a mammoth rally at the Jhenidah Government Boys’ School ground, the Prime Minister, who is also the Awami League president, warned

Reiterating her call for forming action committee at every election centre, the BNP chairperson and leader of the opposition Begum Khleda Zia on Tuesday again vowed to resist any attempt to hold an one sided election under a party led government. Addressing a view exchange meeting with the

A student succumbed to his injuries sustained in a grenade blast at a madrasa here, the Chittagong Metropolitan Police (CMP) said on Tuesday. The deceased was identified as Mohammed Habib (25), a final year masters-level student of the Islamic law department at Jamiatul Ulum Al Islamia Madrasa

Research shows death of groundwater; suggests stopping irrigation right away Except for some pockets, all the groundwater aquifers down to 600-700 feet below in 140 upazilas of 19 coastal districts have become saline due to seawater intrusion, a government research has found. More alarmingly, the groundwater in some areas of 16 of these districts is ... Read more

Cattle being fattened by steroid and hormone medicines are being sold in the cattle markets ahead of Eid-ul-Azha posing serous health concern, the department of livestock officials warned. Representatives of some pharmaceutical companies were persuading the animal quacks in rural areas to prescribe farmers to use steroid and hormone,

The High Court on Wednesday granted interim bail for six months to rights organisation Odhikar secretary Adilur Rahman Khan in a cyber crimes case. A bench of Justice Borhanuddin and Justice KM Kamrul Kader passed the order after hearing a petition filed by Adilur, also a Supreme Court lawyer,

In a bid to replicate the 2010 history, Bangladesh take on New Zealand in the first Test of the two-match Sahara Test series at Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium on Wednesday. The 0-4 thrashing at the hands of Bangladesh in the last bi-lateral series in ODI in 2010 prevented the Kiwis from being absolute favourites, something ... Read more

The International Crimes Tribunal (ICT)-2 will deliver the verdict in the trial of former BNP minister Abdul Alim for his alleged involvement in crimes against humanity during the Liberation War on Wednesday. Alim (83), a former member of the late Ziaur Rahman’s cabinet, was indicted on 17 charges, including genocide and other atrocities, in Joypurhat ... Read more

The chairperson of Bangladesh Nationalist Party, Khaleda Zia, has offered a dialogue between her party’s acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and Awami League general secretary Syed Ashraful Islam on the issue of a non-party neutral government to oversee the next general elections. Khaleda made the offer during a meeting with Chinese

National Committee to protect oil, gas, mineral resources, power and ports called upon the government to refrain from implementing Rampal coal-fired thermal power plant near Sundarban, otherwise, it would go for tougher agitation programmes including hartal after Eid-ul-Azha. The National Committee also announced to hold a countrywide demonstration

The declining trend in overseas employment has started impacting the flow of inbound remittances in the country. The flow of remittances has been gradually going down since the beginning of the current fiscal year. In the first quarter of the current 2013-14 fiscal, the total remittances recorded a fall of 8 per cent over the ... Read more

Water experts here on Tuesday stressed the need for using surface water in agriculture to save groundwater as the global climate change will emerge as a threat to the country’s water sector in the coming days, reports UNB. “About 80 percent of irrigation water now comes from underground sources. Although we’ve huge surface water, we ... Read more

The police recovered the body of an unidentified man from the rooftop of a train at Rajshahi Railway Station on Monday night. Officer-in-charge of Rajshahi Government Railway Police station Alamgir Hossain said the people of the area spotted the body of the man on the rooftop of ‘Rajshahi Silk City’ train from Dhaka when it ... Read more

Titas Gas Transmission and Distribution Company Limited has installed about 12000 new gas connection while the entity is increased 48805 burner in the resident of its distribution areas after the ban of connection withdrawan. Among them around 6000 in the 13 zones under the areas of two Dhaka City Corporations and the rest  connections were ... Read more

The Anti-Corruption Commission on Monday submitted charge sheets in 11 cases against 25 people over the Hallmark-Sonali Bank scam, the country’s biggest ever banking fraud, to a magistrate court in Dhaka. A seven-member investigation team of the commission submitted the long-awaited charges 20 days after its approval, the ACC deputy director

Envoy says New Delhi ready to exchange documents Eight months after the extradition treaty with India was signed, the Cabinet on Monday ratified it to facilitate handover of criminals between the two countries. The Indian government also ratified the treaty recently. After the Cabinet meeting, held at the secretariat, Cabinet secretary Muhammad Musharraf Hossain Bhuiyan ... Read more