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President Sheikh Hasina Presidium Members Syeda Zohara Tajuddin, Syeda Sajeda Chowdhury MP, Ataur Rahman Khan Kaiser, Yusuf Hossain Humayun, Matia Chowdhury MP, Sheikh Fazlul Karim Selim MP, Dr Mohiuddin Khan Alamgir, Kazi Zafarullah, Razi Uddin Ahmed Razu,

A rural Indian witch doctor beheaded a five-year-old girl as part of a bizarre ritual to help a villager produce healthy male heirs, the police said

Suggest experts as water bodies being lost due to unplanned urbanisation Mindless destruction of natural water bodies in and around Dhaka coupled with flagrant disregard for urban planning of successive governments have brought the capital to its knees, said noted urban

Indian officials Wednesday held briefing discussion with the Bangladesh parliamentary delegation on the controversial Tipaimukh Dam project after the fact-finding mission arrived in New Delhi en route to the dam

Vulnerable countries urge developed ones The most vulnerable countries (MVCs) demanded the developed countries to reduce their emission by 45 percent in aggregate against 1990 levels by 2020 and make available fund of $150 billion a year to help protect the

A teenage boy drowned and another went missing when police chased a group of people who allegedly stormed into a house at Kamrangirchar on early Wednesday. Police arrested nine young men, allegedly for attacking the house’s

CNG pump owners have postponed their proposed countrywide strike till August 16 in response to the call from the government to resolve their grievances through discussion, reports

Projects around 10pc remittance growth despite recession Poverty reduction in Bangladesh will be accelerated significantly if the poor are provided with the opportunity to be employed abroad, said the World Bank, which projected around 10 per cent growth in remittances this fiscal

The education ministry on Wednesday ordered the National Curriculum and Textbook Board authorities that each chapter of the compulsory Bangla textbooks for class XI and XII should end with a set of ‘creative’

The WASA drainage system covers only 37 percent area in Dhaka City leaving the most of the metropolis vulnerable to severe waterlogging particularly during the monsoon. Concerned experts say ensuring free flow of water to all the existing 26 canals, freeing those from encroachers, extension of drainage

Finance Minister AMA Muhith Wednesday asked the state-owned banks specialized and dedicated to agriculture credit to expand their branch network to reach farmers of the areas that still remained out of the

A CNG filling station and conversion workshop owner yesterday sued the managing director and two others of Titas Gas Transmission and Distribution Company Ltd for demanding Tk 1 lakh bribe from

Underground parking turns underwater parking; upper floor apartments get wet treatment; fishes glide through streets Following the overnight torrential rain, some city dwellers realised that reality sometimes may really beat their wildest imagination. For instance, when the residents of an apartment building on Green Road woke up in the morning

DC conference begins Districts’ administrative chiefs have identified lack of coordination among different authorities in field administration as major reason for recent deterioration in law and order situation. A number of deputy commissioners came up with the observation on Tuesday as their annual conference began in

Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) yesterday said that the government has failed to stand above narrow party politics on the issue of Tipaimukh dam. “It is disappointing that the parliamentary delegation is going to neighbouring India to visit the Tipaimukh dam site sans the

Overnight torrential rain inundated many important government establishments including the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) and Bangladesh Secretariat yesterday. Activities at the secretariat could not begin till noon as a large number of officials and employees failed to turn up at their offices

Torrential overnight rain broke a half-century record, said the met office on Tuesday morning as the city half submerged ground to a halt, reports bdnews24.com. The Met office said 333mm of rain was recorded in the capital over the 24 hour period to 7am, breaking a 53-year-old record in

US President Barack Obama has praised Bangladesh’s role in women empowerment, democracy, and poverty alleviation through micro-credit. “Many countries in the world can follow Bangladesh’s role toward the issues,” he said adding, “Bangladesh as a tolerant

Farmers in Rajshahi, particularly in the Barind area where a drought-like situation is prevailing, still remain frustrated for lack of rainfall this season. Although many parts of the country experienced heavy rainfall from early hours of Tuesday, officials at the Meteorological Office in

BNP lawmaker Salauddin Quader Chwdhury will sue 12 persons — including former President Iajuddin Ahmed, former chief adviser to military-controlled interim government Fakhruddin Ahmed, former army chief Moeen U Ahmed, former