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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

Only Tk 10 is allocated per day for feeding an accused person who has been arrested and is detained in the lock-up of a police station, said police officials. ‘A person cannot even take breakfast at present with Tk 10. So how can we feed an accused three times a day with this meagre

The Bangladesh Navy divers have detected more scouring holes near the Jamuna embankment’s ‘hard point’ when the Water Development Board engineers are yet to find out the cause of the collapses in the embankment on July

The Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) is all set to extend the contract of Australian national team coach Jamie Siddons whose two-year tenure expires in November this year. “We are looking forward to making a good team management with an eye on the next World Cup. And Jamie (Siddons) is very much a part of our ... Read more

The Prime Minister’s Office is giving necessary directives regularly to the home ministry to expedite its activities in the absence of home minister Sahara Khatun. The directives come from regular meetings between the prime minister’s adviser on establishment and administrative affairs, Hossain Toufiq Imam and high officials of the home ministry. HT Imam had a ... Read more

JS team leaves July 29 for Tipai site The Chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Water Resources Ministry Abdur Razzak yesterday urged main Opposition Leader Khaleda Zia to nominate two MPs from her party so that an all-party parliamentary team can undertake the planned visit to the Tipaimukh Dam project area later this

Four senior Laskar-e-Taiyeba leaders who are hiding in Bangladesh are also serving as teachers in different madrasas of the country providing their fake identities like detained Mufti Obaidullah, detective branch (DB) sources said. Of the four, Indian national Moulana Mansur Ali and Pakistani national Moulana Habibullah are teachers of two madrasas

The government has instructed the relevant authorities to take measures to improve the overall law and order situation by arresting the terrorists and the leaders of militant organisations. He also asked them to check food adulteration across the country. The instruction was issued by HT Imam, adviser to the prime minister, yesterday at a meeting ... Read more

Militant organisation Laskar-e-Taiyeba (LET) has long been providing Harkatul Jihad al Islami (Huji) with financial support to carry out its activities in Bangladesh. Detained Mufti Obaidullah, one of the most wanted LET leaders in India reportedly told the interrogation cell that he felt happy escaping Indian intelligence (RAW). Obaidullah will be interrogated in the Task ... Read more

India is putting pressure on Bangladesh to take back some 300 people rescued off the Andaman coast as Dhaka denied accepting almost a half of them saying those are not Bangladeshis. Indian high commissioner Pinak Ranjan Chakravarty, according to the foreign ministry officials, Sunday raised the issue while he made a courtesy call with acting ... Read more

An obscure village in the eastern Indian state of Bihar has suddenly shot into the limelight as the best place in India to watch a total solar eclipse on 22 July. Amarnath Tewary travels to Taregna to discover the excitement among locals. In Taregna, a science teacher is busy teaching her students about solar eclipses ... Read more

Math Olympiad Bangladesh wins bronze Bangladesh has won a medal for the first time in the International Math Olympiad (IMO) in Bremen, the highest competition for the students. Samin Riasat and Nazia Chowdhury of Bangladesh math team have secured bronze medals in the 50th IMO in Bremen in Germany, says a press release. The medals ... Read more