47th Independence and National Day celebrated
People flock to the national memorial at Savar and other monuments across the country to pay homage to the brave freedom fighters who laid down their lives for the liberation of the country on Sunday as the nation celebrated the 47th Independence and National Day.
13 killed in Chuadanga road accident
At least 13 people were killed and seven others injured in a head-on collision between a truck and an engine-run vehicle at Damurhuda upazila in Chuadanga on Sunday morning.
PM urges extremists to return to normal life
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday urged those wasting their lives in suicide attacks to return to the right path and assured them of doing whatever necessary to ensure their livelihoods. ‘But, I'll urge them [extremists] not to choose the wrong path of suicide attacks as well as the path of terrorism and extremism,’ she said.
Khaleda pays tribute to Liberation War heroes
Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson Khaleda Zia paid homage to the martyrs of the War of Independence by placing a wreath at the National Memorial in Savar, on the outskirts of Dhaka, on Sunday morning marking the 47th Independence and National Day.
Raid at Sylhet extremists’ den starts
Joint forces, including an army team, started an operation at a suspected hideout of extremists in a building at Dakkhin Pathanpara in Sylhet city on Saturday morning.
‘Bomb carrier’ killed in explosion near airport
A suspected bomb carrier was killed in an explosion of the explosive he was reportedly carrying between two police boxes in Airport crossing near Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka on Friday evening.
10 killed in Mymensingh road accident
At least 10 people including three women and three children were killed when a truck laden with cement overturned on the under-construction four-lane Dhaka-Mymensingh Highway at Bhaluka upazila in Mymensingh early Friday.
BNP smells rat in BB fire
Senior leaders of Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Friday said they smelt a rat in the fire at Bangladesh Bank.
Gas price hike unacceptable: CPB women wing
Women activists of the Communist Party of Bangladesh on Friday demanded immediate scrap of latest gas price hike saying that the government increased the tariff irrationally without improving the service.
US may accuse North Korea in Bangladesh cyber heist: WSJ
US prosecutors are building potential cases that would accuse North Korea of directing the theft of $81 million from Bangladesh Bank's account at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York last year, and that would charge alleged Chinese middlemen, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday.
