Agricultural households drop by 2.92 percentage points
The rate of agricultural households in the country’s rural areas has decreased by 2.92 per cent over the last 10 years due to rapid urbanisation and shift of farmers to non-agriculture occupations,
Huge liquor, casino apparatus found at Aziz Mohammad’s Gulshan house
Department of Narcotics Control officials found a huge cache of liquor and other contraband drugs as well as casino equipment in a raid at Gulshan residence of businessman Aziz Mohammad Bhai
ACC plans to seize wealth of graft suspects
The Anti-Corruption Commission is considering confiscation of wealth of the people who are facing inquiry over alleged involvement in illegal casinos and money-making activities.
Government to recruit 4,500 doctors this year: Zahid
Health and family welfare minister Zahid Maleque on Sunday said that 4,500 doctors would be recruited within 2019 to provide smooth healthcare to the people across the country.
Khaleda’s condition very critical: Fakhrul
Bangladesh Nationalist Party secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Sunday said that the health condition of jailed ailing party chairperson Khaleda Zia was ‘very critical’.
ISIS leader al-Baghdadi believed to have been killed in a US military raid, sources say
ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is believed to have been killed in a raid conducted by the US military in northwest Syria on Saturday, according to a senior US defense official and a source with
He was a Communist Party member and model Uyghur. It didn't save him from Beijing
Sometime after he disappeared in 2017, Tashpolat Tiyip, a Uyghur leader, Communist Party member and the president of Xinjiang University, was reportedly sentenced to death in a secret trial
Up to 20 Vietnamese feared among 39 UK truck dead
As many as 20 Vietnamese citizens are feared among 39 people found dead in a truck in Britain this week, families and community organisers said Saturday, as one of the alleged truck owners
Dhaka Shishu Hospital Excess prices, anomalies in expansion project
Dhaka Shishu Hospital has proposed to buy medical equipment at prices several times higher than what another government hospital spent on the same devices, officials said.
Anti-graft drives outcome of AL leadership dispute: Manna
Nagarik Oikya convener Mahmudur Rahman Manna on Saturday said the on-going drives against corruption and illegal acts were not corrective ones rather they were outcome of disputes over
