8hr hartal against gas price hike today
Left Democratic Alliance would enforce nationwide eight-hour hartal from 6:00am to 2:00pm today in protest against gas price hike that came into effect from July 1.
Job seekers want age limit for govt jobs 35 years
Job seekers on Saturday demanded that the government should extend the age limit for government jobs from 30 years to 35 years.
3 city roads go off limits to rickshaws today
The government has decided to ban rickshaws on three major city roads beginning today without mulling any rehabilitation programme for rickshaw pullers and alternative vehicles for passengers.
Heavy rains in Ctg, landslides feared
Heavy rainfall since Friday night, due to active monsoon, hit hard the port city of Chattogram submerging most of the city’s low-lying areas.
Fact check: Trump says he's a 'very honest guy' while making multiple false claims
In a lengthy exchange with reporters on the White House South Lawn on Friday, President Donald Trump claimed that the outcome of the Mueller investigation shows "I'm a very honest guy."
Mosul 18 months after ‘liberation’
RECENT news of drought has brought Mosul, Iraq, to the attention of Western media; for the drought has led to the discovery of ancient ruins of archaeological significance. But let’s not forget
Populism and the fear factor
What do political leaders such as Viktor Orban, Donald Trump, Jair Bolsonaro, Vladimir Putin, the Kaczyn´ski brothers, Mateusz Morawiecki, Chávez y Maduro, Cristina Kirchner, Evo Morales, Matteo Salvini y Giuseppe Conte all have in common?
Wood, bamboo used at railway tracks, bridges!
The Bangladesh Railway is using wood and bamboo instead of iron equipment at rickety railway tracks and bridges in at least two major sections, posing great risks of fatal accidents.
Ershad given 8 bags of blood after dialysis
Jatiya Party chairman HM Ershad was given eight bags of blood in six hours following a dialysis he underwent on Friday dawn at the Dhaka Combined Military Hospital, said Ershad’s personal secretary and also a JP presidium member Khaled Akhter.
Dhaka, Beijing agree on speedy Rohingya solution
Dhaka and Beijing on Friday agreed on speedy solution to the protracted Rohingya crisis as Chinese president Xi Jinping and Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina held talks in Beijing.
