Photo: Monirul Islam at ‘meet-the-press’ programme of Crime Reporters Association of Bangladesh (Crab) at Cirdap auditorium. Dhaka, Apr 23 : Bangladesh’s anti-militancy drives have diminished the extremist groups’ capacity to the extent that they are no longer capable of launching large-scale attacks, the counter-terrorism unit chief of the police said Tuesday. The country has adopted a zero tolerance policy against ...

Photo: People pray during a nationwide three-minutes silence as a tribute to Easter Sunday attack victims in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Tuesday, April 23, 2019. Sri Lanka, Apr 23 :  Sri Lanka’s minister of defense says the Easter Sunday bombings were “carried out in retaliation” for attacks on mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, on March 15. Ruwan Wijewardene made the comment ...

Britain has broken its record for the longest continuous period without generating electricity from coal. National Grid said that the coal-free period lasted more than 90 hours before coming to an end on Monday afternoon.It is the longest period since the industrial revolution and breaks the previous record set in April 2018 of 76 hours and 10 minutes. The government ...

Photo: Authorities investigate at the crash scene of a twin-engine Beechcraft BE58, Monday, April 22, 2019, near Kerrville, Texas. Dallas, Apr 23 : A man regularly volunteered to fly sick people in remote parts of the country to hospitals in Houston and Dallas was at the controls of a twin-engine airplane that crashed Monday in the Hill Country of Central ...

Photo: A park ranger walks amid the wreckage of a scene where a bus crashed head-on with another vehicle and plunged down a deep ravine, in Yolosa, Bolivia, Monday, April 22, 2019. La Paz, Apr 23 : Bolivian police say a bus crashed head-on with another vehicle and plunged down a deep ravine, killing at least 25 people and leaving ...

Sylhet Office : Customs officials recovered gold worth an estimated Tk 1.15 crore from a Biman Bangladesh Airlines plane at Sylhet Osmani International Airport on Tuesday. Flight BG-248 came from Dubai around 9am, said Ahsan Ullah, deputy commissioner of customs. A team of customs raided the aircraft as part of their regular drive and recovered 20 gold bars weighing 3.320kg ...

This photo released by Kensington Palace on Monday April 22, 2019, and taken by Kate, Duchess of Cambridge, shows Prince Louis at their home in Norfolk, England, to mark his first birthday on Tuesday. London, Apr 23 : The youngest child of Britain’s Prince William and his wife, Kate, is about to celebrate his first birthday. Prince Louis will mark ...

Health is wealth is an adage that we have all grown up listening to – and, truly there is more to this phrase than meets the eye. According to the World Health Organization, “Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.”Sound health can help us lead a better ...

The body of Awami League leader Sheikh Fazlul Karim Selim’s grandson Zayan Chowdhury, a minor child who was killed in the deadly Sri Lanoka blasts, will be flown to Dhaka on Wednesday, family sources said.   ‘Zayan’s body will be flown to Dhaka on Wednesday. His namaz-e-janaza will be held at Banani playground after Asr prayers on that day,” Awami ...

Munshiganj, Apr 23 : Around 1,650 metres of the Padma Bridge is now visible with the installation of its 11th span at the Jajira point on Tuesday. The 3,140-ton ‘6-C’ span was installed around 9:20am on pillars 33 and 34, said Deputy Assistant Engineer of Padma Bridge Project Humayun Kabir. It was brought by floating crane Tian-E from the Mawa ...