Sydney, Apr 27 : Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Friday stressed the need for keeping up pressure on Myanmar from different levels in various ways for resolving the Rohingya crisis. The Prime Minister also said it is essential to help Rohingyas, too. Sheikh Hasina made the remark when Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop met her at Intercontinental Sydney Hotel here. Foreign ...

  Cox’s Bazar : Concerns over what the annual rainy season in this part of the world, the southwest monsoon, may hold for the multitudes of Rohingya refugees who started streaming across the international border from Myanmar last August mainly into three upazilas of border district Cox’s Bazar, have been voiced from the start of the influx. The sheer scale ...

Sylhet Office : A young man was stabbed to death by miscreants following a dispute over sharing business money at Kazirbazar Bridge in the city on Thursday. The deceased was identified as Mohammad Ali, 30, a resident of Jagonnathpur upazila in Sunamganj district. A group of miscreants swopped on Ali and stabbed him indiscriminately while he was passing the bridge ...

Goyang, Apr 27 : With a single step over a weathered, cracked slab of concrete, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un made history Friday by crossing over the world’s most heavily armed border to greet South Korean President Moon Jae-in for talks on North Korea’s nuclear weapons. Kim then invited Moon to cross briefly back into the north with him ...

The world’s leading budget airline Air Asia will operate flights from Sylhet to Malaysia soon. In this regard, Air Asia’s Passenger Sales Agent (PSA) was launched in Sylhet recently. Executive Chairman of Air Asia Datuk Kamaruddin Miranun inaugurated the PSA at Joy Tower of Jail Road area in Sylhet. In his speech, Chairman of Total Air Service Limited (GSA), Air ...

Sunamganj Correspondent :  Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) detained four Indian nationals from Chargaon border area in Tahirpur upazila on Thursday morning. The detainees are  Arjit Hajong, 60, his wife Deb Juni Hajong, 45, and Ramla Hajong, 50 and Jasna Hajong, hailing from Ranigour thana in Shilong district of India. LT Col Nasir Uddin Ahmed, commanding officer of BGB-28 ...

Former information minister M Shamsul Islam. File photo Dhaka Office : Former information minister M Shamsul Islam died at a city hospital on Thursday. He was 87. Shamsul Islam, also a former BNP standing committee member, breathed his last at United Hospital at 1:40 pm, said his personal secretary Kamrul Hasan. He said the former minister had been receiving treatment ...

Habiganj Correspondent : Two teenaged siblings drowned in a pond in Shayestaganj municipality area of Habiganj Wednesday afternoon (April 25). The deceased were identified as Sourav Mia, 15, and Anufa Akter, 13, children of one Jahir Mia, an auto-rickshaw driver in the locality. Local sources said, everyone was unaware that the duo fell into the pond nearby to their house at ...

Moulvibazar  Correspondent : Two members of a family were killed on Thursday morning when the compressor of a refrigerator exploded in a house at Vojbol area under Rajnagar upazila of Moulvibazar district. The deceased were identified as a housewife Rokeya Begum, 55, and her daughter Shahina Begum, 24, residents of Vojbol village under the upazila. Besides, another injured who was identified ...

BD Desk : Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina leaves here today on a three-day official visit to Australia to join Global Summit of Women in Sydney. In the Summit the Prime Minister will be conferred Global Women’s Leadership Award-2018. The Prime Minister will depart Dhaka by a Thai Airways Flight this afternoon and reach Sydney in the morning on April 27. ...