BNP Acting Chairman Tarique Rahman on Saturday offered fateha at the grave of his younger brother Arafat Rahman Koko. Tarique arrived at the Banani Graveyard at around 1:50PM, completing the National Identity Card (NID) registration and voter enlistment process at the Election Commission’s National Identity Wing. He offered fateha at the grave and joined a munajat, seeking salvation of Koko’s ...

Dhaka Capitals assistant coach Mahbub Ali Zaki, who died of a heart attack on Saturday, was laid to rest following his funeral prayers at the Sylhet International Cricket Stadium. Zaki fell ill on the field ahead of the Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) match between Dhaka Capitals and Rajshahi Warriors. He was rushed to hospital, but died on the way. Hospital ...

Myanmar heads to the polls on Sunday as it battles a civil war that has ravaged parts of the country as well as one of Asia’s worst humanitarian crises. Already one of Southeast Asia’s poorest countries, Myanmar has been hammered by a conflict triggered by a 2021 coup in which the military ousted an elected civilian government led by Nobel ...

BNP Acting Chairman Tarique Rahman has completed the National Identity Card (NID) registration process giving fingerprints and Iris scans. He arrived at the Election Training Institute in Agargaon at around 1PM to complete his NID registration and enlist himself as a voter. As part of the process, he provided biometric data and had his photograph taken. ASM Humayun Kabir, DG ...

Several international flights could not land at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport on Saturday morning due to dense fog. According to Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh (CAAB) officials, the flights were diverted to Chittagong, Kolkata and Bangkok as visibility dropped sharply over the capital. They said flight operations will resume as normal once weather condition improves. Passengers are being provided meals ...

BNP Acting Chairman Tarique Rahman on Saturday morning visited the grave of Inqilab Moncho spokesperson Sharif Osman Hadi at Dhaka University and offered fateha there. He, alongwith BNP leaders, went to the grave, located beside the gave of National Poet Kazi Nazrul Islam,at about 11:17AM and, later, placed a wreath at Hadi’s grave at around 11:30AM. Tarique offered fateha and ...

Country’s 24th land port, Bholaganj Land Port, has officially begun operations in Companiganj upazila of Sylhet district, raising hopes for expanded trade and tourism in the region. The land port was inaugurated on Thursday at around 11:30am by Shipping Adviser Brigadier General (retd) Dr. M Sakhawat Hossain, reports UNB. Built on 52 acres adjacent to the popular Sadapathar tourist jetty, ...

A fighting England won their first Test on Australian soil in 15 years Saturday, restoring their battered pride with a gutsy four-wicket victory to clinch a chaotic fourth Ashes clash that was all over inside two days. The pumped-up tourists dismissed Australia for 132 soon after lunch in front of a bumper 92,045 crowd at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. It ...

BNP Acting Chairman Tarique Rahman visited the National Martyrs’ Memorial on Friday night and paid tributes to the martyrs of the 1971 Liberation War, marking his homecoming after nearly 17 years of exile in London. He reached the National Martyrs’ Memorial around 10:00 pm, accompanied by senior party leaders, amid the presence of a huge number of party supporters. Several ...

Rapid Action Battalion (RAB-9) arrested a suspected drug peddler along with a 60 Kg of hemp from Chunarughat upazila of Habiganj district on Thursday night. The arrested is Md Jalal Hossain, 45, further detail is yet to be known. Acting on a tip-off, a RAB-9 team conducted a drive in the Chandichhara Tea Garden area and arrested Jalal. RAB recovered ...