Bangladesh

Secondary School Certificate (SSC) and equivalent examinations will begin across the country on Sunday (April 30) where 20,72,163 candidates are expected to take part. Equipment for the examinations has already been reached at all the centres. The examinees will start their exam with Bangla first paper. The examinations will be held at 10am everyday. The candidates will have to be ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday arrived in Washington DC to attend the ceremony marking the 50-year partnership between Bangladesh and the World Bank here on May 1. A United Airlines flight carrying the Prime Minister and her entourage members landed at the Dulles International Airport in Washington DC at around 3.35pm Washington time (1.35am on Saturday Bangladesh Time). Ambassador ...

A new gas well, named Ilisha-1, has been discovered in Bhola, capable of extracting 20 to 22 million cubic feet of gas daily. BAPEX, the Bangladesh Petroleum Exploration and Production Company Limited, has successfully extracted gas experimentally from the well, bringing the total number of wells discovered in the district to nine. If everything goes well, gas extraction will officially ...

Metrorail will be extended to Tongi from the current station in Diabari of Uttara in the capital, Roads and Highway Division secretary ABM Amin Ullah Nuri said. “We hope that the Line-6 of metro rail will be extended to Motijheel. Now, the contraction of Line-2 and extension of Line-6 from Diabari to Tongi are underway. Japan will support the work,” ...

Two Japanese tourists have been robbed off by a group of muggers at an isolated place at a grave adjacent to Rayer Bazar Martyred Intellectual Memorial under Mohammadpur Police Station in the capital. The incident happened at about 9:00pm on April 24 last. A case was filed with Mohammadpur Police Station on the following day. Later, police arrested one mugger ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Friday left Tokyo for Washington on a six-day official visit to the USA on the second leg of her three-nation tour. She wrapped up her four-day official visit to Japan on Friday. She arrived Japan on April 25 at the invitation of her Japanese counterpart Kishida Fumio. A flight of United Airlines carrying the premier ...

Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader has said that Awami League  (AL) will resist those who will try to obstruct in holding the free, fair and peaceful election. Quader, also the general secretary of Awami League, said AL wants a participatory and peaceful election and to resist all kinds of obstructions party members will remain in the field. He ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday night asked how the BNP-Jamaat clique will take part in the election as they burned people to death and want no development of the masses and most importantly fear defeat in polls. “Many people say there is no democracy in Bangladesh and the BNP doesn’t take part in the elections. With which face the ...

Awami League candidate Noman Al Mahmud has been elected unofficially in the by-election to Chattogram-8 constituency (Chandgaon-Boalkhali). With the ‘Boat’ election symbol, he received 67,205 votes, while his nearest rival Sehab Uddin Muhammad Abdus Samad of Bangladesh Islami Front has received 5,087 votes only with ‘Candle’ symbol. The Chattogram-8 by-election was marred by irregularities and low voter turnout. Candidates, except ...

Three people, including a child, were killed and 15 others injured when a speeding passenger bus collided head on with a pick-up at Chak Gauri Bazar area under Mahadebpur upazila in Naogaon district on Thursday afternoon. Naogaon Additional Police Super Gaziur Rahman said a Rajshahi-bound passenger bus collided head on with Naogaon-bound mini truck on Naogaon-Rajshahi Highway in the area ...