The British government will allocate 25 million pounds (about $32 million) in the next two years for reinforcement of cybersecurity in Ukraine, the British Prime Minister’s Office said in its statement Saturday. According to the statement, the funding will make it possible to protect the critical Ukrainian infrastructure and essential services by reinforcing Ukrainian cybersecurity capabilities, which will make it ...

The Election Commission (EC) cancelled the nomination paper of Ashraful Hossain Alam alias Hero Alam for the Dhaka-17 by-elections on Sunday. Returning Officer Md Muneer Hossain Khan said EC also rejected eight nomination papers, including of Jatiya Party nominee Mamunoor Rashid. Speaking at the Electoral Training Institute after scrutinisation of nomination papers, the returning officer said 15 people had submitted ...

Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) handed over arrested prime accused chairman Babu and three other accused of journalist Nadim murder case to Bakshiganj police early Sunday. Confirming this matter, Bakshigaj Police Station OC Sohel Rana said RAB handed them over to the police at an early hours. All of them will produced in court today seeking remand. Prime accused Babu was ...

Opener Usman Khawaja raced away in delight and threw his bat high in the air after scoring his first test century in England as Australia made 311-5 on day two of the Ashes at Edgbaston on Saturday. Australia’s deficit was down to 82 runs after Khawaja revived Australia’s fortunes with an unbeaten 126. He had excellent support in consecutive half-century ...

Crticising the new visa policy announced by the US government, Awami League (AL) general secretary Obaidul Quader has said Bangladesh could announce visa policy too. “Let them (US) implement their visa policy, we don’t care about it. There is question around the world about standard of democracy of a country, which is announcing visa policy. We may have visa policy ...

Flood situation in low-lying areas of Sylhet, Sunamganj, Habiganj and Moulvi Bazar districts is likely to worsen, said a bulletin of Flood Forecasting and Warning Centre on Saturday. According to the weather forecasting agencies, there is a chance of heavy to very-heavy rainfall in the North-Eastern region and adjoining upstream region of the country in the next 48-hours. As a ...

Journalist Nadim was killed as per Chairman Babu’s plan as he wanted to give him ‘a proper lesson out of personal vengeance and resentment’ due to writing news reports on his misdeeds. According to Babu’s plan, killers led by him took position at different places on his way home. Babu himself ordered killing of Nadim staying near the place of ...

BNP Standing Committee member Nazrul Islam Khan termed Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader’s assertion that many BNP leaders are preparing to join the next election under a partisan government a ‘sheer lie’. “Why are only many leaders? We all want to participate in the elections, but not under this government, under a non-partisan neutral government,” he said. Speaking at ...

Awami League mayoral candidate Anwaruzzaman Chowdhury announced 21-point election manifesto in Sylhet City Corporation election. He announced this manifesto in the hall of Hotel Nirvana Inn in the city on Saturday (June 17) around 1 pm. At that time Awami League presidium member Syeda Jebunnesha Haque, organizing secretary Shafiul Alam Chowdhury Nadle, executive member Azizus Samad Azad Don, Sylhet District ...

A fisherman while fishing in Sunamganj and two barrack workers while extracting sand from the river were killed by lightning. Today Saturday (June 17) these three people lost their lives in separate Dirai and Biswambhpur upazilas during the morning storm. The deceased are Abdul Malek, son of deceased Abdul Latif of Daulatpur village of Dirai upazila of the district, Salim ...