The elections to Khulna and Barishal City Corporations began on Monday. The voters started casting their respective votes from 8am. In Khulna City Corporation polls, as many as 535,522 voters, including 268,828 male and 2,66,698 female, are expected to cast their votes. A total of 2,320 CCTV cameras have been installed both inside and outside 1,732 polling booths. Meanwhile, a ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said no one could pull Bangladesh back again if children of the country are given the opportunity to flourish their talent. “If we give the opportunity to develop the talent of our children, no one can take this country back again,” she said while addressing the opening ceremony of the distribution of stipends, tuition fees ...

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has said Awami League will not get more than 10 seats if the next general election is conducted by a caretaker government. “Because of it, this party’s (Awami League) general secretary said the caretaker government is a dead issue. But it is not, the caretaker government issue is a live issue,” he said. ...

Kiara Advani is making heads turn, one film at a time. She is running up the success ladder quite swiftly, and proof of the same is her paycheck which is getting bigger and better with every film. Interestingly the actress was paid very less for her initial films, and this continued till the later years of her career, koimoi reported. ...

People who took a cheap diabetes drug after testing positive for Covid-19 had a 40 percent lower risk of getting long Covid, a US-based study said Friday. The finding was hailed as a potential “landmark” in the fight against the still little-understood condition, which the World Health Organization estimates affects one in 10 people who get Covid. The study said ...

Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested the truck driver in connection with the road accident that left 15 construction workers dead in Sylhet on Wednesday (June 7). The driver Shafiqul Islam, 27, resident of Sherpur’s Moksedpur village, was arrested from Patuakhali district on Saturday. RAB-9 Media Officer and Senior Assistant Superintendent of Police Afsan-al-Alam informed this to media on Sunday in ...

Law Minister Anisul Huq has said BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has been released conditionally as she is sick. “As she is a convict, she has no opportunity to go outside the country. But she will have to serve the rest of her punishment, when she recovers,” the minister made the comment at a programme ‘Meet the Reporters’ of Dhaka Reporters ...

The 15th anniversary of release of Awami League President and incumbent Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina from prison is being observed today. On this day in 2008, Sheikh Hasina was released from the special sub-jail set up on the premises of the Jatiya Sangsad (Parliament) Bhaban after remaining captive there for nearly 11 months. The Awami League president was arrested from ...

The educational institutions that were closed due to the heatwave, reopened on Sunday morning. All classes of primary, secondary schools and madrasas will be held as per rules from today. Earlier, according to the decision of the Ministry of Primary and Mass Education, primary schools across the country have been closed since June 5. One day later, the classes at ...

With an aim to enhance food security and promote sustainable practices in agribusiness, the International Finance Corporation (IFC) Bangladesh is organizing the 10th International Food Security Conference in collaboration with the Bangladesh Food Safety Authority. The conference aims to bring together key stakeholders, decision makers and industry leaders to address challenges related to food security, nutrition and food waste. He ...