Home Affairs Adviser Lt Gen (retd) Jahangir Alam Chowdhury has said the fascist and their cohorts are behind the unrest at CHT region and ruin communal harmony by adding beard on the face of ‘Oshur’ (demon) during Durga Puja celebrations. ”There was a link between dishonoring the honorable Chief Adviser in a neighboring country while making an idol of the ...

BNP Standing Committee member Gayeshwar Chandra Roy has been acquitted in a case filed by the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC), 16 years ago. As the allegations brought against him were not proved, he was acquitted from the charge. Dhaka Special Judge’s Court-3 Judge Md Kamrul Hasan Khan pronounced the judgement in presence of the BNP leader, his lawyer Borhan Uddin confirmed ...

The National Consensus Commission will present its final report to the interim government soon, said the commission chief Prof Ali Riaz on Sunday. At a meeting of the commission with the Chief Adviser at the State Guest House this morning, he made this remark. Prof Yunus then expressed his satisfaction with the progress. The commission members reviewed the positions of ...

An executive magistrate’s motor vehicle ran over and killed a college employee on Wednesday at Rajnagar upazila in Moulvibazar. The deceased, Ashish Kumar Das, 55, son of Ashutosh Das, was a support staff member of the physics department at Government Madan Mohan College in Sylhet. Ashish Kumar was from Baurbhag village at Moulvibazar sadar upazila, the police said. The incident ...

Storm Amy has swept into the UK, bringing heavy rain and strong winds to large parts of the country. A gust of 96mph was recorded overnight in the Inner Hebrides. An amber wind warning remains in place for parts of northern Scotland and the Met Office is warning of power cuts and flying debris that could endanger life. A lower ...

Sir Keir Starmer has said pro-Palestinian protests planned for this weekend will cause “distress” and urged those thinking of taking part to “recognise and respect the grief of British Jews” after Thursday’s synagogue attack. “It is not a time to stoke tension and cause further pain,” the prime minister wrote in the Jewish News and the Jewish Chronicle. A leader ...

A Conservative member of the London Assembly has defected to Reform UK. Keith Prince, who was a Tory party member for almost 50 years, served as leader of Redbridge Council in east London from 2009 to 2014, and is a councillor at Havering Council, also in east London. He has been the assembly member for Havering and Redbridge since 2016. ...

A British teenager who was jailed in Dubai for having a sexual relationship with a 17-year-old girl has died in a car crash three months after he was released. Marcus Fakana, 19, was a passenger in a vehicle that crashed in Tottenham, north London, in the early hours of Friday. He was taken to hospital with serious injuries and later ...

Anthrax is a serious but uncommon infectious disease caused by the spore-forming bacterium Bacillus anthracis. While it mainly affects grazing herbivores such as cattle, sheep, and goats, humans can also become infected through contact with contaminated animals or animal products. What is Anthrax? According to the World Health Organization (WHO), anthrax is a zoonotic disease, meaning it spreads from animals ...

We Dhakaites are no strangers to Japanese food. Since the early 2000s, restaurants like Samdado and Izumi, and more recently Tokyo Express and Izakaya have introduced us to Japanese flavours. While the older establishments take pride in serving authentic Japanese cuisine, many of the newer ones across the city offer toned-down versions with Bangladeshi twists. In a food scene where ...