As many as 66 people are believed to be missing in Nepal after two passengers buses were swept by a landslide off the highway and into a swollen river on Friday, official said. Rescuers were trying to locate the bus and and help with rescue the passengers but the continuous rain was making rescue efforts difficult, reports AP. The route ...

Canadian prodigy Summer McIntosh, expected to be one of the stars of the Paris Olympics, has already made her mark in swimming, and nobody in her family or entourage is surprised. “We knew even at seven or eight years old that she was going to be an exceptional swimmer… beating 10 and 12-year-old swimmers by a pool length,” her father ...

A court in Chattogram on Thursday issued arrest warrants against Chandanaish Upazila Chairman Jasim Uddin and his wife Tanzina Sultana in a case filed over defaulting loans of Tk115 crore. Judge Mujahidur Rahman issued the arrest warrant after hearing a case filed by Padma Bank. Earlier, the Chittagong Money Loan Court on April 30 this year sentenced Jasim Uddin to ...

The High Court has published the main portion of its judgment declaring the circular illegal after cancelling the freedom fighter quota in government services in 2018. The main portion of the ruling was delivered on Thursday by a bench comprising Justice KM Kamrul Kader and Justice Khizir Hayat. The court’s decision declared the circular invalid, but it said the government ...

What’s a better way to acquaint yourself with your country’s culture than by going on a walk down the streets and devouring the various food items being sold there? Fuchka Consisting of a hollow crispy shell, which is filled with mashed potatoes mixed with chat masala, green chillies and onions. It is then topped off with grated egg whites of ...

‘Bangla Blockade’ programme is continuing for the fourth consecutive day demanding removal of quota from the government jobs. The agitating students have now blocked Shahbag breaking the police barricades. Ignoring the rain, hundreds of students from different universities and colleges throng Shahbag intersection with processions from different parts of the capital on Thursday afternoon. Then they chanted ‘fake, fake’ and ...

A Dhaka court has ordered to confiscate former National Board of Revenue (NBR) official Matiur Rahman’s four flats at Mirpur in the capital and 2,367.07 decimals of land in his name. Besides, the court has ordered to seize Tk 13,44,36,471 in 116 bank accounts and freeze 23 beneficiary owners (BO) accounts to deal with share markets. Judge Mohammad Ash-Shams Jaglul ...

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has filed a charge sheet against Bengal Group Chairman Abul Khair Litu in a case filed over illegally acquiring wealth beyond his known sources of income. ACC Deputy Director (Special Enquiry and Investigation-2) Md Kamruzzaman filed the charge sheet on Thursday against the chairman under sections 26(2) and 27(1) of the ACC Act, 2004, and submitted ...

Police detained seven people and seized seven trucks carrying approximately 2,400 sacks of sugar smuggled in from India in Sylhet. Md Sohel Reza, deputy commissioner (south) of Sylhet Metropolitan Police, said detective conducted an operation in Pirer Bazar area under Shah Poran police Station at around 5am on Thursday and seized six trucks carrying sugar and detained six people in ...

Chittagong Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCCI) and International Chamber of Commerce-Bangladesh (ICC-B) organized a table meeting titled ‘Digitalizing International Trade of Bangladesh’ at Bangabandhu conference hall at World Trade Center on Wednesday. CCCI President Omar Hazzaz said that Bangladesh is the 35th economy in the world. As a result, Bangladesh’s international import-export trade with various countries worldwide is increasing. ...