Nearly 20 police personnel and civilians have been killed in a wave of militant attacks across northwest Pakistan over the past two days, a police official said on Thursday, in the latest surge of violence to hit the restive border region. The attacks come days after Afghan and Pakistani forces traded fire along their porous frontier, each side blaming the ...

A cabinet meeting was held in the conference room of the Cabinet Division in the Bangladesh Secretariat here on Thursday. Prime Minister Tarique Rahman chaired the meeting, said Prime Minister’s Press Secretary Saleh Shibly. According to relevant sources, the first cabinet meeting was held on 18 February, a day after the swearing-in ceremony on 17 February. However, as it was ...

Prime Minister Tarique Rahman has conferred the country’s second-highest civilian award “Ekushey Padak-2026”. The award giving ceremony began at 11:00am on Thursday at the capital’s Osmani Memorial Auditorium. Nine distinguished individuals and one institution have been honoured with this prestigious award this year in recognition of their outstanding and notable contributions in various fields. The award recipients are: Farida Akhtar ...

Vinicius Junior scored the winner on the night as Real Madrid beat Benfica 2-1 in the Champions League on Wednesday, progressing 3-1 on aggregate to the last 16. It was the Brazilian forward’s superb goal which separated the teams in a first leg marred by an incident of alleged racial abuse aimed at him by Benfica’s Gianluca Prestianni, who denies ...

US President Donald Trump boasted in his State of the Union address on Tuesday that he had ushered in “the golden age of America,” seeking to project an aura of success despite sagging approval ratings and deepening voter frustration ahead of November’s midterm election. Heeding calls from Republican lawmakers worried they could lose their congressional majority later this year, Trump ...

Two motorcyclists were killed and 3 others were injured in separate road accidents in Sylhet and Habiganj on Monday night. The deceased are Jasim Uddin, 18, a Class XII student of Goainghat Government College and son of Abdul Haque of Goshgram village under Goainghat upazila in Sylhet, and Payel Gop, 23, son of Bhanu Gop of Narayanpur village under Sadar ...

The process to appoint new governor for the Bangladesh Bank, replacing Dr Ahsan H Mansur, is currently underway. According to the sources, the Financial Institutions Division of the Ministry of Finance has submitted a proposal regarding the appointment to Finance Minister Ameer Khosru Mahmud Chowdhury, who has reportedly approved it. Once the Prime Minister gives his consent, the proposal will ...

The government has fixed the minimum Fitra at Tk110 per person while the maximum Fitra at Tk2,805. The decision was taken at a meeting of the National Fitra Determination Committee held on Wednesday morning at the Baitul Mukarram National Mosque conference hall, said a press release on Wednesday. Committee’s president and khatib of Baitul Mukarram National Mosque Mufti Muhammad Abdul ...

Harry Brook smashed a match-winning hundred in Tuesday’s Super Eight match against Pakistan after being moved up the order to number three but the England captain is unsure if he will stay in the new slot for the rest of the Twenty20 World Cup. Brook struck a two-run-a-ball hundred as England accomplished a tricky chase to be the first team ...

President Mohammad Shahabuddin and Prime Minister Tarique Rahman paid tribute to the martyrs of the Pilkhana killings on Wednesday morning. They laid wreaths at the graves of the fallen officers at the Banani Military Cemetery around 10:00am, marking the anniversary of the tragic killings at the then BDR headquarters in Pilkhana. Among those present were Home Minister Salahuddin Ahmed, Chief ...