Photo: FILE – In this Sept. 21, 2016 file photo, an oil tanker approaches to the new Jetty during the launch of the new $650 million oil facility in Fujairah, United Arab Emirates. The United Arab Emirates said Sunday, May 12, 2019 that four commercial ships near Fujairah “were subjected to sabotage operations” after false reports circulated in Lebanese and ...

ATM Shamsuzzaman. Photo: Collected Dhaka, May 13 : Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday provided financial assistance of Tk 10 lakh to veteran actor ATM Shamsuzzaman for treatment. On her behalf, her special assistant barrister Biplob Barua handed over the cheque to Shamsuzzaman’s daughter Koyel at Azgar Ali Hospital in Old Dhaka in the morning. Shamsuzzaman was hospitalised on April ...

Photo: Kazi Moniruzzaman has taken charge as the new superintendent of Feni Police. Dhaka, May 13 : Kazi Moniruzzaman has taken charge as the new superintendent of Feni Police. He took charge on Sunday night after SM Jahangir Alam Sarker was withdrawn for negligence of duty over the murder of madrasa girl Nusrat Jahan Rafi, said Assistant Inspector General (Media ...

Dhaka, May 12 : Speakers at a seminar here on Sunday underscored the importance of creating awareness and ensuring strict enforcement of laws to build a tobacco-free Bangladesh by 2040. National Anti-Tobacco Platform and Palli Karma-Sahayak Foundation (PKSF) jointly organised the event on the occasion of the World No Tobacco Day that falls on May 31. PKSF’s Tobacco Control Awards ...

Sylhet Office : A female physician was found hanging at their residence in the city’s Pathantula area on Sunday morning. The deceased was identified as Dr Priyanka Talukdar Shanta, 29, a lecturer at Parkview Medical College’s physiology department and mother of a three-year-old girl. Shah Md Harunur Rashid, officer-in-charge of Jalalabad Police Station, said they recovered the hanging body from ...

A Myanmar pilot safely landed a jet without front wheels after the landing gear failed to deploy. The Myanmar National Airlines plane skidded down the runway at Mandalay airport before grinding to a stop. The pilot of the Embraer 190 was praised for the landing, in which none of the 89 passengers was hurt.Captain Myat Moe Aung circled the airport ...

Deputy Minister for Education Mohibul Hasan Chowdhury Nowfel on Sunday said that combined entrance tests for admission to public universities might start by next year. He came up with the statement while inaugurating admission process of the qualified candidates of SSC and equivalent examinations to class XI for the academic session of 2019-20 through onlineat the auditorium of Dhaka Education ...

Power generation witnesses a record high as much as 12,412MW gave people relief from the heat wave that is sweeping over parts of Bangladesh after rains triggered by cyclone ‘Fani’. As there is no shortage in power generation, the Power Development Board (PDB) has streamlined the power distribution system to bring down the power cuts to almost zero level across ...

The High Court orders the authorities concerned to remove 52 substandard food items from market. Photo: Collected Dhaka, May 12 : The High Court on Sunday asked the authorities concerned to remove immediately from the market 52 food items of different local brands failed quality tests of Bangladesh Standards and Testing Institution (BSTI). The HC bench of Justice Sheikh Hassan ...

  Dhaka, May 12 : A Dhaka court on Sunday (May 12) has fixed June 26 as the new date for 66th time to submit the probe report in journalist couple Sagar Sarowar and Meherun Runi murder case. Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Mazharul Islam passed the order as the investigation officer and Assistant director of Rapid Action Battalion Mohiuddin Ahmed failed ...