Indian high commissioner to Bangladesh Harsh Vardhan Shringla. File Photo. Dhaka, Sep 23 : Indian high commissioner to Bangladesh Harsh Vardhan Shringla on Saturday said that the Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and Indian PM Narendra Modi have taken the relation between the two countries to its highest point Shringla came up with the remarks while inaugurating an academic building in Tongibari upazila ...

Sylhet Office : Two workers of Palli Bidyut were killed and two others sustained serious injuries as a passenger bus rammed a handcart in Osmaninagar upazila of Sylhet on Saturday noon (Sep 22). The deceased were identified as Abdul Hai, 35, son of one Sadek Ali of Chandanpat area in Saghata upazila of Gaibandha district and Rashed Ahmed, 20, son ...

  Dhaka, Sep 22 : Comparing to their non-slum urban and village counterparts, community living in urban slums in Bangladesh get far less access to maternal and child health service. Only 29 percent population of the urban slum community gets access to maternal and child health service as against such access percentage of 56 and 65 for communities living in ...

Photo: Leaders of several political parties join hands with Dr Kamal Hossain during a Jatiya Oikya Prokriya rally at Mahanagar Natya Mancha in Dhaka on Saturday, September 22, 2018. Dhaka, Sept 22 : BNP leaders on Saturday participated in the Dr Kamal Hossain-led Jatiya Oikya Prokriya rally at Mahanagar Natya Mancha in the city to create a greater national unity to ...

World Bank Vice President for the South Asia Region Hartwig Schafer. File Photo Dhaka, Sept 22 : World Bank Vice President for the South Asia Region Hartwig Schafer arrives here on Sunday to further deepen the longstanding partnership between Bangladesh and the World Bank Group. The Vice President will also discuss how to help the country to cope with the ...

Actress Kajol, who is busy promoting her forthcoming film “Helicopter Eela”, says not a single actress’ film can generate business worth Rs 500 crore the way a Salman Khan film can at the box office. Kajol was interacting with the media to promote “Helicopter Eela” on Thursday. While there has been constant talk about pay disparity among male and female ...

Ever since the chatter about Deepika Padukone and Ranveer Singh’s upcoming wedding at Italy’s Lake Como began, it looks like other Indian celebs have also developed a fascination for the place. It is the chosen destination for Mukesh Ambani’s daughter Isha’s engagement with Anand Piramal.   The three-day Isha and Anand engagement ceremony was to begin from Friday. The Indian ...

Musician Kimberly Thompson has sought a restraining order against Beyonce after accusing the 37-year-old star of launching a campaign of harassment against her. The drummer — who has performed in an all-female band for the singer for seven years, alleged the singer murdered her kitten and used “extreme witchcraft, dark magic” and “magic spells of sexual molestation” against her. Thompson ...

Kenya on Friday overturned a ban on Rafiki, a film about a lesbian love affair and the first ever movie from the country to be shown at the Cannes film festival.   Director Wanuri Kahiu brought the court action after the Kenya Film Classification Board banned Rafiki for “promoting lesbianism,” meaning the film would be ineligible for the Oscars.  Judge ...

Twitter has told an undisclosed number of users their private messages may have been leaked to third-parties for more than a year.   The software “bug”, which has since been fixed, involved direct messages between users and businesses that offer customer services via Twitter.  Affected users are being notified via a message that appeared when opening the app or logging ...