Demanding a hike in their monthly stipends to Tk50,000 from Tk25,000, postgraduate private trainee doctors blocked Shahbagh intersection this afternoon. The blockade resulted in halt of traffic movement, causing huge suffering to commuters. The protesters said they gathered at BSMMU around 10:00am and later marched towards Shahbagh intersection. One of the protesters said they have long been demanding hike in ...

A Gazipur court on Sunday placed Mufti Muaz bin Noor, a follower of Maulana Saad Kandlavi, on a three-day remand in a case over the violent clashes between two factions of Tabligh Jamaat at the Biswa Ijtema ground in Tongi over control of the venue. Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate Alamgir Al Mamun of Gazipur Metropolitan Court passed the order. Earlier ...

Bangladesh fell short in their chase for the ACC U-19 Women’s Asia Cup title, losing to India by 41 runs in the final in Malaysia on Sunday. It was the second defeat of Bangladesh to India in the tournament. Despite a disciplined bowling performance, Bangladesh’s batting lineup crumbled under pressure during the modest chase of 118 runs. Bangladesh started bowling ...

Farms in Bangladesh’s Sylhet division have significantly outnumbered those in all other divisions in adopting mechanization. Preliminary findings of recent research reveal that 44% of Sylhet’s farms used modern machines to harvest the Boro crop in 2023, compared to a national average of only 20% for mechanized harvesting. Farmers in Sylhet division who cultivated rain-fed Aman rice the same year ...

National mourning day will be observed on Monday (December 23) in honour of AF Hassan Ariff, Adviser to the Ministry of Land and the Ministry of Civil Aviation and Tourism. He died of cardiac arrest on Friday. The cabinet division issued a gazette notification in this regard on Sunday. The national flag will be flown at half-mast at all government, ...

Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama said Saturday the government would shut down social network TikTok for at least a year from 2025. “We are going to chase this thug out of our neighbourhood for one year”, Rama told a meeting with Albanian teachers, parents and psychologists in Tirana. The government would launch programmes to “serve the education of students and ...

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has started probe against former prime minister Sheikh Hasina and his son Sajeeb Wazed Joy on charge of laundering money $300 million to New York and London. The anti-graft body disclosed the information on Sunday morning. Earlier, the ACC formed a five-member team to investigate allegations that Sheikh Hasina, Joy, her sister Sheikh Rehana, and Rehana’s ...

Information and Broadcasting Adviser Md Nahid Islam has observed that pervasive corruption in the road and transport sector has not stopped, rather it has remained as usual. “A political party indulged in corruption of the transport sector earlier, creating a total anarchy in the sector. Now another political party becomes involved in corruption. A political influence is interconnected with the ...

The Mass Uprising Special Cell (MUSC) has published its first phase draft list of 858 martyred and 11,551 injured during the July-August student led mass uprising. It released the list on its website at https://musc.portal.gov.bd/ on Saturday (December 21). A press release, signed by Assistant Secretary Khandaker Jahirul Islam, confirmed the matter on Saturday. Two separate first phase draft lists ...

Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Commissioner SM Sazzat Ali on Saturday said that the list of extortionists in Dhaka city is being prepared and law enforcers will begin their drives within two to three days. He shared the information at a view-exchange meeting with police, students and residents of Ramna area at Institution of Diploma Engineers in Dhaka on Saturday. The ...