A protest letter was on Tuesday (December 3) handed over to Indian High Commissioner in Dhaka Pranay Verma after summoning him at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs over the attack on Bangladesh mission in Agartala, the capital city of the north eastern state of Tripura. Following a half hour long meeting with Acting Foreign Secretary Reaz Hamidullah, the protes letter ...

A Chittagong court on Tuesday deferred the hearing by one month on bail petition of former ISKCON leader Chinmoy Krishna Das Brahmachari in a sedition case. The court set January 2 for holding the next hearing. The Chittagong Metropolitan Session Judge Saiful Islam set the new date around 11AM as the defence lawyer was not present in the court. Chittagong ...

The government of Bangladesh on Monday said it “deeply resents” the “violent demonstration and attack” by a large group of protesters of the Hindu Sangharsh Samity of Agartala on the premises of the Assistant High Commission of Bangladesh in Agartala. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in a statement, underlined that this “heinous attack” on a diplomatic mission of Bangladesh and ...

The Bangladesh Assistant High Commission in Agartala, the northeast state of Tripura, India, has come under attack on Monday noon. Sources said that thousands of people took out a massive rally around the Bangladeshi mission in Tripura, protesting the arrest of ISKCON leader Chinmoy Krishna Das, demand his immediate release, and the stoppage of alleged attacks on minorities in Bangladesh. ...

Two motorcyclists were killed in a head-on collision with a pickup van in Mosuria area of Rajnagar upazila in Moulvibazar on Monday. The accident occurred on Monday night near Mosuria Madrasa on the Rajnagar-Fenchuganj regional highway. The deceased were identified as Sakin Ahmed, 19, of Haldigul village and Rafi Ahmed, 21, of Suprakandi village, both from the Uttarbhag union of ...

The Election Commissioner will publish the final voter list by March 2 next year, said Election Commissioner Brig Gen (Retd) Abul Fazal Md Sanaullah. After publishing the list, the representatives of the commission will be send door to door to update the voter list. Sanaullah told this while talking to reporters after the first meeting of the 14th Election Commission ...

As many as 67 cases of Chikungunya were reported, while 11 in Zika virus in the current year. Ninety per cent of people infected with the Zika have no symptoms and the death rate is almost zero. Pregnant mothers, who contract Zika, can have small heads. There is no need to panic about the mortality rate of Zika. Director General ...

A unique exhibition of artworks aboard a two-storied mechanical boat, highlighting the bond between the Buriganga river and people living on its bank, concluded in the city on Sunday. The three-day exhibition “Gangaburi” showcased site-specific artworks at various locations alongside the Buriganga, including Showari Ghat, Zinzira Ferry Ghat, Kholamora Boat Terminal, Thota Ghat and Madbor Bazar Ghat. The artworks explored ...

US President Joe Biden on Sunday issued an official pardon for his son Hunter, who was facing sentencing for two criminal cases, despite assurances that he would not intervene in his legal troubles. “No reasonable person who looks at the facts of Hunter’s cases can reach any other conclusion than Hunter was singled out only because he is my son ...

Thousands of workers are grappling with extreme hardship due to the prolonged closure of the country’s largest stone quarries in the border areas of Sylhet, particularly in the regions surrounding Bholaganj, Jaflong, and Bichnakandi. Despite a recent High Court order allowing stone extraction using traditional methods, the quarries remain shuttered, leaving the local workforce in despair. The quarries in Bholaganj, ...