Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) detained five drug peddlers with 1,937 bottles of phensedyl from Sylhet’s Companiganj upazila early Sunday. The detainees are Imam Uddin, 35, son of late Najib Ali, son of deceased Tera Mia, 35, son of late Tara Mia, Mosaid, 40, son of late Ataul, Md Raihan Ahmed, 18, son of Md Taj Uddin, and Jahangir ...

Worker of eight ready-made garment factories at Kochukhet area, adjacent to Dhaka Cantonment, are staging demonstration for due salaries, blocking the road. Around 10,000 workers have blocked the Cantonment-Mirpur 14 road since Monday morning. Following the blockade, traffic jam was created from Mirpur 14 to Kochukhet. Al Amin, one of the protesters, alleged that they have not received our salaries ...

Chief of Army Staff General Waker-Uz-Zaman on Sunday paid a courtesy call on Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus. During the meeting, the Army Chief briefed the Chief Adviser about the ongoing activities of the Army besides exchange of greetings. Meanwhile, the Chief Adviser gave the necessary guidance to the Chief of Army Staff, according to ISPR.

The 55th World Standards Day will be observed Monday as the day is being observed every year for creating awareness on goods and services across the world. The theme of the day is ‘Our Shared Vision for a better world’. Bangladesh is also set to observe the day in line with the theme like other countries in the world with ...

Bangladesh cricket paid tribute to veteran all-rounder Mahmudullah Riyad as he played his final T20I match against India in Hyderabad. The third T20I of the series, held at Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium, marked the end of Mahmudullah’s illustrious T20I career for Bangladesh. Before the start of the match, Mahmudullah was honored with a commemorative crest, presented by Bangladesh captain ...

Durga Puja, the largest religious festival for the Hindu community, has come to a close through the immersion of the goddess’s idols in the waters on the tenth and final day of the Puja — Dashami — on Sunday. As per tradition, members of the community bid farewell to Durga with oil, vermillion, and betel-sugar.  They believe that the goddess ...

International Crimes Tribunal’s chief prosecutor Advocate Tajul Islam has said judges will be appointed to the tribunal this week to try the mass murders happened in July centering the quota reform movement. He disclosed it to reporters on Sunday (October 13). Though it was a holiday, members of the International Crimes Tribunal held a meeting at its office at Dhanmondi ...

Former director (Border) of the National Security Intelligence (NSI) Commodore Monirul Islam has been sent to jail rejecting bail petition in a case filed over the killing of a teenager Bahadur Hossain Moni during the movement in Dhaka. Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court Mosharraf Hossain passed the order on Sunday as investigative officer (IO) of the case produced Monirul before the ...

A handful of nuts a day could prevent dementia. According to new research published in the journal GeroScience, daily intake of nuts may play a protective role in preventing dementia. Eating just 30g of unsalted and unprocessed nuts lowers the risk of developing dementia by 12 per cent, the researchers found. Researchers from the University of Castilla-La Mancha and the ...

When I was in class nine, a friend of mine spoke to me about her irregular menstruation cycle; she lamented how her periods almost lasted a month. At the time, I couldn’t fully grasp the depths of her plight. I, with my textbook 28-day cycle, assumed such things were impossibilities, just another bizarre quirk of adolescence. It wasn’t until years ...