The metro rail operation is likely to resume at Mirpur 10 Station by the middle of this month, said the metro rail operating company the Dhaka Mass Transit Company Limited (DMTCL) on Tuesday (October 8). Following a meeting on Tuesday, DMTCL’s company secretary Khondker Ehteshamul Kabir said efforts were going on to resume metro rail operation at Mirpur 10 station ...

Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) on Tuesday evening arrested former Awami League lawmaker for Sunamganj-5 constituency Mohibur Rahman Manik from Bashundhara residential area in Dhaka. The RAB in a press release confirmed it to the media. The RAB said that he was arrested in a case filed with the Sunamganj sadar over attacking students and people during the students-led mass uprising. ...

Sharadiya Durga Puja, the biggest religious festival of the Bangalee Hindu community, began on Wednesday with invocation of Goddess Durga on the day of Maha Shasthi at temples and makeshift mandaps across the country amid due religious fervour and festivity. The five-day celebration began with invocation of Goddess Durga on the day of Maha Shasthi. This year, Durga Puja is ...

Jihan Ara, aged 38, discovered in 2020 that she had developed resistance to 14 antibiotics following a COVID-19 infection. Medical professionals informed her that this resistance was due to incomplete courses or overdoses of the antibiotics prescribed. Currently, only a few antibiotics remain effective in her system. Meanwhile, six-year-old Afrin Naba frequently suffers from fever and colds. Her mother, Monira ...

Argentina football legend Diego Maradona comes to life in an immersive exhibit underway in Barcelona, featuring a hologram of the late player and a reconstruction of his childhood home. After runs in Naples and Tel Aviv, the “Diego Vive” (“Diego Lives” in English) exhibition will run for the next two months in the Spanish city where Maradona spent two unhappy, ...

Former environment, forest and climate change minister Saber Hossain Chowdhury has been released from prison cell of the court two days after his arrest. He was released from prison cell of the court at about 6:30pm on Tuesday (October 8). The former minister was granted bail in six cases including four murder cases and two attempted murder cases, filed with ...

Former Planning Minister and ex-MP of Sunamganj-3 constituency, MA Mannan, has been transferred to Sylhet MAG Osmani Medical College Hospital from Sylhet Central Jail for medical treatment. He was brought to the hospital under tight security around 10:30am on Tuesday and admitted after undergoing initial tests. Sakhawat Hossain Rubel, the Superintendent of Sylhet Central Jail, said that Mannan was taken ...

The 2024 Nobel Prize in physics has been awarded to John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton for their “foundational discoveries” that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks, reports CNN. “Although computers cannot think, machines can now mimic functions such as memory and learning. This year’s laureates in physics have helped make this possible,” the Nobel Committee said in a statement. ...

A court in Dhaka has summoned suspended executive magistrate Tapashee Tabassum Urmi. She has been asked to appear before the Dhaka’s Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) court by November 28. Metropolitan Magistrate Zakir Hossain issued the summon accepting a defamation suit on Tuesday (October 8). Abu Hanif, a member of the upper council of Gana Odhikar Parishad and its media coordinator, ...

Dhaka Metropolitan Police Commissioner Mainul Hasan on Tuesday said comprehensive security preparations have been taken to ensure the peaceful celebration of Durga Puja at all mandaps in Dhaka city. He said this while talking to reporters after inspecting the security arrangements at the Dhakeshwari temple on Tuesday afternoon. He said that a designated number of police personnel will be deployed ...