Police said that blockade supporters torched the buses in Arambagh, Gabtali, Gulistan, and Jatrabari areas of the capital. According to the fire service, a passenger bus of Lal Sabuj Paribahan was set on fire in front of Notre Dame College at 8:20 pm. Upon receiving information, two units of firefighters from Siddique Bazar Fire Station promptly brought the fire under ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday said BNP and its allies only know how to destroy the good things her government creates. “They (BNP and its allies) only know how to destroy, not to create. We create and they destroy,” she said. The prime minister said this while inaugurating the Chattogram-Cox’s Bazar rail communication. Recalling the horrible days when BNP-Jamaat ...

Railways Minister Md Nurul Islam Sujan has said that a train can be run commercially from Dhaka to Cox’s Bazar and Cox’s Bazar to Dhaka from December. He made the remark while speaking at the inauguration of Chattogram’s Dohazari to Cox’s Bazar Rail Line project at Cox’s Bazar Railway Station on Saturday. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina inaugurated the much-awaited 102km ...

Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) leader Azad Hossain who was allegedly involved in putting seals on ‘Boat’ symbols of 43 ballot papers in 57 seconds during the voting in Lakshmipur-3 (Sadar) by-election has been sent to jail. Chandraganj police produced him before a court after arresting him under Section 54 early Saturday afternoon. Later, the court passed an order sending him ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday inaugurated 15 completed development projects, including Matarbari Ultra Super Critical Coal-Fired Power Project (2×600), and laid foundation stones of three other projects involving Tk 53467 crore. Prior to addressing a grand public meeting at Matarbari in Moheshkhali, she unveiled the inaugural plaque of the development projects around 3:45 in the afternoon, reports BSS. Earlier ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday inaugurated the much awaited 102km Chattogram’s Dohazari-Cox’s Bazar Rail Line at a cost of Taka 18034.47 crore opening a new era in railway connectivity in the country. “Today, the Cox’s Bazar is linked with the railway connectivity. This is the day of feeling proud,” she said while opening the rail line along with the ...

Anti-Islam activist Tommy Robinson has had his account reinstated on social media platform X, formerly Twitter. Robinson, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, was reinstated alongside political commentator Katie Hopkins. Hopkins was banned in 2020 and Robinson’s account was suspended in 2018 – Twitter accused both of breaking its rules on hateful conduct. A number of controversial figures have been ...

NASA is set to reveal on Wednesday the first images of the largest asteroid sample ever collected in space, something scientists hope will yield clues about the earliest days of our solar system and perhaps the origins of life itself. The OSIRIS-REx mission collected rock and dust from the asteroid Bennu in 2020, and a capsule containing the precious cargo ...

NASA has spotted a small new crater on the Moon that was likely caused by a Russian probe crash landing on the surface around two weeks ago. The finding was made by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) by comparing before and after images of the estimated impact point, provided by Russian space agency Roscosmos. The Luna-25 probe crashed on August ...

Russia launched its first probe to the Moon in almost 50 years on Friday, a mission designed to give fresh impetus to its space sector, which has been struggling for years and become isolated by the conflict in Ukraine. The launch of the Luna-25 probe is Moscow’s first lunar mission since 1976, when the USSR was a pioneer in the ...