Sri Lanka’s navy had rescued 102 Rohingya refugees from war-torn Myanmar adrift in a fishing trawler off the Indian Ocean island nation, bringing them safely to port. A navy spokesman on Friday said that the group, including 25 children, were taken to Sri Lanka’s eastern port of Trincomalee and they had been provided food and water. “Medical checks have to ...

Bangladesh has been named the ‘County of the year for 2024’ by The Economist, a London-based prestigious magazine. Every year, The Economist chooses one country that has shown the most remarkable improvement over the past year and this year Bangladesh was given the honour. Besides, Syria was the runner-up after ousting its autocrat, Bashar al-Assad. Argentina earned recognition for economic ...

Three people were killed and another was injured when a private car lost control and hit an electricity pole in Sylhet’s Jaintapur upazila on Friday. The accident occurred at around 11 am near to Dhamri Beel in Baghersarak area on the Sylhet-Tamabil road under the upazila. The identities of the dead could not be known immediately. Jaintapur Police Station Officer-in-Charge ...

A case has been filed with the Tongi West Police Station following a fatal clash between two factions of Tablighi Jamaat on Tongi Bishwa Ijtema grounds that killed four people. SM Alam Hossain, an associate of the Alami Shura in the Zubair faction in Kishoreganj, filed a murder case against 29 named and several hundred unnamed people on Thursday, said ...

BNP firmly believes in the freedom of speech, said the party’s Acting Chairman Tarique Rahman on Thursday (December 19). “We believe in freedom of speech, we believe in democracy. Journalists were not sued in hundreds of cases during the BNP rule,” he said while addressing as the chief guest at a workshop titled ’31 Points’ at Madhabdi in Narisngdi at ...

At least 52 people were killed and 68 others were injured in two separate bus accidents on a highway through central Afghanistan, according to a provincial official on Thursday. One bus collided with a fuel tanker near Shahbaz village in central Ghazni while the other hit a truck in the eastern district of Andar. The accidents happened in Ghazni province ...

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has said that the Chief Adviser’s remarks over the next general election is “unclear.” He made the remark while addressing a press conference at the BNP Chairperson’s office at Gulshan in the capital on Thursday (December 19). Mirza Fakhrul said since the Election Commission (EC) has been constituted, there is no need to ...

Every family is now reaching up to the cupboards to bring out warm clothes:the hot chocolate season is here! However, along with all its festivities, drying skin is also peeking through. As humidity drops with the cooling temperature, your skin’s natural moisture barrier is quite confused. As a result, we are all dealing with tight and uncomfortable skin, looking for ...

A five-day REHAB Fair-2024 will begin at Bangabandhu International Conference Center (BICC) in Agargaon in Dhaka on December 23 and will continue until December 27. Md Wahiduzzaman, president of the Real Estate and Housing Association of Bangladesh (REHAB), revealed the information at a press conference held at the CIRDAP auditorium in Dhaka on Thursday. He said Civil Aviation and Tourism ...

Bangladesh Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus Thursday (December 19) urged Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif to settle the issues of 1971 to help Dhaka move forward with its relationship with Islamabad. “The issues have kept coming again and again. Let’s settle those issues for us to move forward,” he said during a meeting with Pakistan premier Shehbaz Sharif at a ...