Awami League has called a protest procession in the capital in memory of martyr Nur Hossain. They informed this in several posts of its verified Facebook page. But this fascist party has no chance to hold rallies or procession in Bangladesh, said Shafiqul Alam, Press Secretary to the Chief Adviser, on Saturday. Shafiqul Alam wrote, on his Facebook, “The Awami ...

Ambassador Muhammad Abdul Muhith, Bangladesh’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, has been elected as member of the prestigious International Civil Service Commission (ICSC) in a heavily contested election held on Friday at the UN Headquarters in New York. There were three candidates from Bangladesh, China and the Republic of Korea vying for two vacant seats from the Asia-Pacific region, ...

Workers of TNZ Apparels Ltd in Gazipur blocked Dhaka-Mymensingh highway in Maleker Bari area of Gazipur city demanding their unpaid dues. The protest began around 9:30AM on Saturday, halting vehicular movement on the highway. The blockade caused a heavy traffic congestion several kilometers long in both the Mymensingh and Tangail directions, as well as towards Dhaka. Bason Police Station OC ...

Five more people died from dengue and 466 others were hospitalised after being infected by the viral disease during the last 24 hours till Friday morning. With latest casualties, the death toll from the mosquito-borne disease reached 45 in the first eight days of the current month. This year dengue has claimed 342 lives so far. Of them, 134 died ...

Saim Ayub’s blistering 82 and Abdullah Shafique’s steady unbeaten 64 powered Pakistan to a dominant nine-wicket victory over Australia in the second ODI at Adelaide Oval on Friday, leveling the series 1-1. Haris Rauf’s fiery 5-29 helped bowl out the hosts for a mere 163, which Pakistan chased down comfortably with 141 balls to spare, setting up a thrilling series ...

Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan has received a death threat. He received a threat over a call. It is also said that a case has been registered at Bandra Police Station, in Mumbai. A leading news platform of India News18 has learned that a resident of Raipur, Chhattisgarh, named Faizan had made the threatening call. Sources added that a Mumbai ...

Fire broke out on a BRTC double-decker bus at Kuril Biswa Road in the capital on Friday. Receiving information at about 1:40pm, two fire fighting units from Kurmitola Station rushed to the spot to extinguish the fire, said duty officer Rashed Bin Khalid from the fire service control room. He said, We received information at about 1:40pm that a fire ...

In the past, coffee was associated with increased health risks. But research from the last decade finds that drinking coffee may actually benefit your health. Caffeine is the most popular psychoactive drug in the world. Humans have been drinking coffee, a natural source of caffeine, for centuries, but there have been mixed messages around its effect on human health for ...

The Princess of Wales will attend Remembrance events in London at the weekend, Buckingham Palace has said. She will attend both the Sunday service at the Cenotaph and the Festival of Remembrance at the Royal Albert Hall on Saturday evening. The princess has been gradually returning to public royal duties following her cancer treatment. The Queen’s attendance will be subject ...

A lung-cancer screening programme that sees mobile clinics visit local communities in England has detected the disease earlier in more than 5,000 people. Specially adapted lorries have been visiting supermarkets, football grounds and town centres in areas with the highest rates of the disease, as part of the biggest initiative of its kind in NHS history. Since the programme’s launch, ...