Awami League nominated candidate for Sylhet-1 constituency, Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen, on Saturday predicted that Awami League-nominated candidates will win all the seats in Sylhet in the upcoming 12th Parliamentary Election. “There is no scope to underestimate any candidate; no election is easy. All seats will be contested. People will vote in a festive atmosphere,” he told journalists ...

The Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) on Saturday revealed that more than Tk 92,261 crore has been siphoned off from the country’s banking sector through various scams over the past 15 years from 2008 to 2023. The independent think-tank disclosed the information at a media briefing titled ‘Economy of Bangladesh 2023-24: Ongoing Crisis and Actions’ at its Dhanmondi office in ...

Similar to doing an MOT on a car, scientists believe they can run a blood test to check how fast a person’s internal organs are ageing, and even predict which ones might soon fail. The Stanford University team say they can monitor 11 major body parts, including the heart, brain and lungs, reports BBC. They tried it on thousands of ...

Christmas & New Years Eve – four magical words!! Who hasn dreamt of staying in a hotel for Christmas or New Year Eve? If you think of the best luxury country hotels for Christmas or New Year, you can almost picture the festive scene: great food, beautiful decorations, chromatic & splendid atmosphere of Dhaka Regency Hotel & Resort. Dhaka Regency ...

A bus of Somoy Paribahan has been set on fire in Gulistan area of the capital. The incident happened around 9:15 pm on Saturday near toll plaza of Mayor Mohammad Hanif Flyover. On information, a firefighting unit rushed to the spot and doused the blaze, said Fire Service and Civil Defence duty officer Rashed Bin Khalid. However, no causalities were ...

Jatiya Party (JaPa) Chairman GM Quader has claimed that neither his party is in the grand alliance, nor they had shared seats with the ruling Awami League. Many people think about them wrongly, but he called upon the countrymen not to believe anything wrong about them. He also said JaPa would win in many constituencies if the election is free, ...

Police arrested two leaders of BNP and its associate organisation Juba Dal from Bondor Bazar area of Sylhet city on Saturday afternoon. The arrestees are Sylhet city unit BNP general secretary Emdad Hossain Chowdhury, and Muminul Islam Mumin, president of the Sylhet district unit of Juba Dal. Police in plainclothes arrested them at around 4.30pm while they were distributing leaflets ...

Bangladesh Workers Party has announced its election manifesto for the 12th parliamentary election slated for January 7 next year. The party highlighted its all the socio-economic aspects in 144 subsections in the 28-point election manifesto. Politburo leader of Workers Party Noor Ahmad Bakul read out the party’s election manifesto at a press briefing at Akram Khan Hall of the National ...

The leaders and activists of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) during the party’s mass campaign for the third consecutive day distributed leaflets among the people encouraging them to boycott the one-sided dummy parliamentary election slated for January 7. BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Advocate Ruhul Kabir Rizvi distributed leaflets in Rampura and Shahjahanpur areas of the capital on Saturday. The BNP ...

The price of gold has increased to a record high of Tk 1,11,041 per bhori (11.664 grams) on the local market. The price broke all previous records after the Bangladesh Jeweller’s Association (Bajus) decided to raise the price of gold to Tk 1,750 per bhori. Bajus issued a press release in this regard on Saturday and said the new rate ...