The Bangladesh national cricket team have left the country for New Zealand to play two bilateral series in the white-ball cricket. A part of the team departed on Sunday (December 10) to participate in three ODIs and T20Is each as part of the series. Among both squads, Anamul Haque Bijoy, Liton Das, Soumya Sarker, Afif Hossain, Mustafizur Rahman, Tanzid Hasan ...

The government has extended the deadline for Hajj registration under government and private management till December 31 as the quota is yet to be filled. The Religious Affairs Ministry on Sunday informed this issuing a circular in this regard. The registration began on November 15 and was supposed to end on Sunday (December 10). The notice mentioned that the deadline ...

The opposition BNP and like-minded parties has announced a 36-hour road-rail-waterway blockade across the country starting from Tuesday morning to protest the schedule for the next national election announced by the Election Commission (EC). The blockade will begin at 6am on Tuesday and end at 6 pm on Wednesday. It will be the 11th round of the blockade programme of ...

Oil reserves have been discovered in the first layer of Sylhet-10 well which can produce 500-600 barrels oil per day, said State Minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Nasrul Hamid on Sunday. Apart from this, new gas was found in three layers of that well. The drilling of this well started two months ago. The minister gave these information ...

BNP leaders and activists along with the family members of the victims of enforced disappearance and political killings formed a human chain in front of the Jatiya Press Club in the capital, marking the international Human Rights Day on Sunday. The programme began formally with the recitation from the holy Quran around 10:55am with BNP standing committee member Selima Rahman ...

Chief Justice Obaidul Hassan has suspended half of the judicial functions at the Supreme Court’s Appellate Division on Sunday in honour of senior lawyer of the Supreme Court Barrister Mainul Hosein. As per the decision, the judicial proceedings will remain closed from 11am-1:15pm. Barrister Mainul Hosein, also former adviser to the Caretaker Government, breathed his last at Evercare Hospital in ...

BNP senior joint general secretary Ruhul Kabir Rizvi on Saturday alleged that their party leaders and activists are being repressed and deprived of all facilities as prisoners, extremely violating their human rights. “The current IG Prison has verbally directed all jail authorities to deprive all the prisoners belonging to BNP of all general facilities to appease Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina,” ...

Barrister Mainul Hosein, former adviser of caretaker government, has passed away He breathed his last while undergoing treatment at Ever Care Hospital in the capital on Saturday, said Shams Mahmud, the Managing Director of Shasha Denims and a relative of Barrister Mainul. He battled cancer for the past year, Shams Mahmud added. The Business Standard Google News Keep updated, follow ...

A US senator has called for a government investigation into the impact on national security of garlic imports from China. Republican Senator Rick Scott has written to the commerce secretary, claiming Chinese garlic is unsafe, citing unsanitary production methods. China is the world’s biggest exporter of fresh and chilled garlic and the US is a major consumer. But the trade ...

Awami League general secretary Obaidul Quader has said BNP wants to carry out terrorist activities in the name of countrywide programme on the Human Rights Day on Sunday. He made the comments at a press conference held at the political office of the party’s president at Dhanmondi in the capital on Saturday afternoon. Quader, also road transport and bridges minister, ...