Awami League candidate Golam Faruque Pinku has won the by-election to Lakshmipur-3 constituency. Pinku is the president of Lakshmipur district AL. In Lakshmipur, Golam Faruque Pinku bagged 1,20,599 votes while Jatiya Party candidate Mohammad Rakib Hossain got 3,846 votes, according to the returning officer concerned. Voting started at 8:00am in 115 centres of the constituency and ended at 4:00pm. Two ...

Awami League candidate Shahjahan Alam Saju won Sunday’s by-election to Brahmanbari-2 constituency (Sarail-Ashuganj), securing victory for his party for the first time since 1973. Saju bagged 66,314 votes, while his nearest rival, independent candidate and two-time MP Ziaul Huque Mridha, received 37,758 votes. Voting started at 8:00am at 132 centres and continued till 4:00pm. The constituency has 4,10,072 votes and ...

India have sealed a huge 243-run victory over South Africa by completely rattling them with the ball in the 37th game of the World Cup in Kolkata. The men in blue bundled the Proteas out for just 83 runs within 28 overs while defending the decent total of 326 runs at Eden Gardens on Sunday. Targeting 327, South Africa kept ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday offered ziarat of the Rawza Mubarak of Prophet Hazrat Muhammad (PBUH) at Masjid Al-Nabawi in Madinah, Saudi Arabia. She along with her younger sister Sheikh Rehana also offered Asr prayers and Fateha at the mosque and sought divine blessings for the people of Bangladesh as well as continued peace, progress and prosperity of the ...

Police have arrested three people from different parts of the country in connection with the stealing of over Tk 26 lakh from an ATM booth of Dutch Bangla Bank in Subidbazar of Sylhet city on October 28. Police claimed to have recovered Tk 18 lakh stolen from the booth. The arrestees were Altab Hossain Limon, 22, , an official of ...

Virat Kholi has made a calm-perseverance hundred to propel India to post a good score of 326 runs in a slow wicket against South Africa in the 37th game of the World Cup in Kolkata. The veteran completed his 49th ODI century from 119 balls while the hosts struggled at the end to set the decent 327-run target losing five ...

A total of 89 cases were filed over the incidents of violence, vandalism, and arson following BNP’s hartal and blockade from October 28 till November 4 in Dhaka. Following the cases, Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) arrested a total of 2,172 people in the capital, said DMP Media and Public Relations Department Deputy commissioner Faruque Hossen. Of the cases, 14 were ...

Former home minister and BNP vice-chairman Altaf Hossain Chowdhury has been arrested by Rapid Action Battalion (RAB). Chowdhury, also the former air force chief, was arrested as his name was there in the case filed for sabotage, vandalism and killing of police in the capital on October 28 last, said the RAB. He was arrested from Tongi area where he ...

Eating a vegan diet massively reduces the damage to the environment caused by food production, the most comprehensive analysis to date has concluded. The research showed that vegan diets resulted in 75% less climate-heating emissions, water pollution and land use than diets in which more than 100g of meat a day was eaten. Vegan diets also cut the destruction of ...

Scientists in Brazil, the world’s second-biggest consumer of cocaine, have announced the development of an innovative new treatment for addiction to the drug and its powerful derivative crack: a vaccine. Dubbed “Calixcoca,” the test vaccine, which has shown promising results in trials on animals, triggers an immune response that blocks cocaine and crack from reaching the brain, which researchers hope ...