A teenage school girl reportedly committed suicide by hanging with the ceiling of her room in Lakhai upazila under Habiganj district on Sunday afternoon. The deceased was identified as Jannatul Ferdous, 15, daughter of Liakat Ali, a resident of Fulbaria village under the upazila. She was an eighth grader of Murakari High School. Quoting locals, police said Jannatul took her ...

Additional Deputy Commissioner (ADC) of Ramna Division Harun-or-Rashid has been withdrawn from Ramna Division police over brutally beating up two central Chhatra League leaders at the Shahbagh Police Station. Harun was attached to public order management, DMP commissioner Khandaker Golam Farruq confirmed this. Responding to a question about ADC Harun, DMP Joint Commissioner Biplab Kumar Sarkar said that ADC Harun ...

Prime Sheikh Hasina on Sunday paid tribute at the memorial of India’s Father of the Nation Mahatma Gandhi at Rajghat in Delhi by placing a wreath. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi received the G20 leaders at the rain-drenched Rajghat in the morning. He welcomed the dignitaries with an ‘angvastram’ or stole with an image of Gandhi’s Sabarmati Ashram in Gujarat, ...

Laxmipur former BNP lawmaker Chowdhury Khurshid Alam passed away at a hospital in Dhaka early Sunday at the age of 82. He died around 1:30am at United Hospital while undergoing treat there. Laxmipur-2 Constituency lawmaker Nuruddin Chowdhury Nayan, BNP publicity secretary Shahid Uddin Chowdhury Annie and former principal of Laxmipur Government College Prof Mainuddin Pathan have expressed deep shock at ...

Despite missing Lionel Messi, Inter Miami moved within six points of the playoff positions in Major League Soccer with a 3-2 win over Sporting Kansas City on Saturday. Messi was one of eight Inter Miami players away on international duty, but Gerardo “Tata” Martino’s team showed their strength in depth as they extended their unbeaten run in all competitions to ...

Morocco’s deadliest earthquake in decades has killed more than 2,000 people, authorities said Saturday, as troops and emergency services scrambled to reach remote mountain villages where victims are still feared trapped. Authorities declared three days of national mourning, but the Red Cross warned that it could take years to repair the damage. The 6.8-magnitude quake struck late Friday in a ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today called upon the world leaders to come up with utmost sincerity to ensure a dignified life and prosperous future for all. “As equal members of the global family, we must, therefore, resolve to do our utmost for dignified life and prosperous future for all,” she said while addressing the “One Family” session in G20 Summit ...

“There is a lot of hard work” to do before the UK strikes a trade deal with India, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said Saturday at the G20 leaders’ summit in New Delhi. “There is a desire on both of our parts to see a successful trade deal concluded,” Sunak told UK media at the event. “The opportunities are there for ...

Calling upon the party leaders and workers to remain cautious, BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has said the fascist and authoritarian Awami League government will have to be defeated at any cost, because there is no alternative to it. He was speaking as the chief guest at a rally organised in front of the party’s central office at ...

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader has said the BNP leaders became terribly upset seeing US President Joe Biden himself taking selfie with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her daughter autism expert Saima Wazed Putul while exchanging pleasantries on the G20 Summit sidelines in New Delhi. “BNP was expecting a sanction from the White House on Bangladesh. But what is ...