Police have filed two cases accusing more than 5,000 leaders and activists of Jamaat-e-Islami and its associate organisations over the clashes with police and vandalising vehicles in the capital after the death of convicted war criminal Delwar Hossain Sayedee. Officer-in-charge of Shahbagh police station Nur Mohammad said sub-inspectors Jabbar and Salah Uddin Kader filed the two cases with Shahbagh and ...

An unidentified woman reportedly committed suicide by jumping before a moving train at Kamalganj upazila in Moulvibazar district on Wednesday. Locals said the woman, aged around 35, jumped before a Sylhet-bound intercity Parabat express train from Dhaka in Baragachh area near Bhanugachh-Shamshernagar railway station of upazila at around 11:50 am. She died on the spot. Later, on information, police recovered ...

Madonna has announced rescheduled tour dates for her world tour, as she marks her recovery from a bacterial infection that left her in intensive care. The Celebration tour will now kick off in London on 14 October, three months after it was originally due to begin in Vancouver, Canada. Most of the US dates have been pushed back to 2024, ...

Scientists have reconstructed Pink Floyd’s Another Brick in the Wall by eavesdropping on people’s brainwaves – the first time a recognisable song has been decoded from recordings of electrical brain activity. The hope is that doing so could ultimately help to restore the musicality of natural speech in patients who struggle to communicate because of disabling neurological conditions such as ...

The food items you should never eat first thing in the morning have been revealed by an expert Although it may be the most important meal of the day there are a few foods you should never eat first thing in the morning – and they’re pretty popular items on the breakfast table! There are a number of foods that ...

The state-run agency Trading Corporation of Bangladesh (TCB) will purchase 80 lakh litres of soybean oil at Tk 127.96 crore from the local market through open tender system in 2023-24 fiscal year. The approvals came from the 26th meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Government Purchase (CCGP) held on Wednesday virtually with Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal in the chair, ...

England reached the Women’s World Cup final for the first time with a 3-1 win over Australia on Wednesday, breaking the hearts of the host nation and setting up an all-European title decider against Spain. Ella Toone drove England’s opener into the corner of the net in the 36th minute to silence the crowd of 75,784, but Australia captain Sam ...

China will not interfere in Bangladesh’s election issue, said its Ambassador Yao Wen on Wednesday. “It is Bangladesh’s internal issue and China will not interfere internal issues of any country.” The Ambassador made this comment to media after a meeting with planing minister at the ministry in the capital’s She-e-Bangla Nagar. Besides, he also informed about China’s interest in investing ...

The National Identity Card (NID) server of the Election Commission was restored on Wednesday afternoon, hours after it went offline due to maintenance work. The server was restored at about 2pm on Wednesday. Election Commission’s NID wing’s director general AKM Humayun Kabir during a press briefing on Wednesday said that they kept the server down since zero hour on August ...

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan has said Jamaat-e-Islami has expressed its dirty and terrorist thoughts by threatening to kill doctor SM Mostofa Zaman. “Prof Mustafa Zaman came to me on Tuesday night and told me all the incidents. He treated Delwar Hossain Sayeedi as a doctor. But still, he has been threatened. It seems surprising to me.” The minister made the ...