This year, a total of 114 Bangladeshi hajj pilgrims have died in Saudi Arabia in various complications. Of them, 89 were men and 25 were female. Lastly, on July 22, a pilgrim named Motiur Rahman, 59, died. A Religious Ministry bulletin on hajj confirmed the data on Sunday. Till July 22, 88, 418 hajj pilgrims retuned home from Saudi Arabia. ...

Nobel laureate Dr Muhammad Yunus has to pay the remaining Tk 12 crore as tax to the National Board of Revenue (NBR), according to Appellate Division verdict on Sunday. A four-member bench of the Appellate Division, headed by Chief Justice Hasan Foez Siddique, passed the order dismissing Dr Yunus’s leave to appeal. Earlier on June 21, a leave to appeal ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday asked Bangladesh Army Selection Board-2023 to choose qualified and prudent officers for promotion in the army through a neutral evaluation. “You should do it considering professional competence, drawing comparative evaluation in logical and scientific ways. Besides, you need to pay attention to whether the officers have the skills of giving command or the ability ...

Renowned US online newspaper Policy Watcher lauded Bangladesh’s economic achievements saying that as one of the fastest growing economies, Bangladesh has now become a case study of economic development in the world. “On the basis of macro-economic stability, the economy of Bangladesh has grown 271 times in 50 years,” said the online newspaper in an article of its July 22 ...

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal said that the government can only be changed through elections. Directing his message to the opposition and in particular the BNP, he said nothing will be gained by plotting a conspiracy. The minister said this while inaugurating the Police Investigation Center and Liberation War Mural in Manikganj’s Harirampur upazila on Saturday, UNB reports. He also ...

When it comes to culinary artistry, the way a dish is presented can be just as significant as how it tastes. They say we eat with our eyes first. The artistic procedures of food plating and presentation turn a basic meal into an aesthetically pleasing and mouth-watering masterpiece. Mastering the art of food plating can take your culinary creations to ...

The tea workers on Saturday blocked the Dhaka-Sylhet highway at Nabiganj in Habiganj demanding payment of arrears of wages, bonus, festival allowance, future fund arrears, medical treatment and ensuring permanent residence. Tea workers of Imam-Bawani Tea Garden of the upazila blocked the Rokonpur Bazar area on Dhaka-Sylhet highway at 12:00 pm on Saturday. The workers alleged that the owners are ...

Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) has announced to hold a grand rally in the capital on July 27 to press home their one-point demand to hold the next national election under a neutral government. The party secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir announced the programme from youth rally at Suhrawardy Udyan in Dhaka on Saturday. The youth rally arranged by three ...

At least 17 people including seven children and five women were killed and 35 others injured when a bus plunged into a roadside pond at Chhatrakanda in Sadar upazila of Jhalakathi district on Saturday, reports UNB. Five of the deceased were identified as Sumaiya, 5, Samad Molla, 60, Tarik, 55, Shahin Molla, 33 and Abdullah, 7 while the identities of ...

US President Biden has chosen a female admiral to lead the US Navy – the first time a woman has been nominated to head a Pentagon military service branch. Lisa Franchetti is a former head of the US 6th Fleet and US naval forces in South Korea, and has also served as an aircraft carrier strike commander. Her nomination by ...