Habiganj Correspondent : A head on collision between two busses left one driver dead and 20 passengers injured in Habiganj’s Bahubal upazila on Wednesday morning. The accident occurred on the Dhaka-Sylhet highway near Dubai Bazar. Police could not identify the deceased at the scene. According to police and local sources, when a Dhaka-bound bus belonging to Unique Paribahan reached the ...

Six top office-bearers of the Inqilab Cultural Centre platform, including Chairman Abdullah Al Jaber and Vice-President Fatima Tasnim Zuma, have stepped down from the organisation. They announced the decision on their respective Facebook accounts on Wednesday night. The others who resigned are the center’s President Salahuddin Shuvo, acting Executive Director Fahim Abdullah, Financial Management Director Md Raihan, and Deputy Executive ...

The Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission (BERC) has cut the price of Jet A-1 aviation fuel for the fourth consecutive time since May. For July, the price for domestic flights has been reduced to Tk 130.99 per litre from Tk 150.21, a cut of Tk 19.22. Duty- and VAT-free jet fuel for domestic and foreign airlines operating international flights has been ...

Pop superstar Madonna released her fifteenth studio album on Friday, “Confessions II”, a sequel to 2005’s “Confessions on a Dancefloor”, to acclaim, with critics calling it her best record in two decades. * The singer has reunited with Stuart Price, the co-producer and co-writer on its predecessor, for the 16-track dance-pop album. * Martin Garrix, Cirkut and Andrew Watt also ...

Matthieu Blazy draws on classic fairy tales for his second Chanel haute couture collection, shown Tuesday in Paris. Models walk past giant flower sets in bird’s-nest hats and tweed skirts slit at the leg. A sheer skirt and jacket carry embroidered vines, a dress bears feathered wings, and appliquéd swans nod to tales like Jack and the Beanstalk, according to ...

Three more children with measles symptoms died in the 24 hours to 8am today (8 July), bringing Bangladesh’s combined tally of confirmed and suspected measles-related deaths to 745. With the latest update, the number of suspected measles deaths has risen to 652, while the number of laboratory-confirmed measles deaths has reached 93. A total of 796 new suspected measles cases ...

Information and Broadcasting Minister Zahir Uddin Swapon today expressed that Bangladesh is interested in working with the Netherlands in the field of media and communication. He made the remark when Dutch Ambassador to Bangladesh Joris van Bommel met him at his Secretariat office here. During the meeting, the minister said the incumbent government has been trying to bring about qualitative ...

The United States on Tuesday re-imposed sanctions on Iranian oil, as a US official warned that Iran’s attacks on vessels in the Strait of Hormuz were “wholly unacceptable” and would be met with consequences. Oil prices were up more than 5 percent following the announcement. The US Treasury had authorized last month Iran oil sales until Aug 21 as part ...

The body of Iran’s former Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has arrived in Iraq ahead of funeral ceremonies in the holy cities of Najaf and Karbala. According to Iran’s state-run Press TV, the aircraft carrying Khamenei’s coffin and the bodies of several family members landed at Najaf International Airport on Tuesday night. Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian and Iraqi Prime Minister ...

Medical Reporter : Healthcare services at Sylhet MAG Osmani Medical College Hospital were disrupted on Wednesday after intern doctors launched an indefinite work stoppage and medical students declared an academic shutdown, protesting the alleged assault on a duty doctor inside the hospital’s emergency department. The clash broke out around 12:45AM and continued till 1:30AM at the hospital’s emergency department and ...