The 11-party opposition alliance has nominated Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) President Col (retd) Oli Ahmed as its candidate for the presidential election. The decision was announced on Sunday after a meeting of the alliance leaders at the official residence of the Leader of the Opposition. National Citizen Party (NCP) Convener Nahid Islam, one of the alliance partners, announced Oli Ahmed’s ...

Biman Bangladesh Airlines’ BG-306 flight landed in Dhaka on Sunday after being stranded in Rome for nearly 28 hours due to a technical fault, bringing relief to 259 passengers who had endured prolonged delays and uncertainty. The flight landed at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport at 12:30pm, Biman Bangladesh Airlines General Manager (Public Relations) Bosra Islam confirmed. She said the aircraft ...

Prime Minister Tarique Rahman on Saturday urged upazila nirbahi officers (UNOs) to treat people as their own and discharge their duties with the highest sense of responsibility and humanity, saying public service is a great opportunity to stand beside the distressed and build a safe and liveable Bangladesh. “For everyone entrusted with state responsibilities, the opportunity to serve the people ...

For nearly eighty years, Japan’s post-war identity rested on an extraordinary proposition: that national prosperity could be secured through economic strength while military power remained restrained. Article 9 of Japan’s Constitution became the international symbol of that commitment, allowing Tokyo to emerge as a leading economic power without the strategic baggage of major military forces. That era is steadily drawing ...

Prime Minister Tarique Rahman on Saturday handed over job appointment letters to 10 family members of martyrs and seriously injured persons of July Mass Uprising. The Prime Minister handed over the appointment letters at his office in Tejgaon this afternoon, said Prime Minister’s Deputy Press Secretary Hasan Shiplur. The recipients are– martyr Md Sohag’s wife Sabina Akter Rima, martyr Md ...

The Sylhet district administration today formed a five-member committee to investigate the cause of a head-on collision between two buses that killed nine people, including women and children, in Osmaninagar upazila. The committee, headed by Additional District Magistrate Pinky Saha, has been asked to submit its report within five working days. Its other members are representatives from the highway police, ...

Ingredients • 1 lb Ground Chicken • ¼ onion (2 tbsp or so chopped) • 1 inch ginger • 4-5 cloves garlic • 2-4 green chilies (I like 3) • ¼ cup cilantro • 2 tbspbesan (chickpea flour) see notes • 1 tbsp yoghurt • 1 tbsp butter • 1 tsp salt • 1 tsp chilli powder • 1 tsp ...

Popular Dhallywood actress Shabnur has spoken out about the death of iconic actor Salman Shah, addressing recent statements made by Rizvi Ahmed alias Farhad regarding the case. In a lengthy social media post on Saturday, Shabnur described Rizvi’s statements as “inconsistent, misleading and untrue” and strongly denied the allegations made against her. Shabnur said she first heard Rizvi Ahmed’s name ...

Prime Minister Tarique Rahman has urged physicians to remain alert so that political involvement does not disrupt their professional duties. He made the call while addressing a doctors’ gathering on Saturday morning, organized on the LD Hall premises of the National Parliament on the occasion of the 37th founding anniversary of the Doctors Association of Bangladesh (DAB), the pro-BNP physicians’ ...

Gold surged on Friday, hitting its highest in seven weeks, after an unexpected ‌drop in US nonfarm payrolls for July dashed rate-hike hopes and set bullion on course for its best week in seven months. Spot gold jumped 2.3 percent to $4,336.02 per ounce by 2:42pm EDT (1842 GMT), ​having risen more than 3 percent to its highest since June ...