Day: May 20, 2024
NN Online Report: Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and his foreign minister were killed in a helicopter crash in mountainous terrain...
AP, DUBAI, United Arab Emirates : Iranian state television said Monday there is “no sign of life” seen at the...
Syed Shemul Parvez : Question paper leaks in recruitment exams continue to plague Bangladesh, despite stringent measures by the authorities....
Staff Reporter : A group of agitated battery-run auto-rickshaw drivers torched a traffic police box at Kalshi intersection of Mirpur...
News Desk : Anwarul Azim Anar, the lawmaker from Jhenaidah-4 constituency, has been missing since at least May 14, having...
Staff Reporter : In a joint operation, three members of the Kuki-Chin National Front (KNF) were killed in an exchange of fire with the Bangladesh Army in Debachhara area of Ruma upazila on Sunday. The identities of the deceased could not be immediately confirmed. The army recovered firearms, radio communication equipment, and ammunition from the spot, according to sources. Confirming the incident, Bandarban’s Additional Superintendent of Police Hussain Md Rayhan Kajemi stated that the operation took place in a KNF...
UNB : Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong is scheduled to pay an official visit to Bangladesh on May 21-22 to...
Reuters : Russian strikes killed at least 10 people, including a pregnant woman, and injured 25 others in two separate attacks in Ukraine’s northeastern Kharkiv region on Sunday, local officials said. It was the latest in what have been constant attacks in recent weeks on Kharkiv city and the region of the same name by Russian missiles and guided bombs as Russian troops have launched an offensive in the northeast of the region. The first strike on Sunday killed five...
BSS, Rajshahi : Rajshahi Metropolitan Police (RMP) have started ‘No Helmet, No Fuel’ programme for substantial and sustainable reduction of casualties and fatalities through prevention of road traffic accidents. As part of the programme, the RMP has shown festoons of ‘no helmet, no fuel’ in 23 petrol pumps and given instructions of selling no fuel without helmet. For successful enforcement of the programme, RMP Traffic Division has been imposing penalties against the law-violators through setting up check posts adjacent to...
City Desk : Dhaka has expressed deep concern over the attacks on Bangladeshi students amid a mob incident in Kyrgyz capital, Bishkek on Friday night, foreign minister Dr Hasan Mahmud said here on Sunday. “There were attacks on our students … but so far no Bangladeshi students have been reported of receiving serious injury,” he said at an event at the Jatiya Press Club, reports BSS. He said Bangladesh Ambassador stationed in Tashkent has been asked to visit Bishkek soon...