PM hails pilot, crewmembers
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday highly lauded the pilot, Captain Golam Shafi, and other crewmembers for successfully tackling the bid to hijack a Biman...
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31 set to be elected unopposed in DU hall union polls
UNB, Dhaka :A total of 31 candidates are going to be elected uncontested in the elections to 18 hall unions of Dhaka university (DU) as...
2 children found dead after Bhasantek slum catches fire
UNB, Dhaka :Firefighters recovered the bodies of two infants from a water body in Bhasantek slum after a fire raged through the slum on Thursday.The...
About 1000 shanties gutted in Mirpur
bdnews24.com :A fire has burnt down about 1,000 shanties in two slums near the Centre for the Rehabilitation of the Paralysed (CRP) in the capital’s...
Trainer of female JMB unit held in city
bdnews24.com :The Rapid Action Battalion, or RAB, has arrested an alleged operative of the banned militant outfit Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh in Dhaka.The man, identified as...
50pc vote cast in DNCC by-polls: EC Secy
Staff Reporter :The Election Commission (EC) Secretary Helal Uddin Ahmed claimed that around 50 per cent of the voters cast their votes in the Dhaka...
Book Fair extended by two days
bdnews24.com :The authorities have extended Amar Ekushey Book Fair by two days following a demand by the publishers after rains disrupted the month-long fair.It will...
Ban on Hilsa fishing for 2 months
Staff Reporter :The government has imposed a two-month ban on catching, selling, hoarding and transporting of Hilsa from March 1 to April 30 to protect...
BD stresses importance of geopolitics
UNB, Dhaka :Foreign Secretary M Shahidul Haque has underscored the importance of geopolitics in global migration governance in the context of Rohingya humanitarian crisis.While speaking...
PIB DG Shah Alamgir dies
UNB, Dhaka :Director General (DG) of the Press Institute of Bangladesh (PIB) and senior journalist Shah Alamgir passed away at the Combined Military Hospital (CMH)...
Thousands of air travellers affected by Indo-Pak tensions
AFP, London :Thousands of air travellers worldwide were left stranded on Thursday after Pakistan closed its airspace in response to escalating tensions with India.Pakistan’s Civil...
4 get life term in murder case
UNB, Joypurhat :A court here on Thursday sentenced four people to life term imprisonment in a case over killing of a farmer in Khetlal upazila...