‘Turning tree plantation into nat’l movement’
State Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change Sheikh Faridul Islam on Thursday called for turning the government’s programme to plant 250 million trees over...
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Rain pushes up veg prices in Dhaka mkts
Continuous rainfall over the past few days has driven up vegetable prices in Dhaka markets, with most items becoming Tk 10 to Tk 30 more...
GD filed against ex-Milestone College student
Milestone College authorities have filed a general diary (GD) against a former female student, alleging that she used the college’s identity card while making provocative...
Over 500 feared dead refugees carrying boats sink off: UN
Two boats carrying more than 500 people may have capsized off Myanmar’s coast in recent days, UN agencies said on Thursday, as refugees from the...
10 workers burnt in Ctg salt factory fire, 8 critical
A fire at the Confidence Salt factory in Chattogram’s Boalkhali upazila left 10 workers with burn injuries on Thursday, with eight of them in critical...
TIB demands probe, accountability
Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) has demanded an immediate and impartial investigation into the shooting attack on a group of journalists in Khulna, describing the incident...
5 EU envoys discuss enhancing trade, investment
Prime Minister’s Foreign Affairs Adviser Humaiun Kobir on Thursday held talks with five European ambassadors and senior diplomats in Dhaka. Both sides reaffirmed their commitment...
171 Bangladeshis returned from Libya
A total of 171 Bangladeshi nationals have been repatriated from Libya after being held at the Ganfouda Detention Centre in Benghazi, as the government renewed...
Maulana Karim’s mother sick, seeking doa
Kamola Begum, the loving mother of the country’s prominent Islamic scholar Maulana M.A. Karim Ibn Mosobbir is sick. A British citizen Kamola Begum, permanently residing...
Shariful makes Ivy League history
Shariful Islam, from Boroil village in Rajshahi’s Durgapur, has achieved a remarkable milestone by earning a master’s degree from Dartmouth College, one of the world’s...