Savar RMG workers protest 'unpaid overtime'

Several hundred RMG workers yesterday demonstrated at their factory in Dhaka Export Processing Zone in Savar of Dhaka protesting
30 June 2015

Razzak’s health improving: Doctor

Brushing aside the confusion over the “death” of Bangla film actor Razzak, the doctor under whom the film star is being treated says Razzak is not dead.
30 June 2015

Appeal for help

Six-year-old Folehera Tanzina Mithi has been suffering from blood cancer for over two years.
29 June 2015

Movie star Razzak’s condition improved, says family

The condition of renowned Bangla film actor Abdur Razzak has improved, his youngest son Samrat says.
29 June 2015

Fake note gangs on the go again in Bangladesh

Money counterfeiting gangs are active again ahead of Eid, when people spend a lot in shopping and fake notes change hands often undetected.
28 June 2015

Convict dies at N'ganj jail

A convicted prisoner, who had been serving jail term at the district jail in a drug case, died at Narayanganj General Hospital on Saturday afternoon.
28 June 2015

Recover Gazipur forest land from grabbers

The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Accounts yesterday asked the forest department to soon recover forest land in Gazipur from grabbers.
28 June 2015

Renowned film actor Razzak in ICU

Renowned film actor Razzak, also widely known as “Nayak Raj Razzak”, was shifted to the intensive care unit (ICU) of the capital's United Hospital yesterday.
28 June 2015

Current gas reserve to last 16 yrs

With measured use, the country’s current gas reserve will last for about the next 16 years, Nasrul Hamid, state minister for power says in the parliament.
28 June 2015

Down in downpour

Life in the capital and elsewhere in the country was in an utter shambles yesterday due to incessant rain for the last four days. Thirteen more deaths in rain-induced incidents were reported in Cox's Bazar yesterday, raising the toll to 21 in the coastal district in the past couple of days. Two others were killed in Bandarban on Thursday. Flash floods inundated more areas, leaving several thousand people marooned in Narayanganj and Chandpur.
27 June 2015

Appeal for help

A 10-year-boy Sourov Sikder, only son of Govinda Chandra Sikder of Madaripur, has been undergoing treatment for cancer at
27 June 2015

Kamal president, Moslem secy of newspaper hawkers union

Mostafa Kamal and Moslem Mian have been elected president and secretary of the managing committee of Dhaka Newspaper Hawkers
27 June 2015

Man's body recovered from Karnaphuli river

Police recovered the body of an unidentified man, aged around 48, from the Karnaphuli River near Avoy Mitra Ghat in Chittagong city on
27 June 2015

Utter Insult To The Sovereign

Utter Insult To The Sovereign
27 June 2015

LET IT RAIN

But life has more than one dimension where people's ideology, belief, musical performance, livelihood strategies, etc. are interconnected and it is
26 June 2015

Rain triggers landslides

At least 10 people were killed yesterday in incidents triggered by unrelenting monsoon rain that continued to disrupt routine life across the country.
26 June 2015

Wave of terror attacks in three continents

Terrorists attacked sites in France, Tunisia and Kuwait yesterday, leaving a bloody toll on three continents and prompting new concerns
26 June 2015

Razzak back home, finally

BGB Nayek Abdur Razzak “was gnawed by a member of Myanmar BGP” in the scuffle while being abducted on June 17, the BGP delegation claimed at the flag meeting over his return yesterday.
25 June 2015

Oil spill spreads again

More oil spilled from the train wagons that fell into a canal in Chittagong a week ago, threatening the ecosystem in and around the Karnaphuli river.
25 June 2015

New scheme to protect 4 cities from earthquake

The government has taken up a Tk 1,381 crore project to protect four cities, including Dhaka, from earthquakes. About 96 percent of the money would be from the World Bank.
25 June 2015