DHAKA: The government Saturday started distributing compact florescent lamp (CFL) bulbs to house owners for free under a countrywide operation as a measure for healing a nagging power crisis.To start with, the government set a target of handing out some 55 lakh of the energy-saving bulbs

LALMONIRHAT: Low-lying areas in four upazilas of the frontier district were submerged by floodwaters amid incessant rain for the last few days and onrush of hill waters, leaving about 20,000 people virtually marooned.Standing crops on a vast tract of land in Hatibandha, Kaliganj, Aditmari

NARAYANGANJ: A loaded trawler carrying jackfruits sank in the Shitalakhya River near Godnail Padma depot of Siddhirganj on Saturday morning, leaving a passenger missing.The passenger, Habi, 55, was an inhabitant of Moulvibazar village under Kalkini thana of Madaripur district, Siddhirganj

DHAKA: Two Pakistani citizens were held at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport on Friday night on suspicion that they might be Taliban militants, but were set free after cursory quizzing, official sources said. The two suspects--Humayun Kabir and his brother Nasir Ullah—went into

Dhaka: Journalists, cutting across the divide along their apparent political lines, staged a solidarity rally in front of the Central Shahid Minar Saturday to press their demand for immediate resumption of the embroiled Jamuna TV channel’s operation.They said government “interference

DHAKA: President Zillur Rahman left for London on Saturday morning for medical checkup at Bupa Cromwell Hospital.A flight of the Emirates Airline carrying the President and his entourage left Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport at 10:20am. He will have a stopover in Dubai at night,

DHAKA: At least 15 people were injured in a clash between truckers and students of Haradey Glass Factory Polytechnic Institute in Satrasta truck-terminal area of Tejgaon on Friday night.Four students amongst the injured--Moniruzzaman Tuhin, Razab, Dulal and Sajal Chowdhury--were admitted

NOAKHALI: Two people drowned as a mechanized boat capsized in the Bamni River in Companiganj upazila on Saturday morning.The deceased are Nur Mawla, 40, and Sekandar Ahmed, 55.Companiganj Upazila Nirbahi Officer Amjad Hossain said the trawler with 40-45 passengers aboard overturned at

DHAKA: Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid Saturday emphasized the need for technical and vocational education for the youths for building a modern Bangladesh by 2021, as envisioned by the Grand Alliance government.  “This is a top priority area for the government in the new education

DINAJPUR: Two physicians of Dinajpur Medical College Hospital, among three, were killed and five others injured in a head-on collision between a truck and a microbus in Ghoraghat area on Dinajpur-Rajshahi Highway Saturday.The deceased are Professor Toyebuddin Ahmed, 55, and Professor

DHAKA: Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) called for countrywide demonstration and protest rally tomorrow - June 20th protesting government’s harassment on journalists and interference on mass media. All BNP Union leaders and activists, Pourasavas and district BNP leaders and activists

Dhaka: Two Pakistani citizens were held at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport Friday night at about 9:30. The detained were suspected Taliban militants Humayun Kabir and his brother Nasir Ullah. Special branch of police (SB) seized the suspected militants’ passports and released

SAVAR: Police and garment workers locked in a fierce clash in Ashulia on Saturday morning that left at least 50 people injured, including 10 policemen. Witnesses and police said that the clash ensued when the workers of Nasa Group were agitating in front of their factory for minimum wages

Sirajganj: Three people, including a father and his son, were killed as a rashly-driven truck rammed into a CNG-run auto-rickshaw on Bogra-Nagarbari highway in Raiganj upazilla Saturday morning.Two of the deceased were identified as Radhasham Kundo, 60, and his son Meghnad Kundo, 25, of

DHAKA: A total of 60 Bangladeshi nationals have been arrested in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), officials said. Officials in Abu Dhabi Bangladesh Mission confirmed the arrests, saying that the expatriates were arrested for ‘overstay’ in the oil-rich gulf

KISHORGANJ: A minor boy drowned in a pond at Kodalia village in Pakundia upazila Friday.The victim was identified as Rana Mia, 5, son of Rokonuddin of the village.Family sources said Rana drowned in the pond near his house while having a bath at about 11 am. “Villagers saw Rana floating

DHAKA: Aggrieved bharatias Friday forwarded a 16-point charter of demands, including introduction of monthly rent memo, cessation of taking advance money as security deposit and an amended regulation controlling house-rent.Leaders of Jatiya Bharatia Parishad came up with the demands at a

DHAKA: The breakdown-ridden Bangura gas-field will take one more week to resume operation after completion the replacement work on the 100-meter pipeline from the anchor point to the processing plant.Multinational company Tullow, the operator of the gas mine, has sought the time, said

DHAKA: Garment workers under the banner of a federation will march on parliament on June 24 to press their demands that boil down to one: higher pay and perks.National Garment Workers Federation Friday announced the fresh programme of ‘road march’ on their demands for budgetary

Chittagong: Opposition consensus candidate Manjur Alam was Friday unofficially declared elected Mayor of Chittagong, country’s commercial capital and a stronghold of the ruling Awami League, as his former boss was overwhelmingly voted down after three consecutive terms.Returning Officer