Italian authorities try to identify Lampedusa capsize victims
Italian authorities on Friday sought to identify the bodies of 27 people who died when two crowded boats sank off the Mediterranean island of Lampedusa...
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Ferry services disrupted as 2 jetties collapse at Paturia
Ferry operations on the Paturia鈥揇aulatdia route have been severely disrupted after two out of three ferry jetties at Paturia collapsed under the force of a strong current in the Padma River...
Abir Abdullah depicts public suffering
Renowned photographer, photo editor and educator Abir Abdullah has depicted the sufferings of people amid the monsoon rains in Dhaka in his solo photography exhibition titled Troubling Rain under way at Alliance Fran莽aise de Dhaka in Dhanmondi...
Putting back stones begins, drives continue
The local administration on Friday started putting the stones, recovered from the hands of a racket, back to Sadapathar, a popular tourist destination at Bholaganj in Companiganj upazila of Sylhet...
100 tonnes of Indian onion arrive at Sonamasjid
Amid the rising price of onion at local market, a consignment of 100 tonnes of the spicy item arrived at Sonamasjid Land Port of the bordering district of Chapainawabganj from India on Thursday evening...
Singapore ship levied $1b in damages by Sri Lanka
Owners of a Singapore-registered vessel urged Colombo on Friday to consider more 鈥榬ational鈥� compensation after they were ordered to pay $1 billion in damages for causing Sri Lanka鈥檚 worst case of environmental pollution...
Japan鈥檚 emperor expresses 鈥榙eep remorse鈥� 80 years after WWII
Tens of thousands of people braved blazing heat to pay their respects at a controversial Japanese shrine on Friday, as Emperor Naruhito spoke of his 鈥榙eep remorse鈥� on the 80th anniversary of the nation鈥檚 World War II surrender...
Afeida, Sapna join Bhutan鈥檚 RTC for AFC WCL mission
Bangladesh women鈥檚 national team captain Afeida Khandaker and midfielder Sapna Rani have joined Royal Thimphu College Women鈥檚 Football Club ahead of the AFC Women鈥檚 Champions League preliminary round on Friday...
鈥榃inning titles in the future鈥� drives Mueller
Germany and Bayern Munich great Thomas Mueller said Thursday he remains focused on winning titles as he prepares for Major League Soccer life with the Vancouver Whitecaps...
Manufactured freedom and myth of choice
WHAT if the most sinister achievement of modern capitalism is its ability to convince people that their suffering is entirely self-inflicted? Netflix鈥檚 Squid Game, which burst into global consciousness in 2021, isn鈥檛 merely a dystopian thriller, it is a masterclass in economic allegory. On the surface, it tells the story of 456 people who voluntarily sign up to compete in...
Appointment criteria for Revenue Division secretaries made
Knowledge, skills and experience will be the determining factors for the appointment of top officials to the newly proposed two divisions created by splitting the National Board of Revenue, said officials...
3 demolition workers killed as roof of abandoned building collapses in Netrakona
Three workers were killed and two others seriously injured when the roof of an old building collapsed during demolition work at the Bangladesh Agricultural Development Corporation鈥檚 Irrigation Office in the Nagra area of Netrakona town...
IUB wins Best Paper Award at IEEE QPAIN 2025
The department of electrical and electronic engineering of Independent University, Bangladesh has recently received the Best Paper Award in the Poster Paper Presentation category at the 2025 IEEE International Conference on Quantum Photonics, Artificial Intelligence, and Networking...
A way to ensure diversity of opinions
IN RECENT years, debates over electoral reform in Bangladesh have intensified, with many policymakers, academics and citizens arguing for a system that would represent the diversity of political opinions. One potential model comes from Japan鈥檚 house of representatives, which uses a combination of single-seat constituencies and proportional representation. Adopting...
25,000 families marooned as Teesta, Padma swell
About 25,000 families in Lalmonirhat, Chapainawabganj and Rajshahi districts were marooned on Wednesday as low-lying areas have been flooded due to a persistent rise in the water levels of the Teesta and Padma rivers...
Drives launched against white stone looters at last
The authorities on Wednesday began drives against the people responsible for widespread looting of stones from Sadapathar, a popular tourist spot, at Bholaganj under Companiganj upazila in Sylhet district...
Passengers suffer as rail line blocked at Ullapara for six hours
The students of Rabindra University Bangladesh on Wednesday blocked the Dhaka-Ishwardi rail line for around six hours demanding their permanent campus...
C鈥檔awabganj low-lying areas flooded; 8500 families marooned
The rising water level of the Padma River fueled by upstream floodwaters and monsoon rains, has flooded the low-lying areas in Chapainawabganj, leaving 8,500 families stranded in six unions in Sadar and Shibganj upazilas...
Japan boxing to adopt stricter safety rules after deaths of two fighters
Japanese boxing officials said on Tuesday they would introduce urine tests, stricter rules on weight loss to prevent dehydration and improve medical cover at bouts following the deaths of two fighters.
Man in ApBN uniform killed Anas, father testifies at tribunal
Shahriar Khan Palash, father of martyr Shahriar Khan Anas, on Monday testified at the International Crimes Tribunal 1 that the man who targeted, shot and subsequently killed his son was in the uniform of Armed Police Battalion...
Rapist of woman with disabilities held in Rangpur
The Rapid Action Battalion arrested the accused in the rape of a woman with disabilities at Keranirhat under Hajirhat metropolitan police station in Rangpur city...
Mobile exhibition of uprising photographs begins
A two-day mobile exhibition of the 2024 July mass uprising photographs began in the capital Dhaka on Monday with the exhibition travelling the city areas where the autocratic Awami League regime had faced significant resistance during the uprising...
Tributes to legendary Japan striker hailed by Pele
Japanese football has paid tribute to Kunishige Kamamoto after the country's most prolific striker died aged 81.
New extraction phase begins at Barapukuria Coal Mine
Authorities have launched a new phase of extraction at the Barapukuria Coal Mine in the north-western region, expecting to dig out 3.94 lakh tones of hydrocarbon from the quarry in the next one year.
Apple to hike investment in US to $600b over 4yrs
Apple will invest an additional $100 billion in the United States, taking its total pledge to $600 billion over the next four years, US president Donald Trump said Wednesday...
foodpanda launches pandapro WEEKS
Online food and grocery delivery platform foodpanda, has launched 鈥榩andapro WEEKS鈥�, offering 30 per cent off on food orders for pandapro subscribers...
Growing case backlog warrants early, effective intervention
THE number of cases pending with the courts has reached a little more than 4.33 million as of March. Subordinate courts have about 3.69 million cases pending, the High Court Division of the Supreme Court 599,000 cases pending and the Appellate Division 34,926 cases, as 抖阴精品 reported on August 10. There were about 4.05 million cases, keeping to Supreme Court...
Courts burdened with 43 lakh pending cases
The backlog of cases in the Supreme Court of Bangladesh continues to grow, with data showing a steady increase in pending matters across both the High Court and Appellate Division 鈥� raising concerns about the pace and impact of ongoing judicial reforms.
2 arrested for killing, dismembering body at Tongi
The Rapid Action Battalion on Saturday arrested two suspects over the killing of a bus helper named Oli Mia, whose dismembered body was recovered from Gazipur鈥檚 Tongi on Friday...
Nagasaki bell rings in 80yrs since A-bomb
Twin cathedral bells rang in unison Saturday in Japan鈥檚 Nagasaki for the first time since the atomic bombing of the city 80 years ago, commemorating the moment of horror.
