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Taiyeb warns about massive cyber attack ahead polls

Chief adviser’s special assistant to the ICT ministry Faiz Ahmad Taiyeb on Sunday warned about massive cyber attacks on the digital infrastructures and propagation of rumours and misinformation ahead of the national election...

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SC defers hearing on govt petition for appeal against Tarique acquittal

The Appellate Division on Sunday deferred until tomorrow the hearing on a government petition for permission to appeal against a High Court verdict that acquitted acting Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairman Tarique Rahman and 48 others in the two August 21 grenade attack cases...

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Ban on battery-run rickshaws demanded

Members of the Road Safety Movement, a joint platform of the activists of the road safety movement, on Sunday demanded a ban on production of battery-run auto-rickshaws, locally made three-wheelers, and their movement on main roads...

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Kashmir and Indus river

INDIA’S Hindutva president, Narendra Modi, has used the Kashmir terrorism incident to abrogate the 1960s Indus Waters Treaty — a longstanding goal of Modi. The Indian version of the ‘terrorist attack,’ most of whose victims were Muslim, has largely been accepted by western governments without evidence...

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Remittances $2.75b in Apr

The country’s remittance inflow witnessed a year-on-year growth of 34.6 per cent, reaching $2.75 billion in April...

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Missile hits Israel airport area in Huthi-claimed attack

A missile struck inside the perimeter of Israel’s main airport on Sunday, wounding six people, halting flights and gouging a wide crater, in an attack claimed by Yemen’s Iran-backed Huthi rebels...

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District council, DNCC in dispute over land occupation, revenue

The Dhaka District Council and the Dhaka North City Corporation have been in long-standing conflict over the occupation of the council’s land used by the corporation as a cattle market at Gabtoli and a half of the revenue collected from the market since 2002-2003....

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Alternate wetting, drying save irrigation water: farmers

Widespread adoption of the Alternate Wetting and Drying irrigation method can save significant volume of water and can markedly reduce methane emissions during rice cultivation, according to experts and farmers...

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Santu Larma leaves for India thru Akhaura check post

Parbatya Chattagram Jana Samhati Samiti president Jyotirindra Bodhipriya Larma, widely known as Santu Larma, crossed into India through the Akhaura check post early Saturday afternoon on a personal visit...

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Fakirerpool beat Ctg Abahani

Fakirerpool Young Men’s Club earned a comeback 3-2 win over bottom-placed Chittagong Abahani in their return leg tie of the Bangladesh Premier League at the Shaheed Barkat Stadium in Gazipur on Saturday...

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2 drug peddlers held in Sylhet

The Rapid Action Battalion arrested two youths at Companiganj in Sylhet on Friday after recovering 249 bottles of Phensedyl smuggled from India.

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Fearing Indian police, Kashmiris scrub ‘resistance’ tattoos

Thousands in Indian-administered Kashmir with ‘resistance tattoos’ including assault rifles inked to oppose New Delhi’s authority have been lining up to scrub them from their bodies, fearing police retribution after a deadly attack on tourists last week.

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Two kidnappers arrested at Uttara, car seized

The police have arrested two individuals for their alleged involvement in the abduction of a man from the Uttara area of the capital city and seized a private car from their possession...

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India plans strike after Kashmir attack: Pakistan

Pakistan said on Wednesday it had ‘credible intelligence’ that India was planning an imminent military strike and vowed to retaliate, as worries of spiralling conflict grew over a deadly attack in Kashmir...

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May Day and forgotten workers

MAY Day, or International Workers’ Day, carries the memory of profound struggle, sacrifice, and the eternal aspiration for dignity among labourers. Rooted in the labour movement’s demand for an eight-hour workday, its origin traces back to the Haymarket Affair in Chicago in 1886. Workers who protested against exploitative working conditions faced brutal...

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CPA signs lease agreement with Al-Hidaayah Int’l School

Chittagong Port Authority signed a lease agreement with Al-Hidaayah International School, a reputed English medium school in the city on Monday as part of its social responsibility and creating a better future for the children of the port authority’s...

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Human rights attacks accelerated by Trump second term: Amnesty

The global system of law and human rights is under threat from a ‘multiplicity of assaults’ which have accelerated since US president Donald Trump’s return to power, Amnesty International said on Tuesday in its annual report...