DPL Super League starts today
The teams will have to face a different kind of challenge of coping up without their several key players due to national duty as the Super League of the ongoing Dhaka Premier Division Cricket League starts today...
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Rain brings respite from sweltering heat
A spell of rain accompanied by lightning strikes and gusty wind brought people respite from days of sweltering heat in Dhaka on Wednesday...
Polytechnic students hold demos across Bangladesh with six-point demand
Students of different polytechnic institutes in Dhaka and elsewhere in the country on Wednesday staged demonstrations by blocking roads, highways, and rail tracks to press home their six-point demand, including the cancelation of a High Court verdict allowing the promotion of craft instructors to junior instructors...
Dhaka鈥檚 air in 鈥榰nhealthy for sensitive groups鈥� with AQI score of 133
Dhaka, the overcrowded capital city of Bangladesh, has ranked 10th on the list of cities with the worst air quality with an AQI score of 133 at 9:40am on Wednesday morning...
DNCC evicts illegal stalls, rides from Paris playground
The Dhaka North City Corporation on Tuesday conducted a drive in the capital鈥檚 Mirpur area and demolished illegal stalls and entertainment rides set up for a fair in the Parish playground.
Two staff remanded for beating woman at Dhaka coffee shop
A metropolitan magistrate court in Dhaka on Tuesday allowed the police to take the manager and a staff of Apon Coffee House in the capital鈥檚 Khilgaon area in custody for one day for interrogation in a case allegedly for beating a woman at the coffee shop on April 11...
2 US officials in Dhaka to discuss trade, tariff, Rohingya, politics
Two United States high officials, deputy assistant secretary at the Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs Nicole Ann Chulick arrived at Dhaka on Tuesday, and deputy assistant secretary at the Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs...
Three arrested in connection with Badda theft
The police have arrested three people and recovered Tk 11.66 lakh from Cox鈥檚 Bazar early Tuesday in connection with a theft at a business establishment in Badda, Dhaka.
AL procession in Dhaka demands Yunus鈥檚 resignation
The leaders and activists of the Dhaka North City unit of Awami League brought out a procession in the capital鈥檚 Badda and Rampura areas on Tuesday demanding the resignation of chief adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus.
Probe report submission in Sagar-Runi murder case deferred for 117th time
A metropolitan magistrate court in Dhaka on Tuesday set May 21 for filing a probe report in the case lodged over the murders of journalist couple Sagar Sarowar and Meherun Runi, extending the deadline for the submission of the report for the 117th time...
Dhaka College, City College students clash again
The students of Dhaka College and Dhaka City College in the capital locked in a clash allegedly over an incident of damaging a student identity card on Tuesday morning...
Pahela Baishakh celebrated with festivity across Bangladesh
The nation on Monday celebrated the Bengali New Year 1432 across Bangladesh with festivity by displaying cultural diversities, harmony and unity...
Ekushey Padak winner Prof Ahmad Shamsul Islam dies
Ekushey Padak-winning educationist, scientist, researcher, and author Professor Dr Ahmad Shamsul Islam died early Monday...
2 ASIs closed for negligence of duty
Two assistant sub-inspectors of Savar model police station were closed for negligence of duty.
Barshabaran Ananda Shobhajatra addresses diverse issues
The traditional colorful procession to celebrate Bengali new year organised by Dhaka University renamed as Barshabaran Ananda Shobhajatra addressed diverse political and cultural issues on Monday morning.
Pahela Baishakh celebrations under way
The nation is celebrating Pahela Baishakh, the first day of Bangla year 1432, across Bangladesh with festivity, upholding the rich cultural values and rituals.
The procession of Pahela Baishakh
1989. It had already been way more than five years since Hussein Muhammad Ershad assumed office in December 1983. A political gloom filled the air. Not only in the capital Dhaka, but everywhere. We could feel the fearfulness, the gloom and the repression, then still living in a western small town, eagerly hoping to step in the University of Dhaka as a student...
Wasi six-for trumps Zahiduzzaman ton
Wasi Siddique claimed a career-best six for 52 as Gazi Group Cricketers secured a 51-run win over Brothers Union in the last round of league phase of the ongoing Dhaka Premier Division Cricket League at the BKSP-4 on Sunday.
Man to die for killing wife pouring hot oil
A Dhaka court on Sunday convicted and sentenced Mizan Sardar to death for murdering his wife Rupa Akter by pouring hot oil on her while she was asleep...
SCB organises seventh meeting of board of directors
The seventh meeting of the board of directors of Shippers鈥� Council of Bangladesh for the terms 2024 and 2025 was held on Sunday afternoon at the conference room of the organisation in Dhanmondi, Dhaka, says a press release.
Train derailment cuts Dhaka鈥檚 rail link with north
Rail communication of Dhaka with the northern parts of the country remained suspended on Sunday afternoon as four wheels of a coach of a train derailed on Dhaka-Tangail rail route in Salna area of Gazipur district.
Process of model Meghna鈥檚 arrest was not proper: law adviser
Law affairs adviser Asif Nazrul on Sunday said that the process of the arrest of model and Miss Bangladesh Foundation chairperson Meghna Alam was not proper...
DB chief Rezaul Karim transferred to DMP HQ
Detective Branch additional commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police Rezaul Karim Mallik has been transferred to the DMP Headquarters as additional commissioner...
DMP identifies DU arsonist, arrest expected before Pahela Baishakh
Dhaka Metropolitan Police has identified the miscreant responsible for setting fire to a motif at the Faculty of Fine Arts of Dhaka University ahead of the Pahela Baishakh celebrations and the suspect is expected to be arrested by Monday morning, before the Ananda Shobhajatra begins, said DMP commissioner Sazzat Ali...
Dhaka鈥檚 air quality turns 鈥榰nhealthy鈥� with AQI score of 179
Dhaka, the overcrowded capital city of Bangladesh, has ranked 5th on the list of cities with the worst air quality with an AQI score of 179 at about 8:30am on Sunday morning...
DNCC takes possession of its share in Sheraton after 10 yrs
The Dhaka North City Corporation has finally taken possession of its share in the Sheraton Hotel building in Banani, Dhaka, bringing an end to a decade-long deadlock over share distribution in the Borak-DNCC.
DU holds finale of Mathematics Olympiad
The finale of Bangladesh Mathematics Society-AF Mujbiur Rahman Foundation 15th National Undergraduate Mathematics Olympiad 2024 was held at the AF Mujbiur Rahman Mathematics Building of Dhaka University on Saturday.
Massive rally in Dhaka calls for end to genocide in Gaza
Thousands of people from all walks of life on Saturday joined 鈥楳arch for Gaza鈥� in Dhaka in solidarity with Palestine and promised to stand by the people of Gaza who have been fighting against the Israeli military鈥檚 offensive.
March for Gaza rally to be held in Dhaka today
In protest against the ongoing Israeli genocide in Gaza, a rally of March for Gaza will be held at Suhrawardy Uddyan on Saturday, aiming to intensify global solidarity with the oppressed people of Palestine...
Two motifs symbolising fascism set on fire
An unidentified youth set fire to two motifs crafted for the upcoming Bengali New Year鈥檚 Barshabaran Ananda Shobhajatra at the Faculty of Fine Arts of Dhaka University early Saturday.