150,000 curiosity-seekers have flocked to a Bangladesh hospital on news that a two-headed boy had been born...

Dhaka, Aug 27 (Xinhua) Scientists in Bangladesh have developed ways to produce petroleum from degradable organic municipal waste and are now studying its feasibility before going to commercial...

But an estimated 150,000 people from the region descended on the clinic to try to catch sight of the boy so he was moved to a larger hospital. Police are now mounting a round-the-clock operation to...

Australia will use its three-match one-day series against Bangladesh to look into the future, but that doesn't mean the cricketing minnows will be taken lightly.The all-conquering Aussies are back in...

NEW DELHI: Bangladesh and India are set to compete for the same set of telecom investors with Bangladesh announcing auctions for Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) spectrum close on the heels of...

A young housewife received burns as two young men threw acid at her in the city's Sabujbagh area last night.The two threw acid at Poly Begum, wife of Azizur Rahman, at her rented house at Baganbari...

Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh (CAAB), the regulatory body for civil aviation-related activities, yesterday grounded the Boeing-737 aircraft of Best Air, a private airline, for technical...

The trial court, dealing with Tk 21 crore bribery case against detained BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Tarique Rahman and former state minister for home Lutfozzaman Babar and six others,...

When 26-year-old Shamsul Haque was singing 'O dear mother, you now won't be able to recognise your son' at the closing session of the national conference of acid survivors yesterday, the audience...

The service of Rear Admiral Mostafizur Rahman of Bangladesh Navy has been placed under foreign ministry for posting as ambassador on deputation, says a government...

Four people were killed and eight others injured in separate road accidents in Chittagong, Sirajganj and Barisal in the last two days.BSS from Chittagong reports: Two people were killed and another...

BNP-Jamaat backed 'white panel' teachers of Dhaka University (DU) yesterday rejected the statements of pro-Awami League 'blue panel' teachers on recently held elections to the deanship at the...

Lightning killed three people and wounded 11 others in Dinajpur and Thaurgaon districts yesterday, police said. The dead are Md Idris Ali, 32, a rickshaw-puller of Baluadanga village in Dinajpur...

British High Commissioner in Dhaka Stephen Evans yesterday said some of the major technical preconditions have already been completed for holding a credible election in Bangladesh.Referring to the...

Police recovered a body of a housewife from Jatrabari in the city yesterday.The woman was identified as Shathi Akhter, 20, wife of Mosharraf Hossain, a worker in a book binding shop. Police recovered...

Islamic Foundation Bangladesh (IFB) asked authorities of all mosques across the country to follow similar procedure for Khatam Tarabi during the month of Ramadan.Different mosques recite different...

Speakers at a seminar yesterday called for formulating specific laws and changing attitude towards the domestic helps to ensure their safety in the workplaces.The speakers also said that the...

Dr Md Fazlul Bari, professor of Water Resources Engineering Department of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (Buet), has been appointed vice-chancellor of Rajshahi University of...

A mobile court in the port city yesterday fined owners of vermicelli and ghee factories on different charges and destroyed huge quantity of adulterated products at Khatunganj.The court, led by...

Tension prevails at a labour camp in Kuwait after two supervisors of a cleaning company were beaten up by a large number of striking Bangladeshi workers on Tuesday allegedly over unpaid wages,...

JUVENILES AGAINST CORRUPTION: Students of Namoshankarbati High School in Chapainawabganj taking oath to resist corruption yesterday at a function arranged by TIB. Photo:...

Bangladesh Bank Governor Dr Salehuddin Ahmed waspresent as the chief guest at the SAARC FINANCE seminar onCorporate Governance in Banks and Financial Institutions ata city hotel yesterday. Focus...

Complying with the pre-condition for taking oath as elected post-holders in city corporation, newly elected mayor and councillors of Barisal City Corporation (BCC) yesterday submitted affidavit...

Rangpur Dinajpur Rural Service (RDRS) organised a workshop on 'Government Services for the Poor: The Present Scenario' at its auditorium here as part of a project named 'Empowering The Poor Through...

Over 3000 people from 16 villages in Tala upazila, walked 15 kilometers to Satkhira town yesterday, laid a siege Local Government Engineering Department (LGED) office and submitted a memorandum for...

Dhaka - Thousands of people gathered at a clinic in western Bangladesh see a double-headed baby boy born to a farm worker, media reports said Wednesday. The mass circulation newspaper Ittefaq quoted...

Dhaka, August 27: A baby boy born with two heads in south-western Bangladesh has been placed under police protection because of the curiosity his birth has caused among locals, a doctor said on...

Dhaka - Iceland President Olafur Ragnar Grimsson was scheduled to arrive Friday in Dhaka on a four-day official visit to Bangladesh, diplomatic officials said Wednesday. Grimsson plans to chair an...

Dhaka, Aug 27 : The High Court in Bangladesh Tuesday released former prime minister Khaleda Zia for four months to undergo medical...

Japan will write off 680 million U.S. dollars in debt overdue from Bangladesh under a debt-relief agreement, private news agency UNB reported Tuesday quoting a press release. Japanese and Bangladeshi...

Agencies DHAKA: Bangladesh’s major political parties expressed doubts yesterday about the army-backed interim government’s commitment to holding a promised free and fair election before...

Business leaders of different chamber bodies of northern districts at a discussion at a city hotel yesterday urged the government to move to develop the Phulbari coal mine without any further...

The High Court yesterday directed the Public Service Commission (PSC) and the Election Commission (EC) not to take any step within one month to recruit 85 upazila election officers as per the...

Experts at a seminar yesterday said 'legal clinics' will have to be set up in all upazilas across the country for creating mass awareness against human trafficking and providing legal aid to the...

A special court yesterday deferred the trial proceedings in the Tk 2.99 crore extortion case against former prime minister Sheikh Hasina and her cousin former health minister Sheikh Fazlul Karim...

About 200 vehicles, including buses, were stranded at Daulatdia ferryghat yesterday noon, causing immense suffering to the travelers and delay in transportation of goods and commodities.Inland Water...

An explosion at a chemical plant in southern China killed 11 people, injured 57 and forced the evacuation of more than 11,500 others on Tuesday, a local government website reported.Another eight...

A government initiative to involve local communities in the improvement of education imparted by government primary schools has begun to show results in some schools. Under the initiative and with...

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) is running its activities without a secretary for more than four months.Mokhles ur Rahman, the immediate-past ACC secretary, was transferred as the chairman of...

The three-day ninth home-secretary level meeting between Bangladesh and India begins in Dhaka Friday, with New Delhi likely to press for an extradition treaty to exchange criminals hiding in each...

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) yesterday filed a case against former deputy director of Bangladesh Telecommunication Company Ltd (BTCL) Mohammad Tawfique on charges of amassing huge wealth...

Firing gunshots in a filmy style, armed muggers riding on a motorbike yesterday looted Tk 2.6 lakh from a businessman in the city's Uttara area.A gang of four muggers riding on a motorbike fired...

Bangladesh National Women Lawyers' Association (BNWLA) demanded exemplary punishment to a local Jamaat leader at Pirgachha in Rangpur and schoolteacher Nurul Huq for sexual harassment to his girl...

Four staffs of a cargo vessel were feared drowned in the Meghna near Mohanpur area under Matlab North upazila of the district as it sank after a violent collision with another vessel on Monday...

At least five persons including a traffic constable and an ansar member were injured when criminals charged two hand bombs at Roy Saheb Bazar of under Kotwali Police Station in Old Dhaka...

A court here yesterday issued arrest warrant against five police officers on charges of not appearing before the court for giving deposition in three cases filed in connection with August 17 bomb...

A daylong orientation course on 'human disaster and risk mitigation' was held at Naval Headquarters multipurpose hall in the city yesterday, says an ISPR press release.Bangladesh Scouts, and...

Staff ReporterPropaganda against Bangladesh is rife again in the India's north-eastern state of Assam and branding Bengali speaking people there as intruders, informed sources said.The propaganda...

A consultation workshop to review the implementation status of Hyogo Framework of Action (HFA) in Bangladesh and finalise the yearly progress report of the HFA, which Bangladesh government will...

Speakers at a workshop yesterday urged the government to establish a separate land commission for the indigenous people in order to ensure their welfare. At present, 85 percent of indigenous people...