Thakurgaon-1 by-election: Interviews of BNP nomination seekers end, decision later
Ahead of the by-election to the Thakurgaon-1 constituency, the party’s national standing committee has interviewed BNP’s nomination seekers. However, who will be the party’s candidate in this constituency will be announced after the…
Try to do Tk 10 crore work for Tk 7-8 crore: LGRD minister to LGED
Local Government, Rural Development and Cooperatives Minister Dr Abdul Moyeen Khan has called on officials of the Local Government Engineering Department (LGED) to implement development projects by ensuring maximum use of the country’s limited…
Body of CoU teacher’s son found in jungle a day after going missing
Police have recovered the body of 13-year-old Apratim, the only child of the couple Dr Nahida Begum, associate professor of the Bangla department of Cumilla University, and KM Firoz Shahriar. He had gone missing after going out with his mother’s…
Car swept away by floodwater in India’s Madhya Pradesh, 8 dead including 7 of a family
Eight people, including seven of the same family, have died after a car was swept away by the force of floodwater in Agar Malwa district of India’s Madhya Pradesh. The accident occurred near the Baglamukhi temple in the Nalkheda police station area…
Children of poor families still not getting equal opportunity in education: Dr Nazneen Ahmed
Although access to education has increased, children of poor families are still not getting equal opportunities, Dr Nazneen Ahmed, executive director of the Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD), has remarked. She said there is no gain in merely increasing…
US calling high-level meeting on AI around UN session
The Trump administration is going to organise a high-level event on artificial intelligence (AI) during the United Nations General Assembly session in New York next week. It is thought that the AI issue will get considerable importance at this gathering…
Rishi Sunak at Cowdrey Lecture at Lord’s: ‘Cricket can be a great force for national unity’
Former UK prime minister Rishi Sunak has delivered the 24th ‘Cowdrey Lecture’ of the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) at Lord’s Cricket Ground. He spoke at this event as the third person after Archbishop Desmond Tutu in 2008 and Stephen…
Not Rohit or Kohli, Pujara is Cummins’ toughest opponent against India
Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma have long been familiar faces of India’s batting line-up. They have always tried to give their best to dominate opposition bowlers and bring the team success. The relationship between the two is also quite friendly.…
Mamitha Baiju’s winning run at box office, films’ earnings cross Rs 1,000 crore
Actress Mamitha Baiju is having a brilliant time at the South Indian cinema box office. She is getting one success after another in films of both languages, Malayalam and Tamil. The combined worldwide earnings of several of her films have crossed Rs…
‘Dream hero’ Salman Shah’s 55th birthday today
Today, 19 September, is the 55th birthday of Salman Shah, Dhallywood’s short-lived hero. The ‘dream hero’ of Bangla cinema was born on this day in 1971 at Zakiganj in Sylhet. Although his life stopped at the age of only 25, his place in…