Hundreds of trees, electric poles damaged in Kapasia

Hundreds of trees were either broken or uprooted and electric poles damaged in Kapasia upazila of…

15 died of heatstroke in the last two weeks: DGHS

A total of 15 people died across the country due to heatstroke in the last 15…

Trudeau, Jaishankar’s first reactions to 3 Indians’ arrest over Nijjar murder

Canada is a rule-of-law country with a strong and independent justice system, Canadian Prime Minister Justin…

Death toll climbs to 66 in Brazil flooding, 101 missing

The death toll from heavy rains that have inundated Brazil’s southern state of Rio Grande do…

India FM rejects Joe Biden’s ‘xenophobia’ comment

Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar rejected US President Joe Biden’s comment that “xenophobia” was hobbling the…

One Indian soldier killed in ‘ambush by militants’ in Jammu and Kashmir

One soldier was killed and four injured as an Indian Air Force (IAF) convoy in Jammu…

Dubious reward for a select few

NRB Commercial (NRBC) Bank has often made headlines for alleged money laundering, loan irregularities, over-expenditure and…

20 plates of rice, 118 plates of curries for a lunch of 4!

NRBC Bank’s top managers have great appetites.  On October 24, 2016, the executive committee (EC) of…

Boro harvesting of haor areas almost done

4.38 lakh out of 4.53 lakh hectares have already been harvested Farmers have completed harvesting 97…

3 hurt as bus hits Gazipur City Corporation’s garbage truck

Three people including two cleaning workers of Gazipur City Corporation were injured when a bus hit…

128 Myanmar border troops take refuge in Teknaf

At least 128 members of Myanmar’s Border Guard Police (BGP) took refuge in Bangladesh through the…

Rain, at last, in some parts of Dhaka

After a month-long severe heatwave, Dhaka experienced rain and thundershowers in parts of the capital last…