An eight-member probe committee has been formed to investigate the fire in two ships carrying liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) at Kutubdia point of the Bay of Bengal that occurred early Sunday, officials said.
The Chittagong Port Authority formed the co…
At a time when many Nepali were celebrating the Dashain festival, a group of Nepali youths was busy conducting an International Astronomical Olympiad in Nepal.
First of its kind in Asia, the event was organized jointly by the Nepal Astronomical Socie…
Durga Puja, the most significant religious festival for the Bengali Hindu community, ends today with the immersion of Goddess Durga’s idols in water bodies across Bangladesh. In Dhaka, thousands of devotees are expected to gather along the banks of th…
The idol of Durga Bhawani made and set up at Durga Chowk of Jaleshwor municipality-2 in Mahottari district on the occasion of the Bada Dashain has been immersed in a local Barun pond.
The immersion of the idols of Shiva, Ganesha, Kattik, Matalaxmi an…
The National Board of Revenue (NBR) is now putting its focus on settling the long pending cases through Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) system to boost the revenue collection.
The revenue collecting authority of the country is at unease as the f…
Minister for Agriculture and Livestock Development, Ramnath Adhikari, has left here today for Rome, the capital of Italy, in connection with attending the World Food Forum meeting.
Organized by the United Nations, Food and Agriculture Organization (F…
A fire that broke out in the medicine department building of Barishal Sher-e-Bangla Medical College Hospital (SBMCH) has been brought under control within an hour.
The fire broke out in the warehouse of the building, located on the ground floor of th…
Chandra Nahar, the country’s oldest irrigation system, has suffered damage worth millions of rupees due to the recent flooding. The dykes on various parts of the main irrigation canal have crumbled.
The Chandra Canal was completed in 1928.
The irrig…