“If no one responds to your call then proceed alone”, urges the Nobel laureate poet Rabindranath Tagore in one of his famous poems. We do not know whether this young man of the picture was inspired by Tagore or not but we discovered him in front of the National Press Club of Bangladesh on October…

Mujibnagar Projonmo of Meherpur organized a gathering of Gano Jagoron Manch Friday night at city’s Shahid Shamsuzzoha Park with language hero and valiant freedom fighter Ismail Hossain in the chair. The spokesman of Gano Jagoron Manch Dr Imran H Sarkar spoke on the occasion saying that Gano Jagoron movement is a name of conscience that…

A large scale disruption in electricity supply network in Bangladesh on Saturday turned the country almost standstill and blind. From 11:30am till midnight the untold sufferings continued in at least 80 per cent of the areas of the facility. Other source said that the disruption was 100 per cent and countrywide. Bangladesh Power Development Board…

NTV, RTV offices are also in the same building A building housing Amar Desh newspaper (closed), its online version, television channels NTV, RTV and many other offices at Karwan Bazar in the Bangladesh capital city Dhaka caught fire mysteriously on Friday. The building is owned by Bangladesh Steel and Engineering Corporation (BSEC). The fire occurred…

Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday said her government wants to utilize the youth force for the country’s socioeconomic development through providing proper training to them. She termed them as the biggest asset of the nation. “We want our youth force to maintain distance from militancy and drug addiction, lead a healthy and beautiful…

The crime review conference of Khulna Division for the month of September, 2014 was held recently at Amjhupi Nilkuthi (indigo house) under Sadar upazila Tuesday with SM Moniruzzaman, DIG, Khulna range in the chair. All the Superintendents of Police of the ten districts of Khulna division attended the conference and presented the crime pictures that…

The certificate awarding ceremony of a 2-week-long training course titled ‘Major Case Management’ was held at International Conference Centre of Bangladesh Police Staff College in the capital city Dhaka on October 28, 2014. The training course was organized in cooperation with the US Embassy in Dhaka, patronized by Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) of USA.…

Amid tight security around the court, capital city and elsewhere in the country, the International Crimes Tribunal (ICT)-1 in Bangladesh on Wednesday (Oct 29, 2014) gave death penalty to former Jamaat ameer Motiur Rahman Nizami for his crimes against humanity committed during the War of Liberation. With the 71-year-old Nizami in the dock, tribunal chairman…

UAE will recruit Bangladeshi female workers for 14 professions Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina returned home from Dubai Monday night concluding her three-day official visit to the United Arab Emirates (UAE). A special flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines carrying the Prime Minister and members of her entourage landed at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka at…

President of Bangladesh, Abdul Hamid, left Dhaka for Dubai Monday (Oct 27, 2014) morning to attend the 10th World Islamic Economic Forum (WIEF). The president left Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka by a regular flight of Emirates Airlines at 9:55am. The WIEF begins on Tuesday (October 28). President Hamid will address the forum the…