Gulistan-Jatrabari road turns commuters’ nightmare
China offers to install two more power plants
China has made a fresh proposal to set up two power plants with a combined capacity of 810 megawatts in Bangladesh on a Chinese government loan, officials said. Full storyHumayun’s body due on Monday
The arrival of mortal remains of popular writer Humayun Ahmed, who died in a New York hospital late Thursday night, has been deferred by a day as tickets for a New York–Dhaka flight were not instantly available. Full storyMashrafee leads Tigers to series sweep
Mashrafee bin Murtaza produced a sterling all-round performance to propel Bangladesh to a two- wicket win over Ireland in the third Twenty20 International to take the three-match series 3-0 in Belfast on Saturday. Full storyFloods aggravate villagers’ plight
The floods aggravated slightly in the northern districts due to surging waters from across the international border increasing the sufferings of thousands of people with several villages reeling under the waters for weeks. Full storyViolence rages across Syria
Heavy clashes raged between Syrian troops and rebels on Saturday, with at least 24 people killed nationwide, as the clock ticked down on a 30-day ‘final’ extension of a troubled UN observer mission. Full storyBangladesh out of ‘ICAO blacklist’
Bangladesh is now out of the countries in the blacklist of the International Civil Aviation Organization. The ICAO blacklists countries for using unsafe civil aviation system. ICAO in an email on Saturday informed... Full storyPGCB to double substation capacity
Power Grid of Bangladesh has decided to double the capacity of the under-construction high voltage substation at Bheramara in Kushtia in order to facilitate power trade with India, PGCB managing director Md Jamal Ullah... Full storyBUET teachers postpone mass resignation
Siblings found dead in city
Two siblings were found dead at their rented residence in the capital’s Joarshahara Saturday afternoon. The police recovered the bodies of Md Javed, 50, and his younger brother Jomshed, 45, and sent them to Dhaka Medical... Full storyNo move yet to have SC stay vacated
The authorities concerned are yet to file a petition to have the Appellate Division order staying demolition of the BGMEA Bhaban vacated. In a verdict delivered on April 3, 2011, the High Court had directed the... Full storyGunmen kill 7 Pak soldiers
Gunmen shot dead seven soldiers at a checkpoint in Pakistan’s insurgency-hit south-western province of Baluchistan on Saturday, officials said, as violence marred the start of Ramadan. Full storyIftar shops along roads dismantled, 20 detained
