Bapex, the state-run petroleum exploration and production company, will today start drilling the first exploration well in the Sunetra structure which has been identified as the most potential structure for gas reserve...Full story
Committee for Justice for Aminul Islam on Thursday demanded handing overt investigation into murder of the labour leader to the Criminal Investigation Department. It made the demand at a news conference...Full story
At least 15 people were killed and 36 were injured in separate traffic accidents across the country on Thursday.
Our Comilla correspondent reported at least five people were killed and two...Full story
Subid Ali Bhuiyan, chairman of the parliamentary standing committee on the power and energy ministry on Thursday, once again advocated coal extraction through the controversial open-pit method at Phulbari and Barapukuria in Dinajpur.Full story
Three academics, including two former Chittagong University vice-chancellors, on Thursday urged the government to change its plan on the Grameen Bank in the interest of 83 lakh poor women members of the bank.Full story
The Bangladesh Judicial Service Commission at a recent meeting has finalised the list of persons selected for nomination against vacancies of 125 assistant judges. After the medical test of the successful candidates...Full story
The 133rd anniversary of death of Hazrat Maulana Shah Sufi Syed Waliullah (R), the 4th descendant of the spiritual leaders of Azimpur Dayera Sharif, was observed at the Dayera Sharif complex in Dhaka on Thursday.Full story
The seventh anniversary of death of Ahmad Taufiq Choudhury, a renowned scholar of comparative religion of the sub-continent and a pioneer of interfaith dialogue, will be observed today.Full story
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson, Khaleda Zia, who is now in Saudi Arabia, will perform umrah at Makkah today. She left Dhaka on Wednesday evening and arrived in Jeddah on Thursday morning.Full story
A man was beaten to death and his son injured reportedly by local miscreants at Fatulla upazila in Narayanganj on Thursday. Raja Mia, 45, a resident of Nandalalpur under the upazila died in the attack and his son Zaman...Full story
Bangladesh Open University will get US$ 2.7 million from Korean International Cooperation Agency for establishing of ICT and web-based learning system in the university.Full story