Khaleda offers fateha at Arafat’s grave
BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia on Sunday offered fateha at the grave of her younger son Arafat Rahman Koko at Banani Graveyard, marking his 1st death anniversary.
BOOK LAUNCH : 1969 upsurge should inspire people to fight militancy
Politicians, academics and women leaders on Sunday at a publication ceremony of a book said the mass upsurge of 1969 played an important part in bringing about the declaration of war of independence of Bangladesh in 1971.
BFUJ president Altaf Mahmood passes away
Bangladesh Federal Union of Journalists president Altaf Mahmood died Sunday morning at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University Hospital.
COLD WAVE : Hospitals flooded with pneumonia, bronchitis-infected children
Kids infected with pneumonia, bronchitis and other diseases caused by cold weather flooded hospitals across the country.
Blizzard strikes East Coast, shuts down NYC travel
A massive winter storm clobbered the East Coast on Saturday, dumping more than three feet of snow in parts of West Virginia and Maryland, tying up traffic on highways, grounding thousands of flights and shutting down travel in the nation's largest city.
35 arrested as migrants storm French port, disrupt ferry traffic
Several hundred migrants, in the presence of supporting demonstrators, broke into the northern French port of Calais, tearing down barriers and allowing about 50 of them to board a ship, the mayor said Saturday.
Trump: I could 'shoot somebody and I wouldn't lose voters'
Donald Trump boasted Saturday that support for his presidential campaign would not decline even if he shot someone in the middle of a crowded street.
Pennsylvania Turnpike traffic starts rolling again after standstill
Travelers stuck on the Pennsylvania Turnpike for almost 24 hours started rolling again Saturday night.
4 killings at school, residence shake town in Saskatchewan
The killings of two adults at a school and two teenage brothers at a residence have left residents shattered, the mayor of La Loche, a small town in northern Saskatchewan, said Saturday.
PM for scout training centre in all divisions
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday directed the authorities concerned to take necessary steps for setting up scout training centres in all divisions to further expand and strengthen the scouting movement in the country.
