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Heavy fog has disrupted ferry operations on the Padma River for more than ten hours. Ferry operations at the Mawa- Kawrakandi crossing was halted for almost 11 hours starting from Monday 11pm, while the crossing at the Paturia-Doulatdia route was suspended for nine hours. File Photo File Photo Almost every other day, fog is disrupting […]

Japan embassy is going to bring one of its finest musical pairs to enthral Dhaka audience on Thursday and Friday. ‘AKI & KUNIKO’, formed in 2002, blend the notes from their two unmatched string instruments, acoustic guitar and Japan’s national instrument koto. Aki, Hiroaki Sasaki, is particularly known for his creation of new works with […]

A Dhaka court yesterday was once again forced to adjourn the hearing in two graft cases against BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia and eight others due to chaos caused by defence lawyers. The trial of Zia orphanage and Zia charitable trusts corruption cases is underway at the Special Judge Court-3. The same court was forced to […]

These trends generally tend to be fleeting; most of the time fad-driven designs and styles become dated in one season alone. Having to keep up with such forever changing styles is tiring to say the least, not to mention time consuming and expensive. Women experience a conundrum when they want to keep up with the […]

Dhaka: Police found nine more bodies on Saturday after a deadly rampage by tribal separatists in India’s remote north-eastern Assam state, taking the death toll to 32 following two days of violence. The nine bodies, including those of women and children, were recovered from Narayanguri village in Baksa district, some 200 kilometres west of Assam’s […]

Dhaka: Afghan police and villagers began a dangerous search for more than 2,000 people buried under a massive landslide in a remote mountainous region in the northeast on Saturday, amid concern the unstable hillside may cave in again. The United Nations said at least 350 were killed, but officials fear that the toll will rise […]

DHAKA : US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs Fatema Z Sumar will start her two-day visit to Bangladesh today, reports UNB. During her visit, Sumar will meet government officials and business leaders to discuss Bangladesh’s role in trade, and regional connectivity, according to a US embassy media release issued […]

Dhaka: At least two people were killed and dozens more wounded when bombs exploded in two buses on a busy highway in the Kenyan capital Nairobi, officials said. The bombings came just a day after twin attacks in the restive port city of Mombasa, including a grenade attack on a bus, which killed four, and […]