Keraniganj, Feb 07 (UNB) - Diarrhoea, which broke out at different villages in Nawabganj upazila on Monday evening, improved with more than a dozen patients being released from hospital overnight. Earlier, diarrhoea b...

Benapole, Feb 07 (UNB) - Police in separate drives arrested three alleged drug peddlers along with 4.3 kg of hemp and 38 bottles of phensidyl in Jessore town on Monday night. The arrested are: Jony, son of late Maniru...

Sylhet, Feb 07 (UNB) - Dacoits looted cash, gold ornaments and other valuables worth Tk 20  lakh from a businessman`s house at Kushighat in the city on Monday afternoon. Police said a gang of armed dacoits entered â€...

Khulna, Feb 7 (UNB) - Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) seized a truck loaded with huge smuggled Indian clothes and medicines worth over Tk 3 crore from the city’s Moilaputa area early Monday.Being tipped off t...

Dhaka, Feb 07 (UNB) - A devastating fire broke out at Ghatpara Road in the capital`s Kuril under Badda police station early Tuesday. However, no casualty is reported. Baridhara fire service sources said the fire which...

Satkhira, Feb 7 (UNB) - A mobile court on Monday fined two bookshops in the district town Tk 4,000 for selling banned notebooks.The mobile court led by Executive Magistrate Mashruba Ferdous conducted a drive at Boi Mel...

Brahmanbaria, Feb 7 (UNB) - The Indian Border Security Force (BSF) has agreed to put on hold temporarily the construction of a bridge on no man’s land.The decision came following a flag meeting between Border Guard Ban...

Dhaka, Feb 6 (UNB) - Iraqi Ambassador to Bangladesh Shakir Qasim Mahdi has said his country is eager to build up solid and workable bilateral relations with Dhaka.The Iraqi envoy expressed the desire during a meeting w...

Dhaka, Feb 6 (UNB) - The number of unemployed population in the country is 2.6 million or 4.5 percent of the total labour force, reveals the latest Labour Force Survey-2010.The findings of the Bangladesh Bureau of Stat...

Dhaka, Feb 6 (UNB) – The taka is strengthening against the US dollar and showed a 0.41 percent growth in its value during the last seven days, Bangladesh Bank said on Monday.The central bank thinks that the taka will b...