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Ganatantra Mancha extends support to teacher-student movements

News —6 July, 2024 01:00

Ganatantra Mancha, an alliance of several opposition parties, on Friday extended its full support to the ongoing public university teachers’ movement…

Ganatantra Mancha extends support to teacher-student movements

Light to moderately heavy rain likely across country

Light to moderately heavy rain or thundershowers accompanied…

Light to moderately heavy rain likely across country
BSF kills Bangladeshi youth along Thakurgaon border: Police

A 28-year-old Bangladeshi youth was gunned down allegedly by…

BSF kills Bangladeshi youth along Thakurgaon border: Police

Tulip, Rupa, Afsana, Rushanara reelected UK lawmakers

Tulip, Rupa, Afsana, Rushanara reelected UK lawmakers

Labour candidate Tulip Siddiq, the granddaughter of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, has secured her fourth term as MP for Hampstead and Highgate, UK, with 23,432 votes (48.3 percent).…

Argentina reaches Copa America semifinals, astounding Ecuador

Argentina reaches Copa America semifinals, astounding Ecuador

Emiliano Martínez saved Argentina's bid for a second straight Copa America title after the Albiceleste conceded a tying goal to Ecuador in second-half injury time. Martínez…

5 die in Dinajpur road crash

5 die in Dinajpur road crash

A head-on collision between a passenger bus and a truck on Dinajpur-Phulbari regional road in Panchbari area under Dinajpur Sadar upazila occurred early Friday, leaving five people…

Record number of UK Cabinet ministers defeated in election

Record number of UK Cabinet ministers defeated in election

A record number of Cabinet ministers lost their seats on Friday in Britain's general election, leaving only a couple of obvious contenders for the party leadership if Rishi Sunak resigns.…

Three Bangladeshis die in Saudi 
 factory fire

Three Bangladeshis die in Saudi factory fire

Three Bangladeshis from Naogaon's Atrai upazila have died in a factory fire in the Musaasa neighborhood of Riyadh. The fire, which broke out around 5 PM local time on Wednesday, left…

Central BCL forms probe committee over JnU BCL's controversy

Central BCL forms probe committee over JnU BCL's controversy

The central committee of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) formed a two-member comittee to investigate the recent controversy of the JnU Chhatra League, including alleged question paper…

Government servants rules being amended

Government servants rules being amended

Cabinet Secretary Md. Mahbub Hossain has said Government Servants (Conduct) Rules, 1979 is being amended. He said this while replying to journalists after the end of the meeting…

Sunak concedes Tory defeat

Sunak concedes Tory defeat

Rishi Sunak has said he accepts responsibility for the Conservative Party's historic general election defeat. Sir Keir Starmer has led the Labour Party to a landslide victory and will…

Polling starts in Iran presidential election runoff

Polling starts in Iran presidential election runoff

Polls opened Friday for Iran’s runoff presidential election, the interior ministry said, pitting reformist candidate Masoud Pezeshkian against ultraconservative Saeed Jalili…

'I'm not going anywhere,' Biden tells crowd

'I'm not going anywhere,' Biden tells crowd

US President Joe Biden vowed to keep fighting Thursday despite calls for him to bow out of the 2024 election race, saying at an Independence Day celebration at the White House he's "not going anywhere." The 81-year-old president, responding to a supporter who told him to "keep up the fight," said: "You got me man. I'm not going anywhere."

Risks multiply for Mediterranean-bound migrants, UN

Risks multiply for Mediterranean-bound migrants, UN

More migrants and refugees are embarking on dangerous journeys across Africa toward the southern shores of the Mediterranean Sea where they face growing risk of abuse such as kidnapping…

Hezbollah launches attack after commander killed in Israeli strike

Hezbollah launches attack after commander killed in Israeli strike

Hezbollah launched a major rocket and drone attack on Israel on Thursday and threatened to target new sites in retaliation for the killing of one its top commanders. The party fired…

Selected researchers, innovators, specialists get Saudi citizenship

Selected researchers, innovators, specialists get Saudi citizenship

Saudi citizenship has been granted to a number of scientists, doctors, researchers, innovators, entrepreneurs, and people who have unique capabilities, expertise, and specializations,…

89 migrants dead at sea off Mauritania: news agency

89 migrants dead at sea off Mauritania: news agency

Nearly 90 migrants bound for Europe perished when their boat capsized earlier this week off the coast of Mauritania, the state news agency and a local official said Thursday, while…