Manila —The Worldwatch Institute’s Climate and Energy Director, Alexander Ochs, met with the Climate Change Commission (CCC) and high-level representatives of the federal and provincial governments of the Philippines recently to lay groundwork for a Sustainable Energy Roadmap for the…
Washington, DC – World population reached 7.2 billion in mid-2013, according to United Nations demographers, with present and projected future growth propelled in part by unexpectedly high fertility in a number of developing countries.
Police in a drive arrested a man along with four live bombs at Mandalgati village in Sadar upazila early Tuesday.
A token hunger strike was observed in Sylhet on Monday demanding immediate resumption of direct flights of the national flag carrier Biman Bangladesh Airlines between Sylhet and London.
Once famed for their educational standards, schools in Sylhet have lost their dignity, with the quality of education a far cry from what was expected earlier, guardians of students say.
A prize giving ceremony to inspire successful fishermen was held on Tuesday at Upazila Parishad Auditorium.
Dupchanchia thana police arrested a BNP leader under Dupchanchia upazila in Bogra district on Tuesday.
A housewife took her own life by taking gas tablet in her house over a family feud in Sarderpara village under Dupchnchia upazila of Bogra district recently.
Aarong, a leading fashion and lifestyle brand in the country, opened its first discount sales center on occasion of holy Ramadan in Barisal at the basement of K Jahan Center on Sadar Road area of the city center Tuesday.
A trial court in Barisal on Tuesday sentenced a drug peddler to life term imprisonment and fined Tk 20 thousand or to suffer six months more RI in default.
Students of Secondary School Certificate Examination of 2015 and 2016 batches protesting introduction of creative (srijonshil) type of curriculum in Mathematics took out procession on city roads, formed human chain and handed over memorandum to the education board officials on…
Police in a drive arrested seven suspected activists of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami from Koillanpur village in Belkuchi upazila of the district early Wednesday.
Police recovered the body of a schoolboy from his house in Muslimpara area of Sadar upazila on Tuesday afternoon.
Local people caught an alleged terrorist along with arms and handed over him to police at Phulbagadi village in Alamdanga upazila on Tuesday night.
Commercial cultivation of cardamom has begun in Benapole stirring interests of many even at the research level.
Police arrested a hemp peddler along with 75 packs of hemp at Mandalgati village in Sadar upazila early Tuesday.
A mobile court here on Tuesday fined owners of six shops a total of Tk1.10 lakh in the district town for selling polythene bags illegally.
A young man was crushed to death under the wheels of a truck at Shankarpur in the district town on Tuesday.
A local Jubo League worker was chopped to death by unidentified miscreants at Badedihi village near Barbazar in Kaliganj upazila on Tuesday night.
With onrush of huge sellers and purchasers the market of fazli, king of mango, has gained momentum in Rajshahi and Chapainawabganj districts, famous for mango production, on the last leg of the mango season.
The Solar Impulse plane has landed at New York’s JFK airport, completing the final leg of a journey across the US on solar power alone.
A Glasgow designer has unveiled a prototype pair of headphones which he claims can harness solar power to keep mobile devices charged.
A ruling Awami League leader was stabbed by ‘miscreants’ at his own home in Netrokona’s Madan Upazila early on Wednesday.
A bomb thrown on Monday night in Laxmipur Bazar area missed former MP of Kushtia and President of Jatiyatabadi Muktijudhha Dol Sohrab Uddin but ended up injuring some of his companions, says police.
An explosive-laden car targeted a shopping mall in the Bir al-Abed area, nearby Hezbollah’s so-called security square’, where many of the party’s officials live and have offices.
CAIRO – Saudi Arabia pledged $5 billion in grants and loans to Egypt’s new government on Tuesday, a second major promise of aid from the Gulf after the ouster of the country’s Islamist president.
The economic (market) value of FC Barcelona’s Argentine superstar Lionel Messi is more than twice that of the second-best soccer player in the world, Portugal’s Cristiano Ronaldo who plays for Real Madrid, according to an annual report published in June…
Air pollution can cause lung cancer and seems to worsen heart failure, researchers reported in two studies released Tuesday.
Don Lee and Jim Puzzanghera
Rejecting the Prime Minister’s remarks that the next general election will be held the way elections are held in other parliamentary democracies, opposition BNP on Tuesday urged the government to arrange it under a non-party caretaker government shunning its stubbornness…