Turning down the recent study report on climate projects prepared by the Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB), Environment and Forests Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud has said the graft watchdog came up with the report to deliberately undermine his ministry’s successes.
Canadian writer Alice Munro, a thorough, but forgiving documenter of the human spirit, won the Nobel Prize in literature on Thursday for being a “master of the contemporary short story,” the Swedish Academy said.
Five recommendations developed under ICC initiative, including implementation of duty-free and quota-free market access for exports from least-developed countries, could achieve tangible outcomes by the end of 2013, to harvest gains from the WTO’s Doha Development Round.
Oil prices clawed back a little ground Thursday, a day after a big drop precipitated by an increase in U.S. crude inventories.
Closing arguments on charge hearing matter from both the prosecution and defence lawyers, the International Crimes Tribunal-1 set October 28 whether it would indict detained suspect 1971 Al Badr commander ATM Azharul Islam of Jamaat-e-Islami for his involvement in crimes against…
Around 2,000 Awami League leaders and activists joined BNP at Daudkandi upazila here on Thursday.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday inaugurated the much-awaited Elasin Bridge (Shamsul Haque Bridge) over the River Dhaleshwari on Aricha-Ghior-Doulatpur-Nagarpur-Tangail regional highway, fulfilling the long-cherished demand of the people of Tangail and Manikganj.
Police arrested an alleged terrorist at Poddar Bazar in Sadar upazila of the district on Tuesday.
Health minister AFM Ruhal Haque has claimed that improved health services during his government’s tenure pushed up people’s average life expectancy by three years.
Three people, including two cattle traders, were killed in a road accident on the Natore-Rajshahi Highway at Ekdala in Sadar upazila of the district on Thursday.
The closing ceremony of ‘Bangladesh-UK Joint Counter Improvised Explosive Device Training’ was held at Engineer Centre and School of Military Engineering on Thursday.
Travelling on the Dhaka-Ishurdi rail route in Sirajganj has become very much hazardous causing frequent accidents especially for absence of gatemen at most of its level crossings.
Lower-order batsmen BJ Watling and Doug Bracewell frustrated Bangladesh’s bowlers as New Zealand’s tenth wicket stand added 127 on the second day of the first Test in Chittagong on Thursday.
A leader of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST) unit was injured in an attack by miscreants in Subidbazar area of the city on Wednesday night.
Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) in separate drives seized 454 bottles of Indian liquor worth Tk13.63 lakh in Joitapur, Goaighat and Companiganj upazilas of the district early Thursday.
The farmer have achieved bumper production of the off-season Aus crop through producing 5,72,441 tonnes clean rice in the northern region during this season, official sources said.
A woman was killed in a road accident in Kathalia area of the district on Tuesday.
An 18-day vacation in Rajshahi University (RU) begins on Saturday on the occasion of Eid ul Azha and Durga Puja.
By Radio Zamaneh The British Foreign Secretary says Iran and Britain have begun talks aimed at restoring severed diplomatic relations.
By Mike Whitney October 7 marked the 12th anniversary of the Afghanistan War, but you wouldn’t know it by reading the papers. In fact, “America’s longest war” has become so unpopular that both the media and the Obama administration have…
– Barry Eichengreen Berkeley – The dollar is the world’s go-to currency. But for how much longer? Will the dollar’s status as the only true global currency be irreparably damaged by the battle in the US Congress over raising the…
Sachin Tendulkar will retire from cricket after playing his 200th Test against the West Indies next month.
Roger Federer went out of the Shanghai Masters at the last-16 stage as he lost to France’s world number 42 Gael Monfils.
Governments forced to rescue the world’s banking system are being warned there will be no bailout if there is a crisis in the Earth’s climate system.
By Ben Aviss
Egypt has criticised a decision by the US to suspend a large part of the $1.3bn (£810m) in aid it receives, following months of political turmoil.
Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zeidan has returned to his office after being held for several hours by militiamen loosely allied to the government.