The Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) Court of Dhaka placed five BNP leaders including Standing Committee members MK Anwar MP and Barrister Moudud Ahmed MP on eight days’ remand in two separate cases. Magistrate Rezaul Karim of the CMM Court rejected…
By Matt McGrath The world’s oceans are becoming acidic at an “unprecedented rate” and may be souring more rapidly than at any time in the past 300 million years.
Opposition leader Khaleda Zia on Thursday warned that there will be no compromise over its demand for the restoration of non-party polls-time government. “There’s no scope for any compromise. We’ll continue our works for the country and establishing the rights of people.…
The new US Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asia Nisha Desai Biswal will meet the Leader of the Opposition Khaleda Zia during her visit to Bangladesh.
Warsaw – Haiti, the Philippines and Pakistan were the countries that suffered the most due to extreme weather events in 2012, according to the Global Climate Risk Index released yesterday at the UN Climate Change Conference in Warsaw, Poland.
An appeal has been filed in the High Court to keep ministers and state ministers from carrying on with their job after having resigned. On Monday, 52 ministers had handed their resignation letters to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to make…
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said that her Cabinet colleagues have ‘only expressed their desire to resign’– and the resignations would be effective only if the President accepts them. This was the Prime Minister’s first reactions on the controversy over…
by Richard Harris The deadly typhoon that swept through the Philippines was one of the strongest ever recorded. But storms nearly this powerful are actually common in the eastern Pacific.
Andrew McGlashan Jade Dernbach believes that England can overcome their difficulties in limited-overs cricket on the subcontinent and make a strong bid to win the World Twenty20 in Bangladesh early next year.
By Kuldip Lal India will lose its greatest cricketer when Sachin Tendulkar retires but the “Little Master” leaves behind records that will not only be tough to beat, but may never be broken.
By Dave Lindorff So National Security Agency Director Keith B. Alexander, who, along with his boss, Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper Jr., thinks that “if you can collect it, you should collect it,” now is asking whether it…
If the spirit is truly willing, perhaps the flesh is not so weak, after all.
A US aircraft carrier and its escort of two cruisers have arrived off the Philippines coast to help communities devastated by Typhoon Haiyan.
Former German President Christian Wulff is going on trial accused of receiving and granting favours in office.
Russia and the UK are teaming up to showcase the best of each country’s cultural heritage during 2014.
Jonathan Glancey ‘Print is dead’ has been the mantra of publishing and new media executives for so long now that a book should be written about it. It would sit on the shelves of the world’s libraries for centuries to…
At least eight people were killed and 15 others injured as two jeeps collided head-on at Ukhia Upazila in the district early Thursday.
Police here on Wednesday recovered four pipe guns at Ramkrishnanagar village in Dumuria upazila.
At least 10 shops were gutted by a fire that broke out in Laribari Bazar area in Kalukhali upazila early Wednesday.
One person was killed when a motorcycle collided head-on with an oil tanker at South Shahjalal Bridge in the city on Wednesday night.
Raquel Rosenberg Intense. This is the best word to define my experience so far at COP 19. Today was only the second day and it feels like a week. Me and the Brazilian Youth Delegation are working together to guarantee…
At least 30 passengers were injured as a train derailed early Wednesday after miscreants removed clips from railway tracks at Kakina under Kaliganj upazila in the district.
At least two people were killed and four others injured as a truck overturned on Dhaka-Bogra highway at Sherpur Upazila early Wednesday.
Police arrested 10 activists of BNP and Jamaat-e-Islami from different places of Sharankhola upazila early Wednesday on charge of hartal-time vandalism.
Scientists and development activists have voiced for formulation of a law restricting further encroachment and degradation of wetland, biodiversity and ecosystem of Chalan Beel area.
A man was killed and two others were injured as a power tiller overturned at Barandi Balihuda village in Jibannagar upazila on Tuesday morning.
Ministers submitted their resignation letters to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in a gesture that is perfectly in keeping with the Constitution, senior Awami League MP Suranjit Sengupta has said.
The integrated checkpost at Agartala along the Akhaura-Agartala part of the India-Bangladesh border will be inaugurated on Sunday.
Experts at a meeting on Wednesday called on the media to play more effective role in raising awareness about tuberculosis.
Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad, Krishak Sramik Janata League President Kader Siddiqui, Bir Uttam, Jaitya Samajtantrik Dal President ASM Abdur Rob and Bikalpa Dhara Bangladesh president Prof Dr AQM Badruddoza Chowdhury held a meeting at latter’s Baridhara residence on Wednesday…