RMG factory owners have decided to keep factories at Ashulia industrial belt shut on Wednesday amid a fresh wave of labour unrest. Their platform BGMEA said that the decision was made keeping security concerns in view. Earlier on Tuesday, RMG workers…
Apple and Samsung are returning to court in one of the most high-profile patent battles of recent times.
Mashed, boiled, baked or fried? You probably have a preference for your potatoes. Haim Rabinowitch, however, likes his spuds “hacked”.
Police have accused BNP vice-chairman Sadeque Hossain Khoka of instigating bomb attacks that left seven people grievously injured.
Bangladesh Twarikat Foundation will contest the 10th parliamentary polls. The party’s chairman, Syed Nazibul Boshor Maijbhandari, announced this after a meeting on Tuesday with the 14-Party Grand Alliance led by the Awami-League.
Firefighters have doused the fire at a multi-storied building in the Dilkusha commercial area in Dhaka.
Strikers have torched a bus carrying passengers in Dhaka on the third day of the Opposition-sponsored strike, police say.
Dhaka – The International Crimes Tribunal (ICT)-1 today adjourned the hearing of the trial of incumbent Jamaat chief Matiur Rahman Nizami till tomorrow, giving a last chance to his counsels to appear before the tribunal and submit their part of…
Detective police picked up Islamic Party general secretary Abdur Rashid Pradhan from Dhaka’s Naya Paltan on Tuesday.
A Dhaka court on Tuesday acquitted Awami leader and lawmaker Kamal Ahmed Majumder in a corruption case filed by the Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) in 2007.
On Monday, the Prime Minister of Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina chaired a cabinet meeting which decided to grant official government recognition of people who gender identify as Hijras, people who identify as neither male nor female.
Food prices rose sharply in October compared to previous months and the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) blamed it on recent opposition strikes.
Senator John McCain (R-Arizona) says Gen. Keith Alexander, the head of the United States National Security Agency, should be fired or forced to resign for letting contractor Edward Snowden have access to the information he ultimately leaked.
RMG factory owners have decided to keep factories at Ashulia industrial belt shut on Wednesday amid a fresh wave of labour unrest.
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Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has warned that Opposition Leader Khaleda Zia would be tried ‘someday’ for the deaths during the recent shutdowns.
The BNP has demanded the Prime Minister’s resignation to ‘solve the current political impasse’.
The UN has launched an appeal for $301m (£190m) to help relief efforts in typhoon-hit areas of the Philippines.
Awami League leader Mohammad Nasim has asked Khaleda Zia, the Leader of the Opposition, to resign from her post.
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Iran’s foreign minister has blamed divisions between Western powers for the failure to agree a deal on its nuclear programme on Saturday.
Law minister Shafique Ahmed has said that the ministers’ resignations were ‘merely a formality’.
Jason Farago When the Museum of Modern Art in New York opens its retrospective of the pioneering German sculptor Isa Genzken later this month, it will be a momentous event for more reasons than one.
Dhaka – The International Crimes Tribunal (ICT)-1 Monday indicted ATM Azharul Islam, assistant secretary general of Jamaat-e-Islami, for committing crimes against humanity during the War of Liberation.
Police and art experts are checking 22 artworks found in southwest Germany which may be linked to the huge hoard of art treasures seized in Munich.
The third day of the 84-hour countrywide shutdown, enforced by the BNP-led 18-party alliance, passed off on Tuesday amid stray incidents of blasts, vandalism, arrest and clashes at different parts of the country, leaving one dead in Pabna.
Levels of gun violence have more than tripled since 1985 in films rated as suitable for teenagers, according to a US study.
Biodiversity offsetting plans outlined by the government must be strengthened if they are to “properly protect Britain’s wildlife”, MPs have warned.
Two compartments of a passenger has gone off the rails at Teesta railway station, snapping Lalmonirhat’s train links with the rest of Bangladesh.
By Matt McGrath Over one million farmers in the Philippines have been impacted by Typhoon Haiyan according to the UN.