Dhaka, Dec 11 (UNB) – US Secretary of State John Kerry on Wednesday phoned Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and welcomed the dialogue between the ruling Awami League and opposition BNP under the supervision of UN Assistant Secretary General for Political…
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has called Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and thanked her for extending cooperation to Oscar Fernandez Taranco to mediate talks between the two major parties. He hoped that Bangladesh’s general elections will be inclusive and held in…
Dhaka – The ruling Awami League on Wednesday reaffirmed its determination to hold the next general election on January 5. The firm resolve came from a meeting of some senior AL leaders held with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at her…
BNP standing committee member Nazrul Islam Khan has said there is no fruitful progress in the talks so far held with the government and warned that the movement for free and fair election would continue until any visible progress developed…
Dhaka – Attorney General Mahbubey Alam on Wednesday told the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court that the Constitution has curbed the right of the person convicted of crimes against humanity during the 1971 Libration War to seek review his…
Bangladesh’s Inspector General of Prisons has been transferred barely five days after an Additional Secretary had been thrust into the job.
The Iranian foreign ministry has dismissed President Shimon Peres’s offer to meet with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, AFP reported Tuesday.
Last month, the Russian government had high level talks with the Japanese, South Korean, Vietnamese, Egyptian and Serb governments, which indicate actual and potential gains, without seeming to lose anything.
Civil society groups promote the government’s plans and attack its opponents – raising doubts over their independence.
The recurrence of waterborne diseases continue reducing everywhere in the rural areas as a result of effective activities being conducted by the concerned government and non-government organisations in recent years. The rural people have achieved laudable success in health, hygiene,…
The World Human Rights Day- 2013 was observed here on December 10 with a call for ensuring universal human rights of every citizen and paving way for normal growth of girl child eradicating child marriage from the society.
Ensuring rights to safe drinking water and sanitation to the people of hard-to reach and disadvantaged areas in the dried region has become an urgent need as they are most vulnerable to the present water-stress context, speakers at an advocacy…
Three years ago, Prof John Beddington, then chief scientist of the UK government, warned that shortages of food, water and energy would unleash public unrest, cross-border conflicts and mass migration by 2030.
Speakers at an advocacy meeting here Tuesday underscored the need for collective efforts of all concerned to make the forthcoming National Immunization Day (NID)-2013 and measles-rubella vaccination campaign-2014 a total success.
Thick fog has led to the cancellation of more than 100 flights at London’s Heathrow and City airports.
West Antarctica continues to lose ice to the ocean and this loss appears to be accelerating, according to new data from Europe’s Cryosat spacecraft.
India’s top court has upheld a law which criminalises gay sex, in a ruling seen as a major blow to gay rights.
A fire in a farmers’ fruit market in south China’s Shenzhen has killed at least 16 people and injured at least three, officials say.
Two signed Damien Hirst works of art worth £33,000 have been stolen from a west London gallery four days after being displayed.
Two “lost” films starring actor Peter Sellers are to be shown in public for the first time in more than 50 years.
Manchester City boss Manuel Pellegrini seemed not to realise his team were one goal away from claiming top spot in Champions League Group D during their 3-2 win over Bayern Munich.
Cristiano Ronaldo became the first player to score nine goals in the group stage of the Champions League as Real Madrid finished their campaign with a win at chilly Copenhagen.
By Dr Gideon Polya The world is farewelling world hero Nelson Mandela (18 July 1918 – 5 December 2013) who is universally admired (except in Apartheid Israel) for his courageous persistence for decades until the evil racism of Apartheid was…
Dr. Sudhurendar Sharma In 2011, a fifth of the global human population perished on account of infectious diseases. With the power of anti-microbial and anti-bacterial drugs literally coming to an end, some 9.5 million people in developing countries paid the…
A report was published in a daily that two villages of Paba upazila under Rajshahi district had been declared free from child marriage on 27 November, 2013. From that time, no early marriage have been solemnised in these two villages.
By Jonathan Amos The coldest place on Earth has been measured by satellite to be a bitter minus 93.2 Celsius (-135.8F).
A floating vessel that is longer than the Empire State Building is high has taken to the water for the first time.
Google has unveiled a new tool that allows users to create a Street View – a 360 degree virtual tour – of any place and share it using Google Maps.
I wrote the following article for the “Close Guantánamo” website, which I established in January 2012 with US attorney Tom Wilner.
Dhaka – Referring to recent decline in readymade garment (RMG) export due to recent political unrest, leaders of the sector and its backward linkages on Tuesday demanded special incentives like special P.C or Baisalam, term loans without interest and halting…