The Jatiya Party has proposed an interim government made up of elected MPs to the visiting European Union election monitoring team. JP’s Secretary General ABM Ruhul Amin Howlader told journalists after nearly an hour-long meeting on Sunday that they had…
Election Commissioner Abu Hafiz on Sunday said it will be hard for the Election Commission to hold the next general election keeping parliament in place.
A Dhaka court framed charges against four bloggers in two cases under the Information and Communications Technology Act for writing alleged inflammatory blogs on religious issues.
Alexandra Posadzki, The Canadian Press TORONTO – A wrongful dismissal lawsuit filed by a former SNC-Lavalin employee is shedding some light on the bribery allegations facing the Toronto-area engineer and his one-time boss.
DHAKA: National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) Professor Dr Mizanur Rahman on Sunday said that India staged a drama in the name of Felani murder trial to uphold its image internationally.
Bangladesh has achieved its target for reducing deaths from malaria much ahead of time, experts told a roundtable here on Sunday.
Finance Minister AMA Muhith on Sunday again slammed the World Bank for its action regarding Padma Bridge project, saying “its integrity department must be punished.
More than one hundred houses along with homesteads were eroded by the river Madhumati of Chitalmari Upazila in the district during the last few months.
The two-month-long upazila level Inter school debate competition Bitarka Bikash 2013 concluded here in the district on Friday.
State Minister for Industries Omor Faruk Chowdhury has said rural electrification is very essential to lessen the sufferings of the grassroots people.
Good Heath Hospital (GHH) has conducted free surgeries to 500 poor lips cleft and soft palate cleft babies and general patients here during the last one year under its ongoing health free services programme.
Two dish line workers died from electrocution in Taltali area of the district town on Saturday.
A case was filed against 50 activists of Jamaat-e-Islami and its student wing Islami Chhatra Shibir following a clash between the activists of Jammat-Shibir and Chhatra League in Sarsha upazila headquarter on Friday.
A man was killed in a clash between two groups of villagers in Titas upazila on Saturday afternoon.
A five-year old girl drowned in a pond at Bandhabari village in Kotalipara upazila on Saturday.
Police arrested three alleged robbers at Goaldah in Sadar upazila on Friday night.
A man was killed by his younger brother over a land dispute at Robertsonganj area in Rangpur city on Friday noon.
The probe panel formed to resolve the ongoing crisis of Jahangirnagar University on Saturday held talks with teachers and students here at the campus and accumulated the allegations against Vice-Chancellor Prof Dr Anwar Hossain.
Speakers at Rajshahi University (RU) on Friday demanded that the government should adopt an effective policy to face the challenges of climate changes and to reduce the bad effect of this.
Many Math teachers from Teachers Training Colleges and other educational institutions from secondary level to tertiary level under the project Teaching Quality Improvement Project (TQI) have been trained from Canada.
By Neil Smith
The film version of Nelson Mandela’s autobiography Long Walk to Freedom is to have its world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival in September.
An Italian documentary, which explores the lives of people living along Rome’s notorious ring road, has won the top prize at the Venice Film Festival.
Scientists believe they have discovered a new reason why we need to sleep – it replenishes a type of brain cell.
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A minke whale has been put down by vets after it became stranded in the Firth of Forth just days after the death of a pilot whale in the area.
By James Gallagher
Tokyo will host the Summer Olympics in 2020, after beating Istanbul and Madrid in the final push for the coveted honor. The Japanese capital last hosted the Games in 1964.
Victoria Azarenka believes she will be facing the best player in history when she takes on Serena Williams in Sunday’s US Open final.