Code-named “Dishfire,” the NSA program collects “pretty much everything it can,” the Guardian said, citing a joint investigation with the UK’s Channel 4 News based on material from fugitive former NSA contractor Edward Snowden. The newspaper said the documents also…
Dead Sea – An inter-regional consultation of senior media executives hosted by the ILO and organised by Panos Europe took place in Jordan, under the patronage of the Ministry of Labour, with the aim of building partnerships with the media,…
Police and joint forces in their separate drives arrested 52 activists of BNP and Jamaat-Shibir from different places of Joypurhat, Comilla, Bagerhat and Chittagong districts from Thursday night to Friday morning.
The wife of Indian minister Shashi Tharoor has been found dead, following reports that he was having an affair, Indian media have said.
Sunanda was 52 years old and has a 21-year-old son from an earlier marriage.
Veteran Indian actress Suchitra Sen has died in the eastern city of Calcutta, aged 82.
More white rhinos were illegally killed in South Africa in 2013 than in any previous year, according to government figures.
Civil Aviation and Tourism Minister Rashed Khan Menon on Friday said the ‘train of militancy’ would have to be stopped at any cost to build a Bangladesh free from communalism.
James Faulkner fired an unbeaten 69 as Australia recorded an extraordinary one-wicket win over England in Brisbane to go 2-0 up in the one-day series.
The Jatiya Party has urged the Election Commission to contact its presidium member Raushan Ershad for any future communications pertaining to the party.
Bangladesh Railway has incurred a loss of over Tk 8.25 crore in two fiscal years (FY07 and FY08) for realising license fee at lower rate from grameenphone, a leading mobile phone operator of the country.
Novak Djokovic continued his impressive progress at the Australian Open with a straight-sets win over Denis Istomin.
BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia on Friday protested the closure of the printing press of the daily Inqilab by the government and the arrest of its three journalists.
Keeping aside her busy schedule, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Friday afternoon spent some pleasant time with the country’s leading poets, litterateurs, writers, journalists, academics, artistes and intellectuals.
North Korean Prime Minister Pak Pong Ju has congratulated Sheikh Hasina on her assumption of the office of the Prime Minister of Bangladesh for the third time.
A two-day business development conference of Islami Bank Bangladesh Limited (IBBL) titled ‘Human Resources and Business Management at Branch Level’ ended at a city hotel on Friday.
Communications Minister Obaidul Quader on Friday said BNP has now become a diplomat-dependent party after failing to make its illogical movement a success.
A local leader of Jubo Dal was stabbed by some miscreants at Duttapara Bazar in Sadar upazila on Thursday night.
Over 100 people were injured in a clash between two groups of villagers in Baniachang upazila of the district on Thursday.
Police arrested two students of an Islamic university in possession of six crude bombs and some bomb making materials at Madambibi in Sitakunda upazila early Friday. –UNB, Chittagong.
Chittagong district police arrested 12 activists of Jamaat-Shibir in an overnight drive in Sitakunda and Satkania upazilas of the district last night.
The farmers of Jamalpur are expecting a bumper production of mustard in the current season.
Rangpur Regional Office of Agrani Bank Limited (ABL) distributed blankets among the cold-hit people at a ceremony on the premises of Khasbag Government Primary School here yesterday.
Different government and non-government organisations extended their helping hands towards the cold-hit poor people in the district.
Ferry service on the Paturia-Daulatdia route remained suspended for seven and a half hours till Friday morning due to poor visibility caused by dense fog.
Apparently pointing finger at Jamaat-e-Islami, the European Parliament has said the political parties which are associated with ‘terrorist acts’ in Bangladesh must be banned.
A Buddhist mob rampaged through a town in an isolated corner of Myanmar, hacking Muslim women and children with knives, a villager and a rights group reported, saying Friday that more than a dozen people may have been killed.
Veteran actor Suchitra Sen breathed her last on Friday morning at a Kolkata hospital. The 82-year-old actor acted mostly in Bengali films, a few in Hindi with Aandhi hitting the screens in 1975.
The country witnessed an unprecedented election in its history and through there is a parliament and a cabinet have already been formed. Who has actually benefitted, the AL, the BNP or the masses of the people of this land? People…
Less than two months into losing the job as the Home Minister, Muhiuddin Khan Alamgir, MP suffered an unexpected humiliation in Kachua upazila on Thursday as shoes were thrown at him at a religious function.