At least nine Bangladeshis have been killed in a furniture shop fire in Riyadh on Monday night, the foreign ministry has confirmed. Seven of them -Md Jalal, Abdul Gaffar, Bahauddin, Shah Alam, Nazir Hossain, Matiur Rahman, and ‘Selim’ –from Comilla,…
President Abdul Hamid on Tuesday called for consolidating the country’s communal harmony to promote peace and prosperity. “Bangladesh is a country of communal harmony. I expect that countrymen irrespective of religions and opinions will play proper role in national development…
The government needs to give greater attention to the tourism sector in the coming national budget as it has remained neglected for long despite having huge potentials to help earn huge foreign currency, says a tourism body executive. “We need…
Jamaat-e-Islami’s Chittagong unit chief ANM Shamsul Islam and 20 other activists have been sent to jail in an anti-terrorism case. Chittagong Metropolitan Magistrate Court on Tuesday accepted a bail petition from the leaders as well as a remand petition from…
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Regional director Xu arrives here on a five-day visit starting Saturday. During his visit which is part of a multiple-country one, Xu will observe the success of UNDP’s initiative to reduce urban poverty, disaster management work as…
Twenty-five of the 51 Bangladesh missions abroad have failed to achieve respective export targets for the first 10 months (July-April) of the current fiscal (2013-14). The key Bangladesh missions like the ones in Washington, London, Paris, Ottawa, Tokyo and Canberra…
An express train running between Dhaka and Sylhet caught fire on Tuesday noon, burning down its three compartments. The Dhaka-bound ‘Kalni Express’ caught fire immediately after it had left the Airport Railway Station in the capital at 1:22 pm, Dhaka…
A group of doctors at ZH Sikder Women’s Medical College and Hospital in Dhaka has confined and beaten a journalist for more than two hours as he asked about a cardiologist’s designation. Dr Mohammad Safiul Azam released Prothom Alo Special…
Family members of a Jubo Dal leader who was shot dead by Rab members last year on Tuesday blamed former Rab-11 commanding officer Lt Col Tarek Sayeed Mahmud for the murder and demanded his trial and demanded his body back.…
Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) on Tuesday suspended four of its Rajshahi University (RU) unit leaders for their involvement in the attack on an examination centre. The suspended BCL leaders are RU unit vice-presidents Mehedi Hasan and Rana Chowdhury, joint secretary…
A good number of private clinics and diagnostic centres in the city are operating illegally taking advantage of lax monitoring by the authorities concerned.
Why do turtles migrate to the places they do? What is it that tells them where to swim as adults?
Society has become “supremely arrogant” in ignoring the importance of sleep, leading researchers have told the BBC’s Day of the Body Clock.
A top EU court has ruled Google must amend some search results at the request of ordinary people in a test of the so-called “right to be forgotten”.
Tottenham have parted company with manager Tim Sherwood after the club finished sixth in the Premier League.
Incoming Man United boss Louis van Gaal will make AS Roma midfielder Kevin Strootman one of his opening transfer targets according to the Sunday Mirror.
Two separate studies released this week are announcing a bleak future for the West Antarctic Ice Sheet — and an accompanying sea-level rise across the globe.
Despite the release of a White House report detailing the devastating effects of global warming already underway, many Republicans are unwavering in their belief that humans play no role in climate change.
Seth Rogen admits that in early drafts of the script for “Neighbors,” Rose Byrne’s character was basically just another humorless, nagging wife.
A schoolteacher was killed in a road accident in Kola Bazar area of Kaliganj upazila on Monday night.
A sand trader was reportedly abducted by unidentified miscreants from the Lalon Shah Bridge (West side) in Bheramara upazila early Tuesday.
BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir yesterday alleged that the government was using the law enforcing agencies and their party cadres to kill their opponent political leaders and activists to retain power. In a statement issued protesting the…
Miscreants looted valuables, including gold ornaments and cash, worth Tk 10 lakh from a house at Mokterpara in the district town early Tuesday.
A local BNP leader was chopped to death by unknown miscreants in Nimtala bridge area at Chapali village in Kaliganj upazila on Tuesday morning.
Members of Detective Branch (DB) of police arrested a union parishad chairman at Paikasha village in Kamarkhand upazila early Tuesday in connection with a case filed earlier.
Members of Bangladesh Coast Guard and fisheries department in a drive seized 720 kilograms of jatka (hilsa fry less than 10 centimetres in length) from the Dhaleshwari River in Sadar upazila on Tuesday morning.
Farmers in the district have achieved a bumper production of Boro paddy in the current season as the harvesting just concluded.
Harvest of Boro paddy has been continuing in full swing in the northern region of the country with an excellent yield rate.
By Rebecca Morelle The chance discovery of a deep-sea “graveyard” is helping scientists to shed light on the fate of dead ocean giants, scientists report.
BlackBerry has launched a new low-cost phone “exclusively for Indonesia”, one of the few markets where it is still a key player.