A Dhaka court on Tuesday issued warrant of arrest against Krishak Sramik Janata League president Kader Siddiqui in a defamation case for calling former Minister MK Alamgir a ‘Razakar’. Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Ali Masud Sheikh passed the order as…
Google latest “moonshot” is an apt one – it is investing in a Nasa-owned airfield to expand research into space exploration and robotics.
A cyclist has ridden a rocket-equipped push bicycle into the record books by attaining speeds of 207mph (333km/h) at a racetrack in France.
The United States government has called for the execution of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami leader Md Kamaruzzman to be halted until the proceedings against him ‘can be shown’ to have met the country’s ‘domestic and international obligations,’ leading daily NewAge has reported.…
Jennifer Lawrence has joined her castmates at the world premiere of the penultimate Hunger Games movie, Mockingjay Part 1, in London.
The Bachchan family loves Karan Johar. While the Big B, Jaya Bachchan and Abhishek have all been part of Karan’s Dharma Productions, the Bachchan bahu has somehow never been a part of his films. But that might change now.
A hunger strike has been launched in Guinea in protest against the military’s presence in a village where an Ebola awareness team was killed in September.
Eleven Indian women have died after undergoing botched sterilisation surgery at a government-run health camp in the central state of Chhattisgarh.
World governments have been breaking promises to phase out subsidies for fossil fuels, a report says.
The first batch of the 52-member Bangladesh contingent for the 4th Asian Beach Games-2014 will leave here for the Thai tourist town Phuket tomorrow (Wednesday), with a high hope for women’s kabaddi medal.
Bangladesh will take on Zimbabwe in the 3rd and last match of the Bashundhara Cement Test Series on Wednesday with an opportunity to whitewash the visiting side at Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium in port city Chittagong.
Captain Misbah-ul-Haq hit a third successive century and Younis Khan smashed his fourth hundred in five innings as Pakistan declared on 566-3 in the first test against New Zealand on Monday.
Speakers at the concluding ceremony of a training course on Monday afternoon said women leaders of the community-based organisations (CBO) could play vital role in preventing social erosions to accelerate rural uplift.
At least 15 shops were gutted and some others partially burnt as a fire broke out at Bandar area under Banaripara upazila of the district last night.
A day-long workshop on crop protection from pests organized by Jessore chapter of Bangladesh Crop Protection Association(BCPA) was held yesterday at Madhukhali upazilla headquarter.
The farmers are expecting bumper production of flood-tolerant rice as its harvest continues with excellent yield rate now in the country after expanded and successful cultivation during this Aman season.
Cultivation of potato has been getting momentum in five upazilas of the district during the current season amid much enthusiasm of the farmers after harvesting Aman Paddy.
Speakers at a function here on Monday stressed the need for creating much awareness among the common people to check child marriage to build a better society.
Speakers at a round table conference on Monday underscored the need for concerted effort to create mass awareness for building a tuberculosis free society.
Growers of the region, particularly the vast Barind tract, have become happy over getting satisfactory yield of BRRI-62, a zinc-enriched paddy variety, for the first time.
Members of Indian Border Security Force (BSF) arrested five Bangladeshi construction workers at Balughat in Paschim Dinajpur of India while they were entering the country without valid documents on Monday night.
The ringleader of a forest robber gang and its another member were killed in a ‘gunfight’ with members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) at Harubari of Sundarbans in Sharankhola upazila on Tuesday morning.
A verdict of negligence rather than homicide on three senior officers of a South Korean ferry that sank in April killing more than 300 has angered many victims’ relatives as too lenient. “Do you know how many children are dead?”…
An oil tanker caught fire at a filling station at Baoikhola on the Dhaka-Tangail Highway in Basail upazila on Tuesday morning.
A local Jubo League leader was chopped to death by unidentified miscreants at Mahiganj in Satmatha area of the city early Tuesday.
Police arrested a local leader of Jamaat-e-Islami from Khardar area in the district town on Monday afternoon over violence.
A college student was stabbed to death while a local Awami League leader shot and wounded by unidentified miscreants at Bashpatti in the district on Monday night.
BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir yesterday said the relations between the two countries will get furhter boost if BNP comes to power,” he said while addressing a seminar at Jatiya Press Club in the city. Addressing a…
Russia has expressed interest to launch direct air links with Bangladesh. Russian Ambassador in Bangladesh Alexander A Nikolayev showed his interest in this matter when he met Civil Aviation and Tourism Minister Rashed Khan Menon on Tuesday. It has been…
The disident leaders of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal yesterday demanded withdrawal of expulsion order against three JCD leaders, removal of BNP student affairs secretary Shahid Uddin Chowdhury Annie and assistant secretary Sultan Salahuddin Tuku and cancellation of new committee of the…