by Danielle Nierenberg, Sarah Small, and Kathleen Murphy Thanksgiving is a good time to remember to be grateful for farmers, farm laborers, cooks, and food service workers. Unfortunately, while we are giving thanks for the harvest, we are also wasting…
The Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) Court of Dhaka yesterday (Tuesday) passed orders to exhume the body of Shamarukh Mahjabin Sumi, daughter-in-law of Awami League’s former MP Khan Tipu Sultan of Jessore-5 constituency, for another autopsy. CMM Bikash Kumar Shaha issued…
The US town of Ferguson has seen rioting and looting after a jury decided not to bring charges over the killing of a black teenager.
Burial workers in the Sierra Leonean city of Kenema have dumped bodies in public in protest at non-payment of allowances for handling Ebola victims.
Australia batsman Phil Hughes is in a critical condition after being hit by a bouncer at the Sydney Cricket Ground.
Former Chelsea manager Roberto Di Matteo says he is not motivated by revenge as his Schalke side prepare to host the Blues in the Champions League.
Two lawmakers on Tuesday expressed serious concern in parliament over the China’s erecting dam on Brahmaputra for hydropower generation and demanded that the government take immediate measures to avoid negative impact on country’s environment due to the dam. Lawmakers from…
Universal Pictures are to make a film based on the life of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, following Sony Pictures’ departure from the project last week.
The Liberation War movie ‘Ekattorer Ma Janoni’ has been selected for the US Film Festival. Currently the film is being colour corrected and sound mixed abroad. The film, which is supported by government grants, will hit theatres on December 19.
Urban agriculture is playing an increasingly important role in global food security, a study has suggested.
Speakers at a huge human chain and rally programme have stressed for concerted efforts of all with a changed mindset to ensure equal women rights and dignity by preventing all sorts of repressions against women.
Speakers at a daylong training course have stressed for ensuring proper utilisation of the water bodies, involving the real fishermen, to increase fish production for meeting nutritional demand and cutting poverty rate.
Eight people were killed and five others injured in two separate road accidents at Kahalu and Adamdighi upazila of the district last night.
Speaker Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury yesterday expunged the term “there is no real opposition party in this parliament” mentioned by Rustom Ali Farazi, an independent MP. Talking on a point of order, Farazi said this while criticising Finance Minister for his…
Speakers at a rally here have stressed for engaging comprehensive efforts of all concerned, involving the people from all walks in life, for building a peaceful society free from drug abuse, corruption and terrorism.
Chairman of Bangladesh Press Council (BPC)Justice Muhammed Mamtaz Uddin Ahmed here on Monday urged the media men to project objective news upholding the spirit of the War of Liberation as it is the true foundation of democracy in the country.
With a view to providing free eye care services, an eye camp was held at Moharajpur Union Parishad premises on Monday.
Farmers in the Hard Barind area comprising Rajshahi, Naogaon and Chapainwabgonj districts need time-fitting training and motivation on how to cultivate more less-irrigated crops to lessen the existing pressure on groundwater, speakers at a training session said.
Minister for Finance AMA Muhith yesterday criticized the businessman and industrialists saying that they always speak for reducing bank loan interest rate for betterment of investment but the same persons do not want to reduce this debt rate when they…
Integrating tech and planning, urban with rural and formal with informal development can help transform cities. For the first time in human history, more of us live in cities than in rural areas: 54 per cent of the world’s population…
A Dhaka court here on Tuesday sent sacked minister Abdul Latif Siddique to jail in a case filed for hurting the religious sentiments of Muslims through his blasphemous remarks on Prophet (sm) Hajj and Tablig Jamaat. Metropolitan Magistrate Atiqur Rahman…
Police have clashed with protesters in Missouri, after a grand jury refused to charge a policeman over the death of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown. Announcing the decision, state prosecutor Robert McCulloch said the jury exhaustively examined evidence.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday deferred the date to November 30 for passing an order on an appeal filed by BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia challenging the High Court verdict that had upheld the charge framing order against her in Zia…
Six people were killed and four others injured as a truck crashed into a human hauler carrying a group of farm labourers in Kahalu upazila in Bogra on Monday night. The deceased could not be identified. Witnesses said 10 farm…
A Dhaka court Monday evening directed police to arrest the Former Posts, Telecommunications and ICT Minister Abdul Latif Siddique following an appeal filed by Advocate Abed Razda. Magistrate Atiqur Rahman of the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) Court of Dhaka gave…
Speaker Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury yesterday rejected the view of State Minister for Home Affairs Asaduzzaman Kamal that taking prior permission from the Speaker is needed to arrest the removed minister Abdul Latif Siddique from outside the parliament premises. “What…
Criticising the government for not taking action against Biman chairman Jamal Uddin Ahmed despite his involvement in various irregularities, including gold smuggling, BNP on Monday wondered why the Prime Minister has been so soft about him and in which interest.…
The three-day People’s SAARC Regional Convergence-2014 concluded in Lalitpur district adjacent to Kathmandu here on Monday adopting a 24-point declaration. “We’ve come together to challenge the systematic and structural marginalisation and exclusion of people through the dominant neo-liberal economic model…
Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) seized 39,000 pieces of Senegra tablets and 692 bottles of contraband Phensidyl worth Tk 1.20 crore from Daulatpur border point here on Sunday night.
BNP on Monday alleged that sacked minister Abdul Latif Siddique who had been staying abroad since his blasphemous remarks against Islam safely came out of the airport on Sunday night with the government’s help despite having arrest warrants. “It’s clear…