Shipping Minister Shajahan Khan has shot down an environment ministry recommendation to permanently shut down Sundarbans Shela River route. “We are not thinking about closing the route yet,” he said after an inter ministerial meeting Sunday. Ministry of Environment and…
The Forest Department looks fighting a losing battle to manually clean up the spilt-oil from rivers in the Sundarbans as it has already dissolved in river waters. “Most of the oil has already dissolved or spread faraway,” Divisional Forest Officer…
Ferry services on the Shimulia-Kawrakandi route in the Padma river resumed after seven hours’ disruption caused by dense fog on Sunday morning.
A daylong photo exhibition on “Itihas Kotha Bole: Sangram Theke Swadhinotai Bangabandhu (History speaks: Bangabandhu from struggle to independence)” was held at Moulana Keramat Ali College in the city today.
A hardware store in San Jose has a new star employee. It can speak English and Spanish, recognise any part at sight, and knows what the shop has in stock on a second by second basis.
Imagine walking into a shop you’ve never been in before, to be greeted by name by a sales assistant you don’t know.
United Nations members have reached an agreement on how countries should tackle climate change. Delegates have approved a framework for setting national pledges to be submitted to a summit next year. Differences over the draft text caused the two-week talks…
England coach Peter Moores says there is no guarantee of Alastair Cook being captain for next year’s World Cup.
United Nations members have reached an agreement on how countries should tackle climate change.
An early version of the script for the new James Bond film has been stolen by hackers.
Turkish police have made at least 23 arrests during raids on a newspaper and TV station with close ties to US-based Islamic cleric Fethullah Gulen.
The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Bangladesh (ICAB) distributed 2,000 blankets among the cold-hit distressed people of all ages in Ulipur upazila of Kurigram yesterday, a press release said here this evening.
A farmer was killed and six people sustained bullet wounds as extortionists opened fire during extortion in Daudkandi upazila on Sunday evening. The deceased was identified as M Ishque Miah, 60, son of late Lal Miah of Krishnapur village in…
An activist was shot dead and five others were wounded in a fierce clash between two factions of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) on the Chittagong University campus on Sunday morning. The deceased was identified as Taposh Roy, a second year…
BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir yesterday urged the intellectuals, and free thinking persons and believers of democracy to come forward in the transition period of the country. “Country’s human rights are now undermined. Let us join a…
There has been allegation of some illegal promotion in the Sonali Bank from the ranks of Deputy General Manager and General Manager. Those who received promotions have also joined their new post without proper approval, according to bank sources. Formerly…
Terming BNP-Jamaat Pakistan’s collaborators, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday urged all to remain alert so that this quarter cannot return to power to play with people’s fate. “We all have to remain vigilant so that those Pakistani collaborators can’t…
Deputy Speaker Advocate Fazle Rabbi Mia yesterday said that media can play major role to protect the rights of sex minority people. “Sexual minority people in Bangladesh are passing through a vulnerable life. Media people can create awareness, so that…
On December 12, 2014, the first ever Universal Health Coverage Day was observed throughout the world. The United Nations in its 67th General Assembly unanimously endorsed Universal Health Coverage (UHC) as an important step in the global fight against health…
“Martyred Intellectuals Day” will be observed on Sunday. This day in 1971, on the eve of the country’s independence the occupation army in collusion with their quislings the para-military force, Al-Badr, picked up and killed the cream of Bangladesh’s intelligentsia.…
BNP Chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia said on Saturday that the ruling Awami League is a burden on the country and the people should get rid of the party. Addressing a big public meeting at the Kanchpur Balur Maath Begum Zia …