Awami League Publicity and Publication Affairs Secretary Hasan Mahmud Wednesday said there is no room for discussion on interim election or caretaker government. Terming BNP chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia’s speech as ‘lie’, the AL leader said, “Begum Khaleda Zia wants…
A Dhaka court on Wednesday gave permission for conducting DNA test on seized evidence to confirm whether actress Naznin Akter Happy had any consensual relationship with anyone other than national cricketer Rubel Hossain. Metropolitan Magistrate M Mostafizur Rahman passed the…
Non-governmental human rights watchdog Ain O Salis Kendra (ASK) in its report for 2014 said on Wednesday that the human rights situation in Bangladesh was alarming in 2014, and that the incidents of “crossfires” have sharply increased in the year.…
UN experts on Wednesday recommended halting plying water vessels through the Sundarbans to avert further environmental disasters. Considering the environmental aspects, the movement of water vessels through the mangrove forest should not be continued, they said while sharing the preliminary…
BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia said on Wednesday that the January 05 polls amounted to killing democracy and violation of the constitution as the government was out to make its power secure by sidetracking its promise to hold an inclusive election…
Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) recovered 25 Molotov cocktails from Boalia area in Gobindaganj upazila on Wednesday morning.
Police recovered the body of a young man with the throat slashed from a hillock at Lamashyampur in Jaintapur upazila on Wednesday morning.
A girl allegedly committed suicide at Char Rampur village in Faridganj upazila on Tuesday as she could not pass this year’s Junior School Certificate (JSC) examination.
Prospects of boosting additional around one lakh metric tons of lentil output is bright in the region including the vast barind tract.
Distribution of 5,000 blankets allocated from the Prime Minister’s Relief Fund and another 2,000 pieces of blankets given by the Speaker of the Jatiya Sangshad completed in Pirganj upazila here on Tuesday evening.
Members of the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) – 8 stationed at Faridpur recovered huge quantity of various types of drugs from two places of this district yesterday.
Islami Bank Bangladesh Limited (IBBL) distributed warm clothes among the cold-affected destitute in the city on Wednesday. IBBL Managing Director Mohammad Abdul Mannan distributed blankets at the bank’s head office.
Contradicting Finance Minister AMA Muhith’s stance on new pay hike for government employees Bangladesh Bank on Monday said that the new pay scales would have ‘an upward pressure’. The central bank has said, the reasons for inflationary pressure include the…
The first day of the two-day dawn-to-dusk hartal enforced by Jamaat-e-Islami passed off by and large peacefully on Wednesday amid some stray incidents of setting fire to vehicles including a covered van of a cement company and vandalising several other…
The first two bodies from the AirAsia Flight QZ8501 crash have arrived back in the Indonesian city of Surabaya, where relatives are waiting. Next of kin have been asked for DNA samples to help identify the victims. The Airbus A320-200,…
India batsman Virat Kohli says Australia’s players called him a “spoilt brat” and that he had “no reason to respect” Mitchell Johnson. Kohli scored 169 on the third day of the third Test during which he and Johnson exchanged plenty…
Scientists have found that the animals are hastening the release of greenhouse gases from the permafrost – a vast, frozen store of carbon. The researchers say it suggests the impact of wildlife on this area has been underplayed. The findings…
Former Saved by the Bell actor Dustin Diamond has appeared in court in Wisconsin, accused of stabbing a man during a bar brawl on Christmas Day. The 37-year-old, who played Screech in the 1990s television show, was released from prison…
Interesting and unexpected facts can emerge from daily news stories and the Magazine picks out such snippets for its weekly feature, 10 things we didn’t know last week. Here’s an almanac of the best of 2014.
Food Tank has the honor of highlighting organizations across the globe that are working to fight food waste, combat the dual paradoxes of hunger and obesity, recognize the multiple roles of family farmers, increase nutrient density, protect agricultural diversity, and…
Debadityo Sinha Kanhar Dam is one of those projects which is an example of how so called developments worsen the situation for the people and environment. The project conceived 37 years ago has been in abeyance since last 25 years.…
The Speedy Trial Tribunal-1 of Dhaka on Tuesday sentenced six people to death for killing Rajarbagh police telecom department operator Golam Shamsul Haider eight years ago. Judge Shahed Nuruddin of the tribunal sentenced two other convicts to suffer imprisonment for…
A Dhaka court yesterday (Tuesday) placed Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Standing Committee member Gayeshwar Chandra Roy on a two-day fresh remand in a case filed with Turag Police Station under the Special Power Act 1974. Magistrate Rezaul Karim of the…
Amid the growing political tension, BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia is going to hold an emergency press conference on Wednesday evening. The press conference will be held around 6:30pm at her Gulshan office, a press release signed by her press secretary…
Three youngsters who made history by rescuing the body of 4-year-old Jihad from a 600-feet-deep water pipe minutes after government’s Fire Service abandoned their 23-hour operation declaring non-existence of any body there, were accorded hero’s reception by the Nagorik Okya…