At least five people were injured in sporadic clashes between two factions of the ruling Awami League in a post-election violence in Bheramara upazila on Friday. Of the injured, Akhteruzzaman Mithu, senior vice-president of the upazila unit Awami League who…
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia could not go to Central Shaheed Minar in time to pay her respects in the first hour of Amar Ekushey due to police ‘obstruction’, the BNP complained. However, she left for Shaheed Minar after 12:30am along…
Yash Raj Films has apologised for any disrespect or offence caused by ‘Gunday’ movie’s portrayal of Bangladesh’s Independence War. “Several of our Bangladeshi brethren have reached out to us with their concerns on the way the story has been portrayed,”…
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has urged all Bengalis living abroad to mobilise global opinion to make Bangla an official language of the United Nations. She made appeal while inaugurating a four-day seminar at the International Mother Language Institute in Dhaka…
The Amar Ekushey Book Fair attracted a huge number of visitors of all ages on the Language Martyrs’ Day on Friday. Thousands of book lovers flocked to the fair, looking for the books of their choice, on the day, which…
It is not for the first time that the dispute about the possibility of Ukraine splitting into two – the West and the East – is emerging.
he root causes for the violence by Burmese Buddhists against Muslims in Myanmar are complex. Contrary to the simplified narratives carried by the international media, a nuanced understanding of the situation is needed to attain a viable solution.
Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych and opposition protesters have agreed to an early presidential poll before the end of the year.
US President Barack Obama will meet exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama on Friday, US officials say.
Adelina Sotnikova became the first Russian to win gold in the Olympic women’s figure skating with a superb performance in the free programme.
Dubai – World number one Serena Williams’ comeback trail endured further feisty moments with Jelena Jankovic, the former world number one from Serbia, On Thursday before she reached the semi-finals of the Dubai Open.
A new global monitoring system has been launched that promises “near real time” information on deforestation around the world.
With a week still to go in the winter, the UK’s rainfall record for the season has already been broken.
SOCHI, Russia — Ashley Wagner launched a withering attack on figure skating’s hierarchy and the Winter Olympics judges on Thursday night after being pushed down to seventh in the ladies’ individual competition.
I was once a very passionate American Idol watcher.
A female Bengal tiger, recovered with wounds in its right leg from the Sundarbans on February 7, died at Bangabandhu Safari Park in Gazipur on Wednesday night despite a ‘successful’ surgery.
Unidentified miscreants vandalised a Shaheed Minar on the compound of Mahendrapur High School in Kurmarkhali upazila early Friday, a day after damaging another Shaheed Minar in the same upazila.
The skill test for Bangladeshi job seekers in South Korea started at the Bangladesh-Korea Technical Training Centre here on Friday with some 571 Bangladeshi job seekers taking part in it.
A man was killed and 20 others were injured in a road accident at Chaydana in Sadar upazila on Friday noon.
Members of Bangladesh Coast Guard in a drive recovered 35,000 pieces of contraband Yaba tablet, worth Tk 1.75 crore, from a village in the vicinity of the Naf River in Teknaf, Cox’s Bazar early Friday.
A construction worker has been slaughtered by miscreants at Char Purba Shullukia village in Sadar upazila.
A new health service programme was launched in the city on Thursday afternoon under the Urban Primary Healthcare Services Delivery Project with the main objective of reducing maternal and child death rates.
An unidentified minor boy was killed and 15 others were injured in separate road accidents in the city and district on Friday.
In a hall of the Africa Innovation Summit in Cape Verde, the smell of melting plastic permeated the air. A crowd had gathered around a small stand to watch a special kind of machine go to work.
It is the social networking giant’s biggest acquisition to date.
Samsung is suing Dyson in the South Korean courts for 10 billion won (£5.6m), claiming that legal action taken by the UK company for copyright infringement hurt its corporate image.
A team of 10 students of the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (TUFS) is now visiting Bangladesh. The participants arrived in Dhaka on Wednesday night under the “Visit Bangladesh Programme” of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. They will stay in…
The news item – “The government is going to be strict to control private cars” said Obaidul Kader, communication minister – has drawn my attention. He also has said, it is seen that 8-10 private cars belong to a single…
Sudhirendar Sharma In this age of information overload, there is a ‘know-all’ illusion. You probably don’t know as much as you think you do. The convenience of a personal computing device is only a click away to lift the veil…
Hyderabad, India – In recognition of his relentless efforts to improve the livelihoods of poor smallholder farmers is Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, Dr William Dar, Director General of the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), was conferred…