The interns of Sir Salimullah Medical College (Mitford) Hospital went on an indefinite strike on Monday following a case filed the Ekushey Television (ETV) authorities against its director and four interns for alleged assault on some journalists . Moaibul Islam…
For the first time in its history, the Environment Agency has assessed the state of all of its flood defences in England following the winter’s storms.
In the mid-1980s as a young undergraduate student of Latin American politics, to me Gabriel Garcia Marquez was as much a political historian as he was a writer of fantastical novels.
Love is said to be behind early Monday’s double murder in Dhaka’s Mirpur. A young man had run away with a teenage girl that led to a clash and the murders. Bodies of two young men with multiple stab wounds were…
Thousands of marathoners have begun running through the streets of Boston, after the city honoured those killed and injured in a bomb attack last year.
Ships from Bangladesh, Pakistan and India have reached the Chinese port of Qingdao to take part in rare naval exercise this week. A Bangladesh navy frigate BNS Abu Bakar left Chittagong earlier this month to join the exercise, sources in…
MONTE CARLO, April 20 (Reuters) – Stanislas Wawrinkasignalled his French Open ambitions by beating Roger Federer4-6 7-6 (5) 6-2 in an all-Swiss Monte Carlo Masters final on Sunday.
Atletico Madrid midfielder Mario Suarez says the team is anticipating the return of Fernando Torres this week — but hopes the striker has a bad game for Chelsea.
The BNP’s long march to the Teesta Barrage in Lalmonirhat sets off from the Airport roundabout in Dhaka, instead of its Naya Paltan central office planned earlier, at 8am on Tuesday. The two-day march, BNP leaders say, is intended to…
Fueled by whammo performances from “Frozen” and “Captain America: The Winter Soldier,” Disney has crossed the $1 billion mark this weekend at the international box office, marking the fastest time the studio has ever done so.
Senior Awami League leader Suranjit Sengupta on Monday said BNP is going to organise a long-march programme towards the Teesta Barrage amid the sultry weather of Baishakh only to sow its anti-Indian stance. “It’s not their movement…it’s a bad politics.…
Cairo — The head of Egypt’s censorship board has resigned after the country’s prime minister overruled his decision to allow a film starring a sultry Lebanese singer to be shown.
A super bumper wheat production has been achieved in the northern region this season breaking all previous records brightening prospect in the national agro-economy and food security despite climate change impacts.
Fisheries Department in a drive seized 800-kg of jatka (hilsa fry) and 6,000 metres banned current net from the Padma river under Lohajang upazila of the district on Sunday evening.
Muggers looted Tk one lakh shooting two staff of a Grameenphone distributor office on the Park Road in the district town on Monday.
Customs officials seized four gold bars weighing around 500 grams from a passenger of a flight from Sharjah and detained the passenger at Shah Amanat International Airport in Chittagong on Monday.
At least 20 people, including five policemen, were injured in a clash between Jamaat-Shibir activists and police in Harishpur Bypass area of the district town on Monday morning.
At least five people were injured in a clash between two rival groups of Jubo League at Basurhat in Sadar upazila on Sunday morning.
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — One lucky citizen of the oil-rich United Arab Emirates could soon get the chance to be rocketed into space. Government-backed Aabar Investments on Sunday announced the start of a competition to award an Emirati…
Researchers at the University of Virginia demonstrated tweets could predict certain kinds of crimes if the correct analysis is applied.
Two young men were chopped to death by miscreants at Dakhkhin Pirerbagh in Mirpur of the capital on Sunday midnight. The deceased were identified as Kayem, 32, resident of Madhya Pirerbagh of the area, and Jahangir, 31, hailing from Savar…
An alleged robber was killed and three policemen were injured in a ‘gunfight’ with police on the Ramu-Naikhongchhari Road in Ramu upazila on Sunday night. Identity of the deceased could not be ascertained yet. Appela Raju Naha, officer-in-charge of Ramu Police…
A district court on Sunday sent to jail 36 BNP leaders and activists in a violence case in Sadar upazila in November last year. Judge of the Senior Judicial Magistrate’s Court, Benapole, Maruf Ahmed passed the order when the BNP…
Out of the 350 members of the 10th parliament, 175 MPs are businessmen (50 percent), while 51 MPs lawyers and 21 farmers. Besides, 275 MPs (78.57 percent) are either postgraduates or graduates, while 15 have educational qualification below the SSC,…
The BNP leaders were shown arrested in a murder case filed with Rampura police station for killing capital’s Dhakkin Khan unit Chhatra Shibir President. A Dhaka court has sent BNP leaders Goyeshwar Chandra Roy and Amanullah Aman to jail in…
South Korean President Park Geun-hye has condemned the conduct of some of the crew of the ferry that sank last week, calling it “akin to murder”. Ms Park said that those to blame would have to take “criminal and civil”…
Fighting between government troops and ethnic rebels in Myanmar’s northeastern state of Kachin has left at least 22 people dead this month, state-run media reported Sunday. The clashes in Kachin come despite efforts by the government to forge a nationwide…
A 13-member high-powered committee has been formed to check fish smuggling in the sea and intrusion of other countries’ fishermen into the Bangladesh water territory, Fisheries and Livestock Minister Sayedul Hoque said on Sunday. He said this while talking to…
BNP will hold six rallies during its long march to the Teesta Barrage in Nilphamari on April 22-23 to press for Bangladesh’s fair share of waters of River Teesta. BNP joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi announced the programmes at…
A minor girl died while 18 people, including seven members of a family, fell sick after taking water melon at Kaloa village in Kumarkhali upazila on Sunday. The deceased was identified as Smriti, 9, daughter of Askar Ali of the…