Bangladesh Sarak Paribahan Sramik League yesterday issued an ultimatum to BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia to lift the countrywide blockade programme within two-days other they will resort to fast unto death in front of the National Press Club from January 25…
By Amantha Perera Vavuniya, Sri Lanka, Jan (IPS) – In four months’ time, Sri Lanka will mark the sixth anniversary of the end of its bloody civil conflict. Ever since government armed forces declared victory over the Liberation Tigers of…
By Malini Shankar Baroda, India, Jan (IPS) – It began with an experiment to install photovoltaic cells over an irrigation canal that forms part of the Sardar Sarovar canal network – a massive hydel power project across the River Narmada…
India’s governing BJP party has named former senior policewoman Kiran Bedi as its candidate for chief minister in upcoming Delhi elections. The city will vote on 7 February and counting is due on 10 February. Ms Bedi will challenge the…
A student leader of JCD, Bnp’s student affiliate has died from wounds suffered during an explosion while reportedly ‘making bombs’ in a house at Old Dhaka’s Lalbagh. Mahbubur Rahman Bappi passed away around 6am Thursday, said SI Mozammel Haque of…
MEPs have called on all Bangladeshi leaders to agree on a solution to the post-election political impasse after opposition leaders were arbitrarily arrested following a general election there earlier this month. The election, which was held on January 5th but…
Bangladesh has arrested more than 7,000 opposition activists since the start of nationwide protests two weeks ago, ministers have said. The authorities are struggling to deal with unrest in which activists have bombed vehicles and blockaded roads, and 29 people…
By Leo Kelion Microsoft has revealed that Windows 10 will bring its voice-controlled assistant Cortana to PCs. It also unveiled a headset that it said would one day project the operating system over views of the real world. In addition,…
The head of Germany’s “anti-Islamisation” movement Pegida has quit after disparaging anti-refugee comments and a photo showing him apparently posing as Hitler emerged. Lutz Bachmann apologised for Facebook comments he made in which he reportedly called refugees “animals” and “scumbags”.…
Ranjan Panda and Hema Yadav To buck migration, the Barefoot College has turned to mothers and grandmothers to light up villages Satabhaya village, in Kendrapada district of Odisha, is barely 65 km from the district headquarters, but it can be…
Islami Bank Bangladesh Limited was awarded the “ICMAB Best Corporate Award-2014” by the Institute of Cost and Management Accountants of Bangladesh in Private Commercial Banks (Islamic operation) category.
The BNP led 20-party alliance yesterday called for bringing normalcy as soon as possible to reach a consensus by shunning the path of violence and repression. “The consequence of slender campaign and threat against top opposition leadership ignoring the call…
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today said law enforcing agencies would investigate the link of Begum Khaleda Zia with the recent subversive activities and take step whether she would be charged in this connection. Replying to a question from treasury bench…
The government on Wednesday announced to provide Tk 1 lakh as bounty if anyone can help arrest anarchists carrying out arson attacks and subversive acts during the transport blockade enforced by the BNP-led 20-party alliance. Industries Minister Amir Hossain Amu…
BNP joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi Ahmed yesterday protested the statement of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who termed Khaleda Zia as a killer and gave a threat to try her like a murderer. In a statement he said, the…
The human rights situation in Bangladesh continues to deteriorate as the government and opposition supporters have battled each other in the streets of Dhaka and other major cities in the past three weeks, Amnesty International has said in its latest…
Police arrested a woman drug trader with three kilograms of ganja at Kathaltala village under Moralganj upazila of the district on Tuesday.
‘Chars’ emerging in the river Padma are bringing fortune to many farmers in Paba, Godagari and Bagha upazilas of the district during the last few years.
A three-day long Digital Innovation Fair-2015 will begin on Independence Square of the town here from January 22 under Access to Information Programme of Prime Minster (PM) Office.
Speakers in the concluding ceremony of a three-day digital innovation fair-2015 here last night said digitisation has become the driving force for building a middle income digital Bangladesh in reality.
A young man committed suicide by hanging himself with the ceiling of his room in the city on Tuesday night.
Police recovered two pistols, one shutter gun and six rounds of bullet from a house at Kajla Kashibati village in Kaliganj upazila on Wednesday morning.
Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) recovered three human skeletons from Schoolpara area under Rajpara thana in the city early Wednesday.
The cast of Coronation Street have led tributes to actress Anne Kirkbride, who played one of the soap’s best-loved characters Deirdre Barlow for 42 years.
US President Barack Obama has declared an end to the financial crisis and pledged economic policies to benefit all Americans, in his annual State of the Union address to Congress.
For the first time, words have been read from a burnt, rolled-up scroll buried by Mount Vesuvius in AD79.
Maria Sharapova survived a huge scare as she saved two match points to beat world number 150 Alexandra Panova at the Australian Open.
At least four people were killed and two others injured as a truck collided with a CNG-run auto-rickshaw at Charbhabla near the Bangabandhu Jamuna Bridge (East) Police Station on Tuesday night. The deceased were identified as Golam Kibria,40, a resident…
Israeli police say they have shot a Palestinian man from the West Bank who stabbed at least 10 people in an attack on a bus in central Tel Aviv. The incident occurred on Maariv bridge where the suspect attacked people…
Accusing the government of adopting burn and desert policy, BNP on Wednesday alleged that it has given law enforcers a free hand for committing crimes against humanity like secret killings and enforced disappearances in a bid to suppress its movement.…