Jamaat leader Mohammad Kamaruzzaman who has been sentenced to death for war crimes would file a review pitition with the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court Thursday. Five defence counsels visited Kamaruzzaman, the Jamaat-e-Islami’s assistant secretary general, at Dhaka Central…
Bangladesh refused to be sidetracked Wednesday by news that former coach Shane Jurgensen was mentoring Scotland on the eve of their crunch World Cup clash in Nelson. The focus was purely on beating Scotland and then facing England in a…
Wild bumblebees are infected with many of the diseases found in honeybees looked after by bee keepers, according to a national survey.
Indian Home Minister Rajnath Singh has promised an inquiry into how a TV crew gained permission to interview one of the Delhi gang rapists on death row.
Pakistan kept up their push for a place in the quarter-finals of the World Cup with a routine 129-run victory over the United Arab Emirates in Napier.
The Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) Court of Dhaka once again placed BNP Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi Ahmed on a fresh remand for two days on Wednesday, in a separate case, filed for hurling petrol bomb on a bus…
A local Awami League leader was injured as some miscreants stabbed him at Kagajpukur in Sharsha upazila on Tuesday evening.
Coast guard personnel and Ramgati upazila fisheries office in a joint drive seized 10 lakh shrimp fries from three markets of the upazila on Tuesday.
Liaquqt Ali, a veteran Freedom Fighter (FF) and retired Superintendent of Manikganj District Accounts Office, died of a cardiac arrest at his residence in the district town this afternoon.
Director General (DG) of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) Benazir Ahmed today said terrorism and subversive activities have been reduced in the country as the law enforcers took action against them.
Police recovered 28 Molotov cocktails from Par-Naogaon area beside Marchhula Girls’ High School in the district town on Tuesday night.
Two people were killed and another was injured as a truck rammed into a rickshaw van at Bagachara on the Naogaon-Rajshahi Highway in Mohavebpur upazila on Wednesday morning.
A case has been filed against 20 people in connection with Tuesday’s arson attack on a covered van at Kansat in Shibganj upazila that left its driver dead and helper injured.
At least 15 shops were gutted as a fire broke out at Charfashion Bazar in Charfashion upazila on Tuesday night.
A housewife was killed as she fell under the wheels of a truck in Noapara municipality area in Abhaynagar upazila of Jessore district on Tuesday night.
Miscreants torched a local land office in Sadar upazila early Wednesday, the fifth day of the fresh 120-hour nationwide hartal enforced by the BNP-led 20-party alliance alongside its ongoing countrywide indefinite transport blockade.
BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia is ready to make any sacrifice in the interests of the country and emancipation of masses of the people, BNP joint secretary general Salahuddin Ahmed said on Wednesday. In a press statement issued from an undisclosed…
At least four people, including a local Swechhasebak League leader, were injured as a crude bomb was exploded in a protest rally of the ruling Awami League-led 14-party alliance in the city’s Hazaribagh area on Wednesday. Police said miscreants blasted…
A Dhaka Court on Wednesday upheld the arrest warrant it issued against BNP chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia on February 25 but filed the petitions for withdrawal of the warrant and granting of bail before adjourning the proceesings till April 5.…
Jessica Cheam Here’s a look at the Budget measures of Asia’s top two cities from the sustainability perspective. This week, Asia’s top two cities Singapore and Hong Kong unveiled Budgets whose measures signal a growing recognition by their governments on…
Worldwatch Institute’s State of the World 2014 explores the role of ethical capitalism in the quest for sustainable economies Washington, DC- Entrepreneurs are beginning to challenge business as usual, infusing ethics into the notoriously ruthless corporate world. In State of the…