Saudi Arabia announced on Tuesday it was ending a month-long campaign of air strikes against the Houthi rebels who seized large areas of Yemen and said it would back a political solution to bring peace to its war-ravaged neighbor.
Month: April 2015
More than 150,000 RMG workers lose jobs in Rana Plaza fallout: TIB
Over 200 readymade garment factories have shut down in the last one year, leaving more than 150,000 workers jobless as a fallout of the Rana Plaza collapse.
Legacy of War
Robert J. Burrowes As the world continues to engage in various commemorations in relation to World War I, Australia approaches the centenary anniversary of a defining event in the nation’s history: ANZAC Day. On 25 April 1915, and for many…
Let’s do the time warp again: ‘Rocky Horror’ sequel hits London stage after 30 years
A sequel to musical comedy classic “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” has hit the London stage some 30 years after it was first penned.
Ivory-smuggling destination Thailand makes “biggest seizure” of tusks
Thai customs officials have seized four tonnes of ivory worth $6 million, authorities said on Monday, in what the department called the largest bust of its kind in Thailand’s history.
Bibi Russell visits Rajasthan to support artisans and crafts
Bangladesh’s prominent fashion designer Bibi Russell is visiting India’s Rajasthan state as a ‘state guest’.
EU awareness seminars on Horizon 2020 program held
Two awareness seminars on Horizon 2020, the biggest EU Research and Innovation programme with nearly €80 billion of funding available over 7 years (2014 to 2020) were held in Chittagong and Dhaka on 21-22 April respectively. The two seminars were…
Fighting on in what could become Crimea of Myanmar
By Raymond Pagnucco and Jonathan Gad This past February, Peng Jiasheng came home — but he didn’t come alone. The former leader of the Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (MNDAA) brought with him fighters who’d fled with him six years…
20 Earth Day superheroes
Danielle Nierenberg April 22nd is the 45th anniversary of Earth Day—an important opportunity to highlight solutions to some of the world’s most pressing environmental and social challenges. On a planet in which hunger and food waste coexist, where crops feed…
Why India is still looking for a perfect cookstove
By Vaishnavi Chandrashekhar On many mornings, especially in winter, a pall of smoke hangs over the villages of Palwal district in Haryana, a landscape of tractors, brick kilns and new colleges. It’s the haze of thousands of hearth fires burning…
Lee Kuan Yew Water Prize: The journey to water sustainability
By Jessica Cheam and Jean Chua Singapore’s first Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew’s legacy in helping the country achieve water sustainability is embodied in one of the water industry’s most treasured awards, the Lee Kuan Yew Water Prize. Four decades…
Bnp briefs diplomats: Khaleda’s motorcade attacked again
The BNP on Tuesday briefed the diplomats of 16 countries and the EU stationed in Dhaka about Monday’s attack on its chairperson Khaleda Zia’s motorcade in the city’s Karwanbazar area during her electioneering. A four-member delegation of BNP, led by…
Blockade victims’ families attacked Khaleda: Khokan
Awami League-backed mayoral candidate for Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) Sayeed Khokon on Tuesday said aggrieved family members of the victims who were killed or injured in arson attacks during the BNP-sponsored hartals, blockade made the attack on BNP chairperson…
HC hearing on Mirza Abbas bail now on 27 April
The High Court on Tuesday deferred the hearing on a bail petition of BNP leader Mirza Abbas until April 27 in a case filed by the Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) on charge of causing a loss of about Tk 15.52…
1,200 bottles of Phensidyl seized in Rajshahi
Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) recovered 1,200 bottles of Indian Phensidyl syrup from Mirganj Padma Char area in Bagha upazila early Tuesday.
Youth found hanged in Manikganj
Police recovered the hanging body of a young man at Katigram in Sadar upazila on Tuesday morning.
Body recovered in Magura
Police recovered body of a CNG-run auto rickshaw driver from a ditch of Araishato beel under sadar upazila here this morning.
20 illegal shops from footpaths evicted in Rangpur
A mobile court of Rangpur City Corporation (RCC) evicted twenty illegally erected roadside shops on the footpaths on Monday afternoon from different areas in the city.
Terrorist’ held with pistol, bullets in Benapole
Police arrested an alleged terrorist in possession of one pistol and two rounds of bullet from Bypass Road in Benapole municipality area early Tuesday.
Rajshahi BSCIC expansion to create 5000 employments
Expansion of the industrial estate of Bangladesh Small and Cottage Industries Corporation (BSCIC) in Rajshahi would create employment opportunities for around 5,000 people.
7 killed 24 hurt in Ashulia bank branch dacoity bid
At least seven people, including a bank manager and a robber, were killed and 24 others injured during a daring attempt of robbery in a branch of Bangladesh Commerce Bank Ltd at Kathgora, Ashulia on Tuesday.
Ctg rapist gets double lifetime imprisonment
A Chittagong court on Monday awarded double lifetime imprisonment to a man on two separate charges of abducting and raping a child at Satkania upazila of the district in 2012.
People’s participation for preventing corruption stressed
Speakers at an anti-corruption planning meeting have stressed for participation of the people from all walks in life in launching vigorous social movement for preventing corruption from the society.
Nor’wester 17, 000 families affected in Mymensingh
Over 17, 000 families in 46 unions under six upazilas of the district were badly affected by the Saturday’s Nor’wester.
EC opts for deploying army for city polls
In the face of a growing demand from different quarters, the Election Commission on Tuesday decided to deploy army in three city corporations in Dhaka and Chittagong from April 26 to 29, aiming to peacefully hold the crucial polls on…
Lancashire batsman hits world record 350 in 138 balls
Young Lancashire batsman Liam Livingstone has smashed a world record 350 in just 138 balls during a one-day match.
South Africa’s ‘Rainbow Nation’ turns dark as immigrant attacks rise
When he heard angry screams and the hammering of hatchets on the door of his shack last week, Malawian Folias Sakai thought he was about to become the eighth person to be killed in anti-immigrant attacks that have swept South…
‘Mary Kom’ honoured in Stockholm
Omung Kumar’s 2014 directorial “Mary Kom”, which was selected for the Stockholm International Film Festival Junior (SIFFJ), has won the Best Film award and has been endowed with the Bronze Horse Award, the festival’s top honour.
One sentenced to 17 years in jail in arms case
A special tribunal of Dhaka yesterday (Tuesday) sentenced top terrorist Sanjidul Hasan Emon for 17 years in an arms case. Judge-in-Charge of Dhaka’s Special Tribunal-7, Masud Parvez pronounced the verdict on Tuesday in presence of the convict.
Bangladesh set to earn $1.2 million a year as Cabinet clears 10GBPS bandwidth export to India
The Cabinet has cleared an agreement to export unused submarine cable bandwidth to India that will fetch Bangladesh $1.2 million every year.