The European Union is organising the celebration of Climate Diplomacy Day on 16th June in Bangladesh. This grand event aims to generate momentum towards the global Climate change deal in December in Paris. This photography contest will make a visual…
By Jonathan Gad Ten days of mock combat operations throughout the Philippines came to an end last week as Exercise Balikatan 15 (BK15) wrapped up. The Balikatan (which in the Filipino language Tagalog means “shoulder-to-shoulder”) exercises have been a staple…
Bangladesh Bank (BB) Governor Dr. Atiur Rahman made a presentation at the third Advisory Council Meeting of UNEP’s inquiry on ‘Design of a Sustainable Financial System’ held in Zurich, Switzerland on 05 May 2015. The meeting was attended by all…
City dwellers long awaited swearing in of Mayors and councilors of three city corporations in Dhaka and Chittagong will be held on Wednesday morning.
During an expedition to the Antarctic, Russian surgeon Leonid Rogozov became seriously ill. He needed an operation – and as the only doctor on the team, he realised he would have to do it himself.
As the global market for dyed yarns and fabrics becomes increasingly competitive, German multinational Huntsman Textile Effects is helping Queen South Textile Mills of Bangladesh reinforce its industry leadership with a renewed emphasis on environmental and economic sustainability. Under a…
Upholding the slogan “Jagrata Bibek, Durjay Tarunnya, Durnitee Rukhboi”, a four daylong national debate competition is scheduled to begin on Wednesday at the Jahangirnagar University (JU) campus. JU Debate Organisation (JUDO) and Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) are jointly arranging the…
The Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) Court of Dhaka on Tuesday placed on remand Moniruzzaman Chowdhury, owner of two-storied tin-shed house in the city’s Rampura Hajipara area that collapsed into lake on April 15 leaving 12 people dead.
India will play a one-off Test match and three one-day internationals in Bangladesh next month. Fatullah will host the Test, which will be the first between the sides since January 2010, from June 10-14. All three of the ODIs will…
A regional leader of the outlawed Purba Banglar Communist Party (ML) was shot and wounded in a ‘shootout’ between his cohorts and police at Kewa village in Pangsha uapzila early Tuesday. The injured was identified as Kuddus Mandol, son of…
A cargo vessel carrying potash fertilizer capsized in the Bhola River at Swarankhola Range of the Sundarbans East Zone. Amir Hossain Chowdhury, Divisional Forest Officer of the Sundarbans East Zone, has said that the cargo vessel – ‘Jabalenoor’ – ran…
Bangladesh hope to build on their new-found confidence by securing their first-ever Test victory over Pakistan when the second and final match starts in Dhaka on Wednesday. The Tigers are buoyed by a remarkable fightback in the drawn first Test…
The condition of ailing BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir was termed stable, by a panel doctors of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University where he was transferred to a prison cell as his on Tuesday as his health…
The Third Special Judge Court of Dhaka on Tuesday fixed May 25 for the next hearing in the Zia Charitable Trust and Zia Orphanage Trust graft cases filed against BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia and others. Khaleda’s counsel and also the…
A court here on Tuesday convicted four people and sentenced them to death for killing a leader of Swechchhasebak League in 2005.The convicts are Taslim Uddin Tiplu and his brother Farhad Hossain, sons of Majibar Rahman, Haider Ali, son of…
Three Bangladeshi women returned home through Benapole check post on Monday night after serving two years’ jail in an Indian prison. The returnees are Jannatul Ferdous,19, daughter of Haider Ali of Jessore, Anwara Begum,20, daughter of Nausher Sheikh of Khulna,…
Members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) arrested two alleged drug peddlers in possession of 400 pieces of Yaba tablets from Upashahar area in Jessore town on Monday night.The arrestees were identified as Imran Khan, son of late Omar Ali, and…
A regional leader of the outlawed Purba Banglar Communist Party (ML) was shot and wounded in a ‘shootout’ between his cohorts and police at Kewa village in Pangsha uapzila early Tuesday.
Police recovered the body of an unidentified young man from Goghata Bridge on the Dinajpur-Rangpur Highway in Chirirbandar upazila on Tuesday morning.
Indiscriminate use of current nets in the coastal waters of the Sundarbans and adjacent areas has put fish resources there in peril. Breeding of different species of fish is being hampered beside the fish resources being destroyed largely.
As paddy farmers across the district have started harvesting the Boro crops, its price remain very low at the growers’ level.Per maund of Boro paddy is selling at Tk 300 -Tk 420 at the growers’ level, and between Tk 400…
Shaghata Union Parishad (UP) Complex Bhaban was opened in Kachua Haat area under Shaghata upazila in the district on Monday amid much enthusiasm to the locals and the public representatives. Deputy Speaker of the Bangladesh Parliament and local lawmaker Advocate…
Speakers at the inaugural ceremony of a training course on sewing and computer here have called for turning the unemployed youths into productive workforces to accelerate national development. Raipur union parishad has been organising the two-month long training course for…
A Mymensingh court today awarded death sentence to four youths in a murder case in Madhupur Bazar area in Tarakanda upazila of Mymensingh.The court also awarded 10 years rigorous imprisonment to all the convicts, said court sources.
Despite of identical work to male in farming fields, the female agricultural workers especially coming from the ethnic groups are still facing wage disparity in the region particularly in the vast Barind tract for long.Traditionally, most of the ethnic female…