More than 30 Nobel Laureates in a joint a declaration on Friday called for making rapid progress to reduce the current and future greenhouse gas emissions to minimise the risks of climate change. “Based on the IPCC assessment, the world…
Day: July 3, 2015
75 BD nationals returned home from Indian jail
At least 75 Bangladeshi nationals, including two children, returned home through Benapole check post on Thursday after serving three months’ jail term in Indian prison.
BD worker killed in Bahrain Riad crash
A Bangladeshi worker was killed in a road accident in Amwaz area of the Bahrain capital of Manama on June 29.
Militants including woman held in Madaripur
Police arrested three suspected militants including an woman along with jihadi books, leaflets, CDs and other propaganda materials from an orphanage on Thursday.
Schoolboys drowned in the Buriganga
Two schoolboys drowned in the Buriganga River in Fatullah of Sadar upazila on Friday.
BMP formed probe panel to investigate bribe-fund
The Barisal Metropolitan Police (BMP) has reconstituted its probe panel formed to look into the raising of bribe fund for promotion, replacing its head.
Ansar man shot dead in Khagrachhari
An Ansar member was shot to death allegedly by one of his colleagues at Chowdhury Tilla Ansar post in Dighinala upazila on Friday. The deceased was identified as Nayek Amir Hossain, 55, commander of the Ansar post (security camp)…
Hydroelectric dams drastically reduce tropical forest biodiversity
Samir Mehta samir@internationalrivers.org Widely hailed as ‘green’ sources of renewable energy, hydroelectric dams have been built worldwide at an unprecedented scale. But research from the University of East Anglia reveals that these major infrastructure projects are far from environmentally friendly.…
Thailand: Junta arrests 14 student activists
New York – Thai authorities should immediately drop all charges and release unconditionally 14 student activists who peacefully expressed opposition to military rule. On June 26, 2015 in Bangkok, police and soldiers enforced a military court warrant to arrest 14…
Manipur may soon lose its Sangai deer habitat
A critically endangered brow-antlered deer found in the world’s only floating wildlife park in Manipur may soon lose its habitat. Imagine being a large mammal confined to an area of just 10 sq km. Imagine surviving genetic experiments, floods, encroachments,…
Food for nutrition, nature and livelihood
By Sunita Narain What societies eat reflects their position on the modernity trajectory. Poorer countries have health problems because of lack of food. Then as people get rich, they end up losing the health advantage of food availability. They eat…
Govt fears facing people in polls for massive graft: Khaleda
Bnp chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia said on Thursday that the government if afraid of facing the people in election because of the wrath the ministers and their cohorts have earned by resorting the corruption and misrule. Addressing an iftar mohfil…
Charge against 46 Bnp leaders in bomb case 28 Sept
A Dhaka court on Thursday deferred the hearing on charge framing against BNP 46 leaders and activists of the party including Acting Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir until September 28 in a case filed for alleged crude bomb explosion…
Bail rejected, Rony sent to jail
A Dhaka court on Thursday rejected the bail petition of Bakhtiar Alam Rony, son of Awami League MP Pinu Khan and also passed orders to send him to the jail in a case filed for shooting two people with his…
Yunus presides over Glasgow Varsity graduation ceremony
Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus has just presided over summer graduation ceremony at Glasgow Caledonian University as Chancellor.
Man held with 3 for allegedly setting wife to brothel
A court here on Thursday sent a man and his three associates to jail in a case filed for selling his wife to a brothel. The accused are Rana, who sold his wife to a brothel in Daulatdia of Rajbari…
US envoy lauds Bd’s low-middle income status, iterates dialogue
US Ambassador in Dhaka Marcia Bernicat on Thursday appreciated Bangladesh’s graduation from the low-income status to lower middle-income nation (LMIC) terming it as an ‘extraordinary progress.’ She made the remark while talking journalists after a meeting with Foreign Minister AH…