Dhaka – President Md Abdul Hamid, who rose to nation’s top office from the grassroots, has called for ending the domination of businessmen in Bangladesh’s politics.“It is unfortunate that businessmen are controlling the country’s politics today. This is the most…
Terming incorrect the UK’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO)’s observation that the BNP-led 20-party’s blockade enforced on January-5 is not formally lifted, BNP on Monday said their party now has no political programme, including the blockade.
Dhaka – Five people, including a woman, were killed and 10 others injured in a head-on collision between a bus and a human hauler (Leguna) at Tan Sutrapur in Kaliakoir upazila of Gaziur District on Tuesday morning.
Villagers in Brahmanbarhia’s Koshba Upazila have lynched two suspected robbers to death. Police said the lynching was reported around 3am on Tuesday during an attempted ‘robbery’ in Leshiara Village.
Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus launched Yunus Social Business Week, China, in Beijing on October 9. This is a week-long program taking Professor Yunus from Beijing, Kunming, Shanghai, Shenzen, and Hong Kong. He will be addressing government officials, business leaders,…
Mohammad Amir, Misbah-ul-Haq, Younis Khan and Mohammad Hafeez are among 52 Pakistan players in the BPL foreigners list. Forty-eight England players have also made it to the list, such as Samit Patel, Paul Collingwood and Ravi Bopara. The list includes…
Playboy magazine is to stop publishing images of naked women as part of its redesign, it has emerged.Its US owners say the internet has made nudity outdated, and pornographic magazines are no longer so commercially viable, the New York Times…
Kurdish forces have carried out a wave of forced displacement and mass house demolitions – amounting to war crimes – in northern Syria, a rights group says.A report by Amnesty International accuses the Popular Protection Units (YPG) of razing entire…
Jagannath University authorities today suspended a teacher of political science for helping his relative during admission test held on October 9.Mejbah-ul-Azam, an assistant professor of the deportment, was suspended as he provided answers of some questions to one of his…
OPEC has forecast that demand for its oil in 2016 would be much higher than previously thought as its strategy of letting prices fall hits US shale oil and other rival supplies, reducing a global surplus.In a monthly report, the…
They call themselves Hollywood’s best-kept secret: India’s animators, long-time partners for the likes of Walt Disney Co, are reaping the rewards of surging demand for visual effects and gaining the confidence to venture out on their own.India’s animation industry generated…
Negotiators have several terms for the way they plan to enforce any deal reached at global climate talks in Paris this December. “Peer pressure” and “cooperation” are a couple. “Race to the top” is the American buzzword.What you won’t hear…
Like any good hermit Rachel Denton rises early in the morning to tend to her vegetable garden, feed her chickens, and pray.But the former British nun, who has pledged to live the rest of her life in solitude, has another…
A group, which is believed to be behind the killing of secular blog activists in Bangladesh in recent times, is also suspected to be involved in the murders of foreign nationals, a leading cyber security expert and detectives say.They claim…
The workers of a readymade garment (RMG) factory at Jamgara in Ashulia area of the upazila at the outskirts of the capital put up a barricade on Abdullahpur-Bipile road Monday, following the death of a fellow worker in a road…
Bangladesh has slipped 16 places to 73rd in the Global Hunger Index 2015, despite significant longer-term achievements over the last quarter-century in fighting hunger.
British police on Monday removed a round-the-clock guard from outside the Ecuadorean Embassy hideout of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, saying it wasn’t “proportionate” to keep up the operation when no end to the three-year stalemate is in sight.
Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus launched Yunus Social Business Week, China, in Beijing on October 9. This is a week-long program taking Professor Yunus from Beijing, Kunming, Shanghai, Shenzen, and Hong Kong.
