The 13th annual general meeting (AGM) of Bangladesh Water Partnership on Saturday was told its activities in the coming year would concentrate more on promotion of climate change adaptation through capacity building, help improve sustainable water management and climate change…
The BNP will never be able to leave the side of its long-time ally Jamaat-e-Islami, says Food Minister Qamrul Islam.“Even if the BNP ever says they will break ties with Jamaat, it will mean that they are hatching a new…
La Liga leaders Real Madrid face their biggest test of the football season to date when they play Celta Vigo at the Balaidos Stadium here on Saturday afternoon.The game will also be a major test for Celta, who have so…
At least 37 people were killed and 107 wounded on Friday in two bomb attacks at mosques in Nigeria’s restive northeast, where Boko Haram has been trying to carve out an Islamic state, officials and medics said.No one claimed responsibility…
The number of fixed broadband users in Bangladesh is growing even though the growth is much less than that of mobile internet subscribers.In a month, the number of such subscribers has increased by 47 percent. According to a report of…
A group of Afghan students gathered on the leafy campus of Kabul University this week to embark on an unlikely course – the country’s first Master’s degree in gender and women’s studies.Advances made for women since US-led troops ousted the…
Singer Ed Sheeran has planned to take a nine-month break from December 12.The “Thinking out loud” crooner has had a whirlwind few years but is ready to spend some time away from the spotlight to be with his friends and…
British high commissioner to Bangladesh Robert Gibson termed unacceptable the bomb attack on Ashura procession in Old Dhaka that left one killed and more than 100 injured.In a twitter message, the diplomat said he was “horrified at the attack” on…
Dhaka – Three successive explosions at a Shia Muslim gathering in Old Dhaka lef one dead and nearly 100 others wounded on early Saturday as they were preparing for a Tazia procession at the Husseini Dalan Road in Nazirabazar. Three…
Members of the Hindu community in colourful attires took to the streets of Dhaka and elsewhere on Friday beating drums and chanting mantras as five days of revelry and celebration ended in the afternoon with immersion of Devi Durga in…
The holy Ashura, commemorating the martyrdom of Hazrat Imam Hussain (RA), will be observed in the country on Saturday with due religious fervour and solemnity.
Two United Nations experts on the human rights of migrants on Friday called on the European Union to open regular and safe channels for migrants in order ‘to take over the mobility market from the smugglers’.
BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Friday alleged that the country is passing through a critical time as there is no freedom of speech.
Dhaka-A suspected criminal was killed in what law enforcers claimed a gunfight between his cohorts and members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) on Satarkul road in the city’s Badda area early Friday.
The Killer of assistant sub-inspector (ASI) Ibrahim Mullah of Darus Salam Police Station is a member of a organization, which do not support the country’s independence as well as do not like in stability of the country.
Dhaka-Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) seized 24,000 pieces of contraband Yaba tablets and arrested two alleged drug dealers along with a private car from Lalpole area of Feni on Thursday night.
Eighty-two players, including 19 overseas players, were allocated through a lottery during the BPL draft in Dhaka on Thursday. Out of the 63 local players, the selection of the six icons came at the end of the draft. Rangpur, which…
Daniel Craig has said he has not made any decisions about whether he will carry on playing James Bond.The actor, on his fourth outing as 007 in Spectre, had told Time Out magazine that he would “rather slash [his] wrists”…
At least 42 people are feared dead in a traffic accident involving a truck and bus in south-west France, reports say.The accident happened near Libourne, in the Gironde region, east of Bordeaux.Reports say the bus and the truck caught fire…
Bangladesh is becoming a large market with a growing number of people from middle-income class affluent consumers, a study has found.Business strategy adviser the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) released the report, titled ‘Bangladesh: The Surging Consumer Market Nobody Saw Coming’,…
The universe really is weird, which is bad news both for Albert Einstein and for would-be hackers hoping to break into quantum encryption systems.Eighty years after the physicist dismissed as “spooky” the idea that simply observing one particle could instantly…
A police ASI has been stabbed to death at a check post in Dhaka’s Gabtoli amidst heightened security for Durga Puja.The victim was identified as Darussalam Police Station Assistant Sub-Inspector Ibrahim Molla.He was stabbed at the check post in front…
Sweden has reacted with shock to the killing of a teacher and pupil at a school in the west of the country, near Gothenburg, by a sword-wielding man. Police say the attacker, who was shot dead by police, is being…
Dhaka – The Election Commission (EC) has decided to hold elections in 245 out of 323 municipalities in December this year. Polls in the remaining municipalities would be held on completion of the mayors’ tenures, government news agency BSS reported…
The Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances has called on States to put on the top of their agenda the eradication of enforced disappearance. It also urged governments to address the changing nature of the problem due to new…
The Hindu Community on Wednesday obsered ‘Kumri Puja’ – worship of the virgin – at different Puja Pandels in Dhaka and elsewhee over the country. It was part of the 4-day Durga Puja they celebrated. The Durga Puja ends hrugh…
The lead author of the 2006 Stern Review on the economics of climate change says that although there will be an agreement at the UN climate conference in Paris in December, it is what happens afterwards that is crucial.
Miscreants stabbed to death an assistant sub-inspector (ASI) of Darus Salam Police Station in the city’s Gabtali area on Thursday night.
The Durga Puja, the biggest religious festival of the Hindu community, will end on Friday with the immersion of goddess Durga in the capital and elsewhere across the country.
Thirty-three out of 53 Bangladesh missions abroad have failed to achieve their respective export targets set for the first quarter (July-Sept) period of the current fiscal year (2015-16).