Moviegoers said goodbye to Katniss Everdeen and welcomed back Rocky Balboa, a series of farewells and reunions that powered Thanksgiving box office receipts above last year’s holiday.”The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2″ led a crowded field of contenders, topping…
Kolkata police have arrested three persons in the Kolkata port area on charges of providing support to agents of Pakistani intelligence agency ISI.The arrests in Kolkata’s Garden Reach area follow the arrest of a top ISI spy in the state…
A former Malaysian diplomat pleaded guilty Monday to the indecent assault of a New Zealand woman, with a court hearing he burst into her bedroom naked from the waist down.Mohammed Rizalman bin Ismail was a military attache at Malaysia’s Wellington…
Strongly condemning the recent terrorist attacks on religious congregations in Bangladesh, Iran on Sunday said there is no doubt that the attackers are intending to disrupt the peace and harmony between the people of different religions and sects in this…
A local leader of Meherpur BNP was killed in a “gunfight” with police at Bandar village in Shashan ghat area of Meherpur sadar uapzila in Meherpur early Monday.The deceased is Ramjan Sheikh, 42, son of late Amir Sheikh of Rajnagar…
Palestinian Charge d’Affaires in Dhaka Yousuf S Ramadan has blamed Israel for acts of ‘terrorism’ in Bangladesh.He was speaking at the International Palestine Solidarity Day function organised by the Bangladesh Shanti Parishad at the National Press Club on Sunday.Ramadan thanked…
30 Nov, Paris (Meena Raman) – The Paris agreement is expected to be the most important outcome of the 21st meeting of the Conference of Parties (COP 21) to the UNFCCC, to be held from November 30 to December 11.…
30 Nov, Paris (TWN) — Around 7 am on a Sunday, 11 December 2011, the seventeenth session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 17) concluded in Durban, South Africa, with the establishment of a new subsidiary body to the…
Paris, 30 Nov (TWN) — Incoming French President of the Conference of the Parties (COP) to the United Nations climate treaty, Laurent Fabius, assured Parties that the process of reaching an agreement in Paris would be transparent and any text…
Paris, 24 Nov – At the upcoming Climate summit in Paris, some governments and much of civil society will be pushing for an urgent transition away from the carbon-rich fossil fuels responsible for climate chaos. However, one hi-tech sector, the…
Rashed Uddin, a popular actor, came into the limelight around 2010 when he performed in “moza mare foza vai.”
The verdict in the nine-year-old schoolboy Abu Sayeed murder case will be delivered on Monday.
At least 10 people suffered injuries as police sprayed rubber bullets during an eviction drive against an illegal truck stand and shops in the city’s Tejgaon area on Sunday.
Strongly condemning the recent terrorist attacks on religious congregations in Bangladesh, Iran on Sunday said there is no doubt that the attackers are intending to disrupt the peace and harmony between the people of different religions and sects in this…
A five-member probe panel has been formed to look into Thursday’s gun attack on a Shia mosque at Haripur village in Shibganj upazila that left a person dead and three others injured.
Samajik Byobosher Shakti” a new book on Social Business, was unveiled on Sunday, 29 November 2015 by Professor Muhammad Yunus at the Yunus Centre office. MFM Amir Khashru, General Manager of Yunus Centre is the author of the book. The…
STAFF REPORTER Rights based civil society organizations (CSO) in Bangladesh yesterday urged the Prime Minister to lead country in the Paris Climate Conference and urged her to demand the climate compensation from the countries mainly responsible for the climate change.
STAFF REPORTER State Minister for Post and Telecommunications Tarana Halim yesterday said those who are using social media like facebook through alternative servers are violation of law.
Court Correspondent BNP Chief Begum Khaleda Zia appears to a Dhaka court today (Monday) in the Niko graft case filed against her and four others in 2007.
Court Correspondent The Dhaka Divisional Court on Sunday framed charges against former Dhaka City Corporation (DCC) mayor and BNP leader Sadeque Hossain Khoka and three others in a case filed for his alleged corruption in leasing a car park.
Court Correspondent A Dhaka court on Sunday sent three persons including two Sub-inspectors of police to the jail in a case filed for killing a businessman in 2012.
The Benapole port authorities have beefed up security for the foreign passengers passing through the Benapole check point.The measure was taken on Saturday afternoon in the wake of the recent incidents of violence in different places of the country.
Detectives arrested a young man along with 1,400 Yaba tablet from KDC area in the district town on Saturday night.The arrestee was identified as Ariful Islam, 24, son of Nurul Islam of Dakkin Para village in Madan upazila.
A madrasah student drowned in a pond at Jhumjhumpur in Jessore town on Sunday morning.The deceased was identified as Sonny Rahman, 10, a class V student of a local madrasah and son of Mosharraf Hossain, a resident of the area.
A joint force of different agencies arrested 21 people, including five activists of Jamaat-Shibir, from different places of the district from Saturday night to Sunday morning.Enamul Haque, sub-inspector of Special Branch, Satkira said a team of the joint force, comprising…