In the 20 years since the first UN conference on climate change, weather-related disasters have claimed 606,000 human lives, damaged or destroyed 87 million homes, and injured, displaced or left helpless a total of 4.1 billion people.A new study from…
Singer Adele is reportedly growing close to singer-turned-fashion designer Victoria Beckham after they met and shared tips about how to raise their children in the spotlight.According to a source, Adele, who has three-year-old son Angelo with partner Simon Konecki, understands…
The European Union has granted Bangladesh €8 million to help the country’s most vulnerable communities build resilience to climate change and related disasters.The grants will be routed through the Global Climate Change Alliance+ Flagship Initiative (GCCA+).Starting early 2016, a new…
Inauguration ceremony of the expanded and newly decorated classroom of German Language Course was held today at the Institute of Modern Languages (IML) of Dhaka University (DU).Vice-Chancellor Professor Dr AAMS Arefin Siddique inaugurated the function as the chief guest while…
If you are a movie buff, better cut down on action films! Researcers have found that watching violent movies or reading books with violent content can make you more likely to lie or cheat, suggests new research.Exposure to human violence…
Scientists at University College London (UCL) have found the recipe for painlessness in a study that used genetically modified mice to show a channel responsible for allowing pain signals to pass along nerve cell membranes is vital to feel agony.In…
Two bikers on Tuesday were killed when a truck rammed into their motorcycle on the Rajbari-Kushtia Highway at Chandani of sadar upazila of Rajbari.The deceased could not be identified immediately.Badiar Rahman, Sadar police sub-inspector, said a Kushtia-bound truck from Rajbari…
Republican front runner Donald Trump called Monday for a “total and complete shutdown” of Muslims entering the United States, unleashing some of the most provocative and divisive remarks of his controversial presidential campaign.The stunning statement followed last week’s mass shooting…
Members of Customs Intelligence and Investigation Directorate seized 160 gold bars weighing 18.1 kg from a flight of Malaysian Airlines at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport on Monday night.Airport sources said the flight landed at the airport around 8:56pm.A team of…
A female student of a private university suffered injuries as miscreants shot her at her residence in Daudkandi upazila headquarters on Monday night.The victim was identified as Keya Chowdhury, 26, a student of Abdul Qader Chowdhury University. She is a…
Over 10 months after his arrest, BNP joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi was freed from jail on bail on Monday. The BNP leader walked out of Kashimpur Central Jail-2 around 5:20pm after his release order reached the jail authorities,…
Ask vulnerable countries to explicitly give up the right to raise issues of compensation and liability in future Nitin Sethi Indian paper Business Standard accessed the proposal that the US put forth informally before other countries demanding that poor and…
High-level meeting in Bangkok signals a thaw in long-standing tensions between nuclear-armed South Asian rivals. South Asia analysts expressed optimism on Monday after talks were secretly held between arch rivals India and Pakistan in the Thai capital – a move…
Paris (Hilary Chiew and Meena Raman) – Negotiations of the Paris agreement under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) has moved to a process under the Presidency of the Conference of Parties. Four years of work by…
Rejecting the chargesheet submitted by DB police, a court here on Monday asked the Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) to carry out further investigation into the seizure of liquid cocaine at Chittagong Seaport.
The country’s political landscape is expected to heat up soon as the candidates of December-30 municipal polls are getting ready to kick off their campaigns on Wednesday.
Senior Awami League leader Suranjit Sengupta on Monday demanded that Nur Hossain, the prime accused in the Narayanganj seven-murder cases, be quizzed to unearth the mystery behind the gruesome killings.
The Cabinet on Monday approved in principle the drafts of Gazipur Metropolitan Police Act, 2015 and Rangpur Metropolitan Police Act, 2015, aiming to provide more legal and police services to the people of the two newly-constituted metropolitan cities.
The prosecution on Monday concluded arguments on the appeal filed by condemned war crimes convict Jamaat Ameer Matiur Rahman Nizami challenging his death penalty for war crimes during the Liberation War in 1971 at the Appellate Division of the Supreme…
Police in a drive recovered 1.5 kg heroin from Dayingpara Graveyard area of Godagari upazila on Sunday night.SM Abu Farhad, officer-in-charge of Godagari Police Station, said police chased a motorcycle in the area around 7pm.
A schoolgirl allegedly committed suicide by hanging herself from the roof of her house at Sujapur village of Shikaripur union in Nawabganj upazila on the outskirts of the capital on Sunday night.
RU Correspondent Progressive Student Alliance (PSA) of Rajshahi University (RU) unit staged a protesting procession on the campus demanding the justice of killing of the authors and publishers of the country including dipan’s what has been happened in recently
Police arrested three fake DB men from Rupdia Bazar of Sadar upazila in the district on Sunday night.The arrestees were identified as Asaduzzaman, 30, son of Nuruzzaman,a resident of Khrishnagar village; Imran Hossain, son of Arafat Mallick, a resident of…
BAU CORRESPONDENT Experts reiterated the need for concerted policies conserve biodiversity in the country. They warned that if appropriate conservation measures are not taken, many species, particularly in the haor basin will go extinct in the near future, which will…
Court Correspondent The Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) Court of Dhaka once again deferred the submission of the probe report in the much-talked Sagar-Runi murder case and fixed January 18, 2016 for submitting the report.
Two more departments, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department (ECE) and Chemical and Food Process Engineering (CFPI), started journey at Rajshahi University of Engineering and Technology on Sunday.Electrical and Computer Engineering Department (ECE) has been included in Electrical and Computer Engineering…
Members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) in a drive rescued a boy, who was abducted from Narayanganj on November 20, from Sukrobari Bazar area of Jaintapur upazila on Sunday evening,The rescued was identified Mohammad Sohel Khan, 14, son of Alhed…
An alleged robber was killed in a gunfight between his cohorts and police at Jungle Gunagori in Banshkhali upazila early Monday. Identity of the deceased could not be known immediately.Officer-in-charge of Banshkhali Police Station Swapan Kumar said a gang of…
Police recovered the slaughtered body of a young man from the field of Chandganj College in Sadar upazila on Monday morning.The deceased could not be identified immediately. The age of victim was around 25.
Joint forces in separate drives from Sunday night to early Monday arrested 27 people, including three Jamaat activists, from different places of the district on various charges.Enamul Haque, sub-inspector of Satkhira district police, said the joint forces teams conducted separate…