Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus has just concluded his four day visit to Uganda where he was received by President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda at the Presidential Palace, met Vice President Ssekandi, attended high level meetings with government representatives and…
Police arrested a crime suspect while allegedly making bombs in the city’s Khelkhet area on Wednesday night. The police also recovered 70 chocolate bombs, 5.5 kg powders, including 1.5 kg gunpowder, bomb making meterials and huse quantity of books and…
by Mahesa Abeynayake Head of quality/ management representative/consultant, Marine Engineering, Fiji Maritime Academy. The tuk-tuk (motorised rickshaw) buzzed down the main street of Chittagong, Bangladesh, with the animated ship’s agent tucked in beside me, hands in the air and talking…
The BBC’s claim of 90% success for Bt brinjal in Bangladesh has been challenged by a journalist. Claire Robinson reports BBC Panorama’s programme, “GM Food: Cultivating Fear”, has come under attack from a Bangladeshi journalist for falsely portraying Bt brinjal…
Authorities say landslides in a mountain area of Nepal have buried two villages, killing at least seven people with several more believed to be buried. The Home Ministry said Thursday that another 13 people were hurt in the landslides triggered…
India has executed Yakub Memon, the man convicted of financing the deadly 1993 Mumbai bombings, the Maharashtra state government has confirmed. Memon was hanged at a prison in Nagpur in the western state. The serial blasts killed 257 people, and…
Bangladesh scored 246 for 8 wickets in the first innings against South Africa on day one in the series-deciding 2nd Test of the two-match National Polymer Test Cricket Series at Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium here on Thursday. The fourth and…
Stephan Uttom, Satkhira and Rock Ronald Rozario, Dhaka Since 2010, Seeta Rani Mohaldar and her husband have lived like refugees. Her home now is a small, one-room structure with no electricity or running water. Seeta treks kilometers into the forest…
Asian shares were mostly higher on Wednesday on hopes that Beijing could stem the rout in its markets without damage to the economy, though caution was the watchword ahead of a policy decision from the US Federal Reserve. The CSI300…
The Venice Film Festival revealed a star-studded lineup for its 72nd annual edition on Wednesday with top Hollywood names centre stage in a wide selection of US and international movies.The world’s oldest film festival will open with “Everest”, starring Jake…
Chelsea wrapped up their pre-season tour of the United States on a high note by beating Barcelona in a shootout after their International Champions Cup match ended 2-2 on Tuesday.Eden Hazard scored an exquisite opener for the English champions before…
Yakub Memon’s chances of avoiding the hangman’s noose for his role in the 1993 Mumbai bombings dwindled on Wednesday, after Supreme Court threw out his final plea for mercy hours before he was due to be executed.Unless President Pranab Mukherjee…
Danielle Nierenberg The increasing trend of international land grabbing—when governments and private firms invest in or purchase large tracts of land in other countries for the purpose of agricultural production and export—can have serious environmental and social consequences. Investors claim…
– John Hewson SYDNEY – On a recent 14.5-hour flight from Los Angeles to Sydney, I had time to read the columnist Charles Krauthammer’s collection of essays, Things that Matter. It made for a disturbing flight. I have enjoyed Krauthammer’s…
Claiming that the statistic of Sushasoner Jonno Nagorik (Sujan) over the declining share of female voters is authentic, the non-government organisation on Wednesday alleged that the Election Commission published untrue and half true information in this regard. “We want to…
All passport users, both at home and abroad, have been requested to swap their handwritten passports with the new machine readable ones by November 24. The deadline was fixed at an inter-ministerial meeting held at the Civil Aviation and Tourism…
Danger signal No 7 in 7 dists, 2 ports; danger signal 5 in 8 dists, 2 ports The deep depression over the Northeast Bay and adjoining Bangladesh coast moved slightly north-northeastwards over the same area and intensified into a cyclonic…
Two courts of Dhaka on Wednesday put Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal President Rajib Ahsan on eight days’ remand in four cases filed in connection violent activities. Magistrate Shamsul Arefin of the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) Court of Dhaka granted six days…
BNP has expressed its frustration, surprise and shock as the Appellate Division upheld the death sentence o party leader Salahuddin Quader Chowdhury on charges of crimes against humanity. “Our party considers like his lawyers that he did not get justice.…
BAU Correspondent Four BCL men of Bangladesh Agricultural University (BAU) unit were arrested on Wednesday on charge of attacking at the mymensing dist. BCL president’s house on 7 July. The arrestees are BAU BCL unit assistant general secretary Monirul Hasan…
Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested four people along with 39 kg hemp from Chandaikona Bazar area in Raiganj upazila of the district on Tuesday.
A schoolboy was electrocuted at Kadamtali in the city on Tuesday night.The deceased was identified as Rasel Ahmed, 10, son of Fazlu Miah, a resident of the area. He was a class IV student of Kadamtali Government Primary School.
Celebration of National Fisheries Week-2015 began in the district today (Tuesday) with elaborate programmes.With the slogan “In Ocean, River, All Water, Fish Culture Creates Gold,” Fisheries Department and District Administration jointly organized a discussion at District Shilpakala Academy auditorium here…
Distribution of identity cards with photos among the fishermen of Sadar upazila began in the district aimed at bringing them under different subsidized programmes of the government.
Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) arrested three Bangladeshi nationals after their illegal intrusion into Bangladesh from Hili frontier under Hakimpur upazila in Dinajpur this afternoon, BGB and police sources said.The arrested persons are: Subornolota, 50, wife of Dulal Nath and Maloti…
A mobile court fined eight gamblers with Taka 600 each in Pirganj upazila town in the district this afternoon, police sources said.Earlier, Pirganj Thana police arrested them from a house in village Chotrahat area under Chhatra union of Pirganj upazila…
Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) members in a drive arrested a person and recovered 310 bottles of Indian liquor from his possession at Boithakhali jetty in the town early Wednesday. The arrestee was identified as Osman,60, son of late Anwar Ali,…
Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) unearthed a fake cigarette factory in Bagsara area under Paba Upazila of the district today, RAB Sources here said.On a tip-off, a team of the elite force conducted a sudden raid at the area…
Train communication on the Parbotipur-Khulna and Chilahati-Rajshahi routes has remained suspended as a freight train derailed in Panchbibi upazila on Wednesday morning.
A police constable drowned in a pond on the Faridpur Police Station complex in the district on Tuesday evening.The deceased was identified as Yasin Ali, 48, son of Afzal Hossain, a resident of Shahajadpur upazila of Sirajganj district.