With sandals of victims spread at the spot of Friday’s stampede in Mymensingh over the collection of zakat gift saree, visitors who came to have a glimpse looked horrified. A police sub-inspector was suspended on Saturday following the deaths of…
Year: 2015
Subversive acts during movement: Bnp urged UN probe
BNP on Saturday demanded an international probe under the UN’s supervision into the subversive acts carried out during the blockade and hartal enforced by the BNP-led 20-party alliance in the first three months of this year to identify the real…
Seas could rise 6 meters even if govts curb warming: study
OSLO – Sea levels could rise by at least 6 meters (20 feet) in the long term, swamping coasts from Florida to Bangladesh, even if governments achieve their goals for curbing global warming, a study published Thursday said. Tracts of…
Social business projects cross 1200
The 92nd Social Business Design Lab took place today 11 July 2015 at the Grameen Bank Auditorium. About 150 participants and observers, from national and international organizations with diverse background attended the program, including a large number of international participants.…
Russia has advanced tech for Spent Nuke Fuel treatment
Russia has developed a new technology for treatment of Spent Nuclear Fuel (SNF), which is much safer, environment friendly and cost effective than the existing technology. Russian company Mining and Chemical Combine (MCC), a division of Russian nuclear fuel company-…
Greece debt crisis: MPs back bailout reform plan
Greece’s parliament has backed a government package of economic reforms aimed at ending the country’s debt crisis and securing a new bailout. After winning cross-party support in a late-night vote, PM Alexis Tsipras said he had a “strong mandate” to…
BSF shoots dead B’seshi youth in Satkhira
A Bangladeshi young man was shot to death by Indian Border Security Force (BSF) members on Kushkhali border in sadar upazila early Saturday.
Khaleda’s shock at 27 stampede deaths: Poverty forces endanger life
Expressing her deep shock over the deaths of 27 people in Mymensingh stampede, BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia on Friday alleged that people are being forced to endanger their lives for colleting Zakat clothes as their poverty level has gone down…
UN postpones action to halt deforestation under industry pressure
New York: The Global Forest Coalition [1] reacted furiously to the final draft of the Sustainable Development Goals released this week. Despite the fact that most Sustainable Development Goals were agreed upon in July 2014, the latest draft, which will…
Cholera vaccine trialed in B’desh slum cuts cases by 40 per cent
Firdausi Qadri of the worldwide Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research in Dhaka, Bangladesh, said the trial results, published in The Lancet journal, show how a routine oral cholera vaccination programme “could substantially reduce the burden of disease and greatly contribute…
A lesson in photo editing
Removing people, images, from photos helps dictators solves inconvenient narratives Handling history is an uneasy thing for any dictatorship. The past contains many things which contradict the state’s ideology and official myths. So, it is quite logical that many authoritarian…
Call election as committed: B Chowdhury
Bikalpa Dhara President Badruddhoza Chowdhury on Friday said the government had made a commitment to hold a fresh and inclusive parliamentary polls after the January 5 elections and should live up to it without delay.
Tigers lose ODI as SA’s Rabada takes record 6 wickets
Pacer Kagiso Rabada’s world record of six wickets, including a hat-trick, on his ODI debut helped South Africa take 1-0 lead in the three-match National Polymer ODI Cricket Series as the Proteas beat Bangladesh by eight wickets in the rain-hit…
Revealed: the role of the west in the runup to Srebrenica’s fall
By Ed Vulliamy Classified documents and research show that British, American and French governments were negotiating to cede ‘safe area’ town to Serbs The fall of Srebrenica in Bosnia 20 years ago, prompting the worst massacre inEurope since the Third…
One electrocuted in Manikganj
A gold-worker was electrocuted at his own workshop at Ghior bazzar here on Thursday.
Car driver stabbed dead in Bogra
A private car driver was stabbed to death by some miscreants at Thanthania in the district town on Thursday.The deceased was identified as Rubel, 26, driver of Dr Emdadul Haque, managing director of Samsunnahar Clinic in the area and son…
22 BNP-Jamaat men land in Jhalakati jail
A court here on Thursday sent 22 leaders and activists of BNP and Jamaat-e-Islami to jail in a case filed for torching a bus by hurling petrol bomb at a filling station in Nalchhiti upazila on January 21.
Schoolteacher electrocuted in Sherpur
A schoolteacher died from electrocution at Shapmari area of Vatshala union parishad in Sadar upazila on Thursday noon.
Youth pushed off boat, dies in Dinajpur
A young man drowned as he was pushed off a boat into the Purnabhaba river at Lalmatia ghat of Muraripur village in sadar upazila allegedly by a village doctor on Thursday.The deceased was identified as Martuza Rahman Babu, 28, son…
9 sued for killing housewife after rape in Laxmipur
A case has been filed against nine people in connection with the killing of a housewife after gang-rape in Chandraganj upazila. Tahura Begum, mother of the victim, filed the case on Thursday with Chandraganj Police Station, three days after the…
Housewife commits suicide in Panchagarh
A housewife was committed suicide herself by hanging at Torongi para village under Boda upazila here on Thursday.The deceased was identified as Momota Begum, 35, wife of Safiqul Islam of the village.
Waterborne diseases coming down in rural areas
Recurrence of waterborne and mal-nutrition related diseases and related deaths have been reduced to the minimum in rural areas following continuous improvement of all health indexes.
Distressed families get CI sheet, cash in Gaibandha
A total of 200 river eroded and distressed families of Sundarganj upazila in the district got 200 bundle of corrugated iron (CI) sheet and cash TK 6 lakh from government on Thursday.
WZ Railway adopts additional security cautionary measures for Eid passengers
The West Zone of Bangladesh Railway has adopted additional security and cautionary measures to carry the home-bound passengers ahead of the forthcoming Eid-ul-Fitr celebration.
Design for walkover by convicting Khaleda in false cases: BNP
BNP yesterday alleged that the government wants to get a walkover by convicting party chairperson Khaleda Zia implicating her in false cases. “The government is trying to convict Khaleda Zia by setting special tribunal and implicating her in false cases…
Honorary citizenship for Yunus from City of Bologna
Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus has just concluded a 5 day visit to Italy where he was attending several high level events within the framework of the Milan Expo 2015. He was a keynote speaker at the Social Enterprise World…
Bnp terms PMs blaming Tarique in UK polls absurd
The BNP has dismissed Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s allegation that its senior vice chairman Tarique Rahman wanted to block her niece’s victory in the UK polls terming it absurd and illogical. “The Prime Minister told Parliament that Tarique Rahman tried…
Web-based kala-aza surveillance launched
A web-based surveillance system has been introduced in the country to track the potentially fatal, parasitic disease kala-azar, also known as visceral leishmaniasis (VL). The Centre for Disease Control (CDC) of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) with technical…
25 killed in stampede while taking Eid gift saree in Mymeningh
At least 25 poor women and children were killed and 50 others injured in a stampede as they crowded for receiving Zakat clothes distributed by local Nurani Jarda Factory near Mymensingh municipality office early Friday. The Officer-in-charge of Kotwali Police…
India’s Narendra Modi accepts Pakistan visit invite
Indian PM Narendra Modi has accepted an invitation from his Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif to attend a regional summit in Islamabad next year. This will be Mr Modi’s first visit to Pakistan after he took power last year.