A woman and her daughter received serious burn injuries as miscreants threw acid on them at Moulvipara village in Monohardi upazila early Saturday.The victims were identified as Rokeya Begum,42, wife of Abdul Mannan, and their daughter Sabekun Nahar,25.
Police recovered the bodies of an elderly man and a boy in Khulna and Brahmanbaria districts on Friday.In Khulna, police recovered the body of a boy from the river Atrai in Dighalia upazila.
Detectives arrested an alleged terrorist in possession of a foreign-made revolver and two rounds of bullet from Khankhanapur area in Sadar upazila on Friday night.
A total of 82.77 per cent students passed in Secondary School Certificate (SSC) examinations under Chittagong Education Board (CEB) this year.According to results of the SSC-2015 published here today, the percentage of pass in CEB is 82.77 which was 91.40…
Chittagong district police in separate special drives arrested 272 people including 18 Jamaat-Shibir activists from three upazilas of the district on Friday night.
Asian Development Bank (ADB) today distributed 10 agriculture equipments in Belaichhari upazila for agriculture development of rural areas of hill district under its Chittagong Hill Tract Development project.
Just a week ahead of his visit to Dhaka, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has compared the settling of the Land Boundary Agreement (LBA) between Bangladesh and India as the fall of the Berlin Wall. Modi, who is scheduled to…
US Secretary of State John Kerry met his Iranian counterpart Mohammad Javad Zarif on Saturday in a bid to overcome the remaining obstacles to a final nuclear agreement, a month ahead of a deadline for a deal between Tehran and…
During the week of April 6 to 12, average carbon dioxide (CO2) levels touched 404.02 parts per million (ppm), the highest-ever in recent human history – and 15 percent above the levels of 350 ppm scientists say is ideal for…
Fifa President Sepp Blatter came out fighting on Saturday as he began his fifth term in charge of soccer’s governing body, implying that the United States timed the announcement of a major corruption probe to try to scupper his re-election…
Director Brad Peyton grilled scientists, scoured earthquake footage and submerged sets in one of the world’s biggest water tanks to create the biggest earthquake ever to hit California in his new film “San Andreas.”That effort might pay off at the…
Onion prices have dropped from last week, but consumers say prices of the staple should be lesser in the beginning of the season.On Friday, local onion was sold at Tk 40 to 42 per kilogram, which is Tk 5 to…
The US has called for an “immediate and lasting halt” to land reclamation in disputed areas of the South China Sea. US Defence Secretary Ashton Carter told the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore that China’s actions in the area were “out…
The results of the Secondary School Certificate (SSC) and its equivalent examinations were published across the country on Saturday, showing a pass percentage of 87.04 percent. A total of 12, 82, 618 students, out of the total 1,473,594, came out…
30 May is the 34th death anniversary of late President Ziaur Rahman, the founder of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP). On this day in 1981 some misguided members of the Army assassinated Zia at the Chittagon Circuit House in the dead…
A regional conference called to address the swelling tide of boat people in Southeast Asia ended Friday with no major breakthroughs, as Myanmar criticised those blaming it for fueling the crisis and warned that “finger pointing” would not help. But…
The National Committee to Protect Oil, Gas and Mineral Resources and Power and Ports on Friday again vowed to launch a long march towards Rampal Power Plant site in Bagerhat demanding cancellation of the project. National committee member secretary Prof…
Two days after seven FIFA officials were arrested by Swiss police on charges of corruption, and others were detained around the world, septuagenarian and incumbent leader Sepp Blatter — who has led FIFA since 1998 and weathered numerous calls to…
BNP on Friday urged the government to hold talks with party chairperson Khaleda Zia on matters relating to country’s national interest based on consensus before Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Bangladesh. “We hope that Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina…
Diagnoses of sexually transmitted diseases including HIV and syphilis are on the rise in the United States among certain groups, with experts attributing the uptick to growing complacency about sexually risky behavior. Public health officials in Rhode Island said this…
A court of Dhaka yesterday (Thursday) placed two people on a ten-day remand each in a case filed on the charge of gang-raping a 21-year-old Garo woman on May 21. Magistrate Amit Kumar Dey of the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM)…
The United Nations (UN) has said all the countries that are ‘implicated’ need to sit around the table and come up with a solution regarding human trafficking. “I think all the countries that are implicated, whether they’re origin countries, transit…
Jahangirnagar University (JU) authorities has sacked a teacher on charges of sexual harassment brought against him by several female students of his department about one and a half years ago. JU registrar Abu Bakar Siddiqe said the JU syndicate on…
The 209 members of Fifa are to vote for their new president at a congress in Zurich, as football’s world governing body faces a major corruption scandal. Sepp Blatter, the favourite, is seeking a fifth term. He is being challenged…
New York – The next president of Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) – world football’s governing body – should ensure that future host countries of the World Cup are required to comply with fundamental human rights norms. The FIFA…
Rohingya and other survivors of dangerous boat voyages from Burma andBangladesh describe horrific treatment by unscrupulous smugglers and traffickers in Burma, and abuse and neglect aboard ships, Human Rights Watch said today. A regional meeting scheduled on May 29, 2015,…
Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus said said on Thursday the world must show zero tolerance to poverty, unemployment and carbon emission for sustainable development, the next new agenda of the UN after conclusion of millennium development goal this year. Addressing the…
Dhaka Statement on Urban Health in Sustainable Development International Conference on Urban Health Dhaka, Bangladesh, 24-27 May 2015 A Call for Action The International Society of Urban Health (ISUH) and the participants in the 12th International Conference on Urban Health…
The death toll from Thursday’s trawler capsize in the Meghna River here rose to nine with recovery of six more bodies on Friday morning. Seven of the deceased were identified as Ummeli, 04, Sumiya, 08, Faysal, 06, Bayezid, 02, all…
The Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) Court of Dhaka on Thursday passed order allowing police to interrogate BNP leaders Ruhul Kabir Rizvi and Shamsuzzaman Dudu at the jail gate, rejecting the pleas of police for their remand. Magistrate Imdadul Haque of…