Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today said law enforcing agencies would investigate the link of Begum Khaleda Zia with the recent subversive activities and take step whether she would be charged in this connection. Replying to a question from treasury bench…
The government on Wednesday announced to provide Tk 1 lakh as bounty if anyone can help arrest anarchists carrying out arson attacks and subversive acts during the transport blockade enforced by the BNP-led 20-party alliance. Industries Minister Amir Hossain Amu…
BNP joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi Ahmed yesterday protested the statement of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who termed Khaleda Zia as a killer and gave a threat to try her like a murderer. In a statement he said, the…
The human rights situation in Bangladesh continues to deteriorate as the government and opposition supporters have battled each other in the streets of Dhaka and other major cities in the past three weeks, Amnesty International has said in its latest…
Police arrested a woman drug trader with three kilograms of ganja at Kathaltala village under Moralganj upazila of the district on Tuesday.
‘Chars’ emerging in the river Padma are bringing fortune to many farmers in Paba, Godagari and Bagha upazilas of the district during the last few years.
A three-day long Digital Innovation Fair-2015 will begin on Independence Square of the town here from January 22 under Access to Information Programme of Prime Minster (PM) Office.
Speakers in the concluding ceremony of a three-day digital innovation fair-2015 here last night said digitisation has become the driving force for building a middle income digital Bangladesh in reality.
A young man committed suicide by hanging himself with the ceiling of his room in the city on Tuesday night.
Police recovered two pistols, one shutter gun and six rounds of bullet from a house at Kajla Kashibati village in Kaliganj upazila on Wednesday morning.
Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) recovered three human skeletons from Schoolpara area under Rajpara thana in the city early Wednesday.
The cast of Coronation Street have led tributes to actress Anne Kirkbride, who played one of the soap’s best-loved characters Deirdre Barlow for 42 years.
US President Barack Obama has declared an end to the financial crisis and pledged economic policies to benefit all Americans, in his annual State of the Union address to Congress.
For the first time, words have been read from a burnt, rolled-up scroll buried by Mount Vesuvius in AD79.
Maria Sharapova survived a huge scare as she saved two match points to beat world number 150 Alexandra Panova at the Australian Open.
At least four people were killed and two others injured as a truck collided with a CNG-run auto-rickshaw at Charbhabla near the Bangabandhu Jamuna Bridge (East) Police Station on Tuesday night. The deceased were identified as Golam Kibria,40, a resident…
Israeli police say they have shot a Palestinian man from the West Bank who stabbed at least 10 people in an attack on a bus in central Tel Aviv. The incident occurred on Maariv bridge where the suspect attacked people…
Accusing the government of adopting burn and desert policy, BNP on Wednesday alleged that it has given law enforcers a free hand for committing crimes against humanity like secret killings and enforced disappearances in a bid to suppress its movement.…
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said on Tuesday BNP chief Begum Khaleda Zia would have to stand for trial as a “killer” for killing innocent people for her personal interest. The PM told Parliament Khaleda’s movement is not for any national…
The cost of generating power from renewable energy sources has reached parity or dropped below the cost of fossil fuels for many technologies, the International Renewable Energy Agency (Irena) has revealed. Irena’s “Renewable Power Generation Costs in 2014” report concludes…
This year presents significant opportunities for the global community to lay the foundation for a development agenda that puts efforts to tackle climate change and poverty on the same path. In recent years, the development community’s efforts to eradicate extreme…
Leading Bangladesh expatriates living in the United States and Cana in a joint press statement issued from New York urged the government to create an atmosphere conducive to dialogue to resolve the prevailing political crisis and said, there is no…
Describing those who burn people by setting fire to vehicles as criminals, BNP senior leader Lt Gen (retd) Mahbubur Rahman on Tuesday demanded the government bring them to justice. “Those who are burning people during our peaceful blockade programme are…
Citizens who catch miscreants responsible for violence during strikes and blockades will be rewarded, the state minister for home has said. “There are rewards for those who hand over to police miscreants, who set fire to public property or throw…
Steven Finn and James Anderson led England to a morale-boosting nine-wicket thrashing of India in Brisbane.
Political earthquakes could be in store for Europe in 2015, according to research by the Economist Intelligence Unit for the BBC’s Democracy Day.
A local Chinese newspaper has apologised after secretly photographing late singer Yao Beina during surgery to donate her corneas following her death.
The socioeconomic shocks following the collapse of the Soviet Union also affected the region’s wildlife, researchers have suggested.
Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) on Tuesday expressed deep concern over the on-going inhuman and cruel manifestation of violence and use of force in an unhealthy competition for power at the cost of basic rights of the people and prospect of…
Joint Secretary of ruling Awami League Mahbubul Alam Hanif, MP said on Tuesday BNP Chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia has announced to continue the nationwide blockade to take revenge against the people for not supporting their destructive programs. He came up…