Eight shops were gutted by a fire that broke out in Bakali Potti area in front of Pourosuper Market in the district town on Wednesday night.
Year: 2015
8 Jamaat-Shibir men on 2-day remand for attacking cops in Rajshahi
A court here on Wednesday placed eight Jamaat-Shibir men on a two-day remand each in a case filed for attacking police in Shalbagan area of the city on Tuesday.
Omniprocessor-a new water treatment machine!
Janicki Bioenergy with the funding of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation recently built a magical machine – the Omniprocessor which is capable of transforming sewage into potable water. The machine not only produces clean drinking water but electricity as…
Crackdown on opposition, media – HRW: Securing life, property – Matia
New York – The Bangladesh government should immediately end its use of excessive force, stop arbitrary arrests of members of opposition parties, and lift restrictions on the media, Human Rights Watch said on Friday. Hundreds of opposition activists, including from…
Blockade to restore right to vote, freedom of expression: Rizvi
BNP joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi Ahmed yesterday called upon the people and leaders and activists of the 20-party alliance to make the blockade of road, rail and waterways a success applying their all forces and with courage. “The…
Meeting India’s Maoist challenge – Analysis
By Gurmeet Kanwal and Bibhu Prasad Routray In a spectacular strike on the security forces, cadres belonging to the CPI-Maoist ambushed a large team of police and paramilitary forces and killed 14 personnel of the CRPF in Sukma district of…
France: An Attack on Free Expression
Response to Charlie Hebdo Killings Should Protect Rights French authorities should bring to justice those responsible for the horrific attack on the office of Charlie Hebdo on January 7, 2015, Human Rights Watch said today. The authorities should guard against…
Paris – A dastardly act of terror
Chandra Muzaffar It is not surprising that Muslim governments, organizations and individuals right across the globe have condemned the heinous murder of 12 persons – 10 journalists and two police – at the headquarters of the satirical weekly, Charlie Hebdo,…
Tarique Rahman, ETV chief Salam charged with sedition
Police have brought charges of sedition against BNP leader Tarique Rahman and Ekushey Television Chairman Abdus Salam. A case was filed on Thursday over live telecast of a speech the BNP’s senior vice-chairman delivered in a programme at London three…
Killing people not movement but terrorist, militant acts: PM
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said on Thursday it was BNP’s own decision not to participate in the last general election and they did it out of sympathy for Jamaat as it could not contest the polls for losing its registration…
Sri Lanka’s Rajapaksa admits defeat in election
Sri Lanka’s long-time leader Mahinda Rajapaksa has admitted defeat in the presidential election, his office says. President Rajapaksa has dominated politics for a decade, but faced an unexpected challenge from his health minister Maithripala Sirisena. The statement said Mr Rajapaksa…
Investigate deaths, release prisoners held this week: Amnesty
‘Bangladeshi authorities must investigate the killing of protesters and release prisoners , including a prominent journalist and an opposition leader, arrested this week as part of an apparent crackdown against the opposition Bangladesh National Party (BNP),’ Amnesty International said. In…
Khaleda’s office gate locked up again. Shamsher Mubin held
Hours after opening the lock, law enforcers on Thursday night again locked up the main gate of BNP chairperson’s Gulshan office where Khaleda Zia has remained confined for six days with huge law enforcers deployed around it. Witnesses said police…
Blockade to continue till victory: Khaleda
BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia on late Wednesday night urged all to continue the countrywide nonstop blockade till victory. She said this when a 5-member team of professionals including former Vice Chancellor of Dhaka University and Journalist Union president Shaukat Mahmud…
Law Minister condemns bomb attacks on justice’s homes .
Law Minister Anisul Huq today strongly condemned the bomb and arson attack on the residence and village home of the High Court Justices who passed an interim order not to broadcast or publish statement of fugitive accused BNP vice-chairman Tarique…
B Chy again barred from seeing Khaleda, calls for dialogue
President of Bikalpa Dhara Bangladesh Prof Dr Badruddoza Chowdhury yesterday called upon the government to hold dialogue with the all opposition parties to resolve the current political impasse. He made the call at a press statement issued on Thursday while…
Indian BJP chief Amit Shah enquires about Khaleda’s health
President of Bharatiya Janata Party Amit Shah has enquired the health condition of BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia over telephone. Briefing reporters BNP chairperson’s press secretary Maruf Kamal Khan Sohel yesterday said Amit Shah made a telephone call to Khaleda Zia…
Pepper spray on Khaleda violation of Convention, HC order: Dab
Doctors Association of Bangladesh (DAB) yesterday said that pepper spray on BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia was the violation of Chemical Weapon Convention and the High Court prohibition not to use it. Leaders of the DAB, a pro-BNP professional organisation, made…
Most fossil fuels ‘unburnable’ under 2C climate target
Most of the world’s fossil fuel reserves will need to stay in the ground if dangerous global warming is to be avoided, modelling work suggests.
Australia v India: Kohli makes history; ‘spidercam’ controversy
Virat Kohli became the first man to make three Test centuries in his first three innings as captain on an eventful third day of the fourth Test against Australia in Sydney.
Guardians joins WGA screenplay shortlist
Guardians of the Galaxy has received a surprise nomination in the adapted screenplay shortlist, as selected by the Writers Guild of America (WGA).
Charlie Hebdo attack: Kouachi brothers are top suspects
French police are hunting for two French brothers suspected of carrying out the massacre at the Paris office of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, in which 12 people died.
Opinion: Understanding education for global citizenship
By Kartikeya V. Sarabhai Ahmedabad, India, Dec 2014 (IPS) – Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) brings together concerns about the environment, economic development and social aspects. Since 1972, when the first U.N. Conference on the Human Environment was held in…
SMS for healthy, AIDS-free babies
By Lyndal Rowlands and Mercedes Sayagues UN, Dec 2014 (IPS) – In rural Zambia and Malawi, new mums face long delays finding out if they have passed HIV on to their babies. Without treatment, a third of babies born with…
India’s ‘manual scavengers’ up against caste discrimination
By Shai Venkatraman Mumbai, Jan 2015 (IPS) – Watching Bittal Devi deftly weave threads of different colours into a vibrant patchwork quilt, it’s hard to imagine that this 46-year-old’s hands have spent the better part of their life cleaning toilets.…
From the American dream to the nightmare of deportation
By Edgardo Ayala San Salvador, Jan 2015 (IPS) – Julio César Cordero’s American dream didn’t last long. He was trying to reach Houston, Texas as an undocumented immigrant but was detained in Acayucán in southeastern Mexico. And like thousands of…
Organic farming in India points the way to sustainable agriculture
By Jency Samuel Nagapatnam, India, Jan 2015 (IPS) – Standing amidst his lush green paddy fields in Nagapatnam, a coastal district in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, a farmer named Ramajayam remembers how a single wave changed his…
Family farming eases food shortages in Eastern Cuba
By Patricia Grogg Santiago De Cuba, Jan 2015 (IPS) – Meat and vegetables are never missing from the dinner table of Damaris González and Omar Navarro, since they get almost all of their food from their farm, La Revelación, on…
The rise and fall of world’s poorest nations
By Thalif Deen UN, Jan 2015 (IPS) – The world’s 48 Least Developed Countries (LDCs) – a special category of developing nations created by the General Assembly in 1971 but refused recognition by the World Bank – have long been…
Banks asked to assess terror financing risks in three months
The banks in Bangladesh were on Thursday issued guidelines to assess risks of money laundering and terrorist financing in their operations, and were given by three months to complete such assessment 31 March. The output of this assessment will be…