North Korea appears to be preparing a test-launch of an intermediate-range ballistic missile, South Korea’s Yonhap news agency said on Tuesday, after what the United States described as the “fiery, catastrophic” failure of the first attempt.On April 15, the North…
Entertainment Desk Alyson Hannigan’s daughters Satyana, 7, and Keeva, 3, may be young, but the Penn & Teller: Fool Us host is already thinking about when she’ll allow them to watch her in the cult classic, American Pie. “In college,”…
Showtime Desk Music arranger and singer Kishore has just completed new album Tumi ar ami. A duet album, Kishore will be singing along with Elita. The album is full of romantic numbers. Popular lyricist Kabir Bokul and Shomeshywar Ali have…
Rangpur Correspondent Experts at a regional workshop have stressed on enchaining farming of less irrigation water consuming Aus, drought- and other stress tolerant rice to gradually reduce Boro cultivation and lessen pressure on underground water. They also put emphasis on…
France announced Monday it was raising its renewable energy goals and would become the first country to issue “green bonds” to fund projects which benefit the enviroment. French President Francois Hollande also confirmed that the country’s oldest nuclear power plant,…
Dhaka – Four members of a family died from electrocution at Ramdighi village in Dharmapasha upazila of Sunamganj on Tuesday morning, unb news agency reported.
Dhaka – A case has been filed making 9/10 people accused in connection with the killing of a guard of Kashimpur Jail on Monday morning. Victim’s wife Nasrin Akhter filed the case with Joydebpur police station early Tuesday against four…
Police arrested 12 Jahangirnagar University (JU) students from the Prantik Gate of Jahangirnagar university campus on Monday morning during a half day hartal observed demanding the trial of the killers of cultural activist Tonu. The half-day hartal, from 6:00am to…
The teachers of Bangladesh Agricultural University (BAU) on Monday formed a human chain protesting the murder of a teacher of Rajshahi University (RU). In the protesting programmes, they demanded immediate arrest and capital punishment of the killers.
Sunamganj – Four members of a family died from electrocution at Ramdighi village in Dharmapasha upazila on Tuesday morning.
Gazipur –A case has been filed making nine to ten people accused in connection with the killing of a guard of Kashimpur Jail on Monday morning.
Dhaka – The United States has offered full support to the government of Bangladesh in its investigation into the barbaric murder of Xulhaz Mannan and his friend to bring the perpetrators to justice.
By Nava Thakuria Sustainable increase of precious one-horned rhinoceros, recent royal visit by Prince William and the Duchess of Cambridge, concerns expressed by an international rights body over shooting of a number of unconfirmed poachers and many more news put Kaziranga National…
New York – The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the murder today of Bangladeshi journalist Xulhaz Mannan. The senior editor at gay rights magazine Roopbaan, who also worked at the U.S. Agency for International Development, was stabbed to death at…
New York – The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on authorities in Nepal to immediately release Kanak Mani Dixit, the founding editor of the independent regional news magazine Himal Southasian. The journalist, who has reported critically on the country’s civil…
Riyadh (AP/UNB) – Saudi Arabia on Monday approved a long-awaited plan laying out reform priorities for the next decade and a half, setting in motion what is likely to be a period of significant economic change in the oil-rich kingdom.…
BNP has blamed a ‘culture of impunity’ for the murder of Rajshahi University teacher Prof Rezaul Karim Siddiquee. The party’s General Secretary Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, in a statement issued over 36 hours after Saturday’s murder, said, “The miscreants are…
Dhaka – Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan on Monday said a vested quarter is conspiring to destabilise the country by killing people, including bloggers and university teachers, unb news agency reported. Responding to a question from Jasod MP Nazmul Huq Pradhan…
Dhaka – Defending the high cost of Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant project (RNPP), Chairman of the Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission (BAEA) Engineer M Ali Zulquarnain on Monday said safety issues have been ensured in the country’s first-ever nuclear power project…
Dhaka, – Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday accused the BNP-Jamaat clique of carrying out killings like Kalabagan double murder saying they are doing this to destabilise the country, unb news agency reported. “Everybody knows who were behind such killing…the…
Dhaka – Two days after the murder of a Rajshahi University teacher in the same style, two people, including a USAID staff, were hacked to death at an apartment in the capital’s Kalabagan area on Monday evening, unb news agency…