Benapole – A young man died after drinking excessive liquor at Sheikhhati village in Jessore town on Friday night. Officer-in-charge of Jessore Kotwali Police Station Elias Hossain said Anwar Hossain Anar, son of Atiar Rahman, a resident of the village,…
Mymensingh – Traffic movement on the Dhaka-Mymensingh highway remained suspended for two hours following a road accident as two trucks collided head on at Signboard in Trishal upazila on Saturday.Maniruzzaman, officer-in-charge of Trishal Police Station, said vehicular movement was disrupted…
Dhaka – Levante fought back to beat Espanyol 2-1 at home on Friday to boost its hopes of avoiding relegation from the Spanish league.Hernan Perez gave the visitors the lead in the seventh minute after controlling Victor Sanchez’s pass.Giuseppe Rossi…
Dhaka – With its focus on human resource development, employment, power and energy sector, the government is likely to come up with around Tk 3,40,006 crore budget for the next fiscal year (2016-17), unb news agency has reported. To be…
Dhaka –Detectives arrested journalist Shafik Rehman, former editor of the Bangla daily Jaijaidin, from his residence in the city’s Eskaton Garden on Saturday morning, unb news agency reported.
By Ryan Faith This week, on the 55th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin’s first-ever manned spaceflight, Russian internet entrepreneur Yuri Milner and British physicist Stephen Hawking announced a project aimed to send a spacecraft to another star. With lasers! Breakthrough Starshot,…
Dhaka – Stating that a ‘grand festival of killing people’ is going on in the Union Parishad (UP) polls, BNP senior leader Gayeshwar Chandra Roy on Friday questioned why their party is still there in the election race. “A grand…
Mashiki – A powerful earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.1 struck southern Japan early Saturday, barely 24 hours after a smaller quake hit the same region and killed nine people. Japanese broadcaster NHK said a number of calls were…
Dhaka – Law enforcers arrested Gazipur City Corporation Mayor MA Mannan from Kaliakoir upazila of Gazipur on Friday night, unb news agency reported. A team of police picked up Mannan from Madhyapara around 8:30pm while he was returning to the…
Dhaka – What the Europa League lacks in glamor it more than made up for in late drama on Thursday. Sevilla’s pursuit of a hat trick of titles was kept alive with a shootout success and Liverpool reached the semifinals…
Dhaka – Rafael Nadal was prepared for pain. Roger Federer hoped to avoid pain.They got what they wished for and reached the Monte Carlo Masters quarterfinals on Thursday.Eight-time champion Nadal saved 15 of 17 break points, scampering all over the…
Sylhet – The indefinite strike enforced by Sylhet District Transport Owners and Workers Oikya Parishad demanding the withdrawal of a case filed against the president of Sylhet Road Transport Workers’ Union in the district, was called off on Thursday.Samsul Haq…
Panchagarh -Twenty-six people fell sick reportedly after taking tea at a function to see prospective bride at Balapara in Debiganj upazila on Thursday night.Rahimul Islam Bulbul, chairman of Sonahar union in the upazila, said Surendra Nath Roy of Nilphamari district…
Dhaka – A man was stabbed to death by some muggers at Siddikbazar in the city’s Bongshal area on Friday morning.A gang of muggers intercepted Shaheed Hossain Shaheen, 35, an employee of a clothes store and son of Mohammad Ali,…
Barisa – A woman allegedly killed a three-year old boy after dashing him to the ground in Banaripara area of the district town early Friday.Quoting witnesses Ziaul Ahsan, officer-in-charge of Banaripara Police Station, said rickshaw puller Ripon Sheikh used to…
Jhenidah – Police recovered one shooter gun and two rounds of bullets from Bujitala village of Sadar upazila on Friday following the arrest of two suspected terrorists from South Shikarpur village in the early morning.The arrestees were identified as…
Health Desk Most of us welcome hot weather, but when it’s too hot for too long there are health risks. As heatwave hits this summer, make sure the hot weather doesn’t harm you or anyone you know. The very young,…
Oil prices rose slightly in Asia Friday after the International Energy Agency (IEA) said it saw the crude supply glut easing by year’s end, but trading was cautious ahead of a crunch producers’ summit. The IEA report, released ahead of…
Conductor James Levine, who led the Metropolitan Opera for 40 years as its music director, will retire at the end of the current season for health reasons, the company announced Thursday. The 72-year-old Levine, who has conducted more than 2,500…
Culture Desk Entertainment based fortnightly magazine Ananda Alo celebrated 12 years in production on the very first day of the Bengali New Year 1423 yesterday. The magazine celebrated their birthday celebration along with a prize giving ceremony yesterday. Ananda Alo…
The iconic reef depends on protective pulses of warm water to boost its heat tolerance. Climate change may eliminate these “practice runs.” This panoramic image reveals coral bleaching at Lizard Island on the Great Barrier Reef in March 2016. The…
The fleeing of a mollusk from a New Zealand aquarium has captivated the world. Here’s how he did it, and what it means. An octopus at New Zealand’s National Aquarium made a break for freedom by slipping out of its…
Cultural Correspondent Music video of the song “Elo Re Bhai Notun Shaje Pahela Baishakh” will be released soon over the internet and on satellite channels. It has been sung by Dinat Jahan Munni, Pratik Hasan, Sabbir and Oishi and written…
Guwahati — The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge trekked through blue pine forests to visit a famed Buddhist monastery in Bhutan on Friday during their weeklong tour of South Asia. Taktsang Monastery, also known as Tiger’s Nest, clings to the…
Bagerhat (UNB) – At least fifty people including women and children fell sick after having Panta-Ilish at a Bangla New Year celebration programme organised by the Kachua Upazila Parishad on Thursday. Till Friday morning, 24 of them were admitted to…
Dhaka (UNB) – A man was stabbed to death by some muggers at Siddikbazar in the city’s Bongshal area on Friday morning. A gang of muggers intercepted Shaheed Hossain Shaheen, 35, an employee of a clothes store and son of…
Chittagong –The Chittagong Development Authority (CDA) has instructed owners to partially demolish two of the nine buildings that got tilted during Wednesday’s earthquake in the port city. A three-member probe body, formed by the CDA, came up with the directive…
Dhaka – British Prime Minister David Cameron has appointed Rushanara Ali, a Labour Party MP for Bethnal Green and Bow, to join the cross-party trade envoy network as a trade envoy for Bangladesh. The appointment, made on the occasion of…
New York — Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders deepened their increasingly bitter feud Thursday night, challenging each other’s judgment to be president in a Democratic Party showdown that comes days before Tuesday’s high stakes New York primary.
Tokyo — A chimpanzee escaped from a zoo in northern Japan, climbed a tall electricity pole and then plunged from the wires into a blanket held by a dozen workers after being hit with a sedative arrow. Chacha, a male…