Japan’s exports in July suffered their sharpest monthly fall in seven years, data showed Thursday, as a surging yen clouds the country’s trade picture, with shipments of cars, ships and steel all tumbling. The gloomy export figures come despite Japan…
It seems increasingly likely that 2016 will be hottest year on record, with each of the first seven months setting new temperature records. According to a monthly report released Wednesday by the U.S.National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), last month…
Turkey’s government says it has come up with a three-step solution to try and end the war in Syria. It involves preserving the country’s territorial integrity, ensuring non-sectarian governance and Syrians returning home. – Source: Al-Jazeera
Arup Barua Young people enjoy a critical junction of human lives, where the transition from childhood to adulthood takes place. This phase goes beyond physical transformation rather a set of transformation which entails biological, psychological, socio-cultural and political adaptation. Age…
Masum Billah KG schools have mushroomed at every nook and corner of the country ranging from the remotest village to the capital city. This fact coupled with the recent terrorist attacks has drawn the attention of the government to look…
In 1971, then US Secretary of Agriculture Earl Butz uttered these unsympathetic words: “Before we go back to organic agriculture in this country, somebody must decide which 50 million Americans we are going to let starve or go hungry.” Since…
New York (AP/UNB) – Donald Trump has received his first classified intelligence briefing, meeting with national security officials for more than two hours on Wednesday.
Calif (AP/UNB) – A wildfire with a ferocity never seen before by veteran California firefighters raced up and down canyons, instantly engulfing homes and forcing thousands of people to flee, some running for their lives just ahead of the flames.
Dhaka -An alleged drug peddler was injured in a reported gunfight with police at Rukindipur in Akkelpur upazila of Joypurhat early Thursday, UNB news gency reported. The injured was identified as Poritosh alias Pori, son of Nani Gopal, a resident…
Dhaka -The body of Bangladeshi expatriate imam Maulana Alauddin Akhonjee, who was shot to death along with his assistant by a gunman in New York City on Saturday, arrived home Thursday morning, UNB news agency reported.
Rio (AP/UNB) — Lukas Klosertmann and Nils Peterson scored to send Germany into the Olympic gold-medal match for the first time with a 2-0 semifinal victory over Nigeria on Wednesday.
Dhaka – Egypt’s state broadcaster has suspended eight of its female TV presenters and told them to go on a diet, sparking uproar among women’s rights groups.
New Delhi (AP/UNB) — Indian police say three people, including two children, have died after their throats were slashed by glass-coated kite string used in competitions to slice the strings of other kites.
Rio (AP/UNB) — With the fastest goal in Olympic history, Neymar led Brazil back to the gold-medal match. The Barcelona striker scored 15 seconds into the game and converted a penalty kick in second-half injury time Wednesday to lead Brazil…
The newly formed BNP standing committee is going to hold its first meeting on Thursday night to discuss the country’s latest political situation, party’s organisational issues and work out its next course of action.
‘Ziaur Rahman is the first president of Bangladesh’ has now been stated by no-one other than an Awami League MP, bdnews24.com reported on Wednesday. The report said, retired major general Mohammad Shubid Ali Bhuiyan faced intense criticism from his colleagues…
By Joe Rothstein Editor, EINNews.com and author of the new political thriller “The Latina President…and The Conspiracy to Destroy Her” now on sale at Amazon. It’s really hot where I live, in Washington, D.C. Today’s temperature is near 100 degrees.…
Dhaka – A 5-day exhibition of branded clothing, cosmetics and fashion products started on 17th August at Emmanuell’s Banquet Hall at Gulshan-1 in the city. Over 35 companies are participating in this exhibition titled ‘7th Bangladesh Fashion Carnival 2016’, 7th…
The FINANCIAL — Georgia leads the countries with the highest mortality rate caused by air pollution according to the study by The International Energy Agency (IEA). This is due to a sharp rise in the number of old, dirty diesel…
A court here on Wednesday sentenced seven people to death and another to life term imprisonment in a murder case filed in 2006.
Two schoolgirls died from snakebites in separate incidents in Manirampur upazila of Jessore district early Wednesday.
Dhaka – Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) onece again annouced bountry of Tk 5 lakh for giving information to police to help arrest of a top leader of banned Islamic outfit Ansarullah Bangla Team (ABT) as he was said to be…
Philippines police on Wednesday arrested Maia Deguito, former branch manager at Rizal Commercial Banking Corp who has been linked to the alleged laundering of money stolen from Bangladesh Bank’s treasury account with New York Federal Bank, perjury.
Bangladesh Agricultural University (BAU) is going to celebrate its 56th anniversary today (18 August). It is the largest agricultural university in South-East Asia by its pioneer of agriculture.
Dhaka-Biman Bangladesh Airlines authority will not take any responsibility if any hajj pilgrims failed to fly to perform hajj at their scheduled flight. It is alleged that many hajj agencies are not sending their passengers to scheduled flight to get…
Police yet to identify the killers of Afsana, a college girl, murder, even after three days of the murder. Earlier on Saturday, two unidentified youths brought the body of Afsana Ferdous,24, a final-year student of Architecture Technology at Mirpur’s SAIC…
Dhaka-A monsoon Depression over the north Bay of Bengal off Gangetic West Bengal and Bangladesh coast has intensified into a deep Depression yesterday that may inundate low lying areas in 13 coastal districts with tidal surges 2-3 feet above normal…
A Dhaka court on Wednesday placed four female suspects of banned militant outfit Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) on a 5-day remand each in a case filed under the Anti-Terrorism Act.
The Metropolitan Sessions Judge’s Court of Dhaka on Monday issued warrant of arrests against nine BNP leaders including the party’s Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi in a case filed with Pallabi Police Station of the city under the…
Students of Jagannath University (JnU) called a 24-hour strike for Thursday at the university demanding construction of residential halls for them on the empty land of Dhaka Central Jail.The JnU students came up with the announcement while staging demonstrations in…