Dhaka – Fire Service and Civil Defence has formed a prove committee to ascertained actual reason behind the fire incident of Banani that injured four people, including one with burn. One person sustained burns while four others received wounds while…
The central library of Jahangirnagar University (JU) has been in a bad shape though a big budget allowed for improvements of its present condition. The library sources said established on 1985, it is a three stored building located behind the…
The much-awaited sixth national council of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) will be held at the Institution of Engineers, Bangladesh on Saturday amid much enthusiasm and expectations of rejuvenate the party rank and file through it. The council will bring about…
Netflix has purchased The Little Prince from Paramount, picking up US distribution in a move meant to finally bring the animated feature to US audiences.
Not just water and oxygen, life thrived on early Earth thanks to another necessary ingredient: the presence of a protective magnetic field.A new study of the young, Sun-like star Kappa Ceti has found that magnetic field plays a key role…
Oscar winner George Clooney and his wife, Amal Clooney, will host two campaign fund-raisers for Hillary Clinton next month.
By Kenneth Roth, Salil Shetty & Catherine Woollard Let’s not confuse desperation for legality when it comes to Europe’s proposed refugee deal with Turkey. No one should be under any illusion – the very principle of international protection for those…
Poor and unhealthy diet coupled with lack of exercise and a sedentary lifestyle may accelerate the ageing process in humans, warn US researchers.A type of cells called senescent cells contribute to diseases and conditions associated with age.The researchers found that…
Dhaka – Visiting Queen Mother of Bhutan, Tshering Pem Wangchuck visited BEXIMCO Group’s Industrial Park at Sarabo of Kashimpur in Gazipur on Thursday. She was welcomed by Syed Naved Husain, Group Director and CEO of BEXIMCO.
Ha-young Choi New order more comprehensive than UN Security Council’s recent resolution, targets labor exports U.S. President Barack Obama declared an executive order (E.O.) on Wednesday in line with the recently adopted UN Security Council Resolution 2270 and U.S. legislation,…
Dhaka – Detectives arrested five alleged criminals and recovered 1400 bottles of contraband phensidyle syrup along with one pistol from Darus Salam area in the city on Wednesday night. They arrested four others on the charge of carrying yaba tablets.…
Dhaka – The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of police will hold a meeting with United States of America’s Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) at CID headquarters in the city on Friday afternoon to discuss about the much-talked about the $101…
A ruling Awami League ministers on Thursday observed that the finance minister AMA Muhith and the former Bangladesh Bank (BB) governor Atiur Rahman cannot avoid the responsibly of the recent heist from BB account with Federal Reserve Bank of New…
Happy Rain (2015) – Isabelle Antunes’ latest documentary film is based in Bangladesh and was previously screened at the UN COP 21 Conference on Climate Change in Paris in December 2015. The work favors the rise of Bangladesh and shows…
Danielle Nierenberg According to the recent United Nations report, Status of the World’s Soil Resources, the world can ameliorate soil degradation if more sustainable practices are promptly implemented. The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) defines soil degradation as “a…
NEW YORK: India did not make any improvement in its happiness quotient, ranking 118th out of 156 countries in a global list of the happiest nations, down one slot from last year on the index and coming behind China, Pakistan…
Dhaka – Five people, including four Jubo League men, were killed and 12 others injured as a picnic bus crashed into a human-hauler at Chak Shyamnagar in Sadar upazila in Meherpur on Thursday evening. The accident struck the Jubo League…
Dhaka – BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia sat with her party’s standing committee members tonight (Thursday night) to finalise a set of proposals for the party’s charter amendment and various organisational decisions. The proposals were made by party’s different units and…
Dhaka – Newly appointed governor of Bangladesh Bank Fazle Kabir said his first priority will be to prevent recurrence of such incident of heist through which hackers took away more than $100 million from the central bank account with US…
Dhaka – Though efforts are on to get back the stolen $81 million from the Bangladesh Bank, Philippines now finds ‘very low’ chance to retrieve it because the money is now likely outside the Southeast Asian country. “There is a…
Dhaka – Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday said the conspiracy of the anti-liberation forces is still on, but they cannot confuse the people like the previous time. “The anti-liberation forces are still hatching conspiracy against Bangladesh, but that conspiracy…
Apparent discovery in King Tut tomb could shine light on mystery that has fired imagination of archaeologists for years. Scans of King Tut’s tomb appear to have revealed two hidden rooms – a discovery that heightened speculation the chambers contained…
A 16th–century shipwreck found off an island in Oman is the earliest-known example from Europe’s Golden Age of ExplorationWhile the ship’s guns were most likely salvaged shortly after the vessel sank, archaeologists found dozens of cannonballs at the wreck site.The…
Fear over lost ships and planes in the Bermuda Triangle began about 60 years ago, after five U.S. Navy planes that took off from Florida vanished without a trace. Historians started looking at the records, and found that 300 ships…
Scientists in Norway have caused a stir with their announcement this week of giant craters in the Barents Sea, which they believe were formed by exploding natural gas. The scientists have even suggested the phenomenon could explain the mysterious Bermuda…
Hong Kong – For months, Republican frontrunner Donald Trump has repeatedly targeted China on the campaign trail, pledging to put tariffs on goods produced overseas and bring things like iPhone production back to the United States. Trump has even used…
The Kurdish Freedom Falcons (TAK), an offshoot of the separatist group PKK, claimed responsibility for a car bomb attack in the Turkish capital city that claimed the lives of at least 35 people. The bombing in Ankara on Sunday was…
First lady Michelle Obama is due to leave the White House when her husband’s term ends in January 2017, and she said she has no intentions of going back.
A dazzling new image depicts the sun’s many magnetic field lines, which snake all around Earth’s star but are densest near sunspots. These darker and slightly cooler regions on the surface are where solar flares and huge eruptions of plasma…
A new supercomputer simulation of blood moving around the entire human body compares extremely well with real-world flow measurements, researchers say.