Dhaka – Agitated minority students blocked roads at Shahbagh intersection in protest to recent communal attacks in Brahmanbarhia and other parts of the country. More than 200 hundred protestors started the protests demonstrating around 12:00pm yesterday. They came under the…
Just hours after Tuesday’s U.S. presidential election was called for Donald Trump, a Breitbart News commentator declared, “The liberal Left just lost the ‘battle’ against climate change.” The Republican president-elect has called climate change a hoax, and now it’s reported…
Dhaka – Renewable energy resources have increasingly become mainstream sources of energy worldwide, catapulted by new capacity in developing countries. Depending on the source, renewable energy has or is poised to surpass coal to become the world’s largest source of…
Marrakech (Meena Raman) – A major controversy has arisen between developed and developing countries as regards the Adaptation Fund and the Paris Agreement (PA), under the informal consultations which are on-going under the Ad hoc Working Group on the PA…
Tokyo (BSS/AFP) – Japan and India signed a controversial civil nuclear deal on Friday that will allow Japanese companies to export atomic technology to the Asian giant as the two countries deepen economic and security ties. The pact signed by…
Dhaka- Overnight protests against the election of Donald Trump as US president turned violent in Portland, Oregon.4,000 demonstrators gathered in the centre of the western city. Some smashed shop and car windows, threw firecrackers and set rubbish alight.Police declared a…
New York (AP/UNB) — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says the idea that Facebook influenced the outcome of the U.S. election is a “crazy idea.”
Dhaka- Abdul Rauf alias Dawood Merchant, former aide of mafia don Dawood Ibrahim, was deported to India from Bangladesh on Wednesday in connection with the murder of singer and founder of T-series Gulshan Kumar, reports The Hindu.Merchant, who was convicted…
Hatboro (AP/UNB) — A 108-year-old World War II veteran who lives in the Pennsylvania home he built in 1948 has left for Washington D.C. to attend the yearly Veterans Day breakfast at the White House.
Dhaka – BNP on Friday alleged that Awami League is presenting a distorted history of the country before the young generation to hang onto power.“We want to stand up raising our heads high with our national tradition. We also want…
Dhaka – Bangladeshi celebrated golfer Siddikur Rahman was sharing the 45th place in the Resorts World Manila Masters (Golf) with five-under-par (68+71) 139 after the 2nd round at the Manila Southwoods Golf and Country Club on Friday,UNB News Agency Reported.
Dhaka – Tournament’s 4th seed Rishabh Sharda of India and Chan Woo Park of South Korea reached the boys singles final of the Walton 30th Bangladesh ITF Junior Tennis Championship eliminating their rivals at the Ramna National Tennis Complex on…
Dhaka – Barisal Bulls tasted their first victory in the 4th Bangladesh Premier League beating defending champions Comilla Victorians by six wickets in their 2nd match at Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium in Mirpur on Friday.Bulls chased down a moderate target…
Dhaka – A police officer reportedly committed suicide in the city’s Pallabi area on Friday.The deceased was identified as Somen Hasnan Rabbani, a sub-inspector of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of police.Quoting family members, police said SI Rabbani went to…
Dhaka – A couple was killed and four members of their family were injured as a private car hit a roadside tree on Dhaka-Pabna highway in Chariasika area under Salonga thana in the district.The deceased were identified as Sakhawat Hossain,…
Dhaka – Mosaddek Hossain’s unbeaten 59 helped Dhaka Dynamites post a target of 139 against Rajshahi Kings in their 2nd league tussle of the 4th Bangladesh Premier League at Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium on Friday.Sent in to bat first, Dynamites…
Dhaka – Three people were killed in separate road accidents in Madhukhali and Bhanga upazilas on Friday.Aminur Rahman, assistant superintendent of Faridpur Police, said a bus of ‘Hanif Paribahan’ hit a motorcycle at Boalia in Maghukhali upazila around 11 am,…
Dhaka – A mobile court here on Thursday foiled two child marriage bids in separate places and fined seven people in this connection in Manirampur upazila of the district.Court sources said a marriage ceremony was arranged at the house of…
Leonard Cohen, the gravelly-voiced Canadian singer-songwriter of “Hallelujah,” ”Suzanne” and “Bird on a Wire,” has died at age 82.Cohen’s management said in a statement Thursday that he has passed away, and a memorial will take place in Los Angeles at…
Rajshahi University of Engineering and Technology (Ruet) authorities on Friday closed the university until November 18 following a clash between two factions of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) on the campus.The decision was taken in a syndicate meeting around 11.45 am,…
Brazil (AP/UNB) — Memories of the biggest humiliation in Brazilian football and the return of Lionel Messi to Argentina were not enough to stop the five-time World Cup champions from beating their archrivals Thursday in South American qualifying for the…
Dhaka – Miscreants poisoned huge fish, worth about Tk one lakh, to death in an enclosure at Teghori village in Keshabpur upazila of Jessore district on Thursday.Locals said Selim Hossain of the village had long been cultivating fish in the…
Dhaka – Local people have recovered a touchstone-made statue from a graveyard at Jorardeul in Sadar upazila of Munshiganj district.
Dhaka – A young man was brutally tortured allegedly by some locals over a theft charge in Sharsha upazila of Jessore district on Thursday night.
Dhaka – Miscreants poisoned huge fish, worth about Tk one lakh, to death in an enclosure at Teghori village in Keshabpur upazila of Jessore district on Thursday, UNB news agency reported.
Dhaka – Police have arrested four more people for their alleged involvement in recent attacks on Hindu community members in Nasirnagar upazila of Brahmanbaria district, UNB news agency reported.
Dhaka – A tribunal here has convicted a man and sentenced him to life term imprisonment for possessing drugs.The convict was identified as Ashraful Alam, 23, son of Maksed Ali of Chapra area in Tanore upazila. The tribunal also fined…
Dhaka – A young man was brutally tortured allegedly by some locals over a theft charge in Sharsha upazila of Jessore district on Thursday night.Witnesses said a group of people picked up Liton Morol, 35, son of Ansar Ali Morol…
Dhaka – Local people have recovered a touchstone-made statue from a graveyard at Jorardeul in Sadar upazila,UNB News Agency Reported.
Dhaka – Police have arrested four more people for their alleged involvement in recent attacks on Hindu community members in Nasirnagar upazila.Police conducted separate drives in different areas of the upazila on Thursday night and arrested the four, said officer-in-charge…