Dhaka -The Bangabandhu Asian Senior Men’s Central Zone International Volleyball Championship inaugurated today (Thursday) at Shaheed Suhrawardy Indoor Stadium at Mirpur in the city.
Year: 2016
Chuadanga district council election campaign going on
Dhaka – Chuadanga District Council election campaign is going on in full swing in the district.The election is scheduled to be held on Dec 28. The candidates are campaigning round the clock, meeting the voters to seek their support,UNB news…
Mother, daughter killed in Noakhali road accident
Dhaka – A woman and her daughter were killed as a CNG-run auto rickshaw collided head-on with a private car on the Chowmuhani-Sonaimuri road near Sonaimuri upazila complex in Noakhali this morning.The deceased are Hasina Akhter, 38, and her daughter…
Custom seizes huge electronics goods in Ctg
Dhaka – Authorities of Chittagong Custom House (CCH) today seized two containers of electronic goods including reconditioned photocopier machines and IP camera imported from China through false declaration.
Tigers loss to NZ XI on Mustafiz’s comeback game
Dhaka – Bangladesh started their away campaign with a three-wicket loss in a rain-hit warm-up game against New Zealand XI at Cobham Oval, Whangarei on Thursday. The one-day ‘tour game’ was curtailed to 43-over-a-side as par DL method due to…
Rohingya recount killings rape and arson
The Burmese military has conducted a campaign of arson, killings, and rape against ethnic Rohingya that has threatened the lives of thousands more, Human Rights Watch said today. Refugees who fled the recent violence told Human Rights Watch that since…
UN votes to set up body to help document crimes in Syria
The U.N. General Assembly voted Wednesday to establish an investigative body that will assist in documenting and prosecuting the most serious violations of international law in Syria, including possible war crimes and crimes against humanity.The 193-member world body adopted a…
Russia, Iran, Turkey shutting U.S. out of Syrian peace process
Russia, Turkey, and Iran’s announcement on Tuesday of their intention to broker a solution to Syria’s war without American involvement has underlined Washington’s increasingly marginalized role in the crisis. But analysts say that while the new alignment reflects a renewed…
California secessionists opens first “embassy” in Moscow
The first foreign outpost of California’s slapdash secessionist movement, Yes California, opened here on Sunday. Housed in a research institute in northwestern Moscow, the offices are described as an “embassy” by the group’s founder and president, Louis Marinelli, a stocky,…
Berlin attack: Tunisian fugitive ‘had been under surveillance’
A Europe-wide manhunt is under way for the Tunisian man wanted for the lorry attack on a Christmas market in Berlin in which 12 people were killed.Anis Amri, 24, had been monitored earlier this year on suspicion of planning a…
‘Organic 3.0’ – A lighthouse for truly sustainable agriculture
The first phase of the organic movement, which was formed around 100 years ago, was termed ‘Organic 1.0’. With the establishment of IFOAM – Organics International, the early 1970s saw the emergence of ‘Organic 2.0’. However, Organic 2.0 has run…
Biosafety Protocol stalled on risk assessment
Further work on biosafety risk assessment which is a key pillar under the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety has received a setback at the United Nations Biodiversity Conference which ended on 17 December in Cancun, Mexico.The 8th meeting of the Conference…
Charles warns against religious persecution
Prince Charles has spoken out about the danger of religious persecution, warning against a repeat of “the horrors of the past”. Delivering BBC Radio 4’s Thought for the Day, the Prince of Wales said the rise of populist groups “aggressive”…
Incomplete Khulna railway station set to be opened
Khulna: The half-completed Khulna Modern Railway Station is going to be inaugurated with the first Moitree train trip on the newly built Khulna-Kolkata route on the first day of the new year, according to project officials. To this effect, they…
Biman flight makes emergency landing at Shahjalal Airport
A flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines made an emergency landing at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport on Thursday morning following a technical glitch. The Boeing 737 aircraft was scheduled to land in Chittagong, but made the emergency landing at the airport…
Suspect in deadly Berlin attack is Tunisian jihadi
The Tunisian now wanted throughout Europe has six aliases, three nationalities — and links to the same brand of Islamic extremism that has drawn at least 6,000 of his countrymen to jihadi networks. Anis Amri, who turns 24 on Thursday,…
Sudeep’s short poems capturing modernity launched
Culture Desk Penguin Random House recently launched “EroText” by renowned Delhi based poet Sudeep Sen (author of celebrated coffee table book “Postcards from Bangladesh”). On the occasion of the publication, Sudeep Sen also read out poems in English and Bengali.…
Aamir to arrange special screening for Shah Rukh, Salman
Aamir to arrange special screening for Shah Rukh, Salman Khan. Superstar Aamir Khan says he has invited his friends and noted actors Shah Rukh Khan and Salman Khan to watch his soon-to-be-released film Dangal. Awaiting a response from the two…
EU supports forming strong, independent EC in Bangladesh
Dhaka – The European Union (EU) has encouraged Bangladesh in forming an independent, impartial, non-partisan and highly-qualified Election Commission to hold the next general elections in a fully participatory way.
Ferdousi Majumdar to get Syed Mahidul Islam Award today
Culture Desk Renowned dramatist Ferdousi Majumdar to get Syed Mahidul Islam Award today. “Syed Mahidul Islam Shoron Utshab” marking the 14th death anniversary of the theatre activist will start today at the Experimental Theatre Hall of Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy in…
Voting starts in high voltage N’ganj City Corpn election
Dhaka – Voting in Narayanganj City Corporation (NCC) election is going on peacefully since early morning Thursday amid much enthusiasm with ‘high’ turnout of female voters.
US team finds WW II ‘remains’ in India
US team finds WW II ‘remains’ in IndiaA US team visiting India’s north-eastern state of Arunachal Pradesh has recovered what it says are possible remains of US soldiers who died in a plane crash during World War Two. Residents of…
7 Biman officials remanded over glitch in PM’s flight
Dhaka –A court here on Thursday placed seven officials of Biman Bangladesh Airlines on a seven-day remand each in a case filed over the technical glitch in a VVIP flight carrying Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Snigdha Rani…
Prostate cancer laser treatment ‘truly transformative’
Prostate cancer laser treatment ‘truly transformative’Surgeons have described a new treatment for early stage prostate cancer as “truly transformative”. The approach, tested across Europe, uses lasers and a drug made from deep sea bacteria to eliminate tumours, but without causing…
Christian missionary school Guard killed in northern BD
Dinajpur – A security guard of a Christian missionary school was reportedly stabbed to death by some miscreants at Auliapur in Sadar upazila early Thursday.
Canada regulator declarers high speed internet an essential survice
Canada’s telecommunications regulator on Wednesday declared access to high-speed internet an essential service that must be available to all, including rural and remote areas of the world’s second-largest nation by land mass. The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC)…
One held with fake revenue stamps in Ctg
Detective Mainuddin, 45, hailed from Raozan upazila of the district. Branch of Chittagong Metropolitan Police (CMP) in a drive arrested a man with 2,000 fake revenue stamps worth about Taka two lakh from Chittagong court building area under Kotwali thana…
Rosatom initiative to teach nuclear science in English
Dhaka – For education of nuclear science in English for foreign students, Russia’s State Nuclear Energy Corporation – ROSATOM has signed an agreement with Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute (PNPI), one of the organizations of NRC “Kurchatov Institute” and St. Petersburg…
Farming the cities
Danielle Nierenberg The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) defines urban agriculture as “the growing of plants and the raising of animals within and around cities” to provide fresh food, generate employment, recycle waste, and strengthen cities’…
Nine sued in connection with PM’s flight
Dhaka-The Biman Bangladesh Airlines on Wednesday filed a case against nine officials of the airlines on Tuesday night in connection with the technical glitch in a flight, carrying Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina last month.