Dhaka – Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina left Dhaka for Vienna, Austria on Monday morning to attend a conference of International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and hold a bilateral meeting with the Federal Chancellor of Austria Christian Kern. UNB news reported
Dhaka – The court here on Monday fixed June 19 as the date to submit the probe report of a case filed over the alleged rape of two private university students in Banani. UNB news reported
Dhaka – Slamming the recent student protest at Jahangirnagar University, the Minister for Road Transport and Bridges Obaidul Quader said blocking roads triggering suffering of thousands of people for the death of two students cannot be a form of protest.…
Dhaka – Seven community radio stations, operational in the coastal region of the country, are now continuously broadcasting different items to keep people aware of weather updates and required preparedness works to face the cyclonic storm ‘Mora’. UNB news reported
Islami Bank Bangladesh Limited has taken a month long program to distribute Ifter among 10 milion fasting pedestrians in Dhaka, Chittagong & Khulna city during the Holy Month Ramadan. Md. Abdul Hamid Miah, Managing Director & CEO of the Bank…
Thanks for a important reporting regarding coaching for admission in the universities. Coaching centres are blackmailing students and guardians in many ways. Coaching is only for two months but its tuition fees are exorbitant and a big class size is…
Not very long ago, students used to fully depend on copying in all the public examinations. It was very common that people including guardians supplied copying in the examination hall in many innovative ways. It was severe before the 1975.…
Mr. Mostafa Kamal Mojumdar, Editor, Greenwatch, Dhaka. Muhtaram, Assalamo Alaikum Warahmatullah, We have the great pleasure in offering our sincerest greetings and best wishes to your excellency at the advent of the Holy month of Ramadan-ul-Mobarak.
by Thorvaldur Gylfason Freedom House recently demoted the United States from top rank among the world´s democracies. The reasons given include ‘the cumulative impact of flaws in the electoral system, a disturbing increase in the role of private money in…
by John Weeks False Dawn: Those of my generation will remember well 1959’s hilarious and biting satire on the British class system, “I’m all right, Jack”, which included several of the country’s most famous and best-loved comedy actors (Ian Carmichael,…
Launch is ninth missile test of the year Chad O’Carroll and Dagyum Ji North Korea launched an unidentified projectile towards the Sea of Japan (East Sea) from near Wonsan, Gangwon Province, early on Monday morning, South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of…
Hong Kong, China – Media OutReach – 29 May 2017 – The Dragon Boat Festival, also known as Tuen Ng Festival, is a traditional Chinese festival which pays tribute to Qu Yuan, a great poet in the Zhou Dynasty. It…
Dhaka – Coastal districts of Chittagong, Cox’s Bazar, Noakhali, Lakshmipur, Feni, Chandpur and their offshore islands and chars have been advised to hoist danger signal no. seven as cyclonic storm ‘Mora’ over East-central bay and adjoining area moved slightly North-Northeastwards…
Dhaka – A Lady Justice statue near Bangladesh’s Supreme Court, was reinstalled on Saturday night, two days after its removal following complaints by Islamist hard-liners. Sculptor Mrinal Haque said Sunday workers put the statue back in place a few hundred…
Homestead, US, May 28 (BSS/AFP) – A gray dinosaur statue outside south Florida’s largest power plant is meant to symbolize two decommissioned fossil fuel reactors, but it also could be seen to represent a nuclear industry crumpling under mounting costs.
Southampton,(AP/UNB) — Seamer Mark Wood bowled a sensational last over for England to beat top-ranked South Africa by two runs and win their one-day international series on Saturday.
Dhaka – Police recovered a bullet-hit body of a young man from Hothath Bazar in Sadar upazila on Sunday.
Dhaka- A fisherman was died and four others were injured by a lightning strike while they were fishing in the Meghna River in Charramani Mohan area of Sadar upazila early Sunday.The dead is identified as Shamsul Haque, son of Sultan…
Dhaka – A man allegedly hacked his wife to death and also injured himself over a family feud at Raninagar village of Gurudaspur upazila in the district on Saturday.The dead is identified as Rokeya Begum, wife of a day-laborer Shafiqul…
Dhaka – A local leader of ruling Awami League was killed and 15 others were injured on Sunday in a factional clash between two rival groups over establishing supremacy at Gatti union of Saltha upazila.
Dhaka – Five people were killed and five others injured in separate incidents of lightning strike in Singair and Saturia upazilas here on Sunday.
Dhaka – Khulna clinched the 8th edition of the Women’s National Cricket League with a four-run win against Rajshahi in the rain-hit final at Shaheed Kamruzzaman Stadium in Rajshahi on Sunday.Batting first, Khulna scored 214 for 7 in 50 overs…
Dhaka- The Guardian Life Insurance Company will provide insurance coverage to the Bangladesh Under-16 Women’s football team.The insurance company signed an agreement with the Bangladesh Football Federation (BFF) at the federation office in Motijheel of the capital on Sunday.
Dhaka – Jatrabari Krira Chakra defeated Tejgaon Cricket Academy by 6 wickets in their Group B match of the Dhaka 3rd Division ODM Cricket League at City Club Ground here on Sunday.Jatrabari KC chased down a target of 115 for…
US compliance with its commitments under the Paris Agreement on climate change would be “crippling” to growth, the White House said Friday. During his election campaign, avowed climate sceptic Donald Trump promised to exit the 2015 UN pact on limiting…
Inflow of remittances that witnessed a sluggish trend in recent months is picking up again as expatriates sent home US$807.77 million in the first 19 days of May, which is $115.76 million up from the same period of the previous…
Saudi Arabia will start taxing cigarettes, energy drinks and carbonated drinks from June 10, the Saudi Gazette said on Sunday, quoting the General Authority of Zakat, making it the first country in the Gulf Co-operation Council to fix the implementation…
The well-marked low over southeast bay and adjoining central bay concentrated into a depression over the same area, a Met Office weather bulletin said here today. It was centered at 9 am today about 790 kilometers south-southwest of Chittagong port,…
Brookhaven — Authorities in Mississippi said Sunday that a suspect is in custody after eight people were killed in a shooting, including a sheriff’s deputy. AP/UNB news reported
In an extremely unlikely sequence of events a camera on a NASA craft fitted with three cameras was hit by a meteoroid while compiling an image, researchers have determined. The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter called the LRO was hit in 2014.…