A conservation biologist specialising in reptiles was yesterday (Wednesday 25 April) presented with a prestigious Whitley Award by HRH The Princess Royal. Shahriar Caesar Rahman, Co-Founder of the Creative Conservation Alliance is working to preserve Asia’s largest tortoise in a…
Dhaka, April 26 – The Trading Corporation of Bangladesh or TCB will start selling essential commodities from May 6 in open markets across the country including capital city Dhaka in a bid to keep the prices at tolerable limit ahead…
Danielle Nierenberg Food Tank has collected 20 of the best new books in food and agriculture to celebrate spring. Our favorite reads this season cover critical topics including the paradox of obesity and malnutrition, building strong communities through socially-conscious food…
Dhaka – Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) detained four Indian nationals from Chargaon border area in Tahirpur upazila in Sunamganj on Thursday morning.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who left Dhaka for Sydney on Thursday afternoon on a three-day official visit to Australia at the invitation of her Australian counterpart Malcolm Turnbull, reached Suvarnabhumi International Airport in Thailand.
The 56th death anniversary of Sher-e-Bangla Abul Kashem Fazlul Huq will be observed in the country in a befitting manner tomorrow.
The Election Commission (EC) today said army will not be deployed in local government elections, including in Gazipur and Khulna city corporation polls scheduled to be held on May 15.
In the wake of controversy over Tarique Rahman’s passport, the director general (DG) of the Department of Immigration and Passports (DIP) on Thursday said there is no connection between ‘citizenship and surrendering a passport’.
Dhaka- A woman was hacked to death allegedly by her ‘mentally challenged son’ at Sagrampur village in Khetlal upazila on Thursday morning.
In a plain brown building sits an office run by the Alabama Board of Pardons and Paroles, a place for people who have been held accountable for their crimes and duly expressed remorse.
Dhaka- A court here on Thursday sentenced six people to life term imprisonment in a double murder case in Terokhada upazila in Khulna in 2001.
During the past decade – in the aftermath of the most serious financial and economic crises since the Great Depression – the question of why policy doesn’t always change when it looks like it ought to has been an open…
Dhaka – Four people, including a woman, were killed in separate lighting strikes in Jamalpur, Jashore and Sirajganj districts on Thursday.
What do you think is the crisis of globalisation and how did it come about? The crisis is the result of a lot of people not being particularly happy about the way that globalisation has gone. I think it’s rooted…
Dhaka – Bangladesh’s Youth Hockey team had mixed fortunes Thursday, in the qualifying round of the Youth Olympic Games Hockey in Thailand on Thursday.
The European Union (EU) at a meeting here hoped that the government of Bangladesh will ensure conditions for credible, transparent and inclusive elections.
Dhaka – Defending champions Bangladesh will take on stronger Turkmenistan in the final of the six-nation Bangabandhu Asian Senior Men’s Central Zone International Volleyball Championship at the Shaheed Suhrawardy National Indoor Stadium here on Friday afternoon eying to retain the…
Dhaka, April 26 – Former Information Minister M Shamsul Islam died at a city hospital on Thursday. He was 87. Shamsul Islam, also a former BNP standing committee member, breathed his last at United Hospital at 1:40 pm, said his…
Dhaka, April 26 – Law Minister Anisul Huq on Thursday said BNP acting chairman Tarique Rahman is no longer a Bangladeshi citizen.
Dhaka, April 26 – BNP on Thursday alleged that a 19-member Awami League delegation went to India as part of the party’s ‘desperate move’ to hold another ‘lopsided’ general election in the country with interference by others.
Dhaka, April 26 – Director General (DG) of Indian Border Security Force (BSF) KK Sharma on Thursday said no Bangladeshi national was killed this year along Indo-Bangla border till to date as his force started maintaining non-lethal strategy.
Dhaka, April 26 – Bangladesh General Students’ Rights Protection Council, a platform of students that led the recent quota reform movement, on Thursday threatened to a wage tougher movement if the gazette on abolishing the much-talked-about quota system in government…
Dhaka – Members of Border Guard Bangladesh seized 320 gold bars weighing around 37 kg from the Mathabhanga River along Nastipur border in Damurhuda upazila in Chuadanga on Wednesday noon.
Dhaka – An accused drug dealer was killed in a reported gunfight between his cohorts and police at Katakhali Haidrabad in the municipality area here in Munshiganj early Thursday.
Dhaka – A housewife, who went missing on Monday, was found dead at a water body in Kahdurail village of Bijoynagar upazila in Brahmanbaria on Wednesday night.
Dhaka – Three people, including a pregnant woman, were killed in a road crash at Paglapir in Sadar upazila in Rangpuron Thursday.
Dhaka – A woman and her daughter were burnt to death and her son received burn injuries as the house they lived in caught fire at Bujbal village in Rajnagar upazila in Moulvibazar early Thursday.
Munich (AP/UNB) – For once, Real Madrid didn’t need Cristiano Ronaldo to score.
Barcelona(AP/UNB) – While Novak Djokovic struggles, Rafael Nadal keeps impressing.
Dhaka – Although they were 13 points adrift before the final round, Prime Bank South Zone smartly clinched the title of the country’s first class cricket tournament, Bangladesh Cricket League (BCL), for a record third time crushing holders BCB North…