Dhaka, Jan 26 – BNP on Saturday slammed Awami League general secretary Obaidul Quader for his comment that BNP will get split due to its internal conflict, saying the ‘cow does not die if it is cursed by a vulture’.…
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AL picks Atiqul for Dhaka North City Corpn by-election
Dhaka, Jan 26 – Awami League on Saturday picked former BGMEA president Atiqul Islam to contest the Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) mayoral by-election. The ruling party also nominated Syed Zakia Nur Lipi, sister of former AL general secretary Syed…
3 of a family die in Dhaka’s Buriganga River boat capsize
Keraniganj, Jan 26 -Three members of a family died and a minor went missing as a boat capsized in the Buriganga River on Friday night. The deceased were identified as Motiur Rahman Moti, 55, his wife Rozina Begum, 42, and…
WB new scheme to privatize land in developing world exposed
Oakland, CA – In advance of the release of the World Bank’s 2019 Enabling the Business of Agriculture (EBA) report, the Oakland Institute exposes the Bank’s new scheme to privatize land in the developing world. The Highest Bidder Takes It…
Trump associate Stone arrested, faces obstruction charge
Washington, Jan 25 (AP/UNB) — Roger Stone, a confidant of President Donald Trump, was arrested in the special counsel’s Russia investigation in a pre-dawn raid at his Florida home on Friday and was charged with lying to Congress and obstructing…
‘Chemistry Olympiad’ held at Comilla University
Comilla University, Jan 25 – The 9th Bangladesh Chemistry Olympiad of the Cumilla chapter was held at Comilla University (CoU) campus on Friday Amid much enthusiasm. Bangladesh Chemical Society (BCS) and Department of Chemistry of the university jointly organised the…
U.S. Shutdown effects ripple to farmers, food banks
From Danielle Nierenberg Greetings from Washington, D.C.! In the United States, this week marks the second missed paycheck for furloughed federal workers. Now on its 34th day, the shutdown’s effects are permeating beyond the lives of federal workers, as farmers,…
Anti-graft body to seize illegal wealth of ‘corrupt persons’
Dhaka, Jan 24 – The Anti-Corruption Corruption (ACC) has decided to seize illegal wealth during the investigation against corrupt persons, if there is any. Sources in the commission said that the ACC took the decision at an emergency meeting held…
Seat business at BAU: General students in crisis
Mymensingh, Jan 24 – The ruling party’s student organization Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) of Bangladesh Agricultural University (BAU) face allegation of seat business in the residential halls in the campus. Extreme seat crisis has arisen among the halls and the…
Three suspects killed in Cox’s Bazar ‘gunfights’
Cox’s Bazar, Jan 24 – Two suspected drug traders and an alleged robber were killed in separate incidents of a reported gunfight with law enforcers in Teknaf and Maheshkhali Upazila early Thursday. In Teknaf, two suspected drug traders were killed…
HC asks lower court to dispose of Khaleda’s bail plea
Dhaka, Jan 23 – The High Court Division of the Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered the lower court concerned to dispose of by February 4 the bail petition filed by BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia in Cumilla arson attack case that…
21 confirmed dead in Nairobi hotel siege
At least 21 people were killed when Somali militants stormed a luxury hotel compound in Nairobi, Kenya’s government has confirmed. Hundreds were forced to flee the bloodshed at the DusitD2 hotel and business complex on Tuesday. Some 28 injured people…
May says MPs must ‘work together’ to deliver Brexit
Theresa May has called on MPs to “put self-interest aside” and “work constructively together” to find a way forward for Brexit. Earlier, the prime minister won a vote of no confidence by 325 to 306, as rebel Tory MPs and…
Rihanna takes father to court in trademark dispute
Singer Rihanna has taken her father to court in the US, accusing him of exploiting her name to further his entertainment business. She claims her father, Ronald Fenty, and his business partner have falsely suggested that she is connected to…
Donald Tusk suggests UK should stay in EU
European Council President Donald Tusk has suggested that the UK should stay in the EU, after the prime minister’s Brexit deal was rejected in parliament. “If a deal is impossible, and no one wants no deal, then who will finally…
Delhi smog: Business offer tech hope to reuse crop biomass
by Nupur Roopa on 16 January 2019 Like in the winters of the previous years, this year too the smog is smothering Delhi and the surrounding areas in north India. Burning of the agricultural residue by farmers is considered as…
Pound rises after Brexit vote
The pound has risen after MPs voted to reject Theresa May’s Brexit deal by 230 votes. The vote opens up a range of outcomes, including no deal, a renegotiation of Mrs May’s deal, or a second referendum. Sterling rose 0.05%…
Eminent journalist Amanullah Kabir passes away
Dhaka, Jan 16 – Eminent journalist Amanullah Kabir passed away at a hospital here early Wednesday. He was 71.
May’s Brexit deal voted down in historic Commons defeat
Prime Minister Theresa May’s Brexit deal has been rejected by 230 votes – the largest defeat for a sitting government in history. MPs voted by 432 votes to 202 to reject the deal, which sets out the terms of Britain’s…
King ousted from House panels over race remarks
US Republican Steve King has been stripped of his congressional committee seats over comments he made about white supremacy. Republican leaders in the US House of Representatives voted to remove the Iowa congressman from the Judiciary, Agriculture and Small Business…
PM reappoints her ex-bureaucrat five advisers
Dhaka, Jan 14 – HT Imam, Dr Mashiur Rahman, Dr Gowher Rizvi, Dr Tawfiq-e-Elahi Chowdhury and Major Gen (retd) Tarique Ahmed Siddique have been reappointed advisers to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
Disrupting multilateral climate finance
by Håvard Halland, Justin Yifu Lin Beijing – A recent report by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warns that to avoid the direct consequences of global warming, societies must make social and economic changes on a scale…
Govt revises wage structure of RMG workers
Gazette in 2-3 days with retrospective effect from Dec 1 Dhaka, Jan 13 – In the wake of widespread protests by RMG workers for the last few days over the disparity in their new wage structure, the government on Sunday…
Iran summons Polish top envoy over US summit
Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has called the planned conference an anti-Iran “circus.” Warsaw has expressed the hope that the summit will help unite the EU and US positions towards Tehran. Iranian authorities summoned Poland’s top envoy to Tehran on…
Coal mine roof collapse in Shaanxi kills 21
At least 21 miners died when a roof collapsed in a coal mine in northern China, officials say. Sixty-six miners were rescued after the accident on Saturday at the Lijiagou mine near the city of Shenmu in Shaanxi province. The…
Italian ex-militant Battisti arrested in Bolivia
A former communist militant who Brazil’s new president had vowed to extradite has been detained in Bolivia, a Brazilian official said. Italian Cesare Battisti is wanted for four murders in Italy during the 1970s, which he denies committing. Battisti spent…
Israeli missiles hit Damascus airport warehouse
Syrian air defenses shot down missiles fired by “Israeli military planes” at around 11.00 p.m. local time (2100 UTC), Syria’s official SANA news agency reported, citing a military source. “Only a ministry of transport warehouse at Damascus international airport was…
Florida pardons wrongly accused Groveland Four
Four black men who were wrongly accused of raping a white teenager in Florida 70 years ago have been pardoned. Officials voted unanimously to issue the pardon at a meeting in the state capital of Tallahassee on Friday. None of…
German WW1 sub emerges off French coast
The wreck of a World War One German submarine is gradually resurfacing on a beach in northern French after decades of being buried in the sand. Shifting sand off Wissant, near Calais, is exposing the remains of the UC-61 which…
Two bullet-hit bodies found in Cox’s Bazar
Cox’s Bazar, Jan 12 – Police recovered the bullet-hit bodies of two suspected drug traders from Hneela in Teknaf on Saturday morning.