GreenWatch Dhaka Desk – UN (IPS) The International Criminal Court (ICC) will pay more attention to crimes of environmental destruction and land-grabs, according to a new policy paper published by the court. This may see business executives and government officials…
Dhaka – BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Thursday said the Awami League-led government is trying to eliminate politics from the country in a pre-planned way and conscious manner, like the military-led caretaker government that governed for two…
Dhaka – Indian troops have killed three suspected militants who tried to attack an army base in Indian-administered Kashmir, authorities say, reports BBC. The police said the militants were shot dead after a heavy gun battle near the base in…
Dhaka – A three-tier security measures will be taken around Imambara Hoseni Dalan to ensure smooth observance of Holy Ashura, said Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Commissioner Md Asaduzzaman Mia on Thursday, UNB news agency reported.
Dhaka (AP/UNB)-Three scientists won a Nobel Prize in chemistry Wednesday for advances in a field that has big hopes for very tiny machines — the smallest ever built. Frenchman Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Scottish-born Fraser Stoddart and Dutch scientist Bernard “Ben” Feringa…
Dhaka – The people of Dhawa and Harinapal villages, particularly women, in Bhandaria upazila have now become self-reliant through ‘cage fish farming’, UNB news agency reported.
Dhaka – A man was stabbed to death by miscreants at Ershadnagar in Tongi under Gazipur district on Thursday morning, UNB news agency reported. The deceased was identified as Delwar Hossain, a resident of the area. He returned home from…
Dhaka – Today (Wednesday) in the Rose Garden, President Obama announced that enough countries have acted to bring the Paris Agreement into force — a historic step forward in saving the one planet we’ve got, says a message received from…
Dhaka – Donald J. Trump’s support has plunged across the swing-state map over the last 10 days, wiping out his political recovery from September and threatening to undo weeks of Republican gains in the battle for control of Congress, The…
Dhaka – The Jatiya Sangsad Wednesday passed the Foreign Donations (Voluntary Activities) Regulation Bill, 2016’ in an amendment form with a provision for non-government organisations to take prior approval from the NGO Affairs Bureau to undertake any project and implement…
Dhaka – Stock markets on Wednesday continued the upward trend when the large-cap securities of the market advanced further on active buying. All the major sectors, including ceramics, IT, food and allied, engineering and financial institution, maintained price indices in…
UN (AP/UNB) — The Security Council has unanimously agreed that Portugal’s former prime minister Antonio Guterres should be the next U.N. secretary-general.
New Delhi (UNB) – All the election bodies now face challenges in checking the influence of muscle power, money and biased media reports while arranging fair and free polls, said a high official of Indian Election Commission. “There’re three major…
New York (AP/UNB) – Yahoo scanned hundreds of millions of incoming emails at the behest of U.S. intelligence or law enforcement, according to a report published Tuesday. The internet company conducted the surveillance last year after receiving a classified demand…
Dhaka – A man was stabbed to death by muggers on a foot over bridge in front of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) in the city’s Shahbagh area early Wednesday. The deceased was identified as Harun alias Habib, 40.
Dhaka – A minor boy met water burial as he drowned into a beel (water body) at Chapain Taltala in Savar upazila on Tuesday afternoon.
Philippine president suggests he may eventually “break up with America” after US criticises his bloody anti-drug war. Philippine leader Rodrigo Duterte has told President Barack Obama to “go to hell” in response to the US leader’s criticism of his deadly…
Donald Trump was likened to a “fool or maniac” while Hillary Clinton was dismissed as “weak and feckless” in the vice-presidential debate in Virginia. Democratic Virginia Senator Tim Kaine and Republican Indiana Governor Mike Pence clashed on a series of…
Dhaka – An infant, who was declared dead at a private hospital in Chittagong, is recovering at another hospital, its parents say. The parents, both of whom are doctors themselves, have accused the doctors and staff at the Neonatal Intensive…
Dhaka – Four people were killed and four others injured as a truck overturned on the approach road of Bangabandhu Bridge at Jokarchar in Kalihati upazila of Tangail on Wednesday morning, UNB news agency reported. Identities of the deceased could…
Dhaka – At least four people, including a man and his daughter, were killed as a 2-storey building collapsed into Kaptai Lake in Rangamati district town on Tuesday evening, UNB news agency reported. Three of the victims were identified as…
Bangladeshi Tigers have officially qualified for the 2017 Champions Trophy in England and Wales, confirms International Cricket Council (ICC) on Wednesday with West Indies dropping out as they were not among the top eight ODI teams as per ICC rankings…
Danielle Nierenberg October is US National Farm to School Month and communities across the United States are celebrating the importance of farm to school programs. These programs, implemented in more than 42,500 schools in the United States, can help…
Dhaka – BBC Bangla will present a series of programmes and events with audiences in Bangladesh and India to mark 75 years of broadcasting. It will engage with audiences via Facebook Lives and radio to discuss the global and national…
Dhaka – In the wake of escalating tension between India and Pakistan, Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan on Tuesday said Bangladesh must be with India if it is attacked by any enemy, UNB news agency reported.
British-born scientists David Thouless, Duncan Haldane and Michael Kosterlitz won the 2016 Nobel Prize for Physics on Tuesday for their studies of unusual states of matter, which may open up new applications in electronics.
Dhaka – Students of Home Economics College confined Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid to Bangladesh Bureau of Educational Information and Statistics (Banbeis) building demanding that their college be declared an institute under Dhaka University (DU), UNB news agency reported.
Masum Billah World Teachers’ Day is being observed on 05 October every year across the globe since 1994.UNESCO proclaimed the day as World Teachers’ Day. Observing the day is an opportunity to acknowledge the teachers’ contribution to develop the future…
Dhaka – Prominent women journalists from around the South Asian region have joined hands against the war hype between nuclear-armed India and Pakistan. In a joint statement of Sepember 30, 2016, they urged political leaders and their colleagues in the…