Indices that seek to measure international connectivity and rank the most connected countries often fail to capture the damage caused by globalisation, a report argues. “Connectivity comes with many negative impacts often neglected in indices,” says the first chapter of…
Getting infected by two malaria species can improve conditions for the second species, making the disease more dangerous and persistent than lone infections, a mouse study shows. According to a paper made public on 5 July, being infected with both…
Sopan Joshi Erratic rainfall and unexpected humidity, a fallout of increasingly unpredictable weather due to climate change, is hurting the cultivation and harvest of India’s favourite fruit There’s no one better than Vivek Bhide for information and lore about the…
Sudhirendar Sharma The B-2 Stealth Bomber built at a whopping cost of $2 billion apiece have taken inspiration from the flying-wing design of the Javan cucumber seeds. Accomplished artists may have painted hundreds of verses on a kernel but the…
By Naimul Haq BHOLA, Bangladesh, Jul 9 2016 (IPS) – Four years ago, Farzana Aktar Ruma, now 18, was almost married off without her consent. Her parents had settled on someone they considered a reasonably wealthy young man with a…
‘U.S. and South Korea may be annihilated in the blink of an eye’ – North Korea JH Ahn The North Korean military on Monday warned of “physical measures” to turn future South Korean sites for Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense (THAAD),…
Theresa May promised to build a “better Britain” and to make the UK’s EU exit a “success” after she was announced as the new Tory leader and soon-to-be PM. Speaking outside Parliament, Mrs May said she was “honoured and humbled”…
An ECB spokesman hinted at a possible cancellation of the tour following a terror attack Bangladesh has ruled out playing England’s cricket team in a third country in September, an idea floated after a deadly terror attack in the capital…
Dhaka – Visiting US Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs Nisha Biswal had a meeting with diplomats from the United Kingdom, Australia and Canada on Monday morning and discussed the current situation in Bangladesh after successive…
The Hague’s Permanent Court of Arbitration will on Tuesday deliver its verdict on the fiercely disputed strategic shipping zone What’s the case about? After years of diplomatic negotiations that went nowhere, the Philippines brought its dispute with China to international…
By RFE/RL Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev has accused NATO of preparing for a “hot” war against Russia and says rhetoric from alliance’s leaders is pushing the two sides toward a military confrontation. “NATO has begun preparations for escalating from…
Saint-Denis (AP/UNB) — Portugal’s players crowded around Cristiano Ronaldo as he sat on the turf, but their tearful captain couldn’t withstand the pain of his injury any longer. The Portuguese had to win their first major trophy the hard way…
Dhaka – Visiting US Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs Nisha Biswal had a long meeting with Indian High Commissioner in Dhaka Harsh Vardhan Shringla on Sunday evening and discussed Bangladesh situation, UNB news agency reported.
Sao Paulo – Brazil football legend Pele is getting married Tuesday for the third time, tying the knot with his girlfriend of six years Marcia Cibele Aoki. Pele, 75, told O Estado de Sao Paulo newspaper that this time, he…
Dhaka – The United States Sunday offered expertise and technical supports to Bangladesh in its counter terrorism efforts as Washington reiterated its pledge to stay beside the government in the crucial juncture when the country faced a cowardly terrorist attack…
On June 7, 2016, (as widely reported by media[i]) Union Water Resources Minister Uma Bharti “threatened to go on hunger strike if the Ken-Betwa river linking project is further delayed and termed the attempt to delay the project by environmentalists…
The sexual harassment lawsuit filed by Fox News channel presenter Gretchen Carlson against the network’s chairman Roger Ailes has intensified, following the publication of new allegations with six more women pointing fingers at him. Carlson filed suit last week in…
Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte has accused the US of importing terror to the Middle East through its interventions, pointing to Iraq, Libya and Syria as examples. Speaking at an event being held in honour of the holy Islamic day of…
Russia says that two of its servicemen were killed near the Syrian city of Palmyra when their helicopter was shot down, bringing the number of Russian military personnel killed in the Syria conflict to at least 12.
Dhaka – A septuagenarian man was beaten to death allegedly by his two sons over a land-related dispute at Shimulia village in Saturia upazila of Mankgaj district on Saturday night.
Dhaka – A teenage girl was raped by a group of young men at Nehalpur in Manirampur upazila of Jessore district on Thursday night, UNB news agency reported. The victim filed a case against five people in connection with the…
Dhaka – A local BNP leader was killed in a ‘gunfight’ between his cohorts and police at Chorakhal in Shyamnagar upazila of Satkhira district early Sunday, UNB news agency reported. The deceased was identified as Wali Ullah Mollah, son of…
Dhaka – US Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs Nisha Desai Biswal arrived here on Sunday morning on a two-day visit to discuss security issues with Bangladesh after the deadliest terrorist attack on a Dhaka café,…
The long awaited Chilcot inquiry into the Iraq War released Wednesday contains stinging indictments of Britain’s role in the U.S.-led invasion, detailing failures starting with the exaggerated threat posed by Saddam Hussein through the disastrous lack of post-invasion planning. An…
John Prescott, who was deputy prime minister when Britain went to war with Iraq in 2003, says the invasion by UK and US forces was “illegal”. Writing in the Sunday Mirror, he said he would live with the “catastrophic decision”…
A matador has died after being gored by a bull in Spain – the first bullfighter to die in the ring in Spain this century. Victor Barrio, 29, a professional bullfighter, was killed when the bull’s horn pierced his chest.…
Dhaka – Diplomats stationed in Dhaka met in the city on Saturday to give farewell to three outgoing diplomats and informally ‘discussed’ Bangladesh’s current situation, UNB news agency reported. They shared their concerns over recent militant attacks on a Dhaka…
The mass removal of Saddam Hussein’s supporters from the Iraqi army led directly to the f ormation of radical group Islamic State, UK Foreign Secretary Phillip Hammond has claimed. According to British newspaper ‘The Guardian’, Hammond has termed ‘disastrous mistake’…
Dhaka – Onrush of water from the upstream and incessant rainfall have turned the flood situation worse in six upazilas of Kurigram district, rendering more than 60,000 people marooned, UNB news agency reported. The affected upazilas are Kurigran Sadar, Nageshwari,…
Dhaka – Two young men, including a leader of the Jubo League, were hacked to death, one of them by assailants and another allegedly by a neighbour, at Sutrapur and Gendaria in the city early Saturday, UNB news agency reported.…