A Dhaka court on Sunday morning directed the Officer-in-Charge of Shahbagh Police Station to investigate into BNP Chief Begum Khaleda Zia’s statement accusing Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s son Sajeeb Wazed Joy of alleged siphoning $300 million, and to take necessary…
Bank of England governor Mark Carney has defended his intervention in the debate over the UK’s membership of the European Union. Mr Carney warned on Thursday that a UK vote to leave could cause a recession – sparking calls for…
Seventeen women who have served as ministers in France say they will no longer be silent about sexual harassment in politics. All 17 signatories to the declaration are current or former ministers. Among them is Christine Lagarde, the head of…
It is learned from media report that recently a city in Uzbekistan has paid wages of school teachers in new born chicken in lieu of cash. Last year the authority had reportedly paid their salaries with potatoes, carrots and pumpkins.…
Dhaka – A special team of Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit of DMP has arrested a person on suspicion of the killing of USAID staff Xulhaz Mannan and his friend Mahub Tanoy from Kushtia district, unb news agency…
Dhaka – Two young men were hacked to death by miscreants in Tongi area of Gazipur city, north of capital Dhaka on Sunday morning, unb news agency reported. The deceased were identified as Sharif Hossain, 30, and Jumman, 32, residents…
Satrurday, President Obama and Grammy Award-winning artist Macklemore teamed up to discuss a disease that affects far too many Americans: addiction. Macklemore opened up about his own experience with addiction: “I’m here with President Obama because I take this personally.…
Dhaka – Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina left here for London on Sunday morning en route to Bulgaria on a three-day official visit to Bulgarian capital Sofia to attend the “Global Women Leaders’ Forum, unb news agency reported. Apart from joining…
Dhaka – A family temple in the residence of general secretary of the Ittefaq Workers Union Dipak Chandra Roy was torched by miscreants at Laxmipur area in Bhandaria upazila of the southern district of Pirojpur district Saturday night, unb news…
Dhaka – A 48-hour transport strike, enforced by the transport owners and workers in 10 districts under Khulna division in Southwest Bangladesh demanding withdrawal of two compensation suits against two bus service owners, began Sunday morning, unb news agency reported.
Dhaka – The Pir Shaheb of Charmonai Mufti Syed Muhammad Rezaul Karim in a press statement has called upon the government to repeal of what he termed as atheistic education policy and law, and called for submission of memoranda to…
Dhaka – A High-level South-South Exchange on Population Policy and Reproductive health between Bangladesh and Sahel countries in Francophone Africa kicked off on Saturday afternoon at the Lake Shore Hotel, Dhaka. The week-long international knowledge sharing conference will end on…
Beirut (AP/UNB) – Lebanon’s militant Hezbollah group says its top military commander was killed in Syria by insurgents shelling. The group says the blast that killed Mustafa Badreddine near the Damascus International Airport was caused by artillery shelling by “takfiri”…
Dhaka – ‘A wonderful celebration of films on our first day at Cannes’ – actor Tauquir Ahmed posted on his Facebook profile as he, along with his wife Bipasha Hayat and an entourage that includes sister-in-law Natasha Hayat Khan, father-in-law…
Dhaka – A Bangladesh delegation comprising the Ambassador to Russia Dr. S. M. Saiful Hoque, representatives of Ministry of Science and Technology and other concerned departments visited the Novovoronezh nuclear power plant in Russia. The Novovoronezh NPP is the reference…
Bandarban – In another instance of savage killing presumably by religious militants, an elderly Buddhist monk was found dead with his throat slashed inside a pagoda at Chakpara in Naikhongchari upazila early Saturday.
Dhaka – With the death of over a dozen people in lightning on Friday the death toll in the naural disaster rose to 60 on thelast couple of days, according to reports coming from the districts.
Cox’s Bazar – An Ansar member was gunned down by robbers while looting a barrack of the force inside the Rohingya refugee camp in Teknaf upazila early Friday.
Benapole – Allegedly failing to bear torture by her son, a woman took her own life by taking pesticide at Nischintapur village in Jessore Sadar upazila early Friday.
Dhaka – At least 33 people including women and children have died in lightning strikes during thunderstorms in 12 districts, says a bdnews24.com report. Rain and thunderstorms occurred in the capital and elsewhere on Thursday after a week of heat…
Dhaka – BNP on Friday announced a two-day demonstration programme protesting the submission of chargesheets against BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia in two arson attack cases. BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir declared the programmes at a press conference at…
New Delhi, 12 May 2016 – Development projects supported by the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) in India have been effective in reducing poverty and improving the livelihoods of rural poor people, according to an independent evaluation report presented…
Rome – “The underlying issues that the poor face in the finance sector can teach us valuable lessons for the justice sector: in many places, the law serves only the people who can afford it,” said Professor Muhammad Yunus, who…
Amy Braunschweiger Boris Dittrich, at the time a member of Dutch parliament, was looking out an open window of Aruba’s parliament building when a jeering mob chanting anti-gay slurs, honking horns, and whistling eclipsed the distant sounds of traffic. Boris…
Felix Horne For the past six months, thousands of people have taken to the streets in Ethiopia’s largest region, Oromia, to protest alleged abuses by their government. The protests, unprecedented in recent years, have seen Ethiopia’s security forces use lethal…
Mary Wareham “Urban areas have become death traps for thousands of civilians,” says a new report issued by the United Nations Secretary-General ahead of the first World Humanitarian Summit, which opens May 23, 2016, in Istanbul. The report describes the…
Washington, D.C.-Today, nearly 3.9 billion people-half of the world’s population-live in urban areas. By 2050 that number is expected to nearly double. According to Can a City Be Sustainable? (State of the World), the latest edition of the annual series…
By John Pilger I have been filming in the Marshall Islands, which lie north of Australia, in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Whenever I tell people where I have been, they ask, “Where is that?” If I offer a…
Dr. Vivek Murthy, US Surgeon General You’ve probably heard news reports about Zika, a virus that’s been spreading across South and Central America as well as the Caribbean. Zika is primarily transmitted by mosquitoes. In past outbreaks, the vast majority…
Seoul’s political motive possibly behind the false report: South Korean researcher JH Ahn The South Korean government was bashed by local media for releasing a false execution report on North Korean high-ranking official Ri Yong Gil, who was revealed to…