By James Gallagher A therapy that retrains the body’s immune system to fight cancer has provoked excitement after more than 90% of terminally ill patients reportedly went into remission. White blood cells were taken from patients with leukaemia, modified in…
A 10-member delegation of British Labour Party at a meeting with BNP leaders on Tuesday voiced concern over democratic condition in Bangladesh, said the BNP. “We’ve discussed many issues, mainly Bangladesh’s current democratic condition at the meeting… the Labour Party…
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has expressed serious concerns over a barrage of legal cases filed against The Daily Star editor Mahfuz Anam. It said the attempt to pursue coordinated legal proceedings against the editor was a clear attempt…
A Narayanganj court on Tuesday issued an arrest warrant against English-language newspaper The Daily Star editor Mahfuz Anam in a defamation suit. Senior judicial magistrate Saiduzzaman Sharif passed the order after taking the case into cognisance. Public prosecutor Wazed Ali…
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) chairperson, Khaleda Zia, on Tuesday said showing Amar Desh editor Mahmudur Rahman arrested despite his bail granted by the High Court is tantamount to contempt of court. Voicing deep concerns over keeping the editor “in…
Gazipur – A suspected criminal was killed in what law enforcers claimed a gunfight with members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) in Nadibandar area under Tongi police station early Tuesday. Sumon Bhotto, sub-inspector of the police station, said tipped off…
France and Turkey denounce raids in which up to 50 people were killed as Assad casts doubt on prospects for a truce. France and Turkey have called the bombing of two schools and five hospitals in Syria “war crimes”, while…
Finance Minister AMA Muhith said the Rampal power plant was here to stay but admitted that it would have an adverse effect on the Sundarbans, bdnewsnews24.com has reported. “That would make some impact, obviously,” he said. “So many vessels will…
By Sally Hayden and Reuters A hospital supported by medical charity Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in the Idlib province of northern Syria was “deliberately” hit by air strikes on Monday and eight people are missing, the charity has said in…
Soldiers from 20 countries will be gathering in Saudi Arabia for massive military exercises that are to go on for 18 days, the official Saudi Press Agency (SPA) said. It comes as Riyadh has openly warned Syrian President Assad that…
A Northwestern University research team has taken CSI to a whole new level: employing sophisticated scientific tools to investigate details of the materials and methods used by Roman-Egyptian artists to paint lifelike mummy portraits more than 2,000 years ago. These…
Dr. Habib Siddiqui At the Republican debate in New Hampshire, when Senator Ted Cruz was asked whether waterboarding is torture, he replied that it is not. “Under the law, torture is excruciating pain equivalent to losing organs and systems,” he…
By Giancarlo Elia Valori Historically, the Silk Road was established during the Han dynasty, between 206 B.C and 220 A.D., after the long Chinese exploration of Southern and Western Asia which had started at least two thousand years before. As…
By JAY POWELL Country duo Joey+Rory Feek captured the world’s attention as popular songwriters and TV personalities, but everything changed in 2014 when the couple received devastating news. Joey Feek was diagnosed at that time with stage four cervical cancer…
Seventeen more cases were filed against the Daily Star editor Mahfuz Anam in 17 districts across the country on Monday, bringing the number of cases against him to 35. The cases – either defamation or sedition – were filed for…
BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Monday said that the government has resorted to a repressive path to ‘free’ the country from its opponents. “The government is filing false cases against our leader Khaleda Zia…there’s no opposition…
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) chairperson, Khaleda Zia, will have to surrender before the trial court in two months in the GATCO graft case as the High Court (HC) has released the full text of its verdict rejecting her two…
The cabinet on Monday gave the final approval to the draft of the ‘The Bangladesh EPZ Labour Law, 2016′ keeping a provision for constituting trade unions (TUs) in the export processing zones (EPZs) as well as forming a permanent wage…
Hundreds of letters and photographs that tell the story of Pope John Paul II’s close relationship with a married woman, which lasted more than 30 years, have been shown to the BBC. The letters to Polish-born American philosopher Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka…
Two Sub-Inspectors (SI) of Paltan Police Station on Sunday submitted three separate charge sheets to the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) Court of Dhaka against 93 leaders and activists of BNP including its Acting Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir in…
A viral short film “Ami Ekjon Pagol Bocchi” by director Raihan Rafi has been recently seen all over the social media. The short film got huge response for its wonderful direction, performance and massage for social awareness. The short film…
Bidita Rahman, New York “The function of education is to teach one to think critically. Intelligence plus character- that is the goal of true education.” –Martin Luther King, Jr Every year school produces the best output to build up the…
Dhaka – BNP in a letter to the Election Commission (EC) on Sunday raised an objection to holding the upcoming Union Parishad (UP) polls along the party line. In the letter, the party said it thinks the election along party…
BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia is creating controversy afresh over the martyrs of the Liberation War, in a bid to hide the 1971 atrocities committed by the Pakistani occupation forces, said AL joint general secretary Mahbubul Alam Hanif on Sunday.
A strong 5.7 magnitude earthquake struck near Christchurch in New Zealand on Sunday, causing cliffs to collapse into the sea but no major damage to the city, which was devastated by a 2011 quake which killed nearly 200 people.
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Sunday upheld the High Court order that had granted bail to acting editor of vernacular Daily Amardesh Mahmudur Rahman in a case filed under ICT Act. The case was filed in 2012…
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Sunday upheld a High Court verdict that had had rejected a petition filed by BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia seeking a directive on the trial court to annul the testimony of the plaintiff…
B.R. Myers Why we should take more seriously what North Korea tells its own people When the North Koreans test another nuclear device or launch another missile, the question I am most often asked is, “Why now?” Why February and…
Turkey and Saudi Arabia could launch a ground operation against Islamic State (Daesh) terrorists in Syria, the Turkish foreign minister said Saturday, adding the Kingdom was already sending jets to a Turkish base to attack the extremists The coordinated plans…
Mali etremist mortar attack kills five UN peacekeepers Five UN peacekeepers have been killed in a mortar attack on their base in Kidal in northern Mali. Thirty others were hurt when militants used a van packed with explosives to ram…