Danielle Nierenberg The American food system is broken. Chronic diet-related diseases cost US$500 billion annually, and agriculture is the main source of water pollution in America. The Food and Drug Administration reports that 80 percent of all antibiotics are fed…
Robert J. Burrowes For many people, it is easier, safer and more comfortable to live in a world of delusion, particularly when this delusion requires no effort to seek out and understand truths that might prove unpalatable. If the delusion…
Dhaka-The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court yesterday directed the parliament secretariat to submit the master plan of Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban, which was designed by famous architect Louis I Kahn, before it in three months.
STAFF REPORTER The High Court yesterday directed the government to submit a list of those prisoners, who were in jail even after expiry of serving their jail periods.
RU Correspondent Police recovered a grenade-like object near the central mosque of Rajshahi University (RU) on Wednesday morning.
STAFF REPORTER Ahmed Kamal, the youngest brother of late President Ziaur Rahman yesterday called upon all to come forward to restore democracy in the country.
Dhaka-A 3-member inquiry committee has been formed to investigate into sudden attack on police check post of Ashulia in Dhaka, that left one cop killed and injured another on Wednesday.
Court Correspondent The Metropolitan Sessions Judge’s Court of Dhaka on Wednesday sent BNP Standing Committee member Gayeshwar Chandra Roy to jail after he surrendered to the in a murder case filed with Rampura Police Station.
Staff Reporter Some self-obsessed people within the community being motivated by others are trying to include Rajbangshi minority people into ethnic communities again, though in 2010, the government out-listed them from ethnic minority groups to let enjoy all civil rights,…
Court Correspondent Russel Chowdhury alias Chakti Russel, accused in the Italian citizen Cesare Tavella murder case was placed on a fresh remand for five days to quiz him more about the incident.
Court Correspondent The Speedy Trial Tribunal-3 of Dhaka yesterday fixed November 12 to pronounce the verdict in the Police Inspector Mahfuzur Rahman and his wife Swapna Rahman murder case.
At least six different kinds of shops were gutted in a fire in city’s A-block area under Halishahor thana on Tuesday noon.Fire service sources said the fire originated from electric short circuit in one of the shops around 11.30 am…
Different law enforcing agencies recovered 2,402 bottles of phensidyl, 700 yaba tablets and 50 kg of hemp and arrested five people during several raids in Shibganj and Nachole upazila of the district during last two days.The arrested are Sujon 22,…
A Chittagong court on Tuesday awarded life term rigorous imprisonment to a man in a verdict on charges of raping a teenage cousin at Sayedpur village under Boalkhali upazila of the district.The court also fined him Tk 50 thousand for…
A mobile court led by Upazila Executive Magistrate Abdul Aziz of Nagarkanda awarded four people one month of imprisonment and fine of Taka 500 each for violating the examination code during the ongoing JSC examination on Tuesday afternoon.According to official…
Six Bangladesh nationals were picked up by Indian Border Security Force (BSF) from the Padma river at Godagari border of the district on Tuesday noon.The identity of the six BD nationals could not be confirmed immediately.
Police arrested an alleged arms trader in possession of one foreign-made pistol, two magazines and one round of bullet from Benapole Bus Stand area on Tuesday night.The arrestee was identified as Elias Ali,33, son of Suruj Molla, a resident of…
Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) in separate drives arrested 55 Bangladeshi nationals while they were attempting to cross into India illegally through Putkhali and Doulatpur borders here on Tuesday night.The arrestees hail from different areas of Khulna, Bagerhat and…
A motorcyclist was killed and two others were injured when a bus rammed their bike at Arpara Bazar on the Dhala-Khulna highway in Shalikha upazila on Tuesday.The deceased was identified as Farid Hossain,25, son of Hashem Biswas, while the injured…
Police arrested the headmaster of a primary school for allegedly harassing a minor girl sexually at Nagpara in Jhalakati Sadar upazila on Tuesday afternoon.The arrestee was identified as Nurul Amin, 45, headmaster of Nagpara Government Primary School and a resident…
An industrial police constable was killed and another was injured as some unidentified miscreants made a sudden attack on them and hacked them indiscriminately at Baraipara in Ashulia on Wednesday morning.The deceased was identified as Mukul, a constable of Sripur…
Police detained 43 Bangladesh National Party (BNP) activists from different places of the city during a drive continuing for 24 hours still Wednesday morning.Police said the 43 activists were detained on suspicion of planning subversive activities.
By James Cogan Yesterday’s US deployment of the destroyer USS Lassen and surveillance aircraft into the 12-nautical mile zone surrounding the Chinese-controlled Subi and Mischief reefs in the South China Sea has qualitatively escalated tensions across Asia. The aim of…
London (Sangeeta Shashikant) – The United States and the Least Developed Countries (LDCs) at the World Trade Organization have reached agreement ad referendum on a pharmaceutical patent exemption for a duration of 17 years, according to trade diplomats. With this…
ST. Paul, MN, November 4 – Magni Global Asset Management today announced that CEO Kurt Lieberman will be speaking about the role of country-level governance in Islamic Finance at the World Islamic Banking Conference (WIBC) in Bahrain, being held December…
Mohammad Zainal Abedin New York – Professor Dr. Justin Phillips, of Columbia University predicts that Hillary Clinton is the probable Presidential candidate of the Democratic Party. Dr. Phillips made this assertion at a press briefing held on November 2 at…
Dhaka – Inspector General of Police AKM Shahidul Hoque said Bangladesh has achieved a visible success by substantially curbing religious extremist groups “Police have been taken vigorous efforts to roll back any kind of resurface of this socio-global menace,’ he…
The Dhaka University Teachers Association (DUTA) on Tuesday demanded resignation of home minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal for his failure to stop repeated killings and controversial remarks over the murder of Jagriti Prakashani Publisher Faisal Arefin Dipan. The demands were voiced…
A six-hour countrywide hartal enforced by Ganajagaran Manch ended peacefully on Tuesday. The leaders and activists of the Manch observed the hartal from 6:00am to 12:00pm on the day in protest against the killing of Faisal Arefin Dipan, a publisher…
Three DU students have been suspended temporarily for being involved in Jahangir Nagar University admission forgery, said a DU press release on Tuesday.