Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will deliver a much-anticipated statement on Friday marking 70 years since his country’s World War Two surrender. Its content will be closely watched by Japan’s neighbours, who are concerned he may water down past apologies…
The Election Commission has turned down the audit reports of 22 political parties submitted on their financial transactions in 2014 as they failed to follow the due process. The Commission on Thursday sent a letter to the 22 political parties…
The executive engineer of Begum Rokeya University was assaulted allegedly by a group of activists of the university unit of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) over extortion on the campus on Wednesday. On the contrary, the university unit of the ruling…
Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) seized 84,000 cigarettes of Indian Nasir brand from Kumarpara border village of Kanaighat upazila on Wednesday.Mohammad Saiful Islam, assistant director of Kanaighat BGB 31 battalion, said a team of BGB led by habildar Mohammad Montu Miah of Suraighat…
Nazrul Islam alias Nazu, 28, son of Shahida Begum, a councilor of women reserved seat of ward no-2 of Khulna City Corporation (KCC) was gunned down by unidentified miscreants at BIDC intersection on Khulna-Jessore Highway in the city last night.
Speakers at a meeting have called for saving stressed for thousands of nonsmokers from indirect smoking through ensuring strict enforcement of the amended Tobacco Control Act (TCA) in public places.They put importance on creating public awareness about harms of using smoking and nonsmoking…
A local Swechchhasebak League leader, who sustained bullet injuries in a gun attack in the city’s Madhya Badda area on Thursday, died at a hospital here on Friday, raising the death toll from the incident to three. Mahbubur Rahman Gama,…
Thousands of people living in the remote char areas of ten northwestern riverine districts are expecting better profits through selling their locally reared sacrificial animals before the upcoming Eid-ul-Azha festivity.Following the ban imposed on ‘exporting’ cows from the neighbouring country to…
Two massive explosions caused by flammable goods ripped through an industrial area in the northeast Chinese port city of Tianjin late on Wednesday, killing 17 people and injuring as many as 400, official Chinese media reported.Authorities had lost contact with…
Barcelona substitute Pedro scored deep into extra time to secure the European Super Cup with a 5-4 win over Sevilla in a thriller on Tuesday after they surrendered a three-goal lead in Tbilisi. Unsettled Pedro had said in the build-up…
NASA has not confirmed what actually is the ‘woman-like’ figure in a Mars picture that has kept UFO and alien life enthusiasts hooked for the past few weeks, CNET reported.Over the past several weeks, UFO and alien life enthusiasts have…
Former teen idol Zac Efron, who rose to fame in the Disney “High School Musical” franchise, says the upcoming “Baywatch” movie in which he will co-star with Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson will be almost nothing like the 1990s TV series…
Commerce Minister Tofail Ahmed sees politics behind the US decision to deny Bangladesh products GSP, but US Ambassador in Dhaka Marcia Bernicat disagrees.After visiting a few readymade garment factories in Gazipur on Tuesday, Bernicat told reporters that ‘there was no…
A seminar entitled “Human Right Situation in Bangladesh : Duty of Law Learners” held at the Deans’ Complex of Rajshahi University (RU) on Thursday at 4.00pm organiged by Rajshahi University Association of Law Finders (RUALF). M A Sayeed Shuvo, President…
Robert J. Burrowes In a recent letter to US President Barack Obama twelve Nobel Peace laureates declared their support for the long history of US elite violence against Native Americans and enslaved Africans, as well as the US imperial violence…
New York – Four courageous and tireless advocates for human rights are the 2015 recipients of the prestigious Alison Des Forges Award for Extraordinary Activism, Human Rights Watch said today. The winners, leading voices for justice in their countries, are…
Bangladesh and India on Thursday agreed to cooperate with each other to control the circulation of fake currency notes. The decision was taken at a 2-day long Joint Task Force meeting on Fake Currency notes between Bangladesh and India held…
Plainclothes police detained two ‘members of the banned Islamist outfit Ansarullah Bangla Team (ABT)’ here on Thursday evening in connection with blogger Niladri Chattopadhyay Niloy murder. Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) deputy commissioner (media) Muntasirul Islam said members of Detective Branch…
Two people were killed and two others injured in a gun attack in the city’s Madhya Badda area on Thursday night. The deceased were identified as Shamsu and Manik and the injured as Gama and Salam. Further details about the…
A Dhaka court on Thursday fixed November 12 for submission of the further investigation report for the last time in the Mazoor murder case. Judge SM Saiful Islam of Dhaka’s First Additional District and Sessions Judge’s Court set the new…
In a dramatic turn around BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia has postponed her visit to London for treatment of her eye problems due to pressuring need to be at home for political and personal reasons, according to party sources. Though she…
A Dhaka court on Thursday sentenced the daily Amar Desh Acting Editor Mahmudur Rahman to three years imprisonment in a case filed by the Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) in 2010. Dhaka’s Third Special Court, Judge of Dhaka’s Special Judge Court-3…
The BNP-led 20-party alliance on Thursday alleged that the government wants to suppress the movement of the coalition by using guns. “Obstructions were also created during anti-Ayub and anti-Ershad movements in the past but people rose against them surpassing all…Wait…
At least 44 people are now known to have died, and more than 500 injured, following two major explosions in China’s northern city of Tianjin. Twelve firefighters were among the dead, China’s official Xinhua news agency said as it reported…
US Ambassador in Dhaka Marcia Stephens Bloom Bernicat on Wednesday said the US will restore Generalised System of Preferences (GSP) for Bangladesh if it fully implements specific measures listed in the GSP Action Plan for it. She made the remark…
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court (SC) on Thursday fined publisher as well as editor of the Bangla daily Janakantha Atikullah Khan Masud and its executive editor Shawdesh Roy Tk10,000 each for contempt of court. A six-member bench of…
On a still evening somewhere in an average South African suburb, a die-hard sports fan is in dreamland, where everything is moving. He sees men running, jumping, and even leaping. He sees a ball hit into a black velvet sky…
By Christina Lin Erdogan’s latest feat in beguiling US/NATO to back his demands regarding Syria is a masterpiece. Employing a familiar Chinese stratagem of (m¡n tin gu² ) often associated with Emperor Liu Bei’s (161-230 AD) military strategist Zhuge Liang…
The Rajshahi University Teachers Association (RUTA) on Wednesday brought out a condolence rally on the campus on the occasion of upcoming National Mourning day of August 15. The rally was started at 11.00 am from the Senate Building that went…
BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia yesterday held a meeting with top leaders of 20-party opposition alliance dispelling the remours about disunity within the coalition. “The unity of 20-party alliance is there and it will remain intact in future also. There is…