The construction work of Baradaha Bridge over Bangali River on Gaibandha-Nakaihat-Gobindaganj Road in the district is nearing completion amid much enthusiasm to the locals.According to sources the construction work of the much awaited bridge started in 1997 and the government…
The Eid-ul-Fitr shopping spree is peaking by mid-Ramadan, but the crowds fail to satisfy the shopkeepers.On Friday, the weekly holiday, customers flooded New Market, Chandnichawk, Gausia Supermarket, Bashundhara City, Jamuna Future Park, and shopping malls at Gulshan, Banani, Dhanmondi, and…
Salman Khan’s “Bajrangi Bhaijaan” launched its special Eid song “Aaj ki party” on Thursday. Sung by Mika Singh, the song has already connected with the masses but it was Salman who was going to sing the song before Mika “stole”…
Indian scientists have created an environmentally-friendly material from renewable natural marine resources that could eventually replace the fossil fuel-derived plastics commonly used in a variety of applications.
Including tree nuts in your daily diet could be an easy and inexpensive way to stay slim and fit, suggests a research.Tree nuts include almonds, Brazil nuts, cashews, hazelnuts, macadamias, pecans, pine nuts, pistachios and walnuts.
The current generation of Argentina players is one of the best ever even though the team have not won a major trophy in 22 years, coach Gerardo Martino said on Friday.
Tens of thousands of Greeks took to the streets on Friday in rival rallies that laid bare the deep divide heading into a referendum that may decide the country’s future in Europe’s single currency.
Solar Impulse, the aeroplane that is powered only by the sun, has landed in Hawaii after making a historic 7,200km flight across the Pacific from Japan. Pilot Andre Borschberg brought the vehicle gently down on to the runway of Kalaeloa…
Eminent jurist Dr Kamal Hossain on Friday said the High Court will decide whether Disaster Management and Relief Minister Mofazzal Hossain Chowdhury Maya will continue as minister or not. “No one is above the law…the Maya issue is under trial,…
An Ansar member was shot to death allegedly by one of his colleagues at Chowdhury Tilla Ansar post in Dighinala upazila on Friday. The deceased was identified as Nayek Amir Hossain, 55, commander of the Ansar post (security camp) and…
South Africa’s cricket team apologised to the Bangladesh military for using a drone at a practice session in Dhaka. The home cricket authorities ordered a halt to the use of the device, which was flying overhead taking photos during the…
By DAVID PITT, Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A man who created a nonprofit organization credited with helping more than 150 million people out of poverty was named the winner of the 2015 World Food Prize on Wednesday.…
BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia will perform the holy Umrah this year in Saudi Arabia where she is expected to join by her elder son Tarique Rahman. Reliable source closed to Tarique Rahman in London yesterday confirmed that he would fly…
Different Islamic parties and organisations including Hefazat-e-Islam Bangladesh yesterday vowed to continue non-stop movement until sacked minister Abdul Latif Siddique is not arrested and brought to justice for hurting the religious sentiments. Leaders of the Islamic organisations while addressing rallies…
More than 30 Nobel Laureates in a joint a declaration on Friday called for making rapid progress to reduce the current and future greenhouse gas emissions to minimise the risks of climate change. “Based on the IPCC assessment, the world…
At least 75 Bangladeshi nationals, including two children, returned home through Benapole check post on Thursday after serving three months’ jail term in Indian prison.
A Bangladeshi worker was killed in a road accident in Amwaz area of the Bahrain capital of Manama on June 29.
Police arrested three suspected militants including an woman along with jihadi books, leaflets, CDs and other propaganda materials from an orphanage on Thursday.
Two schoolboys drowned in the Buriganga River in Fatullah of Sadar upazila on Friday.
The Barisal Metropolitan Police (BMP) has reconstituted its probe panel formed to look into the raising of bribe fund for promotion, replacing its head.
An Ansar member was shot to death allegedly by one of his colleagues at Chowdhury Tilla Ansar post in Dighinala upazila on Friday. The deceased was identified as Nayek Amir Hossain, 55, commander of the Ansar post (security camp)…
Samir Mehta samir@internationalrivers.org Widely hailed as ‘green’ sources of renewable energy, hydroelectric dams have been built worldwide at an unprecedented scale. But research from the University of East Anglia reveals that these major infrastructure projects are far from environmentally friendly.…
New York – Thai authorities should immediately drop all charges and release unconditionally 14 student activists who peacefully expressed opposition to military rule. On June 26, 2015 in Bangkok, police and soldiers enforced a military court warrant to arrest 14…
A critically endangered brow-antlered deer found in the world’s only floating wildlife park in Manipur may soon lose its habitat. Imagine being a large mammal confined to an area of just 10 sq km. Imagine surviving genetic experiments, floods, encroachments,…
By Sunita Narain What societies eat reflects their position on the modernity trajectory. Poorer countries have health problems because of lack of food. Then as people get rich, they end up losing the health advantage of food availability. They eat…
Bnp chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia said on Thursday that the government if afraid of facing the people in election because of the wrath the ministers and their cohorts have earned by resorting the corruption and misrule. Addressing an iftar mohfil…
A Dhaka court on Thursday deferred the hearing on charge framing against BNP 46 leaders and activists of the party including Acting Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir until September 28 in a case filed for alleged crude bomb explosion…
A Dhaka court on Thursday rejected the bail petition of Bakhtiar Alam Rony, son of Awami League MP Pinu Khan and also passed orders to send him to the jail in a case filed for shooting two people with his…
Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus has just presided over summer graduation ceremony at Glasgow Caledonian University as Chancellor.
A court here on Thursday sent a man and his three associates to jail in a case filed for selling his wife to a brothel. The accused are Rana, who sold his wife to a brothel in Daulatdia of Rajbari…