The US Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a conservative legal challenge that could have doomed President Barack Obama’s healthcare law, upholding nationwide tax subsidies crucial to his signature domestic policy achievement.Obama strode into the White House Rose Garden after the…
EU leaders holding late-night talks in Brussels have agreed to relocate tens of thousands of migrants who have arrived in Italy and Greece. Summit chairman Donald Tusk said 40,000 would be relocated to other EU states over the next two…
Two siblings were killed and their parents injured in a landslide, caused by incessant rainfall for the last four days, at Banarupa Para in Bandarban municipality area early Friday. The deceased were identified as Alif, 12, son of Abdur Razzak…
Record installations for wind and solar PV in 2014; Renewable energy targets created in 20 more countries, new total: 164; Renewables account for over 59% of net additions to world’s power capacity; Policy-makers more attentive to green energy heating /…
Robert J. Burrowes In an article I wrote a year ago, the following words appeared: ‘If a child is crying and you comfort them, you will (presumably unintentionally) scare them out of feeling their sadness when, in fact, their crying…
Masum Billah Reading education materials is one of the important early aspects in the process of learning and being educated. We do reading usually in two ways such as oral or loud reading and silent reading. Knowing the difference between…
At least 3 students of Jahangirnagar University (JU) hospitalised after they were beaten up by Bangladesh Chhatra league (BCL) cadres, student wing of rulling party AL on the JU campus on Thursday. Sources said, Indrojit Voumik Shawon, Md. Shajahan Badsha…
The Detective Branch of Dhaka Metropolitan Police has arrested two suspected Islamic Militants, including the alleged commander of a newly formed Islamic ‘jihadi group,’ from Mohammadpur area in the city on Wednesday. Three foreign made pistols, 16 roubd bullets and…
BNP senior leader Lt Gen (retd) Mahbubur Rahman on Wednesday alleged that the government cannot get abducted BGB Nayek Abdur Razzak released from Myanmar due to its ‘knee-jerk’ foreign policy. “Nayek Razzak was taken away from our maritime territory. Seven…
Chief of Army Staff General Iqbal Karim Bhuiyan formally handed over the charge of the Army chief to Let Gen Abu Belal Mohammad Shafiul Huq. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday hoped the Bangladesh Armed Forces would move forward upholding…
BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia on Thursday alleged that basic human rights have got obliterated in Bangladesh with the disappearance of rule of law. In a statement, she said, “In the countries where authoritarian governing system has been introduced snatching people’s…
Three suspected robbers were beaten to death by a mob at Koijuri in Sadar upazila on Wednesday night.Identities of the deceased could not be known immediately.
Members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) arrested three people including a woman in possession of 10,000 fake currency notes worth Tk10 lakh from Humayun Rashid Chattar in the city on Wednesday.
A female madrasa student allegedly committed suicide by hanging herself with a tree at Bhitar village in Jaintapur upazila on Wednesday.
Police arrested 11 members of an inter-district robber gang along with one pipe-gun, three sharp weapons and three rounds of bullet from Bagher Sarak area in Goainghat upazila on Wednesday evening.
Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) in a drive arrested a young man along with 530 grams of heroin from Bashudebpur area of Godagari upazila on Wednesday afternoon.
Police in a drive arrested a local leader of Jamaat-e-Islami from Chandlai area of the district town on Wednesday noon on charges of sabotage.
Police in a drive rescued a union parishad chairman who had been abducted from Manikganj and arrested four alleged abductors from Jaleswar area of Savar municipality on Wednesday.The rescued was identified as Abdur Rashid, 73, and chairman of Shimulia union…
Three alleged unidentified persons were beaten to death by the villagers of Badarpur village of Kaijuri Union last night here in the outskirts of this town.
Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) has taken a massive programme to cultivate Aman paddy on 39,650 hectares of land in the district during the current season.DAE office sources said of the total, 34,150 hectares of land will be cultivated under…
Crude oil prices steadied just above $60 a barrel on Thursday as strong demand for oil products helped balance a global overhang of oil for immediate delivery.North Sea Brent crude oil LCOc1 traded within a narrow 58-cent range as investors…
Kareena Kapoor belongs to Bollywood royalty. The Kapoor family tree has produced some of India’s biggest actors and stars, but the actress and her sister Karisma were the first women from the family to act.In her 16 years in the…
Selfie sticks are no longer just a convenience but considered the new symbol of millennial narcissism and self-absorption, a new study says.Jesse Fox, an assistant professor of communications at the Ohio State University, believes the selfie stick will further isolate…
It was a creature so strange that experts literally could not make heads nor tails of it.But scientists said on Wednesday a new analysis of fossils of Hallucigenia, so named for its fantastical appearance, has given them for the first…
Chile bundled reigning champions Uruguay out of the Copa America with a 1-0 victory in a fast-paced quarter-final that ended in controversy and kept alive the host nation’s dream of a maiden title on Wednesday.
Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on Wednesday apologised for the deadly 2013 attack at a hearing before a US judge formally sentenced him to death for killing four people and injuring 264 in the bombing and its aftermath.
UN, Jun (IPS) – Democracy is on the retreat and authoritarianism is on the rise in more than 96 of the U.N.’s 193 member states, according to a new report released here The two regions of “highest concern” for defenders…
A vote in Myanmar’s parliament has failed to remove the army’s veto over constitutional change, dealing a blow to hopes for fuller democracy. The bill received a majority of MPs’ votes but not the 75% needed to pass. Aung San…
Principal Staff Officer (PSO) of the Armed Forces Division (AFD) Lt Gen Abu Belal Muhammad Shafiul Huq took over as Army Chief on Thursday morning. Lt Gen Belal replaced Gen Iqbal Karim Bhuiyan who handed over the charge to him…
Eight days into his abduction, Myanmar border force has finally returned Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) Nayek Abdur Razzak. Border Guard Police (BGP) handed Nayek Razzak along with his personal arms and ammunition over to the BGB around 2pm on Thursday…