Foreign Minister Abul Hassan Mahmood Ali has urged the US businesses to invest in Bangladesh and take advantage of its “enhanced” regional connectivity.He said Bangladesh will eventually become a hub in the network of distribution channel linking all the rising…
Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak said on Thursday he had ordered the navy to conduct search and rescue missions for thousands of migrants adrift at sea as Thailand’s prime minister said his country would not provide shelter.Southeast Asia is battling…
Legendary blues man BB King will be buried on Saturday, May 30 on the grounds of a museum dedicated to his life in Indianola, a small Mississippi Delta town where his career began.A funeral procession will take King’s body from…
Barcelona midfielder and captain Xavi confirmed on Thursday he will leave his boyhood club at the end of the season and has agreed to join Qatari side Al Sadd after a glittering career stretching over 17 seasons.The 35-year-old former Spain…
Scientists digging among coastal rocks in Washington state have found the partial left femur of a two-legged carnivorous dinosaur, a fossil believed to be about 80 million years old and the first of its kind found in the state, scientists…
The new animated feature “Inside Out” from Disney-Pixar turned the Cannes festival on its head on Monday as the film about what goes on inside a young girl’s mind drew cheers from audiences and queries about why it was not…
Iraqi forces said they fought off an overnight attack by Islamic State militants near the city of Ramadi, which the insurgents overran at the weekend in the most significant setback for the government in a year.Islamic State is seeking to…
The National Board of Revenue detectives are seeking details of accounts Transcom Group Chairman Latifur Rahman and his wife Shahnaz Rahman hold with banks.The group owns Bangla daily Prothom Alo and English broadsheet The Daily Star.
Microsoft’s plan to make its new version of Windows a mobile hit by letting it accept tweaked Apple and Android apps has met an obstacle: some of the software developers the company needs to woo just aren’t interested. Windows phones…
Governments around the world charge prices for energy that do not account for its harmful environmental, health and other side effects, amounting to a $5.3 trillion “post-tax” subsidy this year, the International Monetary Fund said in a report on Monday.The…
Chelsea midfielder Cesc Fabregas was sent off in bizarre circumstances as the below-par Premier League champions, playing with 10 men for over an hour, slumped 3-0 at West Bromwich Albion on Monday.
Oil slipped on Monday as a rallying dollar and concerns of growing oversupply weighed on the market after Saudi Arabia reported its highest crude exports in nearly a decade.Crude oil futures erased early gains of more than $1 a barrel…
Since in many species, sperm is males’ only contribution to reproduction, biologists have long puzzled about why evolutionary selection, known for its ruthless efficiency, allows them to exist.Now British scientists have an explanation: Males are required for a process known…
The use of Shia militias to try to take back the Iraqi city of Ramadi from Islamic State risks unleashing more sectarian bloodletting, current and former US officials said, but Washington and Baghdad appear to have few other options.
“Pitch Perfect 2” hit all the right notes at the box office, snagging first place on the charts with a smashing $70.3 million debut despite fierce competition from “Mad Max: Fury Road.”Universal’s acapella sequel earned more in its first weekend…
Anti-smuggling Operation Bound by Human Rights Law (Brussels) – European Union military action against human smuggling networks should not put the lives and rights of migrants and asylum seekers in jeopardy, Human Rights Watch said today. The Council of the…
Interview with Phil Robertson of Human Rights Watch Thousands of minority Rohingya Muslims remain stranded at sea without adequate food and water. On Wednesday, 20 May, Malaysia and Indonesia finally bowed to mounting international pressure, announcing that they would offer…
Birgit Schwarz As a little girl, Ruth Riviera (not her real name) loved to step into her dad’s army boots and strut around the house with pride and self-importance. Her dad, a Non-Commission Officer in the US Army, was her…
Geneva, (Kanaga Raja) – The Framework for Engagement with Non-State Actors, initiated to safeguard the independence, integrity and credibility of the World Health Organisation (WHO), now seems to bear the threat of facilitating and legitimising the corporate capture of the…
Robert J. Burrowes I sometimes read that drone strikes are counterproductive to western security interests because each person killed by a drone results in more new ‘terrorists’. See, for example, ‘The more civilians US drones kill in the Mideast, the…
Danielle Nierenberg May 22 is the International Day of Biodiversity—an opportunity to increase understanding and awareness of the Earth’s flora and fauna. This year’s theme is biodiversity for sustainable development. Human health and livelihoods are linked to biodiversity, the variety…
Weeds lowers crop yield to a greater extent. Globally a huge amount of herbicides are used to control weeds. But many of the herbicides are getting resistant to weeds. Moreover the chemicals used as herbicides are very poisonous and harmful…
By Kayla Ruble A grand jury has decided to indict the six Baltimore police officers involved in the death of Freddie Gray, who died after sustaining a severed spine while in police custody in April. Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby…
BNP on Thursday alleged that the government is carrying out false propaganda using different state agencies against it alongside continued repressive acts as part of its plot to weaken the opposition party. “The government is repeatedly attacking BNP and carrying…
The legal process to produce BNP leader Salahuddin Ahmed, receiving treatment at a Shillong hospital in police custody, before Meghalaya court is likely to be deferred for an indefinite time. Sources at the Meghalaya police told BBC Bangla that the…
By Jonathan Head As the trade in human beings becomes more and more profitable, the BBC’s Jonathan Head discovers that entire communities in Thailand are helping the traffickers. Earlier this month, I accompanied a group of Thai volunteers through the…
As Bangladesh is the world’s largest delta, it needs to develop a delta plan incorporating various environmental and developmental aspects aiming to ensure sustainable economic growth through making long-term development visions, said hydrologists. Bangladesh Delta Plan-2100 is being prepared by…
Dhaka will sign a Tripartite Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Hague and the World Bank next month outlining the framework of cooperation in Water Sector. The tripartite MoU would be signed during the upcoming visit of Dutch minister for Foreign…
Islamic State militants have taken near complete control of the Syrian city of Palmyra, home to some of the world’s most magnificent ancient ruins. There are fears that the militants will destroy the ruins, which Unesco has designated a World…
Migrants found by the BBC last week drifting off the coast of Thailand have been rescued by Indonesian fishermen. A BBC reporter who reached their boat says it is filthy and insect-infested. In a significant change, Malaysia and Indonesia agreed…