By Colleen Curry Harrowing videos of Mount Everest climbers running from an avalanche and watching as the injured were airlifted off the mountain began to emerge today from the aftermath of Nepal’s 7.8 magnitude earthquake. The climbers described chaos as…
Multi-faith invocation launched “Earth Day” celebrations in Nevada on April 26. Religious statesman Rajan Zed directed this special multi-faith invocation; which included Christian, Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, Jewish and Native American prayers focused on healthier environment and respecting the nature of…
Fears expressed about a possible fall in the number of Royal Bengal Tigers in the Bangladesh part of the Sunderbans has come as an alarm to environmentalists and wildlife experts in Bangladesh. Officials of a Bangladesh-India tiger census in the…
At least 3,618 people are now known to have died in a massive earthquake which hit Nepal on Saturday, say officials. Rameshwor Dangal, head of Nepal’s disaster management agency, said another 6,500 people had been injured. Dozens of people are…
The future of home energy sits in Josh and Susan Fried’s Rockville basement near shelves of old tools and canned soup, an unadorned box the size of a wine cooler filled with a dozen silent batteries. Annoyed by blackouts, the…
A Dhaka court on Sunday directed police to interrogate BNP leader Nadim Mostafa at the jail gate in two cases filed in connection with vandalism and arson attack. Magistrate Maruf Hossain of the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) Court of Dhaka…
A court of Dhaka on Sunday granted bail to a contractor of Bangladesh Railway in a case filed in connection with the death of child Jihad, who died inside an abandoned shaft of a water pump in the capital’s Shahjahanpur…
BNP on Sunday night questioned the legality of approving the highest number of observers of a virtually unknown organisation to monitor Tuesday’s elections to Dhaka south and Dhaka north city corporations. In an emergency press briefing at BNP chairperson’s Gulshan…
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday expressed her firm belief that people would not vote for terrorists and militants responsible for killing innocent people, hurling petrol bombs and destruction across the country in the name of political movement. “Why will…
BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia yesterday urged the city dwellers of Dhaka and Chittagong to take silent revenge against all the misdeeds of the government by exercising their ballots in the April 28 city polls. “Your vote is a great force…
Members of rapid Action Battalion (RAB) in a drive arrested one person with 2,200 pieces of Yaba tablets from a road under Gournadi upazila here last night.
Police arrested an alleged top terrorist in possession of a pistol from Sheikhghat area in the city on Saturday evening. The arrestee was identified as Tiger Jamal.
A woman allegedly killed herself and her husband made an attempt to commit suicide following a family feud at Bahadur village in Sadar upazila of Jessore district on Saturday night.
Police arrested a local Jubo League activist along with a pistol, one magazine and four rounds of bullet from a primary school in Puthia upazila on Saturday morning.
A local Awami League (AL) leader, also a union parishad member, was shot to death by miscreants at Rangikhali in Teknaf upazila on Saturday night.
Police arrested a man convicted in a drug case from Vushon High School ground in Kaliganj upazila on Saturday noon.
A farmer was killed by a lightning strike at Sadipur in Nagarkanda upazila on Saturday.
A boy was killed as a truck knocked down the bicycle he was travelling by at Kanchantala in Gomostapur upazila on Sunday morning.
A good number of women of rural and urban areas of the district achieved self-reliance after getting training from the Department of Youth Development.
Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) arrested 23 Bangladeshi nationals while entering the country through Putkhali border point here on Sunday morning, after going to India illegally.The arrestees hail from different areas of Narail, Faridpur and Khulna districts.
As part of the countrywide vitamin ‘A’ plus campaign with the object of reducing the night blindness and growing resistance power in the children against diseases due to malnutrition, district health department conducted the day long campaign yetsrday(Saturday) across the…
Speakers at a discussion here today unequivocally called for ensuring safe water from source to all consumers for the sake of protecting the city dwellers especially the poor and extreme poor ones from various waterborne diseases.
Five villages under Atpara and Netrakona sader upazilas in the district were brought under rural electrification network yesterday by Palli Biddut Samity (PBS) Netrakona, an organization of Bangladesh Rural Electrification Board (BREB).
Speakers at a training session have underscored the need for safe fish farming besides promoting its production through the best use of hygienic fish feed alongside the existing natural resources.
The Brazilian followed up his two goals against Paris St Germain in the Champions League on Tuesday by slotting home after Luis Suarez dummied an Alba cross inside the area to open the scoring after 17 minutes.
The Nepal government urged nations to send aid and braced for the toll to rise after rescuers overnight were hampered by strong aftershocks, blocked highways and a lack of equipment. People used their hands in many places to dig for…
You can only be left stupefied at the depths to which denial of reality has sunk in this country. The assault on women at the Pahela Baishakh celebrations in the Dhaka University campus does not seem to have moved the…
Volkswagen’s supervisory board Chairman Ferdinand Piech unexpectedly resigned on Saturday after losing a showdown he provoked with Chief Executive Martin Winterkorn.
Bnp chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia on Sunday termed Election Commissions latest decision about army deployment for the city elections in Dhaka and Chittagong is deceptive snd reiterated her party and alliance demand for deployment of the army to ensure peaceful…
The United Nations on Sunday urged all concerned in Bangladesh to ensure a transparent, peaceful and inclusive election process. “The United Nations urges all concerned to ensure a transparent, peaceful, and inclusive election process,” said UN Resident Coordinator in Bangladesh…