Bhutanese Prime Minister Tshering Tobgay arrived in Dhaka on Saturday morning on a three-day official visit at the invitation of his Bangladesh counterpart Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. An aircraft of Royal Bhutan Airlines “Drukair” carried the Bhutanese Premier and the…
New Zealand won the second and final T20 series by 17 runs to draw the T20 series after they drew the test series with Pakistan. Pakistan won the toss second time in a row and fielded first. New Zealand was…
by Sanjib Baruah Chinese and Indian policies on river systems are more alike than different. On November 23, the first power-generating unit of the Zangmu hydropower complex on the Yarlung Tsangpo or the Brahmaputra in China’s Tibet Autonomous Region became…
A senior al-Qaeda militant, accused of planning to bomb trains in New York and London, has been killed in Pakistan, the country’s military says. Adnan el Shukrijumah was killed in a raid in north-western Pakistan, near the Afghan border, the…
Michael Davidson Growing populations, greater frequency of extreme weather events, increasing temperatures, changes in rainfall patterns and increasing water scarcity will increase uncertainty and risk in agricultural production. Between 2011 and 2100 the population of high-fertility countries is projected to…
Susan Rosemary Fenton The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) is committed to addressing both the consequences and the root causes of climate change, as stated in its Strategy 2020, and outlined in its 2013-2016 Plan…
Francesco Martone Deforestation and climate change are human rights issues. Indigenous peoples must be at the forefront of future mitigation and adaptation actions. Forests have been at the centre of climate change negotiations for many years now, in particular in…
Claudia Ringler As smallholder farmers in many parts of the world, women play a crucial role in food production. Yet they are the least equipped to adapt their farming practices to climate change. The reason? They have less access and…
Developing countries may need up to $500 billion per year by 2050 to adapt to the ravages of climate change, dwarfing previous estimates, a UN report said Friday. The figure was about 20 times today’s public spending on climate adaptation,…
Strongly criticising Awami League leaders for accusing BNP chairperson of conspiring at her Gulshan office with government officials, BNP spokesman Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Friday said they now find conspiracy in everything as it suffers from the nightmare of…
Islami Andolan Bangladesh tas taken up a 3-month protest programme demanding punishment for former minister Abdul Latif Siddique for his anti-Hajj comments. The party’s chief Mufti Syed Mohammad Rezaul Karim announced the programmes on Friday in Dhaka. The programmes include…
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Friday said the USA had tried its best to stop the January 5 election in Bangladesh, which was inevitable to continue democracy and constitutional rule. “They (USA) tried their best to make sure that this…
BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia on Friday said democracy established in the country through the sacrifices of the blood of hundreds of thousands of martyrs is not safe yet. She accused the government of shackling nation with a one-party cruel rule.…
A housewife was killed when a truck ran over her at Itegachha Hater More in the town early Friday.
Robbers looted valuables worth Tk30 lakh from the house of a Saudi expatriate at Palpur village in Chhatak upazila of Sunamganj district early Thursday.
A touch stone statue of Lord Bishnu, weighing about four maunds, was seized by police from Dakhin Kazi Kasba village under Sadar upazila on Thursday.
A young man was found buried in a mustard field at Darikandi village in Titash upazila on Thursday, 20 days after he had gone missing.
Hospitals see influx of child patients in Khulna Early season cold is playing havoc with public health in Khulna amid outbreak of different types of disease when the winter has just set in.
The ringleader of a pirate gang was slaughtered at Mahespur village in Begumganj upazila here on Thursday night.
A day-long view exchange meeting on improvement of the life style of the slum dwellers organized jointly by Practical Action, Bangladesh and Society for the Urban Poor (SUP) was held yesterday at local Ambica Memorial hall.
The members of the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested two women drug paddlers with 7 kilograms cannabis in a raid at BSCIC industrial town area of Munshiganj on Thursday.
Experts at the inaugural ceremony of a Farmers’ Field School (FFS) have stressed for adoption of Integrated Pests’ Management (IPM) method that increases crop output at reduced costs improving environment.
A court case against Apple, which could see the company facing damages of $1bn, might collapse.
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Prosecutors at the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague have withdrawn charges of crimes against humanity against Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta.
The government of Maldives has declared a state of emergency after a fire at a water treatment plant cut off drinking water to the capital.
Manchester City will play Real Madrid at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in a pre-season tournament next summer.
Just after Jayesh Sheth announced that he wanted to do a film on the 90’s sex siren Mamta Kulkarni, news is that he wishes to rope in the Indo-Canadian porn star Sunny Leone for the role.
A alleged ringleader of a pirate gang was killed in a ‘gunfight’ with members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) in Kaukhali upazila on Friday evening. The deceased was identified as Nazir Ahmed Sabuj, 40, allegedly the chief of ‘Sabuj Bahini’.…
BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Friday said that the government has failed to increase manpower export since it could not deal with the matter properly “Not only in Malaysia, the government has failed to export manpower…