Dhaka’s Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) on Monday allowed the Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) to interrogate BNP Standing Committee member Barrister Moudud Ahmed at the jail gate in a case filed with Gulshan Police Station in the capital for purportedly grabbing a government house…
A court in Chittagong on Monday issued a warrant for the arrest of ABM Mohiuddin Chowdhury, former mayor of Chittagong City Corporation and city Awami League president, in a corruption case.
Unprecedented levels of chronic non-communicable diseases are prompting health experts and indigenous activists to highlight a need to revert to the diets of our ancestors to regain lost nutrients.
More partnerships and investments are needed to support the pan-African Great Green Wall Initiative, which has become Africa’s flagship enterprise in tackling the detrimental social, economic and environmental impacts of land degradation, desertification, drought and climate change, experts say.
Japan has reported a record annual trade deficit after the weak yen pushed up the cost of energy imports.
Scientists have shed light on what ancient Europeans looked like.
TV presenter Nigella Lawson will face no further action by police over her admission that she used drugs.
Dame Helen Mirren is to be awarded the British Academy fellowship at next month’s Bafta Film Awards.
Mushfiqur Rahim’s dismissal in the sixth over after tea hastened Bangldesh’s end in the first innings, as they slumped to 232 all out by the 64th over in Mirpur.
Manchester United’s club-record signing Juan Mata has acknowledged his surprise that Chelsea allowed him to move to Old Trafford.
Seoul – South Korea is expanding a poultry cull in a bid to contain the spread of bird flu that has been found on an increasing number of farms around the country and in migratory birds.
Bangladesh Bank has announced the monetary policy for the second half of the current fiscal, which the governor has described as cautious and investment-friendly. Going by economic indicators, the policy for the second half of the 2013-14 fiscal does not…
Extrajudicial killings are on an alarming rise after the Awami League assumed power through the ‘one-sided’ election, the BNP has alleged. The party urged the human-rights organisations at home and abroad to speak out against such killings. “Law enforcers, along…
Satkhira – A leader of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal, student wing of BNP, was killed in a ‘gunfight’ with members of the joint forces in Magura Kheyaghat area of Tala upazila early Monday.
Dhaka – Police in separate drives arrested three people along with two pistols, some bullets and one knife from different places of Bogra and Rajbari districts on Sunday.
A news report titled “Leaders take golden boat and students stay on the road hungry” published in a daily has drawn my attention. Many many thanks to the media.
Dr. M. S. Haq A black hole is believed to be a region of spacetime. The hole is surrounded by event horizons where gravity is very strong. As a result, all light that hits the horizon is absorbed and is…
Mostafa Kamal Majumder Malaysian labour activist Charles Hector Fernandez recently told their government that detention of 2400 undocumented migrants, mostly Bangladeshis, at 15 immigration depots must be followed up by a thorough investigation on the journey from their country of…
Masum Billah Teaching itself is a courageous profession in many respects. The people belonging to other professions can do corruption, earn colossal amount of money by fair means or foul, can do indecent activities which will not upset people around…
A local Awami League activist was hacked to death by unidentified miscreants at Pacha Magura village in Abhaynagar upazila on Sunday night.
Court Correspondent Dhaka’s Metropolitan Sessions Judge Court on Thursday rejected the bail petitions of BNP Vice-Chairman and Convener of Dhaka City BNP Sadeque Hossain Khoka in cases filed in connection with hartal (shutdown) and blockade violence. Judge Md Jahurul Haque…
The Election Commission will not interfere in the ongoing joint forces’ drive against violence at different parts of the country unless it does not hamper the works of the countrywide staggered upazila polls, beginning on February 19.
The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (Ecnec) on Sunday approved 13 development projects involving TK 9,110 crore along with three big projects in the Power Sector, including a 275MW coal-based power plant at Barapukuria.
Expressing the hope that Bangladesh will regain the GSP facility to the US market by next April, Commerce Minister Tofail Ahmed on Sunday said the government is working sincerely to fulfill the conditions tagged for regaining it.
The Board of Investment (BoI) Scrutiny Committee for approval of foreign loan/supplier’s credit on Sunday approved US$ 106.6 million foreign borrowings against 13 projects.
In a daring bank robbery, burglars have tunneled into the vault of Sonali Bank’s main branch in the district town and looted about Tk 16.40 crore.
“Razakars had perpetrated the systematic killing of Hindus at Sakharighati village of Bagerhat during the Liberation War in which my converted Muslim husband was also a victim of the massacre,” said Ullashini Das as prosecution witness No. 26 while facing…
German Ambassador in Dhaka Dr Albrecht Conze on Sunday said Bangladesh’s future as an ‘emerging industrial country’ depends on a reputation of excellence, and reassured Germany’s help to that end.
Last fall, rumour rumor had it that Kate Middleton’s style was about to get quirkier.
The Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide was adopted by the United Nations 65 years ago in December of 1948.