International University of Business Agriculture and Technology (IUBAT) observed the 43rd Victory Day with due solemnity and paid homage to martyrs. Academics expressed renewed pledge to make the country a prosperous and peaceful abode realizing the objective of the liberation…
The Korean development arm KOICA will provide $ 5 million grant for overhauling the apex training institute of Bangladesh’s chemical industries. KOICA Resident Representative Kim Bok-Hee and Economic Relations Division Joint Secretary Mohammed Asif-uz-Zaman and Joint Chief of the Ministry…
Three people were murdered in separate incidents in Comilla and Cox’s Bazar districts on Tuesday and Monday night. In Comilla, muggers stabbed a Grameen Bank official to death at Sujanagar of the city on Tuesday noon. The victim was identified…
The glittering original FIFA World Cup Trophy, for the first time in the history, arrived in the capital Tuesday noon on a three-day tour to Bangladesh. The coveted World Cup trophy reached the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka at…
Cattle are the biggest source of greenhouse gases, accounting for more than three-quarters of all emissions from global livestock, a survey shows.
A Jatiya Party leader has filed a writ petition in the High court challenging validity of announcing uncontested candidates as winner in the national polls. Petitioner Khandaker Abdus Salam identified himself as a freedom fighter, vice chairman of the Jatiya…
BNP Standing Committee member retired Brigadier General ASM Hannan Shah secured bail in a case, while Swechhasebak Dal General Secretary Sarafat Ali Sapu and its Organising Secretary Shafiul Bari Babu obtained bail in another case on Tuesday.
Dhaka – Designated prosecutor Rana Dasgupta on Tuesday pleaded before the International Crimes Tribunal-2 for indicting accused Syed Mohammad Qaiser, a former junior minister during Gen (retd) HM Ershad’s rule, on charges of crimes against humanity including genocide, during the…
Dhaka on Tuesday strongly protested the resolution adopted by Pakistan National Assembly (NA) expressing its concern over war criminal Abdul Quader Mollah’s execution reminding them that the matter is absolutely Bangladesh’s internal affair.
The Anti-Corruption Commission on Tuesday filed a case against BNP standing committee member Barrister Moudud Ahmed for illegally grabbing a government-owned house valued Tk 300 crore. Manjur Ahmed, bother of Moudud Ahmed, has also been accused in the case.
Dhaka – Finance Minister AMA Muhith on Tuesday said the United States is awaiting an official explanation from the Bangladesh government on the way the January 5 elections are going to be held next year.
Police on Tuesday foiled Jatiya Party’s scheduled demonstration programme in the city demanding the release of its chairman Hussain Mohammad Ershad from the Combined Military Hospital (MH) in Dhaka Cantonment. Party presidium member Kazi Firoz Rashid tried to bring out…
Dhaka – The first day of the fresh 72-hour nationwide road-rail-waterway blockade, enforced by the BNP-led 18-party alliance, was marked by stray incidents of violence at different parts of the country on Tuesday, leaving two people dead in Satkhira and…
Dhaka – Calling upon the government to halt the January-5 ‘farcical election’ process, opposition BNP on Tuesday said an opportunity is still there for announcing a fresh election schedule through talks and compromise.
Police have arrested four activists of Jamaat-e-Islami on charges of killing five people following an attack on the convoy of ruling party MP Asaduzzaman Nur in Nilphamari.
The US believes the dialogue the Awami League and BNP is still open to find a way to hold credible elections even as it is assessing the current political situation.
The New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) has urged the Bangladesh government to publicly order security forces to avoid using lethal or excessive force when dealing with protesters.
Some 289 feature films are eligible for the 2013 best picture Oscar, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (Ampas) has said.
A batch of new films made in Israel and Palestine seek to cross the cultural divide, both on screen and off.
The tourists were beaten by 150 runs as Australia took a 3-0 lead in the series with two matches still to play.
Robert J. Burrowes Critiques of the mainstream (allopathic) medical industry have long drawn attention to its death-dealing: See, for example, ‘Medical Nemesis: The Expropriation of Health’ and ‘When Doctors Strike, Fewer People Die’. In fact, according to one heavily-researched report,…
Police recovered the bodies of two local BNP activists from Battali area of Sadar upazila of the district on Tuesday morning.
A college girl was killed in a road accident in Hajir Morh area in Chirirbandar upazila of the district on Monday.
Vice Chancellor of Begum Rokeya University, Rangpur (BRUR) Professor Dr AKM Nurun Nabi has called upon the young generations to take the responsibility for national development with due patriotic zeal.
The Victory Day-2013 was observed amid huge enthusiasm and jubilations here yesterday with a fresh call for building a Sonar Bangla as dreamt by Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
The auspicious Victory Day-2013 was celebrated in the city as well as different parts of the district on Monday with the call for completing the trial of the rest war criminals in line with the spirit of victory day.
The 43rd Victory Day was celebrated here yesterday across the district through various programmes with a renewed pledge to make the country prosperous and with the call to execute the verdicts against the rest war criminals.
A tablet costing £30 has gone on sale in the UK.
By Simon Redfern Scientists from the University of Lyon have discovered a new way to split hydrogen gas from water, using rocks.
By James Gallagher The number of people being diagnosed with cancer in the world each year has leaped to more than 14 million, the World Health Organization says.