Park City, Jan 27 (AP/UNB) —Michael Jackson’s estate is blasting a documentary that tells the stories of two men who accuse Michael Jackson of sexually molesting them when they were young boys, calling the film “tabloid character assassination.” A statement…
Paris, Jan 27 (AP/UNB) — Oscar-winning composer and pianist Michel Legrand, whose hits included the score for the ’60s romance “The Umbrellas of Cherbourg” and the song “The Windmills of Your Mind” and who worked with some of biggest singers…
Brazil, Jan 27 (AP/UNB) — Hope that loved ones had survived a tsunami of iron ore mine waste from a dam collapse in Brazil was turning to anguish and anger over the increasing likelihood that many of the hundreds of people…
Beirut, Jan 27 (AP/UNB) — The head of the militant Hezbollah group in Lebanon warned Israel late Saturday over its continued attacks in Syria, saying a miscalculation could drag the region into a war. Hassan Nasrallah made the comment during…
Chattogram, Jan 27 (UNB) – President of North District Awami League unit of the port city Nurul Alam Chowdhury passed away early Sunday. He was 74. Nurul Alam, also a freedom fighter, was admitted to Park View Hospital in the…
Police recovered the bodies of a young couple with slashed throat from a house in Khatamadhupur of Saidpur upazila in Nilphamari on Sunday morning, reports UNB.The deceased are Nazrul, 32, and his wife Amena, 22, of the area. Locals spotted…
Kushtia, Jan 26 (UNB) – Syed Saimun Kanak, a central leader of Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal (JSD), was trampled to death by a wild elephant in Darjeeling, India on Friday. Quoting Kanak’s wife Mala Saimun, Kushtia district unit Jasad president Golam…
London, Jan 26 (AP/UNB) — Queen Elizabeth II has urged people to seek “common ground,” in remarks widely interpreted as a veiled criticism of the toxic debate surrounding Britain’s departure from the European Union. While the monarch didn’t mention Brexit…
Dhaka, Jan 26 (UNB) – The Khirsapat mango of Chapainawabganj, popularly known as Himsagar, has got the Geographical Indication (GI) tag as third Bangladeshi product after Hilsa and Jamdani. The development comes after the Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute applied for…
Dhaka, Jan 26 (UNB) – President of Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) Oli Ahmed on Saturday warned that BNP’s elected MPs will be treated as frauds if they join the 11th parliament. “We’ve turned down the election. We hope BNP’s elected…
Dhaka, Jan 26 (UNB) – BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Saturday said Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s address to the nation has manifested her ‘guilty conscience’ as she tried to justify her party’s victory and Oikyafront’s defeat. Talking…
Dhaka, Jan 26 (UNB) – Bangladesh has said big emitters must go for rapid mitigation of GHGs apart from providing financial resources and ensuring technology transfer to the vulnerable countries for their adaptation efforts. “This would be the most effective…
Dhaka, Jan 26 (UNB) – The government will provide Tk 1,00,000 to each families of the brick kiln workers who were killed when a coal-laden truck overturned at Chouddagram upazila in Cumilla on Friday. Besides, the families of the injured…
Dhaka, Jan 26 (UNB) – Former Rajshahi University student Shariful Islam alias Khalid was involved in Dr Rezaul Karim’s killing and was a key planner of Gulshan attack, Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) said on Saturday. Khalid, a suspected member of…
Dhaka, Jan 26 (UNB) – Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has invited Jatiya Oikyafront senior leaders to exchange greetings at Ganobhaban over tea on February 2. Separate invitation cards were sent to all the steering committee members of the alliance from…
Bagerhat, Jan 26 (UNB) – Silver Discoverer, a cruise ship operated by Silver Sea Cruise, will reach the Mongla port here on Sunday with 53 tourists from five different countries to visit the Sundarbans, a Unesco world heritage site. They…
Sao Paulo, Jan 26 (AP/UNB) — A dam that held back mining waste collapsed Friday in Brazil, inundating a nearby community in reddish-brown sludge, killing at least seven people and leaving scores of others missing. Parts of the city of…
NEW DELHI, Jan 23 2019 (IPS) – As I was attending the 24th Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change—to create a rulebook to operationalise the Paris Agreement—in Katowice, Poland, it dawned on me, like…
UNITED NATIONS, Jan 25 2019 (IPS) – Paradoxically, the world’s most populated countries are facing a population crisis: a woman shortage. And it’s women who are paying a brutal price for it. According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), the…
CARACAS, Jan 25 2019 (IPS) – Venezuela entered a new and astonishing arena of political confrontation, with two presidents, Nicolás Maduro and Juan Guaidó, leading the forces vying for power, while Venezuelans once again are taking to the streets to…
Dhaka, Jan 25 – The BNP yesterday brought out a sudden procession in the city demanding the release of jailed chairperson Khaleda Zia, who is serving her 17-year imprisonment in two cases since February 8 last year.The procession led by…
Dhaka, Jan 25 – A total of 7,221 people were killed and 15,466 others injured in at least 5,514 road accidents across Bangladesh in 2018. Of the injured, 1,722 people survived with permanent disability.Bangladesh Jatri Kalyan Samity, a platform working…
Narayanganj, Jan 25 (UNB) – Three young men died reportedly after taking excessive liquor during a pre-wedding party at Siddhirganj on Friday noon. The deceased were identified as Ashique Hossain, 20, son of Abul Hossain and two brothers –Akib Uddin,…
Dhaka, Jan 25 (UNB) – Awami League (AL) Advisory Council member Tofail Ahmed on Friday gave emphasis on holding elections to the students union of all the universities and colleges of the country. Tofail, a former vice-president of Dhaka University…
Narail, Jan 25 (UNB) – Eight members of a family sustained burn injuries in a fire that broke out from a gas cylinder at their house of Sadhukhali village in Sadar upazila on Friday noon. The injured are Abdul Fakir…
Dhaka, Jan 25 (UNB) – Stressing the need for a national unity forgetting all the differences to take the country forward, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Friday said her government will root out corruption from the country through strict enforcement…
When the International Labour Organization (ILO) was founded 100 years ago in the aftermath of the first world war, governments, employers and workers came together convinced that lasting peace and stability depended on social justice. This is still true and, given the…
Gazipur, Jan 25 (UNB) – Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader on Friday urged the registered political parties to join all the upcoming elections including the upazila-level one. The Minister came up with the call while talking to reporters…
Chapainawabganj, Jan 25 (UNB) – Members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) arrested a suspected member of banned militant outfit Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) who is a charge-sheeted accused in the Holey Artisan Bakery attack case from Nachole upazila of the…
Dhaka, Jan 25 (UNB) – BNP has decided not to participate in the upcoming upazila election and the by-polls to the vacant mayoral post of Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC). BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir disclosed the decision…