South Asia Alliance for Poverty Eradication (SAAPE) has launched its fifth triennial Poverty Report in Colombo, Sri Lanka on 10 March, 2017 at the Women’s Education and Research Centre. Dinushika Dissanayake, Executive Director of Law & Society Trust (LST), Colombo,…
Dhaka, Mar 14 – A young man was beaten to death allegedly by a stalker at Paschim Sonabaji in Nawabganj upazila Dhaka on Monday night as he reportedly protested the harassment of his niece.
New York, Mar 14 (AP/UNB) — A powerful nor’easter is beginning to lash the mid-Atlantic and the Northeast prompting flight cancellations, school closures and warnings from New York city and state officials to stay off the roads.
Dhaka, Mar 13 – A so-called Pir and his adopted daughter were shot to death and slaughtered by unidentified miscreants at Hatrampur in Bochaganj upazila -of Dinajpur on Monday evening.
Dhaka – The High Court yesterday asked authorities concerned of Viqarunnisa Noon School and College in Dhaka not to collect extra tuition fees from its students for the next one year.
To stay or to go. It’s a wrenching question low-lying coastal communities around the world are beginning to reckon with as climate change starts to push up global sea levels. But it’s not just happening in far-away places like Bangladesh…
Dhaka – The TIB official claimed the whole process had been ‘ controlled by a number of syndicates’ with links to the ministry, visa offices, migration authorities and officials of the destination countries.
Ran Zilca We spend most of our adult waking hours working. Half of Americans continue to work when they reach their mid-sixties, and, according to a 2015 Gallup survey, full-time American employees work an average of 47 hours a week.…
Here are the 12 best career lessons everyone should take to heart early in their careers. By Lolly Daskal President and CEO, Lead From Within If there’s one thing we all have in common, it’s that we all make mistakes…
Bangladesh need 390 runs on the final day on Saturday with all the 10 wickets in hand to register their record maiden Test victory against Sri Lanka in the first Test of Joy Bangla Cup series at Galle International Stadium.…
Leaked emails reveal Nigel Farage, who led the push for Brexit and now serves as an “unofficial adviser” to President Donald Trump, has longstanding ties to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Farage visited the Ecuadorian embassy Thursday where Assange has sought…
Friends of the Earth has slammed Tuesday’s budget after the Chancellor failed to tackle the UK’s air pollution crisis, which leads to tens of thousands of premature deaths every year. Mr Hammond also signalled the UK’s continuing addiction to climate-wrecking…
Dhaka – On the occasion of World Women Day, national carrier Biman Bangladesh Airlines on Wednesday operated a special ‘all women flight’-BG-603 in Dhaka to Sylhet route.
A speedy tribunal here on Wednesday sentenced five people to death and four others, including two women, to different jail terms for killing former tax commissioner Abu Taher in 2015. The condemned convicts are — Mohammad Nasir, son of Rustom…
Women’s work remains unaccounted for even though the issue of unpaid work carried out by women is being discussed globally at the policy, academic as well as practitioners’ levels. Defined as “unpaid care work,” this includes taking care of children,…
Dhaka, Mar 8 – Three motorcyclists were killed as a vehicle crashed on a motorbike carrying them at Rampura on Dhaka-Sylhet highway in Bijoynagar upazila of Brahmanbaria on Tuesday night.
Dhaka, Mar 8 – A suspected robber was killed and two detective policemen suffered bullet wounds in a ‘gunfight’ with with detective police at Loribagh in Burichang upazila of Comilla early Wednesday.
Dhaka – Though the government earlier several times said it would take action against the private universities this month that failed to shift to its permanent campuses but now reverted that they would do it after taking the reports of…
Dhaka – The Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) Court of Dhaka on Tuesday placed BNP Joint Secretary General Habib-un- Nabi Khan Sohel on remand for a day in bomb explosion case.
Terming the Myanmar refugee crisis a big problem, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday urged the Indonesian government to play a role in repatriating the Myanmar refugees from Bangladesh. “The Myanmar refugee issue is a big problem for Bangladesh and…
A US Navy ship was forced to change course when fast-moving Iranian vessels approached it in the Strait of Hormuz, US officials say. The USNS Invincible changed direction when the other vessels came within 600 yards (550m) before stopping. Three…
Washington (CNN) US President Donald Trump signed a new executive order Monday that bans immigration from six Muslim-majority countries, dropping Iraq from January’s previous order, and reinstates a temporary blanket ban on all refugees. The new travel ban comes six…
Washington: The US has assured India that the H-1B visas issue was not a priority for it and would be part of the larger immigration reforms package that the new Trump administration is working on. The assurance came amid an…
Rajshahi – The Country director of British Council in Bangladesh Barbar Wickman called on RU VC Professor Muhamamd Mizanuddin at the latter’s office in the university on Monday.
FBI director James Comey has rejected Donald Trump’s claim that his predecessor, Barack Obama, ordered a wiretap of his phone before he was elected US president, US media say. Mr Comey reportedly asked the US justice department (DOJ) to publicly…
Dhaka, Mar 6 – A worker was killed and 15 others were injured as a crane of an under-construction bridge over the Paira River collapsed in Dumki upazila of Patuakhalion Monday morning.
Dhaka – The newest power unit no. 1 of Novovoronezh NPP-2 (power unit no. 6 of Novovoronezh NPP) with 3+ generation VVER-1200 reactor has been put into commercial operation on February 27, 2017. This is the reference project of the…
Mymensingh – Students of a male residential hall of Bangladesh Agricultural University (BAU) in Mymensingh yesterday staged demonstration on the campus due to lack of water supply in their hall.
Dhaka -The United Kingdom always wants to see free and fair general elections in Bangladesh. The visiting UK minister for Asia Pacific Alok Sharma said this during his meeting with BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia at letter’s Gulshan office in the…
Dhaka – The BNP will take part in the next general polls only after establishing a neutral election-time government, says BNP standing committee member Dr Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain.