By Martin Khor Western countries are fond of preaching “free trade” to developing countries, but their own practice is often protectionist instead The Western countries commonly proclaim the great benefits of free trade and the evils of protectionism. In reality,…
The cyclone storm ‘Roanu’ moved northeastwards further and crossed Barisal-Chittagong coast near Chittagong at about 5pm on Saturday and weakened into a land depression by giving precipitation, according to a Met Office bulletin. Dhaka, UNB News Agency Reported.
Search crews found floating human remains, luggage and seats from the doomed EgyptAir jetliner Friday but face a potentially more complex task in locating bigger pieces of wreckage and the black boxes vital to determining why the plane plunged into…
The cyclonic storm ‘Roanu’ over West-central Bay and adjoining area moved slightly north-northeastward further over the same area (near lat 16.40 n & long 82.60e). It was centred at 06:00am about 1205 kms Southwest of Chittagong port, 1180 kms Southwest…
Mohammad Zainal Abedin New York – Mr. Fred P. Hochberg, the Chairman And President of the Export-Import Bank of the United States of America hails Bangladesh for its consecutive growth rate. Hochberg while briefing the journalists at roundtable on ‘U.…
Investigative reporters from Bosnia and Mexico who have exposed financial crimes and misconduct at the highest levels are the winners of the 2016 Knight International Journalism Award, the International Center for Journalists (http://www.icfj.org/) (ICFJ) announced. The award recognizes excellent reporting…
A court here on Monday sent Ahsanullah University of Science and Technology (AUST) teacher Mahfuzur Rashid Ferdous to jail after rejecting his bail petition in a case filed over sexual harassment of female students of the university. Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate…
Washington, D.C.-Today, nearly 3.9 billion people-half of the world’s population-live in urban areas. By 2050 that number is expected to nearly double. According to Can a City Be Sustainable? (State of the World), the latest edition of the annual series…
Dhaka – A new study by icddr,b scientists has shown for the first time that a single dose of the oral cholera vaccine Shanchol is effective in older children and adults in an area where cholera is endemic. These findings…
Alberta premier’s declared Canada’s oil sands city saved and said a plan will be put together within two weeks so 88,000 residents forced to evacuate can return to their homes. At least two neighborhoods in Fort McMurray were scenes of…
N. S. Venkataraman There are many cities in the world that are as big, and have a reputation and great history, as London. The mayors of these cities are elected or appointed at regular intervals and these are rarely reported…
Around 10,000 additional police personnel will be deployed in the capital from 6:00 am on Sunday to maintain law and order during Jamaat-e-Islami’s countrywide 24-hour hartal.
Sunday’s Higher Secondary Certificate and its equivalent examinations have been rescheduled due to a daylong hartal called by Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami. Dhaka, UNB news agency reported.
Polls to Jahangirnagar University Central Student Union (JUCSU) and the Hall Unions have not taken place for 22 long years. According to the JU Ordinance, JUCSU election is supposed to be held every year. JUCSU witnessed a total of nine…
Dhaka – Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Commissioner Asaduzzaman Miah declared on Wednesday that no extra stickers containing phrases like ‘Press’, ‘Police’, ‘DMP’ or ‘Advocate’ credentials can be used in private vehicles from now on. He informed this to reporters during…
Dhaka – The holy Shab-e-Miraj will be observed in the country on Wednesday night with due religious fervour, unb news agency reported. On 27th of Arabic month of Rajab every year, the Muslims observe the Shab-e-Meraj, the night when Prophet…
By Sarah Mimms and Avi Asher-Schapiro After a night out drinking in 2007, Samantha Jackson and her husband returned home and started fooling around. Then she passed out. When Jackson awoke, she realized he was raping her. According to the…
Eight people were killed and 15 others injured in separate road crashes in Cox’s Bazar and Gazipur on Tuesday.
Dhaka – A case has been filed against 18 people in connection with the killing of two people at Rajibpur village in Sadar upazila of Laxmipur district on Friday, unb news agency reported. Abdullah Al Mamun Bhuiyan, officer-in-charge of Sadar…
Yesterday two Bangladeshi LGBTI activists were brutally murdered in a horrifying attack in Dhaka, which also left a policeman and a security guard injured. With the killings of a law student on 6 April and of an English language professor…
Dhaka – An alleged regional leader of the outlawed party Ganobahini was killed in a reported gunfight with police in Housing Mondal Filing Station area of Kushtia district town, northeast of capital Dhaka, early Wednesday, unb news agency reported. The…
Riyadh (AP/UNB) – Saudi Arabia on Monday approved a long-awaited plan laying out reform priorities for the next decade and a half, setting in motion what is likely to be a period of significant economic change in the oil-rich kingdom.…
Food Minister Quamrul Islam on Monday said stern action will be taken against those to be found involved in irregularities in rice and paddy procurement during this Boro season. The Food Minister came up with the warning at a press…
Dhaka – A guard of Kashimpur Jail in Gazipur, north of capital Dhaka, was gunned down by miscreants in front of its jail gate on Monday morning. The deceased was identified as Rustom Ali, 60, a former sergeant instructor of…
Protesting the murder of Professor Rezaul Karim Siddiqi, a teacher of Rajshahi University (RU), all academic activities including classes and exams were suspended at the University as a part of 3 day long strike called by Rajshahi University Teachers Association…
Searchers found a man’s body Wednesday in a landslide-hit area in southern Japan, bringing the death toll to 48 from two powerful earthquakes last week. Three people remain missing. Kumamoto prefecture said that another 11 have died from illnesses believed…
Dhaka – At least 13 people, including two women, were killed and 42 others injured in a head-on collision between two buses at Teromile on the Rangpur-Dinajpur highway in Taraganj upazila on Wednesday morning, unb news agency reported. Ten of…
Manta, Apr 20 – Ecuadorean authorities say the death toll from the weekend earthquake has risen to 507. The Attorney General’s Office says 499 of the dead have been identified so far and returned to loved ones. It says 11…
Pedernales — The strongest earthquake to hit Ecuador in decades flattened buildings and buckled highways along its Pacific coast. President Rafael Correa said at least 272 people had died and rescuers were struggling to reach survivors trapped in the rubble.…
Dhaka –Detectives arrested journalist Shafik Rehman, former editor of the Bangla daily Jaijaidin, from his residence in the city’s Eskaton Garden on Saturday morning, unb news agency reported.