The use of air conditioning may rise dramatically by the end of the century, requiring far more electricity and sending pollutants into the atmosphere at unprecedented rates, researchers warned Monday. Refrigerators and air conditioners release hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), which can be…
Meenakshi Ganguly I reached Nagapattinam in Tamil Nadu state a few days after the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami had killed nearly 300,000 people in south and southeast Asia, including more than 10,000 in India. The disaster had shocked the world,…
Eleven marble plates broken open at the tomb of Bnp’s founder and late President Ziaur Rahman have been repaired by the Department of Housing and Public works on late Thursday. Unidentified miscreants had partially damaged the surrounding design of the…
Terming the Tuesday’s city polls farce, Adarsha Dhaka Andolon, a pro BNP group on Wednesday demanded thaka he cancellation of city polls in Dhaka and Chittagong and resignation of Election Commisison. Prof Emaj Uddin Ahmed, convenor of the organisation made…
A registered election observer from Mass Line Media Centre, a local NGO that has been engaged in observing elections since 2003, was forced to leave a polling centre at gunpoint, as ‘ruling party men’ engaged in acts of rigging. The…
By Sally Hayden The rapidly escalating toll of people killed in Nepal’s earthquake could reach 10,000 — as rescuers run out of the time still needed to discover possible survivors of Saturday’s disaster. Prime Minister Sushil Koirala voiced the estimate…
The High Court on Monday deferred till May 4 the hearing on bail pleas of BNP-backed Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) mayoral candidate Mirza Abbas in three cases. Two separate HC benches passed the order following time petitions moved by…
Fears expressed about a possible fall in the number of Royal Bengal Tigers in the Bangladesh part of the Sunderbans has come as an alarm to environmentalists and wildlife experts in Bangladesh. Officials of a Bangladesh-India tiger census in the…
Bikalpa Dhara Bangladesh (BDB)-supported mayoral candidate for Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) polls Mahi B Chowdhury came under an attack by miscreants in Sat Rasta area of Tejgaon in the city early Sunday.
Renewing its demand for army deployment during the city polls, BNP on Saturday warned the Election Commission that it will have to face trial in people’s court if it fails to hold the city polls in a free and fair…
Malaysia, Thailand, Bangladesh and Myanmar must do more to protect vulnerable refugees – particularly Myanmar’s stateless Rohingya Muslims – from being victimised by human traffickers, says Fortify Rights, a U.S.-based human rights advocacy group. A year-long investigation by the grop…
A case and a counter-case were filed on Thursday in connection with Wednesday’s attack on BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s motorcade in the city’s Banglamotor area that left 10 people injured. BNP chairperson Khaleda’s adviser Abdul Quayum filed a case against…
Convenor of pro-BNP group of intellectuals, Adarsha Dhaka Andolon, Prof Dr Emajuddin Ahmed on Wednesday said that the ruling Awami League would have been happier if Khaleda Zia decided not to contest the city polls of April 28. Addressing a…
The BNP on Tuesday briefed the diplomats of 16 countries and the EU stationed in Dhaka about Monday’s attack on its chairperson Khaleda Zia’s motorcade in the city’s Karwanbazar area during her electioneering. A four-member delegation of BNP, led by…
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party had called hartal across the country, except Dhaka and Chittagong cities, on Wednesday and demonstration on Tuesday protesting Monday’s attack on Khaleda and her motorcade when she was addressing a campaign rally at Karwan Bazar in…
The Bnp on Sunday demanded the government to stop all recruitment, allocation of shops and carry out development projects in the bifurcated city corporations of Dhaka till April 28 mayoral polls. “The government has become active in “April final” with…
Twenty more Bangladeshi students will be awarded scholarships this year to study nuclear energy at under graduate and post-graduate levels in different academic facilities in Russia, which are members of Rosatom’s consortium of core higher educational institutions. Scholarship will be…
Meanwhile, addressing a view exchange meeting with BNP-backed mayoral and councillor candidates of Dhaka North City Corporation, party standing committee member Barrister Moudud Ahmed yesterday said that the forthcoming city poll is an “acid test” for both the government and…
Central leaders of Nagorik Oikya on Thursday complained that their leader Mahmudur Rahman Manna has been taken away from the Heart Institute Hospital before completion of the treatment and even before doing the medical tests for his ailment. Addressing a…
Five persons, including two women, were killed and seven others injured when a truck ran over a passenger 3-wheeler at Bashtola area on the Barisal-Dhaka highway on Thursday morning. Sources said the accident occurred at 9 am when a goods…
A Dhaka court on Wednesday granted more time to the Investigation Officer (IO) of Rana Plaza building collapse in Savar to submit the report. Dhaka’s Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate Kazi Shahidul Islam granted Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Bijay Krishna…
International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol) has reportedly issued a red alert notice on Bangladesh Nationalist Party senior vice chairman, Tarique Rahman, on charge of ‘murder and explosion of hand grenade in the Awami League meeting on August 21′ in 2004.…
The Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) Court of Dhaka on Monday transferred the case against cricketer Rubel Hossain on the charge of raping actress Naznin Akhter Happy to the Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal-5 of Dhaka. Judge Ataul Haque of…
Prime Minister and Awami League president Sheikh Hasina and Bnp chairperson Khaleda Zia on Sunday exchanged Pahela Boishakh greetings marking the Bangla New Year 1422 on Tuesday.
Shamya Dasgupta, Wisden India Bangladesh had a more than satisfactory 2015 World Cup, knocking England out to make the quarter-finals, where they fought for a while before falling away in the face of the collective muscle of the Indians. Shakib…
President of the Jatiya Sanajtantrik Dal ASM Abdur Rob said on Friday that Awami Leaguers would never be able to become democrats just as Razakars cannot become Freedom Fighters. Addressing a discussion meeting on recent politics and the freeing Mahmudur…
Former Awami League MP Sarah Begum Kabari has quit the race for Dhaka North City Corporation mayor. BNP leader Abdus Salam, mayor candidate for Dhaka South, also pulled out on Thursday, the last day for withdrawing nomination.
British High Commissioner to Bangladesh Robert W Gibson yesterday welcomed BNP’s decision to endorse candidates for the forthcoming City Corporation Elections allowing the electorate a real democratic choice, and hoped that the campaign would be conducted without violence.
A Dhaka court on Tuesday rejected bail pleas of Nagorik Oikya Convener Mahmudur Rahman Manna’s in two cases filed for sedition and inciting the army. Metropolitan Sessions Judge Mohammad Kamrul Hossain Molla rejected the bail plea after hearing. On March…
Jamaat-e-Islami on Monday called a two-day countrywide hartal from Tuesday morning protesting what it said the government conspiracy to kill party senior assistant secretary general Muhammad Kamaruzzaman and demanding his immediate release. Acting ameer of Jamaat Maqbul Ahmad announced the…