BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Thursday said their party will decide whether it will announce any action programme against Rampal power plant after assessing the government’s attitude and responding to their demand for scrapping it.He also said…
Italy (AP/UNB) — Rescue crews using bulldozers and their bare hands raced to dig out survivors from a strong earthquake that reduced three central Italian towns to rubble Wednesday. The death toll stood at 247, but the number of dead…
Dhaka – Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday said BNP is planning to divert the country to another direction by including war criminals and their children into its new central committee, UNB news agency reported. “BNP has recently formed a…
Dhaka-BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia yesterday demanded of the government to cancel the coal-fired Rampal power plant for the sake of the country’s ecological balance and natural beauty.
Amatrice (AP/UNB) — A strong earthquake rocked central Italy early Wednesday, collapsing homes on top of residents as they slept. At least 73 people were reported dead in two hard-hit towns where rescue crews raced to dig out survivors from…
Dhaka – US Secretary of State John Kerry is scheduled to arrive in Dhaka on a brief one-day visit on August 29 to discuss bilateral issues with his Bangladesh counterpart, UNB news agency has reported. However, there is no official…
The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (Ecnec) on Tuesday approved a project for water preservation and safe water supply’ with an estimated cost of Tk 374.51 crore, aiming to reduce dependence on groundwater for safe water supply.The approval…
Fire service officials say that the density of gas in the air, leaked from a Diammonium Phosphate (DAP) fertiliser factory in Chittagong has decreased.The gas had spread across to the other bank of the river Karnaphuli after the leak at…
Dhaka – Inland water transport workers all over Bangladesh are on an indefinite strike since Monday night to press home their four-point demand for fixing minimum pay and benifits.
Dhaka – A mild earthquake jolted Dhaka and other districts of Bangladesh on Tuesday morning. The earthquake measuring 5.0 on the Richter scale was felt at 8:11am, Met office sources said.
The Cabinet on Monday approved in principle the draft of ‘The Digital Security Bill, 2016’ with a provision for maximum life term jail and Tk 1 crore fine for carrying out propaganda against the Liberation War and Bangabandhu or patronising…
Chilling footage has emerged purporting to show Kurdish security forces defusing an explosive belt attached to a teenage suicide bomber in the Iraqi city of Kirkuk. The tense moment, captured on camera, showed Kurdish law enforcers arresting a young suicide…
Rio (AP/UNB) — Shaking to samba and sharing reflections in uniquely Brazilian ways, Olympians and fans said goodbye to the Rio Games with one last big bash that was both revelatory and a sigh of relief. The Rio Games, the…
Dhaka – The Supreme Court of Bangladesh has imposed Tk one crore fine for each ofd 10 private medical colleges for admitting students who did not fulfil terms set by the government.
Mohammad Likhon looks furious as he sits in class. The nine-year-old had thought that he would be the first one to answer his teacher’s complex math problem; he had even screamed the solution in one breath: “230 x 7 is…
Authorities evacuated shoppers and staff of the mall after flames erupted on the fifth-floor.
Dhaka – The government has taken a mega plan to conduct 2001 kilometers of river dredging and 690 kilometers of river training at a cost of Tk 956, 834 crore over the next 15 years, UNB news agency reported.
Leaders and activists of different Leftists parties on Friday staged a sit-in programme at the central Shaheed minar premises, demanding cancellation of all kinds of agreements including Rampal power plant project that will cause harm to the Sundarbans.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has recalled that it was the grace of Almighty Allah and people’s good wishes that she narrowly escaped the grisly August 21 attack in 2004.“Grenades were being exploded in all corners at that time. Political leaders…
Beirut – The joint Syrian-Russian military operation has been using incendiary weapons, which burn their victims and start fires, in civilian areas of Syria in violation of international law, Human Rights Watch said today. Incendiary weapons have been used at…
More than half a million people worldwide are likely to die annually by 2050 because of the impact on agriculture of changing climate, according to an Oxford University study on the future of food.The authors say the effects are likely…
The launching of multi-client seismic survey in the Bay within the current year has become uncertain as the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs recently sent back the relevant file to the Energy Ministry for further review of its tender process…
The International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture has tasked a Working Group to develop an effective system for benefit sharing by companies that use crop seeds from the Treaty’s Multilateral System. The current system uses a…
Dhaka-Some 8,99,150 students have passed this year’s Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) and its equivalent examinations showing a pass rate of 74.70 percent, up 5.10 percent than the previous year.
Like many other fast-growing megacities, the Bangladeshi capital of Dhaka faces severe water and sanitation problems, chiefly the annual flooding during monsoon season due to unplanned urbanisation, destruction of wetlands and poor city governance.But experts are warning that if the…
In 1971, then US Secretary of Agriculture Earl Butz uttered these unsympathetic words: “Before we go back to organic agriculture in this country, somebody must decide which 50 million Americans we are going to let starve or go hungry.” Since…
Rio (AP/UNB) — With the fastest goal in Olympic history, Neymar led Brazil back to the gold-medal match. The Barcelona striker scored 15 seconds into the game and converted a penalty kick in second-half injury time Wednesday to lead Brazil…
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Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday asked the authorities concerned to formulate any new township plan keeping in mind the context of at least 20-25 years and the country’s population at that time to ensure smooth development and avert future…
Dhaka-The country’s two major political parties — ruling Awami League (AL) and Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) yesterday submitted their financial reports to the Election Commission (EC).