Sunrisers Hyderabad have earned their maiden Indian Premier League title prevailing over Royal Challengers Bangalore by 8 runs in a high-scoring final. Electing to bat first, Hyderabad rode on knocks from skipper David Warner and Yuvraj Singh before a late…
Pozzallo (AP/UNB) — Survivor accounts have pushed to more than 700 the number of migrants feared dead in Mediterranean Sea shipwrecks over three days in the past week, even as European ships saved thousands of others in daring rescue operations.…
Bagerhat – The formal surrender of infamous forest robber gang ‘Master Bahini’ has been postponed due to inclement weather, Unb news agency reported. Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan and Director General of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) Benazir Ahmed were scheduled to…
Dhaka – The High Court on Sunday ordered the authorities concerned to submit probe reports in detail by June 8 in connection with the humiliation of Narayanganj high school headmaster Shyamal Kanti Bhakta for his alleged offensive comments about religion,…
The High Court on Sunday refused to exempt three government officials, including Disaster Management and Relief Secretary Shah Kamal, from appearing in court in person for their failure to procure necessary equipment for operating rescue operations after any earthquake.
BNP senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi on Sunday said people do not trust Prime Minister’s son Sajeeb Wazed Joy’s remark that he never met Israel’s Likud Party leader Mendi N Safadi.
Dhaka-In light of the growing prevalence of natural disasters and increased vulnerability to climate change in South Asia, the European Union Delegation to Nepal hosted a regional conference on disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation on Kathmandu, on May…
Dhaka – Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan on Saturday said the government has taken various measures to face risks of possible disasters, especially earthquake. “The government has taken various initiatives to train up members of Fire Service and Civil Defence aiming…
Dhaka – Green activists here on Saturday demanded immediate cancellation of the plots allocated for tanners as they failed to relocate their factories from Hazaribagh to Savar within the stipulated time, Unb news agency reported. They also demanded penalising the…
Dhaka – Several spells of rain in the morning and evening walloped the city life again on Saturday just like the last couple of days as many roads and lanes remained flooded with knee-deep water for several hours, causing immense…
Hiroshima (AP/UNB) — Barack Obama on Friday paid tribute to the 140,000 people killed by the world’s first atomic bomb attack and sought to bring global attention to his unfulfilled vision of a world without nuclear weapons, as he became…
Rome (AP/UNB) — More than 4,000 would-be refugees were rescued at sea Thursday in one of the busiest days of the Mediterranean migrant crisis, and at least 20 died trying to reach Europe as Libyan-based smugglers took advantage of calmer…
By Lyndal Rowlands UN, (IPS) – Putting economic interests over public health is leading the world towards three slow-motion health disasters, Margaret Chan, Director-General of the World Health Organization’s warned the world’s health ministers on Monday. Changes in the world’s…
By Baher Kamal Istanbul, (IPS) – The World Humanitarian Summit (WHS) held in Istanbul on May 23-24, managed to send a strong wake-up call to the world about the unprecedented human suffering now in course, but failed to achieve the…
MP Salim Osman has said he will ‘never apologise’ to the school teacher he had harassed in his Narayanganj constituency. Shyamal Kanti Bhakta, who was beaten and made to do sit-ups holding his ears on flimsy accusations that he had…
Dhaka-The adverse effect of global warming in the Hindu Kush Himalayan (HKH) region will pose a severe threat to the downstream countries like Bangladesh in the days to come, according to experts.
Dhaka – Chief Justice SK Sinha on Wednesday said democracy is meaningless if the freedom of speech and press is not ensured, Unb news agency reported. He came up with the observation while addressing as the chief guest a programme…
Narayanganj – Miscreants stormed into a mosque and hacked its sleeping muezzin in the city early Wednesday.The injured — Md Ibrahim, 45, muezzin of Nur Mosque adjacent to Narayanganj Club at Bangabandhu Road and son of late Azizullah of Gobindapur…
Dhaka – The High Court (HC) on Wednesday ordered compensation and immediate release of a man on the ground that he was “wrongly convicted” 15 years ago. Court officials said the single-judge bench of Justice AFM Abdur Rahman overturned the…
Dhaka -The Supreme Court pn Tuesday turned down the appeal of the State against a High Court verdict against making arrests under Sections 54 and 167 of the Criminal Procedure Code, and against quzzing one without informing victims lawyer and…
Dhaka – The High Court on Tuesday asked why a man detained for 13 years after his acquittal by court shall not be paid Tk 2 million in compensation as the detention ‘has violated his fundament rights’. The bench of…
A Dhaka court on Tuesday sentenced three people, including an ex-assistant general manager of Sonali Bank, to life term imprisonment in a Tk 2.22 crore Hall Mark loan scam case. The convicts are assistant general manager of Ruposhi Bangla Hotel…
Nurjahan Begum, the first woman journalist in the subcontinent and the editor of the first women’s magazine the ‘Begum’ and the promotor of women renaissance, died in the capital on Monday. She was 91. She breathed her last at the…
Dhaka – BNP standing committee member Gayeshwar Chandra Roy on Monday apprehended that there is a chance of creating another 1/11 episode and politicians may land in jail all together in the near future. “The way the ruling Awami League…
Dhaka – First of its kind-a Plagiarism Detection Software (PDS) developed under a Higher Education Quality Enhancement Project (HEQEP) Sub-project CP 3655 of the University Grants Commission (UGC) was formally launched at Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University (SAU), Dhaka on Saturday.
Dhaka-BNP standing committee member Gayeshwar Chandra Roy yesterday apprehended that there is a chance of creating another 1/11 episode and politicians may land in jail altogether in the near future.
Dhaka – Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali on Sunday said local outfits, including Jamaat-e-Islami and Jammat-ul-Mujahidin (JMB) were involved in the recent killings in Bangladesh and regretted that BNP was unfortunately giving shelter and support to them, unb news agency…
Dhaka – Two mayors of the bifurcated Dhaka City Corporation think lack of coordination among various service-providing agencies and political clouts have made their job to improve living in the capital, report unb staff writers M Jahangir Alam & Maksud-Ul-Islam…
Stating that people of no religion are now safe under the current government, BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia on Saturday night alleged that the real perpetrators of the recent secret killings remained untouched as they belong to the ruling party. “No…
Dhaka – Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal on Saturday said inactive members of different militant groups are trying to be reorganised to carry out subversive acts, aiming to thwart the trial of war criminals, unb news agency reported. “They (militants)…