A new paper traces the roots of agricultural biodiversity, threats, benefits and how to sustain it. Agricultural biodiversity is the product of the dynamic management of species and ecosystems, especially by smaller-scale food providers, their families and communities, who have…
By Chris Hedges The American empire is coming to an end. The U.S. economy is being drained by wars in the Middle East and vast military expansion around the globe. It is burdened by growing deficits, along with the devastating…
Dhaka – The Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) Court of Dhaka on Sunday deferred the date for submission of the investigation report in the case lodged against 14 persons including BNP Chief Begum Khaleda Zia for a bomb attack on a…
The heir to the throne in Saudi Arabia has consolidated his hold on power with a major purge of the kingdom’s political and business leadership.
BNP senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi on Sunday said the recent activities of Law Minister Anisul Huq indicate that he thinks himself as the ‘country’s chief justice or more than that’. “It’s surprising that the Law Minister is…
BNP senior leader Gayeshwar Chandra Roy on Sunday said Awami League will boycott the next general election if there is a minimum scope of credible balloting. Speaking at a discussion, he also said Jamaat emerged in Bangladesh politics during HM…
Attorney General Mahbubey Alam on Sunday reiterated that it is highly unlikely for Chief Justice SK Sinha to rejoin office as the other Appellate Division judges refused to sit with him.
Saudi Arabia has arrested dozens of princes and former government ministers, including a well-known billionaire with extensive holdings in Western companies, as part of a sweeping anti-corruption probe, further cementing King Salman and his crown prince son’s control of the…
Dhaka – Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is expected to officially inaugurate the 63rd Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA) Conference on Sunday at the South Plaza of the Jatiya Sangsad (Bangladesh Parliament).
Mymensingh – Members of the Bangladesh Chattra League (BCL), ruling party of Awami League’s BAU Chapter have beat up a boy suspecting him to be an Islami Chhatra Shibir activist at university first gate area.
BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Saturday alleged the government is abusing its power for accelerating the hearing on the cases filed against their party Chairperson Khaleda Zia. “The dates are being fixed every week for hearing on…
By International Organization for Migration Geneva, Nov 3 (IOM) – IOM, the UN Migration Agency, reports that 150,982 migrants and refugees entered Europe by sea in 2017 through 1 November, with about 75 percent arriving in Italy and the remainder…
By Pascal Laureyn Yangon, Oct 24 (IPS) – In a quiet street, the sound of children’s voices can be heard from an open window. They are reciting verses of the Koran in unison. The small Islamic school lays hidden in…
The French Pacific territory of New Caledonia will hold a referendum on self-rule next year, under a deal reached with the French government. New Caledonian leaders held nine hours of talks with French ministers in Paris on Thursday. The political…
US President Donald Trump has embarked on an 11-day trip to Asia during which he will visit Japan, South Korea, China, Vietnam and the Philippines. It will be the longest tour of Asia by a US president in 25 years.…
UK Labour MP Clive Lewis has “completely” denied an allegation that he groped a woman at the party’s annual conference. The Labour Party is investigating after a formal complaint was made against the Norwich South MP on Friday. The former…
The BNP has sent a letter to the administration asking for permission to hold a rally at Dhaka’s Suhrawardy Udyan on Nov 8. The party wishes to hold the rally to commemorate ‘National Revolution and Solidarity Day’, which it observes…
Former President Abdur Rahman Biswas passed away at a city hospital on Friday night. He was 91. Abdur Rahman, who had long been suffering from old-age complications, breathed his last at United Hospital around 8:40pm, said BNP chairperson’s media wing…
Awami League leaders at a discussion here today ruled out the possibility of holding any dialogue with BNP, saying the next parliament election will be held under the incumbent government as per the constitution. “Election will be held as per…
Dhaka – Stating that it will not be possible to demoralise their leaders from reaching out to people by making attacks on their motorcades, BNP senior leader Moudud Ahmed on Friday hinted that their chairperson Khaleda Zia will embark on…
The nation observed the Jail Killing Day on Friday with due solemnity commemorating the 1975 killing of four national leaders inside Dhaka Central Jail. On November 3, 1975, the four national leaders and heroes of the country’s Liberation War —…
Dhaka, Nov 3 – Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Friday paid tributes to Father of Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and four national leaders marking the Jail Killing Day.
Dhaka, Nov 2 – BNP on Thursday took up a 10-day programme to observe the ‘National Revolution and Solidarity Day,’ marking what it said the civil-military ‘uprising on November 7, 1975’.
Dhaka, Nov 3 – BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Thursday visited party’s Gazipur unit leader Humayun Kabir Raju, who was seriously injured during the attacks on Khaleda Zia’s Cox’s Bazar-bound convoy in Feni, at a hospital in…
Dhaka, Nov 02 – Police recovered some 90 crude bombs from a three-storied house in Kharki area in the Jessore district town on Thursday night.
Dhaka, Nov 3– The nation is observing the Jail Killing Day on Friday with due solemnity commemorating the 1975 killing of four national leaders inside Dhaka Central Jail.
Dhaka – BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia on Thursday alleged that the ruling quarters have prepared a blue-print to remove her from the political arena and make her disqualified to contest polls out of evil political agenda.
Nineteen leaders and activists of BNP were arrested in two cases filed by police over two incidents of attacks on Dhaka-Chittagong highway while party chief Khaleda Zia was heading to Cox’s Bazar and returning to Dhaka. Of the arrestees, 13…
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has taken the 30th position on the list of 100 most powerful women in the world this year. Forbes’ another list of the ‘World’s 22 Most Powerful Women in Politics’, Sheikh Hasina reserved the 9th rank…
Yangon, Nov 2 (AP/UNB) – Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi visited the conflict-torn area of northern Rakhine state for the first time Thursday, as her government said a repatriation plan for the hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims who’ve…