Environment and Forest Minister Anwar Hossain has called upon the global community, particularly the developed countries, to take the lead in enabling the most climate vulnerable countries like Bangladesh to carry forward the activities on adaptation and mitigation. The minister...
A Jatiya Sangsad (JS) panel has recommended engaging the army in constructing a number of government buildings in Dhaka city. That has fuelled criticism that Bangladesh’s armed forces were turning ‘corporate’. A big difference of amounts quoted money by two...
The authorities have backpedalled on its decision to use chemicals to contain the oil that has spread over 34,000 hectares of area in Shela River in Sundrabans East Zone endangering ecology of the world’s largest mangrove forest. Now they have...
Oil spill from sunken tanker ‘OT Southern Star 7’ in Sundarbans has affected 7 young crocodiles at Karamjal Wildlife Reproduction Centre. Environmental experts and forest officials had feared negative effects after the oil tanker carrying over 350,000 litres of furnace...
At least three people, including a university student, were killed and 10 others injured when a truck rammed a human hauler in Chougaccha Upazila in Jessore district on Friday. The deceased were identified as Abu Hanif, 26, a student of...
Four people were injured when a train slammed into a human hauler at a level crossing in Kaliakoir Upazila in Gazipur district on Friday. The identities of the victims could not be known. Police said the Khulna-bound ‘Sundarban Express’ train...
A man was killed in a road accident in Motijheel area in Dhaka city on Friday. The deceased was identified as Akbar Ali, 35, son of Mansur Ali. He was a driver of a vehicle owned by a cosmetics manufacturing...
Movement of ferries in Shimulia-Kewrakandi route in Padma River resumed on Friday morning after 9-hour’s of suspension due to dense fog in the important waterways since Thursday night. Shekhar Chandra Roy, assistant manager of Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Corporation (BIWTC)...
Some miscreants strangulated to death a woman and dumped her body in a secluded place in Khilkhet in Dhaka at sometimes between Thursday night and early Friday. The victim could not be identified. Locals found the body, aged around 23,...
An accident involving two tractors and a bus on Bangabandhu (Jamuna) Bridge early Friday led to tailbacks on both ends of Jamuna River. Locals and affected passengers said the situation normalised around 12noon. The driver of one of the tractors...
Experts have warned that a massive oil spill triggered by Tuesday’s oil tanker capsize in Shela River in Chandpai Range have seriously threaten the Irrawaddy dolphins in the Sundarbans. The mangrove delta is home of this increasingly endangered species that...
Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) personnel rescued 19 Bangladesh nationals while they were being trafficked to India through Satkhira’s Gazipur frontier on Friday. The rescued people hail from different upazilas of Sunamganj, Gazipur, Mymensingh and Thakungoan districts. Tipped off, a BGB...
A demonstration was staged in the city's Topkhana Road on Friday protesting the authorities’ decision to allow merchant ships and cargo vessels pass through different rivers and channels of the Sundarbans. The National Committee for the Protection of the Sundarbans...
The CBI on Friday arrested West Bengal’s Transport Minister and Trinamool Congress leader Madan Mitra in connection with the multi-million rupee Saradha chit fund scam. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) also arrested Naresh Balodia, the legal advisor of Saradha...
CIA Director John Brennan has said that some agency officers used "abhorrent" methods on detainees captured following the Sep 11 attacks and said it was "unknowable" whether harsh interrogation techniques yielded useful intelligence. With his agency under fire in the...
Local fishermen and villagers have begun mopping up oil from a spill caused by the Sundarbans tanker mishap with pots, pans and sacks riding on engine-driven boats on Shela River. State-owned institution Padma Oil Company Limited contractors are buying it...
Brent crude oil slipped Friday to below $63 a barrel, its lowest since July 2009, on persistent concerns over a global supply glut and a sluggish demand outlook. Brent is down roughly 9 per cent this week, some 45 per...
A student of Jessore University of Science and Technology (JUST) and three others have died in a road accident, triggering violent clashes between agitated university students and transport workers. At least 10 others, including another JUST student, were injured in...
A Bangladeshi-origin Muslim mother has been jailed by a London court for more than five years for promoting terrorism on Facebook. Runa Khan, a mother of six from Luton, north of London, admitted to four counts of distributing terrorist publications...
The 134th birth anniversary of veteran politician Moulana Abdul Hamid Khan Bhasani was observed Friday with due respect. Popularly known as "Majlum Jananeta", the leader of the downtrodden, Moulana Bhasani, was born on December 12, 1880 and passed away on...
London airspace has been closed until 19:00 GMT after a computer failure, air traffic controllers have said. The news was announced in a brief message on flight safety body Eurocontrol's website. UK air traffic controllers Nats confirmed a "technical problem"...
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Friday threw an "open challenge" to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the BJP to arrest her following the arrest of minister Madan Mitra in connection with the Saradha chit fund scandal, a situation she...
Our Correspondent | 2014-12-12 00:00:00
JHENIDAH, Dec 11: Police activity in Kotchandpur Model Thana under Jhenidah district is being severely hampered for lack of a modern thana complex here. The 100-year-old Kotchandpur original tin-shed thana buildings have turned dilapidated and risky. Cracks have developed on...
NOAKHALI, Dec 11 (BSS): Speakers at an international seminar on 'Climate Change and Role of Aquaculture on Food Security' called upon the students to come up with new innovation to face adverse impact of climate change. The students must come...
THAKURGAON, Dec 11 (UNB): A young man died from electrocution in Munsirhat area of the district town on Wednesday night. The deceased was identified as Kantes Roy,21, a final year diploma engineering student of a polytechnic institute and son of...
RAJSHAHI, Dec 11 (BSS): Normal life in the city and its adjacent areas has been affected due to cold weather coupled with chilly wind and dense fog for the last couple of days. The sufferings of daily wage earners like...
BOGRA, Dec 11 (UNB): A pedestrian was killed and a rickshaw-puller injured as a gas cylinder for inflating balloons exploded in Sutrapur area of the district town on Thursday morning. The deceased was identified as Ruku Chowdhury,18, son of Maksud...
RANGPUR, Dec 11 (BSS): Agricultural output can be increased substantially saving crops worth Taka 6,000 crore annually in Bangladesh through ensuring optimum and safe use of herbicides adopting the effective weed management methods. According to experts, unrestricted growth of weeds...
BNP chairperson Khaleda goes to Narayanganj Saturday to address a public rally at Kanchpur Balurmath from where she is likely to announce her party-led 20-party’s fresh action programme to force the current regime to quit. The local unit of the...
Our Correspondent | 2014-12-12 00:00:00
NILPHAMARI, Dec 11: National Freedom Fighters Council (NFFC) has withdrawn 74 Freedom Fighters (FF) of Nilphamari district from the list of FFs of the country. The withdrawl came in a Government Gazette notification, signed by one Deputy Secretary. While contacted...
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