President turns nostalgic, seeks solitary environment

Feeling ‘confined’ in tight security, President Abdul Hamid today has turned a bit nostalgic at his Kamalpur village home in Kishoreganj saying he wants to pass a few days there in a solitary environment.
13 January 2016, 13:49 PM

Govt issues legal notices to 28 tanners

The government has served legal notices to the owners of 28 tanneries who are yet to start work to relocate their factories from Hazaribagh in the capital to the designated industrial park in Savar.
13 January 2016, 13:37 PM

Denmark MPs debate tough new laws on immigration

Plans to seize the assets of asylum-seekers are among controversial new measures on immigration being debated by MPs in Demark's parliament.
13 January 2016, 11:42 AM

FIFA fires secretary general Valcke

FIFA has fired secretary general Jerome Valcke, who is under investigation for misconduct, world football's governing body said Wednesday.
13 January 2016, 11:13 AM

Evacuation call at starving Syrian town

Some 400 people in the besieged Syrian town of Madaya need to be urgently evacuated for medical treatment, says UN humanitarian chief Stephen O'Brien.
12 January 2016, 07:05 AM

Minister hopes for solution, teachers vow to continue protests

Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid assures the agitating university teachers of solving the deadlock over “disparity” in the new pay scale through discussion.
12 January 2016, 06:15 AM

We might not have existed if not for this 600 million years old accident

Scientists say a random genetic accident from millions of years ago might have enabled all of modern multicellular life to evolve, reports Business Insider.
12 January 2016, 06:01 AM

Scientists discover terrifying prehistoric crocodile

Scientists have discovered an extraordinary and gigantic crocodile that terrorized the seas some 130 million years ago, reports The Huffington Post.
12 January 2016, 04:56 AM

4 ‘Adamya Bangladesh’ members acquitted

A Dhaka court has today relieved four members of non-profit organisation Adamya Bangladesh from charges of human trafficking placed against them.
11 January 2016, 09:10 AM

Cop among 2 killed in Dhaka crash

A policeman is among two people who have died in separate road crashes in Dhaka last night.
11 January 2016, 07:33 AM

Obama interested in top UN job: US media

US President Barack Obama has set his sights on becoming the next Secretary General of the United Nations when he leaves the White House in one year, the US media reported on Sunday.
11 January 2016, 06:32 AM

India teen gang-raped, shot, dumped in well

An Indian teenager held captive for two weeks by a gang of men has said in an interview broadcast Sunday that she was repeatedly raped before being shot twice and dumped in a well on the outskirts of New Delhi.
11 January 2016, 04:22 AM

Nasa spots supermassive Galaxy 65 million light-years away

The newly revealed Nasa Hubble Space Telescope image shows the spiral galaxy NGC 4845, located over 65 million light-years away in the constellation of Virgo (The Virgin).
10 January 2016, 07:58 AM

Human haulier runs over man in Babu Bazar

A human haullier has ran over a man on the Bou Bazar bridge in Old Dhaka early today.
10 January 2016, 05:52 AM

‘Refugee link’ to failed Paris attacker

German police say a man who was shot dead as he attacked a police station in Paris on Thursday had been living in a shelter for asylum seekers in Germany.
10 January 2016, 05:41 AM

Group seeks Trump apology after Muslim woman ejected from rally

A Muslim advocacy group on Saturday has called on Republican US presidential candidate Donald Trump to apologize.
10 January 2016, 04:52 AM

What neuroscientists say about Sherlock Holmes

Sherlock’s dry response to policeman Philip Anderson’s remark about him being a psychopath...
9 January 2016, 09:37 AM

Police thwart ‘Obama dog kidnap plot’

Officials say Scott Stockert - who is from the state of North Dakota - has been planning to snatch one of the dogs, either Bo or Sunny.
9 January 2016, 06:52 AM

Road crashes killed 8,642 in 2015: Report

A total of 8,642 people have been killed and 21,855 injured in road crashes across country last year, a report of Bangladesh Passengers' Welfare Association has said today.
9 January 2016, 06:22 AM

Cox’s Bazar teacher shot dead in his house

Miscreants have forced in and gunned down a primary schoolteacher and shot his brother inside his house in Cox’s Bazar’s Ramu upazila early today.
6 January 2016, 10:21 AM
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