Though Martin Luther King, Jr is credited with the well-known line ‘We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear, a real flood survivors fail to easily believe it and translate it into reality.’ There are plenty of psychological and p…
A complaint was filed today with the International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) against 25 people, including ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina, over the killing of schoolboy Anas in capital’s Chankharpul area on August 5.
Anas’s grandfather filed the comp…
Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, the King of the Saudi Arabia, has expressed his sorrow over the significant loss of life and property in the recent flooding and landslides in the country.
He extended his heartfelt condolences and sincere sympathy to Pr…
A court here today exempted eight persons including BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi Ahmed from the charges of a case lodged over vandalizing and torching a garbage truck of Dhaka S…
Tarahara in Sunsari and surrounding areas today experienced heavy rainfall. According to the Department of Hydrology and Meteorology, in the past three hours, heavy rain was measured in Tarahara and surroundings.
Over the past three hours, 72.7 mill…
The government today reconstituted the Law
Commission, Bangladesh, appointing former Appellate Division Justice Zinat
Ara as the new chairman of the commission for a three-year tenure.
While serving the post, she would be enjoying salary, allowance…
A case of Q fever has been detected at Madi municipality of Chitwan. The fever which is caused by Coxiella burnetii bacteria has been confirmed on a domesticated cow at Madi.
This fever is transmittable to human to livestock and vice-versa.
The loca…
Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change has recommended canceling the approval of a safari park project in the Lathitila reserved forest in Moulvibazar.
A letter was sent to the Planning Commission on today to this end, a ministry press re…