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The department of forest has taken up a project to count and monitor the number of the endangered Royal Bengal Tigers in the Sunderbans, using modern camera trapping technology, which is used across the world for wildlife census. The initiative has been undertaken jointly by the Bangladesh Department of Forests and the Wildlife Institute of ... Read more

Bangladesh ready to show the way More than two dozens of well-known and promising researchers have gathered in Dhaka for a week-long brainstorming session to understand better how to cope up with the changing climate. Learning from Bangladesh, the researchers will make academic papers focusing on how to strengthen resilience activities and build a network ... Read more

The government is likely to sign a power purchase agreement (PPA) with Indian private power trader PTC India Ltd within a few days to import 250 MW from October. This will be an addition to the 250 MW of power to be imported Indian under a government-to-government agreement signed between Bangladesh Power Development Board (PDB) ... Read more

Officials of the Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority and the Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Corporation blamed each other for the disruption of ferry services on Mawa-Charjanajat and Paturia-Daulatdia routes. The corporation officials said that navigability on the river routes were the main reason for the disruption and the authority failed to dredge the river properly to ... Read more

A tug-of-war among the Board of Investment (BoI), Ministry of Jute and Textile (MoJT) and some other government agencies has been the key factor in delaying the framing of the Apparel Board Act – 2012. As a result, the entire garment sector, which is the principal foreign exchange earner of the country, is virtually running ... Read more

Dr Akbar Ali Khan, former adviser to the caretaker government, said on Friday that if the election-time government is not acceptable to all, it would not be possible to hold free and fair elections only by amending the Representation of the People Order (RPO). “An acceptable parliamentary election would not be possible under a partisan ... Read more

Three teenaged boys, including two students, drowned in the river Buriganga in two separate incidents yesterday. Deceased Sajal Chandra Das, 17, was a class-IX student, Subham Chandra Das, 18, a first-year college student, and Md Robin, 15, an employee of a shop. The student duo drowned while immersing idols

Two workers were killed in a boiler explosion in a rice mill at Narayanpur Trimohoni in sadar upazila on Thursday night. The victims were identified as Shafiuddin,35, of Naodapara village of sadar upazila and Aslam Hossain,40, of Shailakupa upazila. Two other workers-Abdullah,28 and Khairul Hossian-suffered burn injuries following the blast. Police said when the boiler ... Read more

Two schoolgirls drowned in a pond at Char Hasan Hossain village in Ramgati upazila on Friday. The deceased were identified as Shahnaj Akhter Lipi, a Class-V student of and daughter of Mahbubur Rahman, and Zobaida Akhter Meem, a Class-II student and daughter of Momin Ullah of the village. Locals said Lipi and Meem slipped into ... Read more

Two people were killed and more than 70, including policemen, were injured in clashes across the country on Thursday, the second day of Jamaat’s 48-hour non-stop countrywide general strike. A Jamaat-e-Islami activist was killed as the police fired into pickets in Meherpur and an auto-rickshaw passenger died from his wounds that he had sustained

The price of onion increased further in the retail market on Thursday with the wholesalers and retailers blaming each other for the price hike. Onion price jumped by Tk 15-Tl 20 a kg and was selling at Tk 80-90 a kg while the imported onion was selling at Tk 90-95 a kg on the retail

Opposition leader and BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has reaffirmed her stance to sit for dialogue with the government over non-partisan caretaker government to ensure participation of all political parties. BNP Vice chairman Shamsher Mobin Chowdhury told The Independent that the reply to US Secretary of State John Kerry was sent on Wednesday.

The Foreign Ministry has sought explanation from the Bangladesh deputy high commission in Kolkata with regard to refusal of visa for two Indian human rights activists, who had wanted to come to Bangladesh to gather information and meet the family members of Felani Khatun for filing a writ petition with the Indian Supreme Court on ... Read more

The Trading Corporation of Bangladesh is going to start selling onion on open market across the country on Monday at Tk 55 a kg, up by Tk 8 from the price the corporation sold it in late August and early September, commerce ministry officials said. The open market sale of the product in Dhaka,

The flow of foreign and local investments into the country is declining as the result of the lingering political uncertainty, poor utility services, and a sharp fall in private sector credit flows. With no imminent sign of resolution of the political confrontation, economists believe that investments would dip further, severely imperilling macro-economic stability.

She addresses Army Darbar Terming the Armed Forces the symbol of the country’s unity and sovereignty, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday said her government would gradually raise the retirement age of the members of the Armed Forces at all levels. “The stance of the present government regarding the Armed Forces is clear and transparent. ... Read more

The main opposition BNP, on Thursday, came down heavily on election commissioner Md Zabed Ali for his remarks that the EC was not spineless and it would show how to create a level playing field. BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia, in her recent public rally in Rangpur and Rajshshi, termed the EC “spineless” and urged it ... Read more

The education minister, Nurul Islam Nahid, on Thursday joined lawmakers demanding an immediate release of fund for the enlistment of more educational institutions in the monthly pay order. Treasury bench members thumped the desks to support Sheikh Fazlul Karim Selim who floated the demand for an immediate fund release for MPO enlistment but the

Rmg Factory Workplace Safety Probe spots massive lapses A government committee has found ‘massive lapses’ in most building structures and workers’ safety in the export-oriented apparel industry that was facing challenges after the deadly collapse of the eight-storey Rana Plaza at Savar, said an official. The committee led by jute minister

Terming the Armed Forces the symbol of the country’s unity and sovereignty, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday said her government would gradually raise the retirement age of the members of the Armed Forces at all levels. “The stance of the present government regarding the Armed Forces is clear and transparent. We want a skilled,