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Environmentalist groups held different programmes yesterday demanding to free Buriganga river and other canals from grabbers and pollution and to cut green house gases and to ensure compensation to the people

BAPEX, the country’s lone gas and oil exploration company, found five more highly prospective areas in onshore. To add fresh reserve by 2010, Bapex is now set to start long awaiting exploration work in onshore areas

Pakistan said yesterday it had captured Taliban chief Hakimullah Mehsud’s hometown as the US demonstrated its support for the war on the Islamists with an air strike that killed 14 people. “Security forces took

UN inspectors will enter Iran’s controversial second uranium enrichment plant today, two days after Tehran postponed its response to a UN deal on supplying the Islamic republic with nuclear fuel. Media said the team

A section of businessmen backed by some powerful ruling party men have mounted severe pressure on the Power Development Board (PDB) to award them various power contracts by “all means”, which the authorities

Myanmar is disappointed as Bangladesh decided to take the maritime boundary delimitation issue to arbitration at the United Nations instead of finding a negotiated settlement, but ruled out any military move over

Nobel-laureate Prof Muhammad Yunus suggested that world leaders now get down to redesigning the global financial system as it crumbled in 2008 amid economic recession. “The global financial crisis offers world

Owners of CNG-run auto-rickshaws in the capital are putting pressure on the government to double the current fare structure, which, if implemented, ultimately will spell disaster for commuters. People, especially in the

Seven-year-old girl Moni Akter of Badda had to meet her tragic doom only for a pair of gold earring. Moni, a student of class I and daughter of tea vendor Sonu Miah of Nayanagar under Badda Police Station, was

The self-confessed serial killer Roshu Kha’s bid to commit suicide in his toilet was foiled on Thursday night, said police sources. Sub Inspector of Sadar Model Thana and IO of victim Kohinoor, Abdur Rahim told this

HE’S young. He’s handsome. His face is on billboards and buses all over town. He earns a fortune. Teenagers worship him. He is . . . a math teacher. Anyone who thinks there are hardly any differences left between

Rail-based mass rapid transit (MRT) or bus rapid transit (BRT) has become crucial for the capital to find a way out of perennial gridlock, experts said at a workshop yesterday. “It has to be resolved first whether it

Bangladesh would need to relocate 20 million people by 2050 as their habitats would be imperiled by climate change, Dhaka apprised SAARC environment ministers in Delhi and called for regional and international support

This year’s Hajj flights kick off tomorrow, State Minister for Religious Affairs Shahjahan Mia said at the secretariat yesterday. He also said that Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will visit the Hajj camp at Ashkona in

Many victims of cyclone Aila-hit unions in Dakope upazila of Khulna district have alleged irregularities and malpractices in distribution of the government fund allocated for reconstruction of their

Myanmar authority is planning to push a large number of Rohingyas into Bangladesh, sources said. Several thousands of Rohingyas have been assembled by the NASAKA (Myanmar border guards) in Mongdu, a town near

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s bid to reorganise and rejuvenate the party is thwarted by her own right-hand man–BNP Secretary General Khandaker Delwar Hossain, said party insiders. Due to this conflict between the two top

BNP Secretary General Khondker Delwar Hossain yesterday supported the government’s move to submit the maritime boundary dispute with India and Myanmar to compulsory arbitration under the 1982 United Nations

Miscreants ransacked and burnt the photographs of the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at Muksudpur early morning yesterday. Police arrested

Some human rights bodies propose to file an application in the High Court today seeking a direction to the government to submit comprehensive reports of all incidents of extra-judicial killing in the name of crossfire,