DHAKA, 3 September 2010 (IRIN) - A Dutch engineering company is trying to make safer the dangerous job of dismantling old ships contaminated with chemicals - by building the world’s first “green...

Lance Klusener, the former South Africa allrounder, has finally turned down the offer to take over as Bangladesh's bowling coach, ending a prolonged period of speculation over his possible...

Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday (September 2) sought cooperation of the media so that none can take over power unconstitutionally in...

Myanmar has agreed to build two hydropower plants aimed at exporting around 575 megawatts of electricity to energy-starved Bangladesh, top officials said...

A Dhaka court yesterday rejected a five-day remand prayer for Rafiqul Islam Khan, Dhaka city unit chief of Jamaat-e-Islami and directed Detective Branch (DB) of police to interrogate him for two...

Deputy Inspector General of police Md Mukhlesur Rahman yesterday officially took over as the director general of Rapid Action Battalion at its headquarters in Kurmitola.Prior to his appointment, the...

A programme involving Tk 1,000 crore is set for generating employment opportunities for thousands of ultra poor all over the country.Ministry for Food and Disaster Management will be implementing the...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will be requested by home ministry to raise the issue of sending members of Ansar and Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) to United Nation's (UN) peacekeeping missions when she...

A two-day long Geneva Dialogue on Climate Finance began here yesterday to form a new financial fund to face the adverse effects of the climate change.Environment ministers from 46 countries have been...

Bangladesh Railway (BR) has undertaken a project to construct new railway lines from Kashiani to the grave of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman at Tungipara via Gopalganj....

Bangladesh Inland Waterways (passenger carrier's) Association has decided to reduce launch fares by 10 per cent for passengers to travel on the deck ahead of the Eid.Association President Mahbub...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has asked the ministries and departments concerned, city corporations and municipalities to beef up family planning programmes to control population boom in the...

Police on Wednesday night arrested a Chhatra League activist of Rajshahi University unit in connection with campus violence.Arrestee Feroz M Arifur Rahman, 25, along with some other BCL cadres...

At least 77 women were killed in various incidents and 44 women and children became victims of rape in August this year, says a report of Bangladesh Society for the Enforcement of Human Rights...

President Zillur Rahman yesterday emphasised the need for further boosting bilateral and commercial ties with the Maldives through exporting more Bangladeshi skilled and semi-skilled manpower there...

Twelve civil society organisations at a press conference yesterday demanded that the government should cancel all World Bank (WB) and Asian Development Bank (ADB) loans in agriculture and education...

Wife of Nurul Islam, who was killed allegedly in firing by the Detective Branch (DB) of police at remote Alinagar village in Madhabpur upazila of Habiganj district on Sunday night, yesterday filed a...

Sylhet Agriculture University (SAU) yesterday punished nine Chhatra League (BCL) and seven Shibir men for unruly activities on the campus. Among them, SAU unit Shibir president Shabbir Ahmed was...

The Department of Environment (DoE) yesterday fined Tk 10.2 lakh to two dyeing factories under anti-environment pollution drive in Kalurghat and Nasirabad Industrial areas in the port city for...

Sramik Karmachari Oikya Parishad (Skop) yesterday demanded that workers of ready-made garments and other industries be paid all their dues and overtime bills before the Eid-ul-Fitr, said a press...

Acute crisis of green fodder in Teesta and Dharla river basin areas in Lalmonirhat district adds to the worry of flood-affected farmers, especially those who mainly depend on rearing domestic animals...

Khulna district Jail authorities have sent a list of nine war criminals, who were convicted under Collaborators Act and sentenced to the jail, to Internal War Crime Tribunal.The convicted war...

Bodies of two young men were recovered from train and sugarcane field yesterday and the day before. Railway police recovered an unidentified body of young man from a compartment of intercity train...

Construction of the bridge over the river Padma would start in January next year and is expected to be completed by 2013.About US $ 2.29 billion would be available from development partners including...

The United States Embassy will remain closed on September 5 and September 7 in observance of the US Labour Day and Shab-e-Quadr. This closure includes the Consular Section and the American Centre's...

A shop belonging to a local leader of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD), student wing of main opposition BNP, was captured allegedly by ruling party men on Wednesday.Shop owner JCD district unit...

Only a part of this large pond in Dimla upazila town in Nilphamari district now contains water as the authorities have taken initiative to fill it up, without approval from the department of...

A Dhaka court yesterday framed charges against four members of banned Islamist outfit Hizb ut-Tahrir including its Chairman Mohiuddin Ahmed in connection with a case filed for plotting subversive and...

Teachers have to act as role models to build a corruption free, educated and developed Bangladesh, said National University Vice Chancellor Prof Kazi Shahidullah yesterday. He was speaking at the...

The government yesterday, in association with two mobile phone operators launched early warning signal for flood through mobile phones, using cell broadcasts for the first time in the country. The...

At least 21 more people are feared to be infected with anthrax at Bilgathua village in Daulatpur upazila of Kushtia yesterday.On Wednesday, 16 other people of Dharmadaha, an adjacent village, were...

Fourteen alleged collaborators of Pakistani occupation forces have been sued for killing, looting and setting fire to a house in Mongla upazila of Bagerhat district in 1971.Nazrul Islam of...

An elderly woman was killed in a road accident on Wednesday night on Thakurgaon-Baliadangi road at Kalmegh village of Baliadangi upazila in Thakurgaon.The victim was identified as Samiran, 60, wife...

Police arrested six people, five of them women, with fake notes worth Tk 48,500 at Kunjachhaya Ananda Bazar in the port city on Monday. Officer-in-charge Abdus Sabur of Bayezid Police Station led a...

Forest guards arrested two poachers and recovered 38 kg venison from their possession at Sonatola village under Sharankhola upazila of Bagerhat district on Wednesday night. The arrestees are Nasir...

A prisoner died at Sylhet MAG Osmani Medical College Hospital Tuesday afternoon. The prisoner, Julhas Miah, 40, of the city's Kadomtali area, was arrested on charge of drug peddling. He fell sick...

Today is the 112th birth anniversary of Abul Mansur Ahmad, a renowned litterateur, journalist and statesman of the sub-continent.Doa mahfil will be held at Dhaka and Mymensingh on the occasion, says...

Indian Border Security Forces (BSF) handed over three Bangladeshis, who were in Indian jail for the last 29 months, to BDR on Wednesday.Earlier, a company-level flag meeting was held at Joynagar...