Climate change likely to displace 4cr people: PM
About 4 crore people living in 70 upazilas of 19 costal districts are feared to be displaced by the adverse impact of climate change, said prime minister Sheikh Hasina ..
STOCK MELTDOWN Lawmakers criticise govt
Two members of parliament on Wednesday criticised the government over the plunge of Dhaka stock market saying that the investors had lost their interest ..
BNP candidate Ishraque indicted in graft case
A Dhaka special judge court indicted the Bangladesh Nationalist Party’s mayoral candidate for Dhaka south city elections, Ishraque Hossain,
US policy, pre-emptive force and Qasem Soleimani
INTERNATIONAL relations is typified by its vagueness of definition and its shallowness of justification. Be it protecting citizens of a state in another, launching ..
Queen grants Harry, Meghan ‘transition period’ in Canada
Queen Elizabeth II on Monday said that she would allow her grandson Prince Harry and his wife Meghan to split their time between Canada and Britain ..
Pak court annuls Musharraf’s death sentence
A Pakistan court Monday annulled the death sentence handed to former military ruler Pervez Musharraf, ruling that the special court which had found ..
Iran denies ‘cover-up’ as anger mounts over downed airliner
Iran denied a ‘cover-up’ Monday after taking days to reveal an airliner was accidentally shot down last week, a disaster that sparked demonstrations ..
HC issues 9 directives to curb air pollution
The High Court Division on Monday issued nine directives to the government to curb the capital’s air from pollution by shutting down brick kilns ..
First unit of Payra power plant goes into operation
The first unit (660 MW) of newly-constructed Payra coal-fired power plant went into operation on Sunday, utilising the recently-commissioned 400 kV ..
Dhaka stocks hit 4.5-year low
Dhaka stocks on Monday plummeted to a four-and-half-year low as investors went into rampant sell-offs seeing no sign of recovery amid the government ..
