The Detective Brach (DB) of Chittagong Metropolitan Police seized 12,000 cartons of date-expired raisins and 6,000 cartons dried dates from the city’s Batali Road area yesterday and sealed off a cold storage. A team of DB police led by Md Kamaruzzaman, assistant commissioner of DB (CMP-North)…

Wild bees provide crop pollination services worth more than $3,250 (2,880 euros) per hectare per year, according to a study, reports AFP from Paris. Their value to the food system is “in the billions, globally,” its authors wrote in the journal Nature Communications. Over three years, researchers…

EU member states agreed yesterday to extend damaging economic sanctions against Russia over the Ukraine crisis by another six months to the end of January 2016, European sources said, reports AFP from Brussels. Ambassadors from the 28 European Union nations reached a "consensus" on the legal…

The High Court will deliver its verdict today, on a writ petition filed by the BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia challenging the legality of the Niko corruption case filed against her. Yesterday, after hearing the closing arguments from both sides the HC bench comprising Justice Mohammad Nuruzzaman Noni and…

The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court yesterday adjourned till Sunday the hearing on an appeal filed by war crimes convict BNP leader Salauddin Quader Chowdhury against a war crimes tribunal verdict that had awarded him death penalty on war crimes charges. After concluding yesterday’s hearing,…