Negotiators from 195 nations tasked with crafting a universal climate pact are driven by twin fears tugging in opposite directions, which may result in a hollow deal, say analysts. The all-too-real prospect of climate catastrophe on a horizon of decades, not centuries, coupled with a rising tide of…

Teachers of 37 public universities, who have organised sustained agitations at different points of time demanding separate pay scales, yesterday announced that they would abstain from work on September 8.? They have even decided not to hold any exam scheduled on that day. They said they have been staging…

Social Welfare Minister Syed Mohsin Ali was taken to Singapore yesterday noon with life support for better treatment as he suffered a heart attack, reports UNB. Maidul Islam, information officer of the ministry, said the minister was flown to Singapore in an air ambulance around 12:30pm as his condition…

A Dhaka court yesterday sent Hummam Quader Chowdhury, son of death row convict war criminal and BNP leader Salahuddin Quader Chowdhury, to jail in connection with a case filed with Gulshan police in 2008. Dhanmondi police produced him before the CMM court yesterday and after a hearing, Metropolitan…

The Indian authorities will issue travel passes to residents of former 111 Indian enclaves inside Bangladesh who wish to retain their Indian citizenship and move to India. A delegation of the Indian government will visit Bangladesh and issue travel passes to residents at the former Indian enclaves on…

A college girl was assaulted by four young men in Demra area of the capital yesterday allegedly for refusing a love proposal, reports UNB. Police arrested three of the assaulters after the victim filed a case with Demra Police Station in this regard. Victim’s elder sister Shilpi said the four…

The unprecedented migrant outflow from the Middle East and North Africa will feature high on the agenda at a summit of the world's top 20 economies in November, a Turkish minister said yesterday, reports AFP from Ankara. "The refugee issue is more about geopolitical risks and the humanitarian…