The proposed 350MW power plant on 350 acre farmland in Gazaria upazila of Munshiganj will finally see light of day as land acquisition issues dogging the project have been resolved in a meeting between Munshiganj district administration and Rural Power Company Limited (RPCL), the state-owned implementing…

Concentrations of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere hit a new high in 2014, the UN said yesterday, warning the resulting climate change was moving the world into ‘unchartered territory’, reports AFP from Geneva. In its annual report on Earth-warming greenhouse gases…

The admission test results for Dhaka University (DU) ‘Gha’ unit under the Faculty of Social Science for the 2015-16 academic session were published yesterday where a staggering 90.06 per cent student were unsuccessful. DU Vice Chancellor Prof AAMS Arefin Siddiue announced the results at…

A Jordanian policeman yesterday shot dead two American instructors and a South African at a police training centre outside Amman, officials say. Government spokesman Mohammad Momani said the assailant wounded two other Americans and four Jordanians, before being killed by his fellow officers, reports…

Asma Kibria, wife of slain former finance minister Shah AMS Kibria, passed away at a city hospital yesterday. She was 78, reports UNB. Asma Kibria, who…

US Ambassador Marcia Stephens Bloom Bernicat yesterday lauded the government effort to strengthen security measure in Bangladesh and termed the effort…

The government has started the process of registration for online news portals in the country. The information ministry issued a circular in this regard yesterday. According to the circular, those who have online news outlets will have to fill up a specific form for registration. The registration form…

The High Court (HC) yesterday granted ad-interim bail to BNP chairperson's adviser Shawkat Mahmud for six months in three arson cases. In response to three petitions filed by Shawkat, also a former president of National Press Club, the bench of justices M Enayetur Rahim and Md Amir Hossain gave…