Involvement of some teachers in leaking question papers of public exams and providing answers for money is causing immense harm to the education system. Educationists said the unethical practice for material gain is maligning the entire teachers’ community. Such teachers should be given exemplary…

All cigarettes sold in the UK must have standardised packaging from next month after the supreme court refused permission to the tobacco industry to appeal against the new laws, reports The Guardian. This is the final domestic legal decision, meaning that plain packaging of cigarettes will come into…

Ants cultivated designer crops in controlled environments millions of years before humans figured out how to push seeds into the ground to grow food, scientists reported in a study Wednesday. It has long been known that dozens of ants species tend and harvest fungi in sub-terranean farms, mostly to…

The draft of the National Defence Policy will now be sent to the Cabinet for its approval as it was reviewed yesterday, reports UNB. The draft policy was reviewed at a meeting held at the Armed Forces Division at Dhaka Cantonment with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, also in-charge of the Defence Ministry,…

The High Court (HC) yesterday fixed May 9 for delivering its verdict on three separate appeals in a 25-year-old corruption case against former president and Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad. The HC bench of Justice Md Ruhul Quddus and Justice Bhishmadev Chakraborty fixed the date after concluding hearing…

Police handed over the apartments of 'Atia Mahal' at Shibbari in Dakkhin Surma upazila to the respective residents on Tuesday, nearly 17 days after the inmates were evacuated from the building as Army Para Commando unit carried out 'Operation Twilight' there, reports UNB. However, all…

China has lashed out at India for hosting the Dalai Lama near their disputed border, warning that the Tibetan spiritual leader's visit has touched…