Bangladesh got a reality check ahead of the final as they were dismissed for 82 against a spirited Sri Lanka to taste a humiliating 10-wicket defeat in…

Bangladesh nosedives when it comes to the question of environment quality and ranked the second worst country in curbing environmental pollution, an Environmental Performance Index (EPI) ranking report says. The EPI ranking, published on the sidelines of the annual World Economic Forum meet in Davos…

Ekushey Padak winning author Shawkat Ali passed away at a city hospital yesterday morning, reports UNB. He was 82. Journalist Asif Shawkat Kollol, son of the renowned novelist, told UNB that his father breathed his last at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) in the capital around 8:15am.…

The government yesterday appointed Additional Inspector General Mohammad Javed Patwari as the Inspector General of Police (IGP). He will replace AKM Shahidul Haque. The home ministry has issued a gazette notification in this regard. The notification, signed by Md Ilias Hossain, deputy secretary (police)…

Scientists in China have created the first monkeys cloned by the same process that produced Dolly the sheep more than 20 years ago, a breakthrough that…

The Awami League (AL) is going to launch its countrywide campaign today (Friday) as the nation prepares for the next general election, which the Sheikh Hasina-led  government wants to hold by December 2018. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who is also president of the AL, has directed her party’s…

Growing concerns about a possible nuclear war and other global threats have pushed forward the symbolic Doomsday Clock by 30 seconds - to just two minutes…