A court yesterday sentenced a top official of Polychem Laboratories Ltd to one year's imprisonment in a case filed 26 years ago for producing toxic paracetamol syrup which caused deaths to 92 children. The convict is Abdur Rob, the then director of the pharmaceutical company. The court also fined…

As part of its 11-day drive, the Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority (BIWTA) has pulled down a total of 1,199 illegal structures on the banks…

The Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA) yesterday (Thursday) submitted a report to the High Court (HC) , saying that 33 per cent of the buses plying across the country do not have fitness certificate. On behalf of the BRTA, lawyer Md Rafiul Islam placed the report before a bench of Justice Moyenul…

US President Donald Trump predicted Wednesday that the Islamic State group will have lost by next week all the territory it once controlled in Iraq and Syria. He said the US will not relent in fighting remnants of the extremist organization despite his decision to withdraw US troops from Syria over…

The High Court yesterday issued a rule asking the authorities concerned to produce before it Badal Farazi who is now in a Bangladesh jail after his extradition in July last from India where he had languished for 10 years in a jail without committing any crime. The HC bench of Justice FRM Nazmul Ahasan…

While 2018 was the fourth-warmest year on record, British meteorologists are predicting the next five years will be much hotter, maybe even record-breaking. Two US agencies, the United Kingdom Met Office and the World Meteorological Organisation analysed global temperatures in slightly different ways,…

US President Donald Trump on Wednesday tapped a well-known World Bank critic to lead one of the world's primary development lending institutions. David Malpass, a senior official in the Treasury Department, is a controversial choice but if Trump wins the support of a majority the bank's shareholders,…