For the second time, home minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal is going to hold a meeting at the headquarters of the Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) to identify the problems in the country’s border areas. Already, the home affairs ministry has asked the country’s border force, BGB, to hold meetings…

Terming the results of the recently concluded Dhaka University Central Students’ Union (DUCSU) election as ‘unusual’, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) yesterday expressed suspicion there might be the government’s mechanism behind it. “The result is unusual and there…

Foreign secretary M Shahidul Haque said Bangladesh has shown to the world a different face of humanity by hosting over 1.1 million Rohingyas. He also said no one should think of the Rohingya issue negatively. “Everybody must think of the issue in a positive manner as it has showcased a new image…

Neil Wagner bounced New Zealand to a series victory yesterday as he took five wickets to demolish Bangladesh by an innings and 12 runs in the rain-shortened…

Air pollution causes 790,000 premature deaths every year in Europe and 8.8 million worldwide, more than doubling recent assessments, according to a study released Monday. Between 40 and 80 percent of those excess deaths are caused by heart attacks, strokes and other types of cardiovascular disease underestimated…

Turnout in nuclear-armed North Korea's single-candidate elections hit 99.99 percent this year, state media said yesterday-- up from a seemingly unimprovable 99.97 percent the last time they were held. With participation figures that Western democracies would never achieve, millions of North Koreans…

A team of scientists in Japan has successfully coaxed activity from 28,000-year-old cells from a frozen mammoth implanted into mouse cells, but the woolly mammal is unlikely to be walking among us soon. The project by an international team took cell nuclei from a well-preserved mammoth discovered in…