Dense fog in the country yesterday continued to disrupt the movement of ferries and other modes of transport. Such fog is likely to continue today, which may bring down the mercury down by 1 to 3 degrees Celsius, as a mild cold wave is likely to spread around the northern region from Rangpur Division,…

RAJSHAHI: More emphasis should be given on adopting time-fitting projects to protect environment and biodiversity from the adverse impact of climate change in the region the vast Barind tract in particular, speakers at a meeting here said. They viewed there should be adequate measures of lessening the…

Three people were killed in separate road accidents in three districts yesterday, report agencies. In Rahshahi, a retired banker was killed when a bus…

Potato growers in Bhola district are expecting bumper yield in the current crop season. According to the Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE) sources, potatoes were cultivated on 8320 hectares of land in the district this current season, which is more than 2,000 hectares over the target. Farmers…

RAJSHAHI: Speakers at a seminar here have observed that substantial and sustainable boosting the number of science-minded students and youths has become indispensable for flourishing the sector of information and communication technology, reports BSS. They opined that increasing the number of science-minded…

Health and Family Welfare Minister Mohammad yesterday said the people have rejected BNP in municipal polls, reports BSS. "BNP has got a reply to its arson activities," he said while speaking as the chief guest at a function marking the orientation of the first year students of the first batch…

RANGPUR: Agriculture and environment experts have suggested the farmers for large-scale adoption of Alternate Drying and Wetting (AWD) irrigation method in Boro rice farming to enhance rice output and save water and environment, reports BSS. Expressing concern over indiscriminate lifting of underground…

KUSHTIA: Information Minister Hasanul Haq Inu said yesterday  Khaleda Zia's allies were deserting her en masse because of her political failures and wrong politics, reports BSS. The minister said this while speaking at a prize-giving ceremony of the National School and Madrashas Sports Competition…

Moulana Bhashani University of Science and Technology has been declared closed, with all classes and examinations suspended till January 13, after cracks appeared on the wall of a residential hall University Vice-Chancellor Ala Uddin said students of Shaheed Jahanara Imam hall became panic stricken…

A three-member team of the US Department of State’s Counterterrorism Bureau is now in Dhaka to discuss issues of mutual interest with government officials, reports UNB. The visiting team held meetings with Home and Foreign Ministry officials yesterday, said a diplomatic source.  The US officials…

The formal trial in a case filed against Tuba Group Managing Director Delwar Hossain and 12 others over the devastating fire at Tazreen Fashions in Ashulia in 2012 that claimed over 100 lives began yesterday with the deposition of two witnesses, reports UNB. Judge of Dhaka’s Additional District…

A missile strike on a Doctors Without Borders clinic in Yemen killed at least four people Sunday, the group said, condemning what it called a "worrying pattern" of such attacks, reports AFP. The Paris-based medical humanitarian organisation said three of its staff members were among 10 people…

Awami League (AL) general secretary Syed Ashraful Islam yesterday alleged that Pakistan and its Bangladeshi agents are still hatching a conspiracy to make the country a “failed state”. “Collaborators of Pakistani occupation forces are still occupying good positions in the country though…

An Indian teenager held captive for two weeks by a gang of men said in an interview broadcast yesterday that she was repeatedly raped before being shot twice and dumped in a well on the outskirts of New Delh, reports AFP from New Delhi. The victim, reportedly aged 14, was allegedly abducted on November…