Wednesday, 19 February, 2020
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday urged all, particularly mills and factories, to stop discharging wastes into rivers as water pollution has appeared to be a severe problem for the country, reports…
Voting begins in world’s largest election
New Delhi: Tens of millions of Indians have voted on the first day of a general election that is being…
Chaos marks Dhaka
dist BNP meeting
Chaos marked the introductory meeting of the newly-formed BNP committee of Dhaka district unit on Thursday.…
Sudan’s Bashir ousted by army
KHARTOUM: Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir was ousted by the army on Thursday, brought down by months…
Four killed
in ‘gunfight’
with lawmen
At least four people — three suspected drug peddlers and an alleged robber — were killed…
Bhutan PM
due today
Bhutanese Prime Minister Lotay Tshering will arrive in Dhaka today on a four-day official visit at the…
Security to be beefed up for
Pahela Baishakh
celebration
Stringent security measures will be taken in the capital for safe and smooth celebration of the Pahela…
Battle for space more
stealth than Star Wars
COLORADO SPRINGS: At tens of thousands of kilometers above the Earth, a Russian satellite slowly approached…
Chinese scientists create
monkeys with human brain genes
HONG KONG: Chinese scientists have implanted human brain genes into monkeys, in a study intended to…
Welcome to the family: dig finds new early human species
TOKYO: The human family tree has acquired a new branch with the unearthing of a previously unknown species…