UNB After the two children, now the father who was injured in the Uttara gas explosion on Friday died at the burn unit of Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) on Saturday evening. Shahnewaz, 50, an employee of the US Embassy in Dhaka, succumbed to his injuries around 5:55pm, hospital sources said. Earlier, Shahnewaz’s two…
BSS Against the backdrop of strong dissatisfaction of the Apex Court about the way the prosecution and investigation agency of the ICT are handling the war crimes cases, Law Minister Anisul Huq today hoped the Chief Justice would give observation about these in the upcoming verdict. “Whatever the Chief Justice has said is discernible. I…
BSS Information Minister Hasanul Haq Inu today came down heavily on the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) for its growing “no confidence” attitude towards the results of the elections in which the party was defeated. “The BNP did not accept the results of the elections in which the party was defeated … it also expressed “no…
BSS Temperatures have risen across the country on an average by two degree Celsius in the past few days as a retreating winter makes room for the summer to take over soon, an official of Met Office told BSS. The winter is packing up as steady rise in temperature signals its retreat for past several…
BSS Legal and economic experts at a seminar today laid emphasis on alternative dispute resolution (ADR) for downsizing the backlog of cases, settling the disagreements outside the courtroom. “The magnitude of unresolved trade and business disputes and litigation are on the gradual rise. Informal but globally recognized outside-court settlement process is a milestone and proven…
BSS Land Minister and language movement veteran Shamsur Rahman Sharif today said the language movement led by Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman had later turned into the movement for self-rule and autonomy. “The language movement took place under the dynamic leadership of Bangabandhu,” he said speaking as the chief guest at a discussion meeting marking the…
BSS Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) seized 12 bars of gold worth around Taka 50 lakh and arrested a woman from Abdullahpur bus-stand under Uttara West thana today. Acting on a tip-off, a team of RAB-1 led by Assistant Superintendent of Police Mohammad Najibul Hasan Rajib conducted a special drive at the bus-stand area…
BSS The White House pressed Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday to expand his non-militarization pledge to cover the entire South China Sea, despite Beijing’s recent military activity in the area. Daniel Kritenbrink, senior director for Asian affairs at the National Security Council, spoke amid rising tensions between the two countries over China’s deployment of…
Md. Shafaat Ullah Continuing from the last two decades, the 21st Conference of the “United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change” widely known as COP, was held in Paris, from 30 November to 11 December 2015. Since 1995, this conference is held every year in a different country with participation of 196 parties to evaluate…
BSS An Australian icebreaker that ran aground in Antarctica during a blizzard has been refloated, officials said Saturday as they work to bring the vessel’s expeditioners home. The Aurora Australis ran aground with 68 people on board after breaking its moorings on Wednesday and was stuck on rocks at Horseshoe Harbour, close to Australia’s Mawson…