Abrar Hussain of DOT BNP leader Mirza Abbas reportedly came under attack during electioneering near Shegunbagicha area of Dhaka yesterday, reported The Daily Star. Talking to journalists, the BNP standing committee member claimed that at least 70 to 80 of his supporters were injured in the attack Saturday afternoon. Around 100 people, which he claimed…
Arafat Hasan of DOT : The Election Commission has announced the schedule for the Dhaka North City Corporation by-polls, reported The Daily Star. After a meeting at the Nirbachan Bhaban yesterday evening, Election Commission Secretary Helal Uddin Ahmed announced that the election schedule will commence from February 28. Elections to the councilor posts in the…
Charles M. Blow, Opinion Columnist/ The New York Times How can a family that can’t run a charity run a country? I will be going on book leave soon — today is my last column for a while because of the holiday schedule — to write what I believe to be the most important thing…
ScienceBlog: For every one-degree-Celsius increase in temperature, mountaintop species shift upslope 100 metres, shrinking their inhabited area and resulting in dramatic population declines, new research by University of British Columbia zoologists has found. The study–the first broad review of its kind–analyzed shifts in elevation range in 975 populations of plants, insects and animals. “Most mountaintop…
NDTV A fisherman in the Marshall Islands netted more than he bargained for when he hauled in his catch to find a suspected 48 kilos (106 pounds) of cocaine. The white powder, professionally wrapped and taped in plastic bags, had a street value of about US$4 million, police said Friday. “We’re pretty sure we got…
The Guardian: When the first of the Galápagos Islands arose from the ocean floor around 3m years ago, they were naked, angry, lava-spewing cones devoid of life. Now, millions of years later, they are alive with some of the world’s most iconic animals. Giant tortoises. Sea iguanas. Flightless cormorants. And those finches equipped with Swiss…
UNB, Dhaka Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday alleged that BNP chief Khaleda Zia with her vow to hold election without Hasina has demonstrated that she is conspiring again to kill her through an attack like the August 21 one. “What Khaleda Zia is trying to say through holding election without Sheikh Hasina?…
Al Jazeera: In the two years since Colombia signed a peace deal with the left-wing FARC rebels, 85 members of the armed-group-turned-political-party have been killed, the United Nations said. Colombia’s special investigation unit, quoted in a new UN report published on Monday, blamed “illegal armed groups and criminal organisations” for the killings. In his quarterly…
CNN More than 230 small earthquakes have hit parts of Alaska since Friday, when a 7.0-magnitude quake knocked out power, ripped open roads and splintered buildings near Anchorage, the US Geological Survey said. “This is the second largest earthquake we’ve had since 1964, which was a very significant earthquake,” Anchorage Mayor Ethan Berkowitz told reporters…
Arafat Hasan of DOT Jatiya Party chairman HM Ershad has revealed that he needs to go abroad for better treatment due of his sickness. At a press briefing held at the party’s Banani 8More on Page 7, Col (From Page 8) headquarters in the capital, the JP Chairman also urged the party men to remain…