A 14-year-old rights activist who campaigned for girls’ education has been shot and injured in the Swat Valley in north-west Pakistan. Malalai Yusufzai was attacked on her way home fro... Read more
The International Criminal Court (ICC) is holding its first public hearing in the case of one of the sons of Libyan leader Col Gaddafi, Saif al-Islam. He is accused of committing war crimes... Read more
The metro rail project here has gathered momentum after a three-year delay over a change of route, a media report said Tuesday. Daily Star reported that the government has decided to... Read more
Workers in many leather tanneries in the Hazaribagh neighborhood of Dhaka, the Bangladesh capital, including children as young as 11, become ill because of exposure to hazardous chemicals a... Read more
Ittefaq Report The country’s first-ever locally built warship (patrol craft) joined the Bangladesh Navy fleet on Monday while the second one of its kind is expected to join in February next... Read more
Ramu rioters must get exemplary punishment: Bangladesh PM Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh : Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today directed the law enforcement agencies to bring the Ramu rioters t... Read more
Bangladesh PM suggest peace committee in violence-ridden district Dhaka, Bangladesh : Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Monday proposed setting up an all-party peace committee to ensu... Read more
The seventh working group meeting of the third D-8 (Developing 8) Ministerial Conference on Industrial Cooperation began in Dhaka today (08 October 2012). Six out of 12 working groups held m... Read more
India and Bangladesh are working towards strengthening ties, and as part of these efforts, theatre artists from both countries came together to perform at a festival here. The three-day-long... Read more
(Reuters) – A British and a Japanese scientist won the Nobel Prize for Medicine on Monday for work on creating stem cells, opening the door to new methods to diagnose and treat disease... Read more