May 3, 2023

Two thousand hectares of community forests area has been damaged by wildfire in Gulmi. Incidences of forest fire were recorded at 89 locations in the district in less than past two months. Division Forest Office’s information officer Muna Sharma said …

Identities of the people who went missing in an avalanche at Boling of Byas rural municipality-1 in Darchula on Tuesday have been ascertained. The people who are disappeared reached there to collect Yarshagumba and among them four are females and one …

Highlands in Taplejung received a snowfall coupled with rains on Monday and Tuesday. Ghunsa, Phale, Olangchung Gola and Yanga of Phaktanglung rural municipality witnessed the snowfall. According to Tasi Chhiring Sherpa of Ghunsa, the snowfall occurred…

World Press Freedom Day is being observed today across the globe including in Nepal. May 3 each year is marked as the World Press Freedom Day in commemoration of the Windhoek Declaration for the Development of a Free, Independent and Pluralistic Press…

Senior journalist and former news editor of the national news agency, Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha (BSS), Quamrul Islam Chowdhury who died on Tuesday was laid to eternal rest today at the family graveyard at his village home in Sonaimuri of Noakjhali d…

The maiden ‘Boro-paddy cultivation’ has been possible in a field located at Burirchar union under Barguna Sadar upazila in Barguna district of the Barishal division in the country.Around 200 bighas of land in the area has been brought under Boro culti…

Legal action will be taken against anyone- student, teacher or staff of any educational institution if they found to be involved directly or indirectly in bullying or ragging.In this regard, the government has formulated a new policy titled ‘Education…

Bangladesh Federal Union of Journalists (BFUJ) has expressed deep shock at the death of former general secretary of Jatiya Press Club and senior journalist Quamrul Islam Chowdhury.BFUJ acting president Shahidul Alam Chowdhury and Secretary General Dip…

Information and Broadcasting Minister and Awami League (AL) Joint General Secretary Dr Hasan Mahmud today said the freedom of press and the expansion of media in Bangladesh are examples for other developing countries.“We believe in free media, we beli…

Diplomats of different western countries stationed here at a discussion today called for protecting media freedom for enjoying strong democracy and ensuring greater economic growth.”Protecting media freedom benefits societies in many ways. Studies hav…

The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court today published the full text of verdict rejecting the review petitions of the two death row convicts in the Rajshahi University Professor S Taher Ahmed murder case.Now the two convicts can seek clemency fro…